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Show THE DAGGETT CASE. An Order of Dismissal Has Been Entered. ON MOTION OF PROSECUTION. The Defendant Slakes an Affidavit I'ully Kxonoratins John J. Hull From Certain Charges Made Against Him and Says He YVas Under the Influence . of iqu or at the Time of the Occurrence. The friends of William n. Daggett will be pleased to learn that the charges against him of assault and attempting to extort have been dismissed; while at the same time John J. Hull, the complainant, is fully vindicated vin-dicated of certain charges made against him by DaKgett. The .case created quite a sensation sen-sation at the time. It will be remembered that in October last, Mr. Daggett, who was then a city detective, went out to the Warm Springs and had a difficulty. with Mrs. Hull, which resulted in the detective's arrest. Yesterday afternoon the order of dismissal was entered on motion of Assistant United States Attorney Stephens, and Mr. Hull's vindication is contained in the following ftl.idavit which is now published for the first time: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. T: P.': I TORY OF UTAH ) fcAi i Lke County, J v, "Hi,. tin H. Daggett, teing first duly sworn, upon U: i.t.tn says: Tuat he is the defendant named in tw . rtrtiri criminal actions now pending in the ThirlJ ridicial District, court of Utah te.-ritory, jjiuu complaints mtde'by one John J- Hnll; i ns ( iiicri;-) for atieinpt to extort and one fora'sault ,v.t:i attempt to rob. That at .tae preliminary iiettnng cf the charge of as: a'llt with intent to i rob, held before Hon. George W. Moyer, United i Stales commissioner in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 3d day of November, 1891, this affiant under oath gave certain testimony detrimental to the complaining witaess John J. Ball, wherein said affiant charged the said Hull with certain unmentionable crimes against nature which affiant affi-ant at said examination detailed as having happened hap-pened at Beck's Hot Springs, near Sail Lake City, on Saturday, October 31, 1KS1. Affiant now most solemnly sweirs that no such acts on the part of the said John J. Hnll, as was testified to by bim on such examination, ever took place or happened; that affiant at the time detailed whtn said crime against nature was alleged to have been committal by the said Hull, the affiant was preatiy under the influence of liquor, so much so in fact as to be almost wholly crazed, demented and deprived of reason, and so remained np to una during said examination and scarcely knew what he was saying: ordoiny, and affiant now after clear reflection and nieclitat.ons upon the events and happenings of that occasion and of what really took place at Berk's Hot Spring on said ainday of October, 1091, affiant is positive and will now swear that nothing of the kind detailed ever took place. That the said John J. Hall wa not railty of any of the offences charged apainut him by affiant, af-fiant, and that tald charges were made by affiant without any foundation whatever and muit have been wholly due to morbid . condition of affiant's brain at that time as affiant now beli(rve from excessive ex-cessive drinking, and so believing this affiant now makes this affidavit freely, voluntarily and of his own volition in order to exonerate the said John J. Hnll fully and completely from ald charges and the whole thereof. W. H. Daggett. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 2d day of September, 1892. A. G. NOKREIX, United States Commissioner. |