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Show COURT INQUIRES INTO UTAH HOTEL EXPLOSION Manager of Construction Tells About Alleged Agreement With One of Suspects. At 10 o'clock Monday forenoon thn trial of Fred Wilson and .7ohn Dclancy, the two men arrested some time ago on the charge of bavin? attempted to blow up the steel work of the new Utah hotel, ho-tel, was resumed In the city court before be-fore .ludgo J. Jr. Bowman, with Assistant Assist-ant County Attorney Alexander and Attorney At-torney W. W. Little prosecuting, lioth Wilson and Dclano.y again appeared in court without counsel, preferring to conduct con-duct their own defense. Dclancy took hut little interest In the proceedings, as thus far tho testimony has- not in the least implicated him In tho nttcmptcd dynamiting of the steel work on the new hotel building. It. D. Jones, manager of the Jones Construction company, was placed on the stand, and losllllod that, on tho day prior to the explosion, he had been approached ap-proached by Wilson, who said that ho had boon offered ?100 and a ticket to any place he wanted to o If he would dynamite the hotel. According: to the testimony. Jones asked Wilson what ho proposed lo do about It, and Wilson replied re-plied Unit he was "out of coin and needed need-ed the monuy." air. Jones tcslltlcd that he agreed to rIvo Wilson ?M0 if lie would help In landing the fellows who had planned the dynamiting. Wilson was aguccablc to this, according to Mr Jones, and they had planned a meeting the next day. Mr. Jones said that Wilson had asked for money, but that he had been refused, but an agreement was mndc to put him on thn payroll. Wilson also told Jones, tho latter saidi that he had already been given $15 by the "union," and was lo receive tho balunco of SSu when the "Job" was completed. Mr. Jones explained that tho agreement agree-ment to enter Into the plans with Wilson Wil-son was to catch the men who had planned tho scheme. Tho hearing adjourned at noon until 10 o'clock Monday morning. |