Show THE STANTON CASE suddenly and without a note of warning councilman kelly chairman of the special committee consisting ot hime himself elf beardsley Bear Beard doley pley hardy lawson and karrick ordered an aim investigation ut of the matters pertaining tu to the charges preferred against chief stanton of this the lake fire department by frank B mcl lroy iroy representative of a number ot fire bouse supply firms the investigation commenced id toe the city council chamber shortly before noon boon all the members of the committee present except harriett harrick chief was waa in anc wite was represented by judge powers Kelly gen Gentlemen lemed this la 16 an investigation vesti gation of a matter in certain charges were preferred against fire chief stanton by a man named mcellroy Mc llroy having thus spoken kelly hold held a brief consultation with the members or the committee abo arrived at uie the that they have A stenographer and observing Coun council bil man rich seated in the auditorium kelly said eaid familiarly I 1 I 1 edgo docu stairs and tell mr Vanden berKer to come up here with his vote note book slid and take short hand notes of this proceeding 0 rich avat an independent but disdainful glands glance at ai kolly kelly and the latter hastened to explain that he made the reque request fit simply b cause the sergeant at arms was not present then rich rose ana soon returned wito the stenographer ogra pher and the like following running conversation ensued J judge d powers in order erder that t the dam 1104 whom i 1 I itlay understand the scope of this in tion I 1 wish to inquire whether the charges against my client are those which were preferred by prank frank B mallroy la in february or march last I 1 want to know this thib both lor for the benefit of myself and client of course under the law we are entitled to be served with a copy of the charges reduced to writing ton ten days day before the investigation and a full fall he trigg before the council kelly kehy this is not a trial but simply an investigation the result of which this thin committee will report to the council judge powers and the charges are substantially those published in the newspapers some time ago kelly yes sir air judge powers then we are ready to proceed the clerk then thee read the charges which were published in the NEWS ou the evening of march I 1 of the present year judge powers we enter a general denial to all that the papers contain MO TESTIFIES mellroy was wan then sworn by chairman kelly after which he was questioned question ou by mr boards beards ley he said he know knew that chief stanton had bad visited logan park city and ogden in favoron favor of the holloway fire eire engine E agine and chemical company the mayors and chiefs of the fire fife departments in the towns named had personally person alJy told him and he had kad seen a bid submitted by chief stanton to the ogden tire lire department of 1860 1850 for a double 60 chemical engine which was 20 gallons larger thao than the one the salt bait lake fire department had which was a double 60 50 engine when he attempted to ti sell hose here chief informed ini int ormed him that he would have to furnish it through the utah montana and machinery company THAT SUIT OF CLOTHES As to the suit of clothes which 45 tanton to is said to have received he said he be did not got get it from him bearosley Bea Bee rusley why were you called upon to pay for it then witness well the tailor coulat collect it from stanton so he thought bethought he would try and get it from me probably thinking I 1 was wan a better man beardsley what about stanton receiving a commission of lathat Is that correct witness yes and he received it from a man named moore on the sale isle of f a holloway i board Beardsley sley this man your partner witness yes yeb but not at that i time beardsley Bear daley what about this umbrella brella stanton got that from the detroit fire company beardsley Bear daley you pay for it witness no birthe air the company did nine dine dollars do llara beardsley Beard Bley what hospitality did chief 13 tanton get from logan witness I 1 dian didn it say eay anything about hospitality beardsley Baar daley during your business dealings with major stanton dia he ver bever pay you anything witness no air never THE DEFENSE OPENS judge powers mr mallroy Mc llroy dian didn ot you receive a certain letter from the lindgren mahan chemical fire engine compaan of chicago Illi illinois witness never mr air judge powers well look here producing a copy of the letter referred to dare you deny that la Is yours witness examining it that is mine the letter is as follows lindgren maham chemical fire jenaine company illinois street CHICAGO march 8 3 1892 frank mcilroy Mo llroy esq salt lake ca city ty utah dear sir your letter of the ath enclosing order on taylor for 45 just at hand although money matters are very tight here we are disposed to help you in the salt lake fight all we can so we have wired you that we would pay your draft on us for 90 we do not think there is ia much prospect of collecting the taylor matter although we will press nim him for a settlement we think you had better make us a thirty day draft on the pro proper per parties r ties at eureka for the 90 this will ce keep ep things moving easily should we collect the taylor money we would forward it to 3 ou at once now we hope you can send in some good orders outside of the salt lake matter we think you did exactly right in tackling stanton as you did it looks as though you had downed him the scoundrel either wrote or caused to be written to us a letter signed A member of the fire department warning us to have no dealing with you it ic went into the waste basket unnoticed we had a nice letter from abe leyy levy ex assistant chief this he promises to help you all he can he says that if stanton is deposed he will be appointed chief we have written to mr levy bevy it a nice letter in answer to his auk ask him to read it to you yon we think we could get all three ot of the combination machines on one car keep us posted use the wire when necessary yours youra truly lindgren MAHAN CHEMICAL FIRE ENGINE co berf per F M MAHAN general manager read bead compiled and copied by me A C reese march 1893 A C REESE the above bears the official attest of notary public john L may judge powers then proceeded to read a letter from the holloway fire engine and add chemical company in which the company denied that chief stanton had ever received a monetary or ot er consideration for services ren rendered derea the company whatever he had dooe done had been done through pro res foss lonal ional courtesy A letter from gregor mayor of park city was bead showing that major stanton had bad nothing to do with the sale of fire apparatus at that place the sentence of a letter from city recorder anderson andersen of logan to ia as follone fol lowe mr stanton did not abany time appear before the city council of logan as an ahrent or representative of the hollway Clivi comical Ch mical engine or any other fire alpar apparatus app aritus t us A copy of a communication from the fire efti in guilsher manufacturing company of illinois was read sti showing owing that i mallroy was a 11 romaul I who roamed the country and like cuore M ore and allou alieu could do no business lor for that company ex mayor scott fit councilmen Ander anderdon An derBon sov pembroke and parsons of the fire committee and aad N ekA M grant and joseph E galligher stated dated in B a communication that chief stanton had nothing to do with the purchase personally but was present at the committee meeting and was satisfied with the work of the commit purchasing the apparatus As to trie the hose question ex counell council man ewing and councilmen Coun oilmen heins and moran said the chief had nothing to do with the purchase beyond submitting the bids received next judge pow powers ra introduced a typewritten copy of a sensational newspaper from the sunday of portland oregon it was presented to show the incredibility and character of H moore partner of mcillvoy Mol McI llroy and who is sup posed to be reson responsible sible to a considerable extent in inciting the charges against stanton the article wasa was a lengthy and salacious one under the cp caption tion H moored moore aj troubles he has a douce deuce of a time and causes lots or tears husbands Hus binds and wileve separation A man who has newspaper notoriety it is said in califor dia yet goes with demi aemi coudes 21 tue portland chief of police writes write as follows of mellro prank frank B mcelroy lim hai not the bestif best af reputation here bore in portland and moore we ean an learn nothing about mellroy passed some months here sometime some time ago the police speak of mellroy mcilroy as no good |