Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-27 | Page 2 | Endless Chain Man

l ENDLESS CHAIN MAN Leo Jeo of Bier ster Goes floes Free r o oC C I Leo Lee was vas this afternoon acquit acquitted ted by tho the Jury In the time Federal derat F court courton on the charge of ot illegally using the time malls mails The Time Jury was WIlS only out ft a few minutes Leo Is the man who sent ent Ut let Utters tore to venous various parties Including K E I J Hoyt ItoI In Juno June 1900 following th the Scho Schofield nelll field disaster wherein ho hI attempted to start tart an endless chain of ot letters and donations on behalf beho of ot the widows anti and orphans surviving tho time great explosion H is testified t to 10 by b witnesses that Leo collected tho tile money antI and turned It over overto o overto r to 10 a man with whiskers in the tile Herald office offie Lee Iee who claims to be an nn hotel chef chet Is III also said to tD Li have bave donated some fOme of his hili own money monsy to the cause The case is an old aid one that was resurrected by Inspector Sharp when he came to Utah Brautus l rn lus C C Willard son of ot filed a n petition In bankruptcy In th the tho federal court today Ills His debts are placed nt 4 with assets asset of