Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-09-25 | Page 2 | Burton under Fire regarding Disbarments

BUTON UNDER FIRE REGARDING DISBARMENTS 0 Fails Pails to Turn Over Alleged Messages Message Against Attorneys In the hearing In the proceedIngs proceedings proceed proceed- ings to disbar Judge Jadee Thomas If Jf- Jf Burton Barton from practice in the courts coutta of the state which U la being heard at the capitol capital Judge Burton Durton w wa on the witness stand Friday morn Ing lag The state offered th the record b by which Attorneys John Fo Foster Fostr l r rand and William B D. HIggins were suspended suspended sus sus- from practicing In the Uie court coort by Judge Burton Durton Judge Burton Durton had said that he be e had letters and several teJ telegrams ams requesting him to suspend the at at- named from practice In hi his hili court but when he be was wal requested to produce them be he waa Ral unable todo to todo do so 10 He said Aid that they had bad been bun given ghen into the hands bund of ot a committee commit commit- tee tte which he had appointed to Investigate in investigate investigate In- In the character of the two attorneys and that he could not now produce them When hen he concluded Attorney J. J II It took the stand Ha 11 aid ald that Judge Burton Durton told fold old him that the Sage company would employ era era- ploy him to handle a case and that be Burton Durton wanted to Me see him win the case ease also that 1 P. P M 1 Anderson Anderaon could not win Burton Durton said uld h he ha did not want to take the responsibility but wanted a Jury trial Judge Burton Durton was again agan called to and wa wai wat being exam exam- med ined when the court took a rece recess s until the afternoon At the afternoon session Thursday Thurs Thuu- day at the conclusion of or the ex ex cx- of Higgins the state called caned Ralph Brugg Drugg secretary 0 of the Sage Valley alley Land and Livestock company who testified that b he be had consulted Judge Burton Durton as IlS to employment employment employment em- em em em- of an attorney for th the tho company who would represent It In litigation which was then pending in Judge Burtons Burton's court He lie elat elated stated stat stat- ed that Judge Burton Durton told him that J. J H. H McKnight would be a good goodman man and he therefore engaged Me- Me Knight the day following the con con- The Tho purport of ot this earl evi dence was to show that Judge Burton Button Durton But Bur ton Interfered with the tit selection Attorneys who practiced In Ms hla court 2