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Show lltashier of Jordan State Bank, of Benghazi IE Junction, Held For the Stealing ' of $1 06,250 From S Institution. ilsiJLT OP TEDIOUS INVESTIGATION SOURCE OF DISGUST TO THE PUBLIC lllpinion is General That Young Financier Has Been jjft-' Made Scapegoat of Principals in I . Eamous Mystery. I indictment Tuesday morning b.y ijtcd States grand jury of A. W. t cashier of the Jordan State at Bingham Junction, and a' C of Joseph Nelson, for complic-jbe complic-jbe robbery of tho Utah National 6tarted anew the discussion of -famous local bank scandal, be tempor of-the public can be from expressions beard on the Tuesday, this indictmont is but ginning of criminal proceedings. 0 is not a man in Salt Lake City familiar with the case who be-that be-that voting 1 Bill" Nclso.n con-that con-that crime, or is even a prinoi-rhoro prinoi-rhoro is not a member of, the jury who does not know that at wo others are guilty. leaking out that the indictment mg Nelson was . merely a conv 3 atntffcg the .infers fn order to t absoluto failuro of the .iury's More Implicated, linority favored indicting two, )S5ibly three, others, and promi-ies promi-ies at that. It is understood that I Attorney II. E. "Booth advised i this on the grounds that there )t sufficient ovidoncc to convict, if the jurors made tho point, it ,'that it would be highly impru-nd impru-nd improper to indict others and government to great espouse in. fmpt to. convict them, r the public is disgusted is put-t put-t mildlv. That the case will th. the punishment of W. Nel-not Nel-not generally believed, although ire found who have no hesitancy ig that young Nelson will be, by ehient with the principals, the oat of this shameful affair. ; given out privately that an in-ut in-ut would not have been reached )t the handwriting expert, Theo-ytka, Theo-ytka, been called into the case, ct no difficulty in convincing the that the Jordan bank cashier the now much-talked-of note to Adams, which was eigned with ;ter"T." Pinkertons Discredited. Pinkertons are thoroughly dis-jd dis-jd by grand jurors, who say that what they produced was largely a rehash re-hash of newspaper stories, and that no important details were presented by the Pinkertons that had not been published in tho local press. For soveral weeks reputable newspapers. newspa-pers. have, refrained from, interfering in the investigation through a desire that nothing that they, might do would inter-fore inter-fore with the deliberations of the grand ."jury. Tho adjournment of that body will doubtless be followed by a thorough newspaper inquiry into all details procurable pro-curable and which will be given the public as quickly as tho facts are obtainable. ob-tainable. The- general public will also take a hand in tho investigation and will aid materially in driving from cover those who have attempted to sat- 1 isfy the public demand for justice with a single victim. Friends Want Statement. Friends of Young Nelson, it is believed, be-lieved, will try to prevail upon him to make a clean breast of the affair and let others who are guilty stand before the bar of public opinion nnd jiulicc alongside him. How much wciuht this may hnvo with the young man us problematical. prob-lematical. The Dcscret News pulled all the props from under the young man ' in its story of the case by calling spc-I spc-I rial attcution to the fart that young Nelson, though of Mormon purenlapf', I was himself never in the church. Lc-I Lc-I cally, the significant attached to tls will not be overlooked, and it serves i-, i-, tii'c on Young Nelson that he has brim i abandoned by those who might otherwise other-wise be expected to fitand between him and the vengeance of the law. The papers for the arrest of Nelson were intrusted to L. II. Smyth, Chiof United States Deputy Marshal, and about forty minutes pnet the noon hour, little more than an hour after ho received re-ceived the papers, be walked into tho little bank at the Junction, was greeted ! by 3'oung Nelson himself and in another five" minutes the parly was esconced in J. H. Garrett's automobile and fairly "eating up" the count' road on the return re-turn trip to Salt Lake City. At a few minutes past 1 o'clock the big machine I drew up at the south entrance to the I Federal building-on Main street, the ruu having been made in about twenty minutes, min-utes, the whole trip m about an hour and a half. Nelson had been notified of his indictment in-dictment before tho arrival of Marshal Siuvth. He left; his homo in Salt Lake C'itv as usual for the bank Tuesday morning, and was going through the usual usu-al routine of the institution when friends notified him of tho action of tho jury, so he was fully prepared for tho arrival of the officer. When Deputj' Marshal Smyth re- Continued on Pago T.wo. ..tell WwmW'WM 'wrffiM C&flLh, . ANDREW WILLIAM KELSON. 'Wvnhrl ho Jo"lau State bank, of B'.nghani Jtniction, indicted by tho ftttioaai anktC Grantl jurv for tuQ thoft of 5106,2130 from tho Utah Na- ofi " r " WL! I if AW. NELSON INDICTED FOR III UTAH NATIONAL BANK THEFT Continued from Pago One. Vj ,-ccivcd tho warrant, shortly aftor 11 a. !. mi., ho proceeded to Murray on the , 1 Btroct car, accompanied by a Tnbuno )t reporter. At Murray a surrey and team' U wore secured and the two started for Ifc Bingham Junction, which was reached i ubout thirty minutes later. As the team fe ( approached the bank on the main street, If the big automobile was standing at the door. Marshal Smvth alighted, lol- K,h lowed by tho reporter, and a few min- r f 1 utes later he entered the bank. A door t HI at the rear of tho fixtures was opened dSVfl und voung Nelson stood .iusfc inside it. ftl A i "dood morning, Mr. Smyth," he said, l lr as tho deputy entered. The mnrshal uc-w uc-w knowledged his greeting and both ft, ,M passed into a room in the rear. It was wj '. D. Fitzgerald, bookkeeper or the ft f J bank, who opened the door. ..In the room . l- was one of tho directors of the institute institu-te K lion and after exchanging afew words R 1 -with him and Fitzgerald, who remained Vl M in charge of tho bank, Nelson announced Ui f ho was ready. Beaching liis hat from L,f behind tho door, he donned it and into i llirt nntnmnbilo the nartv climbed. i I j I Nelson Was Silent. ,' I J Jack McCooey was the chauffeur and t'-. i! X Bert Fuller sat beside him, with a sec- !j" ond newspaperman. Tn the toniienu of i the car were Marshal Smyth, Nelson and 'l I ji two newspaper reporters. It was a swift j and somewhat wild ride, but a silent -a, one so far as Nelson was concerned. V 1 From the time he left the bank until 1e ' ho reached tho Feleral building in this ? city he ne-er spoke. Slightly pale, but 1! w : "with no external evidence of excitement b i1 bo sat erect in the car, scarcely ever j .R il moving even with the terrific jolts of jJi jfi the automobile. Arriving in the city he yj i t Tiignified to Marshal Smyth that he do- j I 1 ' JOSEPH N13LSON. 4" i. Former Cashier of the Utah National r bank, whose name has boon conspicu- J- j ous in the inquiry. IB u sired to visit his attorney, A. B. Ir-B Ir-B .'i vine, of the firm of Thurman, "Wedge- W wood & Irvine, but the officer intimated m jT I that thev would first go to Marshal m W Spry's. office. There young Nelson took K . the telephone and called Mr. Irvine. Up-lit, Up-lit, on getting a repb" Nelson said: ''This j is- Will." Mr. Irvine evidently asked Hh j Jhim.to come to his office and after a Pfc ; 'consultation with Deputy' Smyth, the rij latlor accompanied him to his attor-V attor-V ney?s office, 'j " Bonds Furnished; Nelson Reloased. ' .A representative of The Tribune f ,H, asked Mr. Nelson if he had any state-i state-i j X me"nt. to make and he replied, "No, not I'jljLjj " Subsequently Nelson was left in the V jl f company of his attorney to go in quest Jj Sl' of ."bondsmen. The trip given in Great i jfi Salt, Lake by J. E. Laugl'ord to a num-f num-f ft bcr of prominent citizens took many of " his friends out of town so that there j -svas a. delay in securing his sureties. i 1 j Attorney Irvine, accompanied by tho I It defendant, went to Saltair in tho even-1 even-1 , u ; ing and met the parts' on its return from I ijl the lake trip and among the passengers S HJ was '.Joseph N"elson, uncle of the young' 2 ' man'. ' T1 , J. E. LangfoTd, lessee of Saltair, and II I P. W. Madsen were askod to become w if sureties for" the young man, and they fv- consented. They signed the bond at It i'jl Saltair and upon the return of the par-kj par-kj 'K ty to town. at 10 p. m. Judge Marshall En ir ' - approved o t,ho bond, and Poison relumed re-lumed to his -wifo at his home, 4 62 South Second "WohI. Fow Spectators. Althoueh the theft of $106,250 from the Utah Nntiounl . h.ink stirred thin community when the facts wore nindo public, as probably it has novor before been disturbed, but fow spectators were present in tho United States District court Tuesday mornintr, when tho rawl jury Bubmitted its final report and returned re-turned an indictment against Andrew William Xclaon. cashier of the Jordan State bauk at Bingham Junction, charjj ing him with the robbery of tho reserve re-serve chest, about the 9th day of Jaiv uary, 1908. Some lawyers 'who had other matters before Judge John A Marshall, half a dozen nowspaper men, the court officials and three or four citizens composed the crowd. When the voporl and indictment were handed to Judge Marshall, he read the former and then hauded both to Clerk Letrher and ordercrl them filed. "You have completed your labors. I uuderfitand," said Judge Marshall, ad dressing J. W. Houston, foreman of the I grand jury. "Wo have, ' replied iMr. Houston. "Then you are discharged from further fur-ther attendance," said Judge Marshall, Mar-shall, and tho jurors retired from the court room, after having spent, tliirtv-eight tliirtv-eight days in investigating the. celebrated cele-brated case. They at once repaired to the office of Huted States Marshal Spry, where each was paid off and dc parted to his home ami his vocation. Report of Grand Jury. About five minutes to 10 o'clock tho jurors filed into the court room. Foreman Fore-man Houston carried a package of documents doc-uments in his hands, the report and tho indictment. Five minutes later Judge Marshall entered and tho jurors answered an-swered tho roll call. Judge Marshall then asked if the inn-was inn-was prepared to report. Tho answer was that it was. and the following report re-port was handed to Judge Marshall: To tho Hon. John A. Marshall, judno of tho above-entitled court: The grand Jurors of the above-entliled court for the term of April. IflOS. herewith here-with submit to this court the following report: That said grand Jurors have been In .session slnco the lith day of June. 100S, since the former report: that said grand Jury has had In attendance on each and every session until and including' June 25. eighteen members; that they had in attendance at the session of Juno 26 to dale, seventeen members; that they have Investigated one alleged violation of tho United States statutes, of which alleged violation they have found one Indictment, which Is hereby submitted to tho court. Said grand jurors further report that they have now completed their labors. J. W". HOUSTON. Tore man. J. F. MARSHALL, Clerk of the Grand Jurv. j After perusing tho report, Judge Marshall Mar-shall then opened the indictment. glanced at it for a minute or two, and then handed both to Clprk Letcher with the order to file them. Judge Marshall lator fixed the bail at $10,000. Tjiimediatelj afterward tho jury was discharged. Indictment Against Nelson. Tho indictment against Andrew W. Nelson, charging him with tho offense, contains six counts. In the first throe counts he is charged with taking the cash for his own use while agont of tho Utah National. Tho first count charges tho abstraction abstrac-tion of $5000; the second count. $50,-000; $50,-000; the third count. $100,250.' In tho three following counts ho is charged with fho thoft of similar amounts, but in these instances he is described as cashier of the Jordan State bank, as well as agent of the Utah National bank, having full and free access to the vault and reserve chest of the bank as such agent and cashier. The offenses are alleged to have been committed com-mitted on or about the 9th day of January, 1908, and the indictment is so drawn as to cover the varying course of tho proof, so that if tho evidence fails on one count there will be others to fall back upon. The indictment under the Federal statutes cannot be amended, so that every precaution had to bo taken in drafting it. Specific Allegations. Specifically, the first count charges that on or about tho 9th day of January, Janu-ary, 1908, Andrew W. Nelson was tho duly authorized agent of the Utah National Na-tional bank of Salt Lake City, which was a National banking association, and while agent he did unlawfully, fraudulently and feloniously abstract from and convert to his own uso certain cer-tain moneys and funds of tho Utah National Na-tional bank to tho amount and value- of $5000, part of the legal reserve fund of the Utah National bank, all without with-out the consent and authority of the directors and officers of the Utah National Na-tional bank. Tho second and third counts chargo the abstraction of $50,- 000 and $10G,250, respectively, in language lan-guage similar to that quoted above. The fourth count alleges that while the Utah National was doing business as a national banking association it had for its use in business a monoy safe, vaults, chests and safety deposit boxes; that all were protected by time locks and combination locks and appliances; ap-pliances; that the Jordan State, Bank was a corporation engaged in banking business at Bingham 'Junction, and A. W. Nelson w.13 the cashier, and the Jordan bank deposited moneys with and transacted business with tho Utah National, Bank. Nelson Had Combinations. "On certaia davs in each month," continues the indictment, "it becamo and was necessary to transfer large sums of money from the Utah; National Bank to the Jordan State Bank"; Nelson Nel-son was the authorized agent of the Utah National to unlock the door and ' enter the bank and take from the vaults money and funds for the Jordan I State Bank, and was entrusted with the key to one of the outer doorH of the j building, and entrusted with the eombi-, eombi-, nations of the doors of the vaults, and was authorized to enter the bank for the purpose stated in the presence- of any of the officers and employees of the Utah National. Then the charge is made fiat $5000 wu- so taken ly j Nelson, pan of tho National's restrvo 1 fund, and t put to his own use, the ! fundB having been designated and set j aside to be transferred by Nelson to I the Jordan State Bauk. Then follows I the fifth and six counts, chargiug tho abstraction of $50,000 and $106,000 respectively. The indictment; covers six closely written typewritten pnees. |