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Show GUD JURY CALLED FDR UWESnGATIONS Public Interest Aroused in j Order Issued by udge A. W. Agee. Special to The Tiibnnc. ! O'.lT'iX, Kelj. l puhlii sentiment that ha? )rr-n aroused by jilksrd infraction (if! thp. liquor laws tit thi.- city, by the ma! F-Iiortacro and by nt'i'air In the Hiy frninrnt resulted to lav in an order from Jude A. A upc of tlic district ronvt talMns for a grand .jury investigation, to be held early in March. The calling of a grand jury hns nruiisf 1 intense piihlu. interest -here, in lew of the iact that there has been only one oilier invest i- ! palion of this kind in Weber county sin-'c 1 I'tah attained stulrhnod. The order of I be .-ourt pinyidinc for a venire of eight gmnd jurymen was signed by Judge Asee this nun-inn;; and place , in the band.-i of County Clerk Charles M. Jiamev at oin-e. i Aryordlng to District A ttorney Srtnnrt I P. Dobba, one of I ho principaJ reasons tor t he calli ng of n grand jury is t he nerossjiy of invr-d leaving numerous e !H rCfa of thecal -ab: of 1 in nor in 'his county. He dei-U red today t ha I suffi -rient in torniH t ion i already at hand upon w hich several chnrges could lie filed. The alleged insanitary condition of the county building a.nd th" county jail will be another matter brought to the attention of the prund jury. While Lbe rl 1st r it t aitornc-y ail be had noi bei;n i fully advised as to the point, be expects t'iat conditions involving the s-i-uriage of ro;i 1 In i his muni y du ring most of the Tvinte.r months will be probed. Much of the sentiment resuHlng In the grand jury order resulted from the annual an-nual report made bv Chief of Police T. E. Browning and the reply from former for-mer Chief of Police W. i. Norton. The present police chief eharsed t bat conditions condi-tions were deplora ble when lie assumed office, openly assert In e: that this could be charged to the previous administration. Mr. Norton denied the charges in Ins reply, re-ply, adding that he would at any time welcome a grand jury investigation of conditions during bis administration, together to-gether with an' investigation of present conditions. There is said io be n movement on fool, to include in tbe grand jury programme pro-gramme an invpfetieation of financial! irs-nsctions In the city government. These transactions involve tbe transler of moncv from one fund to another and the failure of the present administration to take up more than $K0.H0n worth of warrant's outstanding from a previous, administration. ad-ministration. The on'v grand jury investigation that has previously been ordered in Weber t'ountv was held during the blackmail outrages of 1912 and 11U.1. Several indictments in-dictments were returned at that time against Joseph Henry Martin, who is now serving a life sentence in the state prison. |