| Show LOGAN finAl OF Ol AMASA A M l 1 CLAYTON CLA of ot Keeping County I Iolan IAan ogan Cache acIe Co April 23 Tho case of oC the state of o Utah VH vs nasa M itt Clayton wherein tho the defendant Is charged with fraudulently misapplying of oC county funds und and appropriating them to his own 01 use l is now on In oar car tient nays Hays fin the tha Tribune correspondent In the tho district court before beloro Judge Hart Tho The outcome of uC the case will willbo willbo willbe bo be watched with much Interest as It Is la laa isIL a IL matter affecting tho the public und and will willbo willlie bo lie an all Index as to or not hot ox 1 hendricks can recover rp oer In hili civil suit stilt against the lie defendant the tha 1100 which Mr Uen paid inid Into the county count treasury treasur and for tor which shortage It Is Mr Clayton Is 19 re responsible reo Tho Tue prosecution has hns Its tt evidence nearly nearl all nil In Witnesses have been beers fit ex e tending leading up to the shortage In Involved involved and nn Farrell Furrell and ex Treasurer have gone gon through the mill explaining In detail the tho method of oC keeping tho the accounts The was on the stand Bland when court adjourned On direct ox ex examination he lie testified as to the th losses Iosso In his hili and when h he first t tho the defendant Ho lie said raid that Clayton wrote up Honk U ok H U and made tho the reca recapitulation This book Jook is where the tue largest shortage was found Capt We held him hint under cross fire nil 1111 day do and drew out the fact that upon entering catering tho the onteo the former treasurer had n it shortage of ot 1500 from Ii predecessor or whose term expired in 1 JS Si that Hint this shortage hUll had been heen paid In III Installment In the last pity pay payment ment In February l nail and that lint this shortage hind hall never been reported to the tho proper lie He admitted that there thelo had hod been a n ot of In his during durin the year ear as ns treasurer and lInd could not explain how ho It occurred The former critter treasurers tr bank hook book showed lew ies I sl money than thun the tho treasurer should have hll on hand for Cor various flous months and anti the tho difference lero accounted for In check warrants I 1 0 U Us Up etc that he kept In hI the wife stife and ancl counted as cash He lie admitted that thirst the quarterly and yearly reports rc ro by b law had not been made o When hen tho the delinquent tax list In Is made mallo up UI In tn November of each year cor the ito hw law requires that It should be audited by bythe II bythe the auditor and bo lie should credit tho ho with th e a amount of delin delinquent quent taxes This hal had not mid boon been done donto |
