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Show AIL ACCUSED MI-HAVE MI-HAVE HEARING, SAYS SHERIFF Of TOOELE Men Arrested for Robbery of BanK Demand Public Pub-lic Vindication. That not only will 8. I. Phafer be given a hearing next Wednesday, on the charge of robbing the Tooele Commercial bank, of which he was cashier, June . but that W. 1. Irvine and Joseph BallufT, arrested at the aame' time as Hhafer. will also have a hearlna. was the assertion of Hherlff M. M. Bush of Tooele county, this morning. However. Hh-riff Huh left Tooele yesterday afternoon, and the announcement an-nouncement came from that city tent ntght that tit cases a In at Irvine and Balluff would probably not be brought to a trial." Mr. Irvine, who Is In Salt Lake City to. day, does not want the prosecution dropped without being given a public hearing. He said today: "I object to such a dismissal of the j charge against me. I demand a full henr-Ing henr-Ing In a. competent court. The humiliation humili-ation and Injury to me are as great as they could he made, and I Insist that my release from this charge shall come after a hearing In court In the light of day. and not after a secret conference of officers who are seeking to escape as easily aa may he the consequences of an offense committed by them In the name of the law. "I demand that the public be Informed through the nroee,Hngs In court ofthe haru ter of the evidence on which my reputation has been sworn away. Certainly Cer-tainly I am within my rights In demanding demand-ing this much. I want everybody to k now every fact In possession of t he officers on which they based my arrest. That these circumstances In no way connect me with the robbery of ths Commercial Com-mercial bank could have been ascer- talned aa easily before my arrest aa since my arrest. Owe It to State. "If I should fall to Insist on a hearing hear-ing In this' esse, believe I would be doing teas then my duty to the people of nils state. 'Such a hearing may aerva to protect other Innocent men from the blundering" or melli-e of -public officers IA the future, ss well aa to repair aome of the injury that ha been done to me. "Two other men were arrested on the aame day ar-d. for the aame offense. It has been announced officially that the stolen money has been recovered or returned. re-turned. Tho Inference Is that some one or more of the three' of us stols this money. This Is an Imputation under which 1 do not propose to rest. There must be a full and complete Investigation, Investiga-tion, at the end of which I shall receive the vtndliwtlon to which 1 am entitled." BaUtuT Will Insist. Speaking of the arrest of Mr. Balluff. charged with complicity In the bank robbery, rob-bery, T. L. Dodge, attorney for Balluff. says: - "The only Justification that seems to he given for that arrest Is the fact thst Mr. Balluft Is a comparative stranger In I'lsh Inhofpltahlo surely, and It would strike one aa being rather an Intemperate Intemper-ate excess of seal. "Intentlona loaded with such excess. Ilka an overloaded gun, are very likely to kick, though they be of the kind with which Topiiet Is said to be paved. "Mr. Balluff will Insist upon am opportunity oppor-tunity abaolutsly lo refute the charge sgalnst him with tha same degree of publicity with which It haa been made. Any further action which he may take will depend upon the result of the Investigation Inves-tigation of the facts as to the party aot--SMlly reeponslbla for the charge." ;r bberlff Bush aald thla nioruing: Bnah Sayi He's Surprised. "The announcement that the charges Would be dismissed against Irvine and Balluff was a surprise to me when 1 read It this rooming. I do not think the ease will he thua dropped. I think It la owing to the officer" aa well as to these two men that tha caaea be brought to a public hearing. 'I do not know thst County Attorney William Marka haa mads any such statement state-ment as that ths diaries would be dropped. -I held a conference with him yesterday afternoon before coming to Salt Lake City and the intention when I left him waa that tha cases would . all be brought to trial, those against Irvine and Balluff following that agalnat Shafer. "I came to tialt Lake City to serve subpoenas sub-poenas on witnesses at the Hhafer hearing hear-ing on 8. M. Barlow, chief of police. Sheriff J. C. Sharp aad F. E. McGurrin, r resident of the bank which was robbed, am told that Chief Barlow haa gone to I.os Angeles. I shall serve tha other subpoena sub-poena today. "I do not know-what her any reward haa been paid for the recovery of the hank's money, and I think I should certainly be entitled to a share of It If any Ia.jal4." |