Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-27 | Page 1 | Bribe Suspect Threatens Suit to Gain Records from Chez

Bribe Suspect Threatens Suit To Gain Records From Chez Preparations for a civil suit sgainst Attorney General Joseph Cher, in an effort to fore the surrender of punchboards, records and other property seized from Irwin R. Secore, Chicago punch-board punch-board salesman, were being made Wednesday by Willard Hanson, attorney at-torney for Secore. Secore Is free on (3000 cash bail, awaiting a preliminary hearing on a charge that he paid a $100 bribe to Ernest B. Harrison, special investigator in-vestigator for the attorney general. "I have no objections to the return re-turn of sny satchels, brief cases or sny luggage which msy hsve been taken from Secore s car, but all records and punchboards seized will be held as evidence," Mr. Ches said. -I will file suit unless all of Secore's property is returned," said Mr. Hanson. Sheriff Grant Young said he had been advised by County Attorney Harold E. Wallace to hold all evi- (CaaUsaaa ait Pas arvaal tCnluia Oast BRIBE SUSPECT : THREATENS SUIT (Ooatasaaa Trmm Paae Om ; dene confiscated at the time of Secore's arrest last Friday. Meanwhile, Attorney General Chez announced be would make aa immediate request to County Attorney Wallace for the preparation prepara-tion of court papers to subpena ' telephone and telegraph companies' compa-nies' records of communication between be-tween Secore and unnamed peril per-il sons la Chicago and San Fran- 5 Cisco. Steps also will be taken to subpena sub-pena records of the Newhouse hotel, ho-tel, which show Salt Lake City, Chicago and San Francisco telephone tele-phone numbers called by Secore before and after his arrest here last Friday on a bribery charge, Mr. Chez said. Secore was registered regis-tered at the hotel. The records are sought, the attorney at-torney general explained, in an effort to connect Secore with "higher ups," who, Mr. Chez said, directed the Chicagoan's activities. activi-ties. "Obviously, the 12000 per month wMch Secore offered to my investigator, inves-tigator, Ernest B. Harrison, could not be paid out of Secore's salary as a salesman,' Mr. Chex said. "I further doubt that the (100 which Secore paid to Harrison (according (accord-ing to a complaint approved by Mr. Wallace) .tamt -from-Secore's salary, either. "Someone put up that money. We will keep working on this la an effort to find out who did." "There is more evidence back of this case than we have disclosed,'' dis-closed,'' Inveetigator Harrison announced. an-nounced. "The trap in which Secore was caught was carefully planned. Attorney General Chez, County Attorney Wallace and Calvin W. Rawlings, district attorney, all knew in advance of the alleged bribe offer, Mr. Harrison said, and ' each of the prosecutors gave explicit ex-plicit orders that the investigator was to accept any bribe money offered. of-fered. "The confiscated property which Mr. Hanson wants returned was seized on specific orders from County Attorney Wallace to Lewis 1 Robinson," Mr. Harrison explained. 1 Mr. Robinson, an agent for the state liquor control commision, hid ' behind a door in Mr. Harrison's ' residence at 212 Ninth East street 1 and handcuffed Secore after the alleged bribe payment '