Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 34 | Nebeker's Victory

j NEJJEKER'S VICTORY. j ' uiii iitulutions w ill 'u out frum I (;ih to Prank K. A'c'oelu-r, u.-.-i tant j attorney general of the riiitV'! States, h.) has won the leal battle against Uiie 1. U W. It sill Lc .corMe.J as one of the ino.-t notaljle trials in the history j uf the. country, and will ive to -M r. ( N el'ektTj w ho long has enjoyed a hi';h jrej.utaliun among hLs L"t;ili neighbors, -a permanent 'laee ymong the lawyers of j tlii.-: generation who have aehioved irreally. Jn the preparation nf the e."ioen-e Mt. Xebeker nceomplisbed :i titanic tusk. It was ner-essary to delve i nto thousaiulH of documents vhieh had been eonfiseated at the various I. W. W. Iteadquartergj to jdece signifieaui, facts together, to deduce therefrom Jeal eon-elusions, eon-elusions, to make new arrests and new seizures of dooumentM from time to time in fact, to build up with tireless patience pa-tience nnd toil a vast fabric a mighty skyscraper of evidence. Krom the first it was a baffling ca.se because of its many-sidedness and the secrecy which had invested the moves of the traitorous organiz-a-tion. But Mr. INebeker saw what must bo done and ho did not quail. It is true that the government furnished fur-nished him every aid. lie had many able assistants who helped Mm in the research, but the findings were of no value in their isolated state. They could convict tho J OH defendants only when linked unerringly with the law nnd applied to each individual on trial. Therein was the magnitude of the labor which Mr. Nebckor has brought to such a successful conclusion.