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Show If IS ALLEGED flOBBER 11: A MEHESfiAPEBOAT? H R Tin's Is Question Asked by Many ll Regarding Indicted Bank Kf PERJURY IS ALLEGED I . AGAINST SOME WITNESSES fr Plea Made That if Perjurers Ipji. Were Indicted it Would jj'r Appear Vindictive. BtJ$ Si -Well, tho -Utah National bank rob- Mwi 1 bery, in which $.106,250 disappeared, has ) L .been apparently cleared up by the in- I dictmcnt of A. W. Nelson, cashier of Vi, the Jordan State bank and nephew of r Vi; Joseph Nelson of the Utah National," !"t U s?aid u well known Sail Laker to tho I Stroller on Tuesday. "What do you j. J suppose he did with it? Of courso 1 i mipposo tho game was -worth the candle R but there aro many people who beliovo BfcN ll thnt he is ,n scapegoat. L tell you there Blr J .ire some queer things about this big HI F robbery. ' "Here is an institution." he con- Hl.I tinned, "that was held up, so to speak, Hkl its elroug box was looted of an mi- Kil inense sum of money. True, it was not Bf J your monoy nor mine, but a bank is a Hrj) fcCini-'public institution. You arc asked H to deposit vour money there, so aro Hill hundreds of" others. Great vaults aro constructed in these banks. Bolts and Hll ;, bars and time locks are supposed to Hf protect tho funds of those who deposit K them. The general supposition is that Kf" it requires at least two people, and in 4H most instances three or four, to open B. ; the various combination locks that 'J" guard the doors to these treasure vaults. B & "It appears, however, that such is HI x ol iiQ case. Here is a big bauking HlvJ institution of Salt Lako City. It em- HP t ploys a large number of people. Tho Hft T presumption is that all the safeguards HKl possible would bo taken to not only pro- Hl&'i tcct tho treasure in tho great vaults, HM t but that every precaution would hu HI& rl taken to protect tho employes to free K S tliom from the tempter should they bo K (ri iuclined to associate with him. Jt: the Hit & stories thus far printed since the in- Hpj c (lictinent was returned are true it would HVlfilX bccin that all ordinary safeguards, all HY; , ordinary systems in vogue in all well Hgif 1 regulated establishments, banks iu par- Bffi'J t rieular, were set aside, defied, in fact, gjLttj iu every way, and one person, that a i J" nephew" of o'ne of the irominont ofli- Hf ; uials of the bank, given absolute, access H m lo" the treasure vaults unrestrained iu mj'i , ' any ninnncr possible. K. Not Accusing Young Nelson. He v' " Understand mo, 1 am not saying that tbo young mau is guilty of tho ff : thoft or embezzlement of the $106,250 HK '1 from the Utah National bank, for an 'J? indictment docs not mean absoluto It guilt. A trial court must pass upon tho UB.tl case afterwards. That is where inno- wjll ceuce ur guilt is established, bc dc- HwME' l'eusc having an opportunity to present t bis or her side of a "case. An indict- EkI mont is absolutely one-sided. It is based, uecessarily, upon evidence pre- K'l'l v.-titil smIpIv- liv n rtrrmoiMil ion. a.nr! tho I- circumstances which an indicted iudi V t vidua! might easily clear away cannot . f bs presented to a grand jury. T "Jt does strike ine, however, that I,- y there wan a wonderful laxity of system I fj if the stories as printed are true. Here pj jt is a young man 27 years old, is itiar- -XIl lied, has a wife and a. child. His homo IvL life is said to have been happy. Tnere was no domestic trouble. Ihs life was m At a simple life. He did not according to jiff vI those who have known him since boy- llm v, hood, dissipate. He was not a user of ml tobacco, he had no bad habits, and a m .i 3ook at bim would show that be was not If ii i '' a drinking man, therefore what object Ik iL -v-ould he have to steal 7 What could he Q 'tf( have done with the' money3. Where is t III "it? E IW "Young Nelson was the owner of a m. ijp' Viig block of shares in the Jordan Slate y bank, where he was cashier. He was getting a good salary. There was no Plb incentive for him to steal, hence it Ijfj Jooks to me as if he were being made a Bf' . scapegoat for the person or persons B who are the real culprits. And I voice, U 'f J know, the opinion of a large number of people when T sav this. What About Perjurers? K lf "In the JDcseret -Evening News Lo- R night X notice thai high tribute is paid 'o. United States .District Attorney ft , '; Booth, and that he, according to the Mr (l News, is said to be highly pleased at D; 'i the outcome;. that upon him has fallen ' the task of presenting the evidence to H1, h ihc jury and drawing it out of wit- i'l ncsses as tho case proceeded. One of m. ihc results is that enough evidence to m w indict several persons for perjur' was K E brought out, but this course was not B wa pursued, owing to the possible appear KL iK auce of vindictiveness. t WJm "Now, if this is true, if this United BTH States District Attorney has evidence gap- enough to indict a number of persons HmIy for perjury, and heloes not do so, then H 11 he is derelict in his duty, violates his HI if. oath of office, is unfit to be a nrose If ;-;(, cuting official and should resign. There I 'Mi is no vindictiveneBS in running down 'M$ crime. If there was perjured evidence J;i presented and if it is true that he kuew 'g it, there is only one path laid out for v . him prosecute the periurers. ?' i "The President of the United f i States appointed him United States , , IPistrict Attomej-. Ninctj' Senators of jjet the United States approved the ap-I, ap-I, pointmcnt of the chief magistrate. His j duty is to prosecute offenses against the I ? United States. Perjury is a crime r against the T'nited States. Tf perjury i ' was committed, why was not the jcr-Bt jcr-Bt jurcr or perjurers brought up" standing? H.tA There must not be favoritism shown. U An I have said, there can be no vin-if vin-if R dictiveness in ferretincr out crime. TI . Must Have Had Help. fM? "I have talked with a great many IV y people toda-, since the fact that an in- Sff ') dictmcnt was returned against A. V. Hw , Nelson was made public. There is not Hk' a single person of this number but what HV,j is emphatic' in the opinion that if HS Young Nelson looted the bank he must, BVHLi ' have been aided by somo one else HSKlI possibly by severnl others. HHt H "Of course, other Grand juries have HHvA'K power to take tho matter up and make B-: Vl further inquiry. It has been made pub- HVJl iM- lie through tho press that the jurj' was HI', jfj atrongly inclined to the belief that HHjf Ik three -others wore implicated, and the W,' if.' intimation is that the failure to return Wf ' four indictments instead of the one they Wv did return was due to a bare majority F 'iC- vote of the jurors. V. 'M "The present officers of the looted HVK.. bank, it is alleged, have information W-Ml which is likely to lead to other arrests, H; thai information may be filed with B the proper officials. It the bank offi- H'' m 'rs arc cognizant of information to Sv .E' this effoct it is clearly their duty to file this information. It is possible that the probing of the mysterious robbery rob-bery by which the Utah National bank was looted of $10G,250. has n'ust begun." |