Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-12-12 | Page 1 | Hasn't Followed up Indictments

I HASN'T IT FOLIO fOlLO WD UP lip INDICTMENTS Charge Made in Wash Washing inton in- in ton ton That That Oregon's Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Attorney Has Shown No Disposition to Act WASHINGTON Dee DE' 12 lt It It is i I learned learnd at the tho department of justice that ono one of oi the principal reasons for tho the withdrawal of tb the tho nomination of ot William Wil liam ham 0 O. Bristol to be Un United States at- at torne for Oregon on was the fact fat that altho although th the j grand and jury jar during tho the last year had brou brought ht in iii more than twenty twenty- five tle Indi Indictments against persons It f for forland forland r rl l land nd frauds Mr Bristol had not en cu- I on the tho prosecution of any an of them theom anti and notwithstanding the ur urgent ent requests of the department to begin beJin proceedings at once Mr Ir Bristol had shown hown an nn indisposition to comply with ith the request His Ills SUCCeSSOr has hae not nol yet been de dc decided decided de- de upon Deposit and Trust frost company compan- had on undo undo- d de- de Posit in each of two York New York banks Brown maintained almost to the end of the interview with Hh the commissioners that the entries represented genuine assets as but when pressed further for a complete compete explanation he ho broke down lown and admitted th the truth The Thc suspension 8 of the time California Safe Deposit and Trust company has hM placed a JRr largo e number of f. f army officers in an embarrassing position Lose Company Funds Almost every cry officer at Fort t McPowell Mc Mc- Jc Powell Dowell had harl an account in the bank Many of them had been heen with com company pan funds and ham hall deposited them in in the safe deposit bank balik those thoi c funds they arc are personally pcr responsible The savings of the thc officers did mud not nol amount to a greet nt rent sum hut but most of tho the thomen men who ha have havn been stationed here for foran any an lell length th of time tim have ha s1 saved l a few fo thousand dollar dollars Ono One officer who harl hafl just lust reached l. l California from front th time the east placed in In the bank the dy day before it closed I