Show I HEARING IN HANSON CASE f- f 18 IS STARTED Former Fillmore Postmaster 5 i ter on Trial for Arson c. c and Pilfering v- v The weaving wE of or it tho the chain of c About Frank Franl Hanson former ormer I postmaster at RI Fillmore Utah and othor bi-othor of or Hanson former Ormer count county attorney began at It t 10 JO o'clock this morning In the United rJ district court The Indictments charge e him with 1 arson the they malicious de do- of or government I property properly and the tho theft of government JO mall mail matter The evidence Introduced t this thiM morning waR nan a preliminary In lt Its nature future leading up to tho the circumstances which It Is claimed will III show aho that Hanson actually committed commit commit- ted every o act of which ho hn has been heen ac accused accused nc- nc by the United d States grand jUr jury The rhe first dUl duty of tho the court was wa to tn sol ec- ec l J ct a R. Jury This occupied hut but t twenty ent minutes there them being log hut but two challenges With the Jury JUT sworn II H. r. r Booth United Stat States s district attorney gave VC his side of oC the case caso telling what ho hopes to prove pro In the case Our said Mr Ir Booth Rooth will ho bo purely circumstantial v Wo n hope to how that on Sunday afternoon September Septem Septem- pein- pein ber G 6 G. G 1908 at nt tho Frank Il tn- tn soil 1011 tho the defendant had a conversation with Postmaster r Kelly and examined 1 tho the Interior of tin th postoffice I Later n ter In the enin he was 8 1 i soon een near the JO disguised and was followed to tho the post- post of where track of or him was vas as lost Find Tind Mill Mall in Room Boom Later the caught Tire lire and during thin fire Hanson appeared on the tho scene much I Later hi his l premises e. e were ere searched and a letter which was van known to bo be In the tho was found In his room This ThIll was wa addressed ld to lo Donald gard Jard 70 P street Salt Lake Tako City end and andwan wan waft mailed manel Sunday Sundy afternoon b by Baure- Baure gards gard's ards ard's sister Hazel In Fill Fill- more Tho The I letter was WM dropped in the mall mail box In tho the ce after aCtor tho the regular regu regu- lar mr dally daily mall lout had gone out While wo we have no eye CC witnesses who ho hoEfl taw saw Hanson light tight tit lie match matelL which set the fire In the building or Ot even en saw RaW Hanson Inside tho the building at tho the time wo we havo hao a chain of or circumstances 4 which how absolutely that Hanson really did what Is 18 charged d Tho first witness called was J. J G G. G Kelly 11 the postmaster at Fillmore He lie testified that Hanson came carno to him at 4 I o'clock on the tho Sunday Bunda afternoon before tho the fire Just as ns the tho was being closed Hanson offered to close choRe the tho shutters to 10 tho the said Ald Mr Kell Kelly but buL buLI J I refused to permit him to do so MO When en enI I refused to let Jet him close the shutters h he wanted to show me something something- In the building I refused at first but ho In Insisted In- In d. and ho took mo me Into a IL sample room In the building and pointed out a broken lock on the tho rear roar loor door which h. h he fald eaId had hM been broken years before by byn bya n a burglar After that we went out orthe of or the tho place and arni Hanson looked about as an we were ere passing outI outI outI out I went home homo and I suppose he did too J H wa was 4 J p. p m. m when wo we left tho the office In n the tho J postoffice were ra about nf vf lr stamps and other valuables and all of the tho records which were de do- He lie stated that the main door to the thet t t building was as always alwa's open but the rhe entrance to the tho postoffice proper w was s locked Where Her Letter Went Tho The witness was Hazel Jn 1 Beauro- Beauro card gard ra She Sho testified that alter after the tue dally daily mall bad had left Iett for the railway depot a dl dis distance dis- dis Lance tance of or about thirty miles she sho mailed at nt atthe th the a letter to tD her brother In Salt Sait Lake City She Sho placed It In tho lie glass glasa mall mail box which leads from the main lobby lobby lobby lob lob- by room of the postoffice down Into the po proper Bh She Bhe says aS that was vas thelast the last lut she ahe knew of tho the letter lotter until It was WaR presented to her at the hearing of or tho the grand Jury last fall She supposed that It waa wa bUrn burned In the fire firo Joseph Black Dlack the sheriff o of MIHan county count was wa-s next called to tho stand He stated that on tho the evening evening- of or the fire hoa ho he saw a Hansen and ap apparently ho had been drinking drinking- He was in a saloon at tho the time This was about 10 J p. p m. m B Between 1 12 and 1 o'clock tho the same samo night Mr Ir Black toys says In ho wan waR In tho the same sarno square as nl the tho where hore ho lie was as in the habit of I sleeping when boys passed him yelling Eire He lie ran to the postoffice ce where smoke and flAmes were In evidence and attempted to rescue some of tho postoffice property rop He failed because of or the tho flames At that time Utne there thoro was as no one in the nor about it Hanson Talks to Sheriff I The he next night Hanson approached him und ind nd ald said In a n gruff voice S What is all this thin talk m my setting fire lIre to the I er have hao heard no such talk said tho the sheriff who says that Hanson then stated that ho he had heard It Jt From his attitude the the- sheriff thought ho he W was II much aroused arousell This afternoon tho the prosecution ex expects to Introduce witnesses who saw caw Hanson disguised near the cc and saw W hIm make his hili way a to a R shed which Is north of or orthe the building There There re are arc fifteen witnesses lIes lIeson on hand for tor tho the government and the taking talc tak Jn hug ing of or testimony will cover several lays days Th defense defenso Is being carrl carried d on by Thomas Thom Thom- as Ill M. M M. M Warner Varner and O. O W. W Powers Power On Seven Reven Counts The Tho Indictment which wax was brou brought ht last lut November by tho the United States grand jUr Jury Includes seven counts all alleging In o rimes committed commUted S September G G. G Tho The first count charges him with breaking Into tho tue and carrying awa away money stamps tamps I letters tt rs and nd other oIlier valuable mat mat- ter The Tho second charges e him with breaking break break- ing Into tho the office with the thio Intent of I ate stealing the tho mall matter the third tho stealIng and carrying off oil of or a n. certain letter letter let let- ter tar addressed ed to lo Donald ld Beauregard 70 TO iOP P 1 street Salt Sail Lake Lak City the fourth theat the at stealing and carrying a away a of ot six alx letters addressed to the following John C. C J lov- lov oll cli n Oak City Utah Ulah Barclay John Clear ClearLake ClearLake Lake Jake Utah Orson Johnson n Utah S. S C. C n J Jensen Jenen en and two other letters addressed to Doyle DoIt Huntsman and Charles I Lambert ambert rt The Tho firth fifth count charges the tho stealing of postoffice goods valued at tho the sixth the malicious wilful and ud f felonious setting of lire fire to th the tho building arli and tho thu sc trio rIO destruction i.- i. 0 of government of-government property worth OO TO AUTHORIZE SURVEY OF f GRAND COUNTY LANDS V i Sp Special to The Telegram f t I WASHINGTON May tn 12 1 Senator 1 Smoot of or Utah introduced today n a pro posed amendment to sundry civil bill authorizing the survey surveyor of certain lands Janus l lin in Grand count county Utah Tho Tue stated is to enable Irrigation companies comp I to proceed with those these projects These companies will wili nut continue o their work unless it is is pi made mado IO possible for t them hem to for tor the disposal of lands to toi i fiet tIer As a preliminary t to tet such sale the laud bud mutt must bo be surveyed ur The rhe v amendment waives a t the tho requirements o of tho the present ent law la that lands must beI be bo I M of to settlers before surveys arc are mado L. L MONDELL COAL LAND l. l k BILL PASSES HOUSE Sp Special to The Th Telegram WASHINGTON I IL C. C May rn J i J Representative o surface con coat b lands bill pawed passed the bouso thiu after alter noon It will about acres of coal lands mu much h of oC which is in in tah Wyoming and to to- to toa a agri rii ri i settlement I r 1 If 1 |