Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-13 | Page 12 | Says Grant Did Not Make Any Threats

SAYS GRANT DID NOT MAKE1H1EJIT5 Saloon Proprietor Issues a Statement Which Sets Rumors at Rest. "Chief Grant did not threaten that if I did not discharge my bartender my license li-cense would ho taken away," said D. M. Wilson, proprietor of the Court snloon at Fourth 'South and State streets, when ho appeared at headquarters last night. Mr, Wilson and li Hollenbeck, thu bar-tondcr bar-tondcr in question, called at headquarters to adjust a difference fc-etween tho bartender bar-tender and Detectives Moroni Gillespie and H. D. Lyon, whiqh arose when Hollenbeck Hol-lenbeck did not tako kindly to ft warning warn-ing delivered by tho detectives sevoral days ago thut rumors of gambling- In tho saloon had reached them and that prosecution prose-cution would surely result if the rumors could ibe proved true. Hollonbeck last night frankly admitted admit-ted to the detectives that he. had been too hasty In resenting tho warning. He protested that ho was not responsible for cheering on the part of some of the crowd In tho saloon who heard "his defiance de-fiance of tho policemen, but said that he was sorry that his remarks had provoked pro-voked It. Speaking of whnt passed between himself him-self and Chief Grant, as a result of the trouble, Mr. Wilson said: Chief Grant told mc that I was responsible re-sponsible for tho actions of my bartender, bar-tender, while he was In charge of the saloon. He told me that if ho had a man working under him who-wouldn't obey orders he would discharge hlni, and advised mc to dispense with the services of Hollenbeck unless ho was In Homo way indispensable to my business. I told him that tho man war, not and that I would discharge him. Then the chief turned to Detective Glllesplo and said,, "Well, on that condition, you can hold off from prosecution of this caso." Of course, T knew that a prosecution prosecu-tion would have a direct bearing on my license, but Chief Grant did not say that he would havo my licenso revoked. In fact, license was not mentioned. Also, I did not say that ho threatened the rovocation of my license. I said that he threatened prosecution on the ground that there was sufficient cause to proceed with a case.