Show State Auditor Refuses to Make Payment for Prisoners Prisoner's s Trip Commanded by Supreme Court Recently application was made by Frank P. P Kelsey whose trial be began began be- be gan gsa at St. St George today on a charge of ot poisoning his wife wil for a writ of ot habeas corpus from the supreme court Kelsey was vas to Salt Lake from the Washington county Jail In order that he might appear before the supreme court The cost of the trip as presented the state b by Sheriff William Goff Goft of ot Washington Washing Washing- ton county amounted to The bill was presented the state board of oC examiners and approved but when the claim was presented to the state auditor Mark Tuttle for fora a warrant the tho latter batter declined to issue the warrant on the ground that there Is no appropriation for tor such payment Toda Today he ho wrote tile tte I sheriff f of ot Washington county as follows I return you OU herewith your our claim against the state In the amount of ot for expense expense in incurred incurred incurred in- in by you in delivering dell a prIsoner prisoner pris Dna oner to Salt Lake City under order of ot the supreme court and have to advise lse that there is no state tate appropriation approprIation from which whirls I 1 can pay the tho same Section complied compiled laws las of oC Utah 1917 provides that the state II shall pay the actual expenses of ot j I sheriffs In conveying convicts to I the state prison but this section would not In include an expense In- In purred gurred for fOI an any other purpose I have hao talked this matter over 01 with the attorney general and he agrees with me that this expense will hire halve to be e borne by your our count county county- |