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Show CRIMINAL MATTERS. The Indictment Charging Contractor Bowniqp and Edward Olsen With Forgery Dismissad. BUBGLAE SIMPSON GETS A YEAK. Ansel .Badger, the Defaulting Bookkp"r, ; Eun Down in Chicago A Brutal OffieSr. When Judge Zane had this morning disposed dis-posed of a pair of minor motions regarding regard-ing an amendment t a cornpi; i it and a re- I quest for a new trial, District Attorney Yariau arose and read a communication from the joint city and county building committee recommending that tho case against John H. Bowman and George Olsen, . charged with forgery, be dismissed. The reasons given were that the work on the public building would be delayed and the interests of the people of Salt Lake City and county injured by pkuiiir the men on trial; that Bowman is the contractor on the new joint city aud county building, and that his absence from the work would mean j serh in delay. In addition to this state of circumstances, the committee suggested that in all probability the men weie not guilty as charged. Mr. Varies, at the conclusion con-clusion at the reading, asserted that he did not believe he could secure, or was entitled to secure, a conviction of either of the defendants, de-fendants, and would move the case against them be dismissed, which was done. TRIAL IN PROGRESS. Thomas Robart, Robert Cornelius and William Cornel!, charged with assault and highway robbery committed upon Nov. 20, 1801, at which time Chas. Clark was held up and robbed of a watch of the value of $50, and letters to the value of $1, were then called to trial. Judyc Powers stated that he was counsel for the last named defendant and desired a severance which was granted. Robart by his attorney Mr. Armstrong announced an-nounced that he was ready for trial, a jury was empannelled and the case began. NOT GUILTY. Holllday, the young man arraigned on Saturday "for assault with intent to commit rape, pleaded not guilty. DISMISSED. The case of the People vs. George C. Whitman Whit-man and Win. Hill, "charged with battery was dismissed. SIMPSON GETS A YEAR. O. J.W. Simpson charged with burglary wras brought into court, pleaded euilty and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. TAKE AWAY HIS STAR. IJrutal Conduct of One of tlie Newly Appointed Ap-pointed Policemen. Police Officer J. L. Green, one of the recent re-cent appointees, distinguished himself on Sunday by brutally beating a colored man, and if the accounts given are correct, he should be at once dismif sjd from the force aud spend some time behind tl e bars. It seems that two men went to a bootblack boot-black stand ou Godbe's'corner and tried to beat the proprietor, Phelps Adams, out of the price of a shine. A quarrel followed, and the man who had had h:s boots shined appealed ap-pealed to Green to arrest the negro. The latter says the officer made no attempt to arrest ar-rest iiiin, contenting himself with beating Adams over the head with his gun in a horrible manner. This morning the victim went before be-fore Commissioner Greenman aud swore to a complaint, charging Green with an assault with a deadly weapon. The officer was arrested ar-rested by a deputy sheriff and taken before Commissioner Greenman, who set the hetr-ing hetr-ing for this morning and released the defendant de-fendant upon his giving a bond in the sum of $100. A DEFAULTING BOOK-KEEPER. Ansel Badger Is Arrested in Chicago and Makes a Com promise. Ansel Badger, the defaulting book-keeper of the Salt Lake soap works, who tied from this city a few weeks ago leaving a shortage of $9000 in his accounts, was run down in Chicago, but has been turned loose. W. H. Remington, who has just returned from the World s fair city, said to a Times reporter this afternoon that when he arrived in Chicago, Badger was under arrest and a day wa set for hearing. Requisition papers were wire d for, but as they did not arrive in time, and Mr. Remington saw trouble ahead, he struck a compromise with Badger by which the company recovered part of the money, and the book-keeper was released. While not entirely satisfied with the result, Mr. Remington says it was the best that could be arrived at under the circumstances. An Amazon Fined. The sequel to the row among the female members of the Marcroft family, of the Sixth ward, which was chronicled in The Times a few days ago, developed in Justice Hall's court this morning, wheu Mrs. Susie Marcroft Mar-croft was arraigned upon the charge of assaulting as-saulting her sister-in-law, Lillie Marcroft. The fair Amazon pleaded guilty. Aftsr administering ad-ministering a $500 lecture, the court imposed im-posed a line of $5 and costs, amounting in all to $1220. |