Show JOE E OBRIEN undoubtedly it was from the lips illas of joe E obrien himself that the organ of the conspirators obtained the history of his doings in utah which appeared in its issue of january it published on february 1 a letter frfd him with chis oath affixed thereto by way of attestation the letter is an open open one addressed to mr bonfield but beyond doubt was prepared specially for the use of the sheet referred to prom from these two accounts of the career of joe E obrien we purpose selecting a few points for the consideration sidera tiou of the public leaving the latter to judge whether or not that individual is the embodiment of the worst forms of rascality and treachery we will first observe that a detective who ho is 18 entrusted with the ferreting out of crime abd a ad who while pretending to be so engaged is really working in the interests of the ca finals is justly regarded as belonging to the worst claw class of traitors such a form of treachery is peculiarly abhorred tor for the teason reason that society has so little protection against it and suffers so much from it in the article of jan 80 obrien is made to assert that prank frank jennings instructed him to draw col page W H bickson Dick BOD P H lannan and judge powers into a gambling game under circumstances that would enable jennings to have the place pulled by the police at the proper time to catch those individuals in a game that obrien replied that such a scheme would cost lots of money and to carry it out he be would have to appear flush that jennings answered never mind the money go ahead and aad you shall have all the money needed and Jand that thereupon obrien started arted tit on a course of giddy pleasure and extravagant expenditure all for the purpose of en trapping the persons named into a gambling game and ambush obrien to is further made to state that in a brace game which he entered on his own account he dropped a big bundle of money which after some hesitation jennings made good warning him to thereafter incur losses only in attempting to trap the liberal leaders all this thir is a pack of palpable rubbish A moment spent in an analytical examination of these statements will prove this mr jennings in behalf of the peoples party furnished obrien considerable sums of money to be used in demonstrating that certain liberal lead leaders era were gamblers now what earthly use could mr jennings or the peoples municipal central committee make of such evidence none whatever granted that there exists a popular supposition that those individuals are gamblers what good would it do the peoples party to prove them such none whatever whether or not they are gamblers is no issue of the canapa campaign ign and by proving them to belong to that claw class the peoples peopled party would not win from their following a single vote for the ciLi liberal berall party have openly and for years advocated gambling as a means of reforming young utah but in his sworn statement obrien sufficiently gives the lie to the above assertion published fur for him by the liberal organ on jan 30 i under oath he declared to mr bonfield his employer you only told me that I 1 was to ferret out frauds in the registration which the mormons cormons suspected and that being legit legitimate ignate detective work I 1 engaged in it il he here states exactly what his chief set him to do he was not to inveigle anyone into vile dens he was not to collect material with which to besmirch the private eh character aar of individuals obrien had no need to engage in gambling nor tp to visit houses of Ill fame in order to do the work assigned him and proceedings of that sort were therefore entirely voluntary on his part and presumably must have originated in personal motives that obrien was engaged solely to detect registration frauds is amply proved by the second third and fou fourth jtb paragraphs of his sworn statement bement te ment which set forth in detail the instructions he received and the outlines of plans given him to follow in the sixth paragraph is repeated the falsehoods nailed above and in the seventh is the statement to the effect that mr barton wrote a 14 pro mormon letter which appeared in the chicago herald mr mir bonfield Is denial of this assertion already made public is sufficient it isa is a positive fact that mr barton did not write to the chicago herald in the eighth paragraph of thel the sworn statement obrien says pays that mr jennings informed him there was evidence that three members of the grand jury frequented private houses of ill fame and that if convicting proof could be obtained against them it might deter them from indicting inducting indic ting mormons cormons Mor mons As there were no mormons cormons Mor mons who were even supposed to be in the most remote danger of being indicted by that grand jury any attempt at deterring them from so doing would havie have seemed so superfluous that no DO man of sense would have engaged in it this pretext of obrien for visiting houses of ill fame is entirely too attenuated in the ninth paragraph cebrien CP Brien who to is a warded married man confesses to a correspondence with a young lady it will be remembered that what was believed to be an infernal scheme on his part to ruin her was one of the reasons fur for his hie dismissal by his chief in the closing paragraph of his bis sworn statement he be says mr bir bonfield I 1 am not actuated by malice in this matter but here I 1 stand for truth and the honor and dignity of the profession the affidavit affixed to this statement is such a curiosity that it is subjoined sub joined SAM COUNTY 1 utah territory J bt I 1 joe E endo solemnly swear that the facts in the above letter are true sworn and subscribed to this slat da day of january A D 1890 SEAL IRAL E CL notary public obrien swears that the ow foots contained in his letter are true but how about the falsehoods embraced in it he has taken care not to commit perjury so publicly as to swear to the false assertions included in his open letter to mr bonfield his affidavit signifies that there are falsehoods in the document to which it to is affixed we turn again to the article of jan 30 in which wa have ample evidence of the manner in which obrien vindicates 1 I the honor and dignity of the profession 11 during the naturalization examination before judge anderson andersoh he made constant reports to the peoples peopled party representatives that there was a universal feeling that the Mor mons were being persecuted and indignation was rising in the public mind and the claim is that he thusie thus deceived them he was sent to park city but confesses his neglect to do what he was sent to perform namely procure names of miners miner employed there he was sent to bingham on the same errand but perpetrated a shameful fraud if the article referred to is true by copying the names on the advertised letter list and furnishing the same to the peoples peopled party managers by which to check the registration lists here obrien is made to say that he was given with which to effect a certain purpose with bynon but I 1 salted it down in his own pocket and when asked about it said he had lent it to bynon as directed but took no note for it what object was to be accomplished with the is not given give and it Is safe to assume that the only truthful part of the reter refer ence to it is that obrien abrien appropriated it this is confessed again further on in the article he claims to have been directed to get evidence against clute of ef fraud in furnishing coal at fort douglass but confesses that he went back and forth between the city and the fort sleigh riding with ate girl it will be remembered that he is A married man and all that he did for the pay he received was ona once in a while to glance at the sealer upon which the coal was weighed and report that nothing could be found against clute dclute under the subhead sub head bead false reports made the sheet which champions this vindicator of the honor and dignity of the profession says of him I 1 during the whole of this affair and during all althis this time be was in the employ of the peoples party he bonsant ly ly filled them with cook and ancl bull stories he reported to them that he had discovered judge powers col page and others gamburg nd that he bad trapped them in various ways his employers commenced to lose aw faith in him and so had placed men to watch him P this description of obrien presumably procured from himself to hi sufficient from it it appears that during the whole of this affair bof of his employment to detect registration offenses he be lied to his employers practiced frauds upon them squandered and embezzled money put irto his hands went sleigh riding with his bis girl though a married ma ried many man gambled visited houses bouses of pro situ tion and conducted himself gen brally as a scoundrel and traitor utterly abandoned to every sentiment ment of 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