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Show FISHEB 010 NOT M mm FBflM LETTEB Languishes Three Months in the County Jail, While Ilawes Goes Meandering. Negligence, on the part of W. TI. IIuwcs caused Ucrt Fisher to rcmulii in the county jail for about two months longer thnn necessary. FislK-r was accused ac-cused or taklnc n letter eonlitlnln? money or a chock which was Intended for IT awes. C. .T. Stains swore to tho complaint com-plaint last January. Fisher was Riven a hearing before T'nltcd Slates Commissioner Commis-sioner Baldwin ami was hound over to await the action of the sraml jury, lie could not raise tho required bonds, so he wis compelled to linear In Jail until Thursday nitertioon. when he was released. re-leased. "Fisher was placed in the county Jail on January 21. I Ilawes tesMilled before the Brand Jury sometime this week that the loiter containing con-taining the check which Fisher was supposed sup-posed to havi- taken nppeured In due time hi Stockton, some twenty days after the I line Which mall ordinarily requires re-quires to make the trip between Salt Lake CItv, t'tah, and Stockton. Utah-points Utah-points not more than si hundred miles apart. JIawes failed to notify the proper authorities anil as a result no action was taken until Fisher's :ase came before tho jjrnnrt jury. Theuvll was that Tlawcs ! gave his testimony. ', District Attorney Booth, who bus been i buav on the Government eases before ' the petit Jurv aRnlnst the railroad coni- panics, learned that the uraud jury bail ' not paid any atlcnllon to the evidence i against Fisher. Thursday morning. Mr. Booth went before Judge Marshall and secured an order releasing Fisher from the county jail. While in the county Jail Fisher has been a model prisoner, having caused no trouble during the three months he has been a guest with Sheriff Finery. A private safe may be rented in the ! lire and burglar-proof vaults of the Salt Hake Security and Trust conipaii', I 32-cA Main street, $3.50 per year. |