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Show CASH DISAPPEARS FROM DEPOSIT BOX Sayings Smelter Employee Removed Re-moved From the Utah National Na-tional Hank. In nn action brought In Dana T. Smith's court. In which John Mastos, a smelter employee) oi Bingham Junction, sought to r er i- from the Utah National bank. ft Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff Wednesday afternoon within fifteen minutes min-utes after the evidence had been hoard and that arguments made by the respective attorneys, Mcney Disappeared From Box. According to the t stlmony MastOS had rented a sufety deposit box In which to place hl.s savings. From time to tlm hi had deposited money until his capital reached the sum of J2'V.. About B month ugo hl.s brothel whs s.-nt to dt pu'ilt io mor and upon try InK the lock found that it would not open. The attention of the cashier whs called to the Incldenti and finall) it waa found necessarj t" break the lock As the l""r swung open the ( ashler and other olllclnls ol the bank i : ' surprlsod to sic that the bo was empty, instead of containing the amount stated above. But One Key Used During the- trial evidence was introduced to show that but one key to the box had ever been made, nnd then-fore it could have been opened by but one person, the owner of the box. As one of the rules of the bank compels the cashier or somi one Connected with the Institution to be pien cnt every time one of the boxes Is opened however, the Jury held that the depositor as entitled to a verdict for the full amount, and found accordingly, Claim It a Mystery. uncials nf the bank are nt a loss to understand un-derstand how the monej could him been t'iken from th vaults except by the eld Of the key Issued to Mr. Mastos The fad that the lock was not In wtorklng urdi-r when an att nipt tfl open the door ;i made seems to HiK'kl'St that It li'l been tampered with but so far as given out, suspicion has not been directed toward any one up to the present time |