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Show THE GRAND JURY RESTS. The grand jury which has been in session for more than a month, most of which time has been consumed in investigating the affairs of the Utah National bank, with the object in view of discovering discov-ering who robbed that institution of $106,250.00 has adjourned. The jury has examined a very great number of witnesses and has gone into A the various details of the .business affairs of the attaches of the bank " and others, more or lcssj remotely connected with different former employes of that institution in a very minute manner. After spending all this time in the investigation they do not make a final report but ask for a vacation for a month when they will again resume their inquiry. The public, to a certain extent, was disappointed in there being no indictments returned against anyone by the jury. Of course no one knows what information was elicited from witnesses by the jury but it must have been very unsatisfactory un-satisfactory that no tangible testimony tending to the discovery of the guilty one was-obtained. Wc sincerely hope that before this jury is discharged it will liml some indictments, because there arc a number of innocent men whose names, have been drawn into this affair by foul' mouthed slanderers and scandal mongers, hired thugs and character assassins. ' tnrfnf TiC" iaV suffc.rcd as consequence of the publicity and no-EvSL no-EvSL y reccivcl1 y the publication and spreading of these T,Vvf ?rS y u"Pr,ciPll and unscrupulous , scoundrels, and it indictments were found against these innocent men it would be satisfactory, if for the reason only, that they would be given an opportunity to show in public court their innocence and also demonstrate demon-strate who their maligucrs and traduccrs arc and what grounds they had for assailing the characters of innocent men who could not, even remotely, have been connected with this robbery and were drawn into the scandal purely and simply to gratify the malicious, venomous venom-ous passions possessed by different low browed individuals. A great deal of publicity has been given this affair and many men have received unenviable notoriety by having their names drawn into this thing and we take it that the best way to give publicity to the other side of the story would be to give these attacked men an opportunity to tell their stories in open court. At this writing it seems to us that the chief achievement of the jury investigation of this notorious bank robbery has been to put the State to an enormous expense, to prove that liars can lie. It is a disgrace to our civilization that wilfully evil minded persons per-sons with uncontrollable tongues and lurid and diseased imaginations should be allowed to exploit their prevarications and falsehoods to the detriment and injury of citizens whose shoe strings they are not worthy to unloose and thereby put the community to great expense in proving the emptiness of their charges. ik ik He ik |