Show ii JOE E OBBItX TJXDOUBTEDLv It was from the lips of Joe E OBrien himself that the organ of thevconspirators obtained ob-tained the history of his doings In I Utah which appeared In Its Issue of Thursday last It publishes this morning letter l from him with his oath affixed thereto by way of attestation The letter is an open one addressed to Mr Bonfield but f beyond doubt was prepared specially for the use of the sheeljTeferred to r From these two accounts of tie career ef Joe OBrien we purposeS purpose-S selecting a few points a pur fclJerationof tfieputllc leaving alter to judge whether or not that i Individual the embodiment other idvdua embrent r fprms oC nsscajltyjind treachery treach-ery We will firsFbbserve that a detect vswho f entrusted with the I ferreting out o crime sad Who j while pretending j to bosoecig5l fa really working i a tiro interests of the crmlDi sJ regarded b longing t the worst class of traitors Such a form of treachery I peculiarly pecu-liarly abhorred for the reason that society h a little profrdton against it and suSVs to much agmt I wtt 1 muc from It v > In thearScieof TbursdayOBrierj Ismota art that Frank Jennings Jen-nings Instructed him to draw CoL ageW H 1lcn jLLX1 n and Judge Powers into I gambling game under cirtttm stc that would tKltto Jennings to have the fiice pled by the police at USB proper time to catch those individuals in a game that OBrien replied that such a scheme would cost lots of money and t carrylt out he would have t lP pcarflusbthat Jennings answered Never mind the money go ahead and yon shall have all the DOn DO-n ja that thereupon pre I started on a course of giddy pleasure and extravagant expenditure a for the purpose of entrapping the persons named Into a gambling game and ambush OBrien is further made to state t In a brace game which he entered on his own account he hun bundle lunt e dropped a big dIe of money which after some hesitation Jennings made good warning him f thereafteri incur losses only in attempting trap the Liberal leaders Ail this IB a pack of palpable rubbish rub-bish 2V moment spent in a analytical examination of the statements will prove this Mn > Jennings in behalf of the Peoples Party furnished OBrien Tonsider able sums of money to be USed In demonstrating that certain Lib eral leaders were gamblers Now what earthly use could Mr Jennings Jen-nings ot the Peoples Municipal Central Committee make of such evidence None whatever Granted that there exists 1 popular supposition supposi-tion that those Individuals are gamblers blers what good would it ih this Peoples Party to prove Item such None whatever Whether or not I they are gamblen is no issue of the campaign and by proving them to belong to f > At claw the Peoples Party won not win from their following a single vote for the Liberal party have pnW and for years advocated gambling as I means of reforming young ttab But in his sworn ctatemcnt OBrien sufficiently gives the He to the above assertion published for him by the Liberal organ on Thursday Thurs-day Under oath he declared to Mr Bonfield his employer Yoon told me that I was to ferret out frauds in the registration which the Mormons suspected and that being legitimate detective work I engaged in It He here states exactly what his chief set him to do He was not t Inveigle anyone into vile dens he was not to collect material with which t besmirch the prIvate char acter of individuals OBrien had no need to engage in gambling nor to visit houses of illfame in order to do the work him t assigned j and proceedings of that sort were therefore there-fore entirely voluntary on his part i and presumably must have pmabJy originated origi-nated in personal motives That OBrien was engaged solely to detect registration frauds is amply pre by the second third and I fourth paragraphs of his sworn i statement which set forth in detail the instructions he received and the outlines of plans given him to follow fol-low In the sixth paragraph 1 repeated peated the falsehoods nailed above and In the soventh Is the statement to the effect that Mr Barton wrote a proMormon letter which appeared In the Chicago Herald Mr Bonfields ilpnlil nf Ihl tion already made public Is sufficient suffi-cient I is a positive fact thatlrtr Barton did not write to the Chicago Herald In the eighth paragraph of the sworn statement OJBrien yet ye-t Mr Jennings informed him there was evidencethat three members mem-bers of the grand jury frequented frequent-ed private houses of 111 fame and that convicting I proof could be obtained ob-tained against them it might deter them from Indicting Mormons As there were no Mormons who were even supposed to b In the most remote danger of being indicted by that grand Jury any attempt a deterring them from eo doing ould have seemed 6 superfluous that no man of sense would have engaged in It This pretext of tng visiting houses til illfame Is entirely en-tirely too attenuated I the ninthparagraph OBrien who is a married man confesses ton to-n correspondence with a vounir lady It will b remembered that what was leed to be an Infernal scheme on his part to ruin her wag one of the reasons for hia dismissal by his chief In the cl closing u clong paragraph graph of his sworn statement he eya Mr Bonfleld I am not actuated by malice In this natter but here I stand for truth Jbnd tth and the honor anil dignity 0 the profession profes-sion S A sionThe The affidavit axed to this statement state-ment is such a curiosity nhat I k subjoined S SALT LAKE Couim J J Utah Territory J I w t IJoe EjoBriendo Etndendo solemnly o swear that the facts In the above letter are te Sworn and subscribed to this 31st day of January A D 190 SEAL E G MATTHEWS Xotary Public OBrien swears that th facts contained con-tained in his letter are true but how about the falsehoods embraced in It Rebus taken care not to L commit i com-mit perjury publicly a to swear to theofce Assertions included In his open letter to Mr B nfl hL His affidavit signifies thatthere are falsehoods In the document to which I is affixed whIc ae We turn again to the article of Thursday In which WO have whic hr ample evidence of the banner In which OBrien vindicates the honor and dirnltr nr < > profession Dig th natural ization examination before emmUon Mor Judge Anderson he made constant reports rpr to the Peoples Party represents tivesj that there w a universal feeling that the Mormons were being persecuted and indignation w rising In the public mind and the claim is that he thus deceived de-ceived ihem 1 was sent t Park City but confesses his neglect j t do what he w sent to perform porm namely procure names pf mIne employed there He was sent to Bingham on the same enid but perpetrated shameful fraud irtt 6eul If the article referred rud to f true by copying rfeq teby the5 names cpyng te nme on the advertised JeteF list1 and furnishing the same t te lt S Peoples Party managers by which to check the registration Jet her OD len b t toX fie madetooy la o was she 10 < fiTCi which to cflVtt a certain purpose with Bynon but jr salk i down I his own pocket and when asked about it Aid he had I Tent it t Byrion as directed but took 1 no note for it > What object was to be accomplished with the J100 1 not gfieln and 1 fl safe to assume that the only truthful part of the rote cues to it I that OBrien appropriated appropri-ated It This is confessediS further on in the article He claim t have been directed to get evidence nrsintt tiJto 0 fraud In ftl ling coal at Fort Dohts but confesses that he went back and for between the city and the Fort slefghridlng with his girl I will be remembered that lie is a married man and all that he mre did for the pay he rccei vej was once lu a while to glance at the scales i upon which the coat was weighed and report that nothing could be fond against Clute Under the subhead False Rpt Made the sheet Welch champions this vindl catorof the honor and dignity of the nrofession savs of him During the whole of this affair and during a this time he was in the employ em-ploy of the Peoples Party boconatant ly ted them with cock and bull stories 119 reported to thorn that he had discovered Judge Powers Cot Page and others gambling ittd tat be bad Impped them in various bt Lei nrna YLem His YL-em commenced to lose faith c1m in him and 8 had placed menlo This description of OBrien presumably pre-sumably procured from himself is sufficient From i I appears that During the whole of this affair of his employment to detect regUtrn lion offenses belied t hId employers pee frauds upon them squandered squand-ered and embezzled money put Into his hands went tlelzhridlni with hand 5elbrdlnJ wIt his girl though 1 married man gambled visited houses of prosltu tion and conducted himself generally gen-erally 8 a scoundrel and traitor utterly abandoned to every KnlU moat of honor |