Deseret Evening News | 1907-07-17 | Page 3 | Wirt Pence Discharged

WIRT rENCE l NCE DISCHARGED S 1 I J Declared by 11 1111 X t Guilty of ot Stealing I Ogdon July 17 Witt Pence P the tho joung Southern Pacific engineer who ua arrested a couple of 0 days ago on the charge chall o or stealing blankets from till the Pullman company found not 1101 guilty by a I Jury JUt In the tho municipal court yesterday afternoon Ho was tried on the chargo of petit The case caso was WM prosecuted by Assistant City Attorney James 1 I while B E T d the defendant QI n aUlt According to tho th and the ad al admission mission of ut tho defendant bo ho did 1111 two of ot tho blankets from the debris of a 1 wreck at Death Nevada N lIdo He washed hel tho blankets and u c l them ond hod them brought to ot the carelessness n ot City Attorney Alt rne Bagley In h the com complaint plaint however he charged him with i having on Jul ir 15 1307 I 07 stolen at nt Og i clin City the blankets t 1111 the thu rall rull company Instead of or having charged him with ha brought sto stolen len h rop Into the tho State of or Utah on this technicality Pence his hi freedom again