Show WELL ITS IT'S FATE FA IE I IM I'M M A. A VICTIM o OF I r. r DECLARES MEIGHAN Convicted Postmaster Says He Was Unable to td Get Gett t- t f. f i C Certain Evidence BeJ Bep Ber Be- Be r p J fore the tile Jury That I Found Him Guilty r i Former Charles Meighan t bf Ogden who was convicted of ol lement b by a JUI Jury In th the Federal court ret yesterday rd y will be sentenced next day ay He was found guilty on the first t count of oC embezzling po postal tal funds and andl l f not ot guilty guilt on the s second count of em em- em ft money mone- ord order r funds The m maxImum maxImum max max- iX- iX punishment that could be Inflicted Inflict Inflict- ed under the verdict is live five years In the penitentiary i 4 Will vm Ask New Trial The plans pl of oC the defense were outlIned outlined outlined out out- lined by Attorney C. C S. S Patterson who f cald ElId We Vc will vIll submit a motion for tor a new trial on the he grounds that Judge Marshall Marv Mar Mar- v shall was mistaken In a portion of oC his charge e to the Jury especially with ret ret- i to ono one Item of 1600 1610 that played nn an Important part In the trial We Wc hold that there were other oilier errors and we shall take tale exceptions to a number of oC things that thit transpired In the cou course c cof of the trial The motion will he sill sul suh before belore the time f B sot t for tor sentence and It will be argued at nt the convenience convenience ence of or the court If H the new trial Is denied an appeal will be taken to the United States Circuit Court of Ap Ap- peals reals nIn in Tears 1 When hen hen the verdict was returned Meighan seemed like lIle a n dazed man He lie burst hunt Into te tears rs and exclaimed My I God this Is terrible I dont don't care for tor myself I can stand It hu but t my wife Ife 1 S and children I did not EXp expect ct a verdict of guilty Meighan continued My friends did not expect eXI it it I was looking to an acquittal ac ac- ac- ac or oi expected the Jury jur would be hung up I Ivas was vas afraid of the lie charge io Jo the Jury jun The The- court ruled out a great deal de-al of evidence which we ve wanted to tog g get t In Bu But t the court WitS was as very ery fair It was a splendid summary summary- I J had worried wor wor- ned ried about It It was all I J feared flared but the Judge was us fair fall I J did not worry the result after that I J sent ent my mr 5 wife homo borne at noon and told her not to worry that it was coming out all right Thinks o of His Children I I could stand it If It wasn't for Cor her herand herand herand and the children childr n It is for them I care most The strain all the the week seek eek has been something t terrible For the past four Cour nights I hr have not slept I have hR thought It II all over and over o a again aln and a again I didn't see how It could come out other than right I didn't b believe lIc e I could b bo be found guilty h Why I could ha have ve settled set set- tI tied d this all up tip out of court My 1 friends advised me to But I wouldn't do It I wanted an all Investigation I thought If the there was an anything wron wrong th the responsibility responsibility would b be in court COUlt but hut It wasn't fixed There Ther was evi evidence ence we wanted to get In In but it didn't get In He Found a Cure R. R H. H Foster HIS uS Second street treet Salt Lake City writes I 1 have ha be been n bothered bothered both hoth- ered with ith dyspepsia p ia or indigestion for twenty one years have tried many doctors doctors doc doe tors tots without relief reller but I have found a il acure acure cure In I recommend It to allm all m my friends who are arc afflicted that way and It 1 is curing them too at Z C. C l M. M I. I r u w 0 1 I 1 B I PROTEST P AGAINST I THE VERDICT S 0 0 n 0 Now ow I am sin a it convict In the eyes ees of oC the thc world There wt 1 was a shortage c in the money or order er department but there ha has been leen no conviction for Cor that I 0 was waa acquitted of oC that charge 1 I was convicted on on errors Oh well Its It's o fate Im I'm a victim of or circumstances That That's what you'd call It It I suppose 0 CHARLES CHARLE MEIGHAN TO TilE THE TELEGRAM |