Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-19 | Page 15 | 'High C' Produces Discord in Potato Cellar Opera Bouffe

'High C Produces Discord in Potato Cellar Opera Bouffe It all happened because ef Farmer Richard Withers' century plant . . . not the botanical variety, va-riety, however. That is. If he'd plsnted that century any place but the potato cellar, it wouldn't have happened. But he did plant it there, and now Deputy Sheriffs Elmer M. Savage and George J. Bills sre in a complicated legal problem, and Daniel Msrtines in a Jail celL Farmer Withers was away from his Riverton farm when the three Mexicans reported for work in the beet field, so ths farmer's son told them they could quarter temporarily tempo-rarily in the potato cellar and. if they so desired, cell each other Old Spud and Old Sprout. When the farmer returned he about blew the roof off that potato po-tato cellar when he learned thoss Mexicans were in there with his hundred dollar He called the law. The deputies, who are as quick to scent an evil plot as the next man, went right to work on the Mexicana after a search of the cellar failed to discloss ths tomato can f hat harbored the sequestered C. But to no avail. "There's nobody In here but us Mexicans." they protested. Now, above this cellar is a granary. And in the granary Is a paper shopping bag. Don't make us tell you what was in that shopping bag-Manlike, bag-Manlike, Senor Martines shouldered shoul-dered the blame. He told Deputy Savage he moved that wad of bills up ons flight But he didn't eave ten. Well, they put the dusky senor behnd the bars in the Sslt Laks county jail and then began a close study of ths law books Friday. "Now what crime would thst be 7" ths deputies asked, like one barrister to another. They had to sign a complaint It didn't seem like larceny, because be-cause the money was not removed from the premises. And it wssn't burglsry, they reasoned, because the Mexicans didn't break into the rellar. having been invited to make themselves at home thsre. r. Of course, the Invitation said nothing about moving ths treasury treas-ury from Its underground vault They finally decided to make it grand larceny, the amount involved in-volved being more than $30. and such a complaint waa signed. City Judge Bryan P. Leverich set bail at $2000. set Msy 29 ss dste for preliminary hearing, and returned the prisoner to the county coun-ty jail in lieu of bail, - .1