| Show A SINGULAR MISTAKE joseph C wood discharged at four yesterday afternoon tte gnoon C wood of west a bountiful nad aad a hearit hearitige ig before commissioner noi No norrell rell irell a cuarte of obstruction obstructing the hulled sia ea mails the accused is a man luau of excelia ut reputation and was placed lu in the awkward position by the error of the me bountiful postmaster stephen hale and his bis own mistake aud and canic came werl ery near getting ecung into me it appears trial on july bah 1 iu mr wood received a letter appoint ivac him as judge ol of election clec tion iu west bountiful prec luct the letter was lu in reality addressed address cd to peter J moore moor though it looked somewhat like peter J wood tnt complaint la in the case was wad made by P 1 moore aud and tile ine prosecution was coo conducted ducted by AsA stant district at louey C W arthur brown up ap pearlah lor for the delen defendant daut the JIM witness called was alonzo L bucklen deputy registrar lor for west who tasted that he had bud to the commission foi the position on of judges of 0 election graut anu aau pack Moroa Mort oas noss aud and smith aud and moore liberals finding woods initialled initial led an judge ou on election day he be was somewhat surprised and aad asked wood to let him see uld als appointment wood handed banded him an envelope addressed peter J moore bountiful questioned regarding this wood said lie be had received the letter from steve hale postmaster thinking there was some mistake about it he said he be had handed it back to lisle hale wh wb i had again given it to him saying be knew it 11 was an appointment troi from ane ca commission in miB HioB and knew it was intended for him wood at this wood took the envelope was duly sworn as ludge judge and forwarded lur warded his atil davi to the edward stone one of the judges of election corroborated mr buckless Buc klebs klens mouy and stated that wood bad eald he be bad not looked inside the envelope if he be had bad done so he be would have known better he took the word of 0 the i be postmaster tor for it that they were his capeis and that the appointment was for hila col henry page bleik odthe of the utah commission Commis alen testified to having mailed the latter to mr moore and receiving the oath of office of mr wood this closed the prosecution and the defense called for stephen hale kale the postmaster although that individual hid bid b id been summoned he was not present and an extender exten det search failed to reveal his whereabouts mr wood the defendant was sworn as a witness in his own behalf he said that on going to the post postoffice office on sunday morning he had bad got his mail and had bad been handed the moore envelo envelope eav elope pe ith the reft reet he had bad given it back to M mr r LJ ales who had bad come out with the envelope eav elope saying fay ing joi jo I 1 know they have made a mistake this is meant tor ter you von they have pointed appointed a you a judge ol of lee tion 11 9 mr r wood said he hau haa read the address peter J wood instead of moore moor and as lie had bad a brother named peter C 3 wood he thought it was meant for him him that they bud bad his name mixed up with his bis brothers brother ls 0 o took the envelope elope home considering the postmaster bad sent his bis name in f tor or an appointment looked up his duties dulea t qualified as judge and seivel sei ved he b had ad no suspicion that he had bad nut been intended fur the place till nil 10 clock olp ou on the day of tile the election and had bad no desire to pry into moores affairs did i not know who moore was until afterwards ter wards had not iod mr buckled I 1 he had bad not looked inside the anvel pe nathan barlow corroborated mr woods statement and said that he br oad had read the address peter awood 11 marzane asked that the defendant de be held to waittie wait the grand jurys action mr brown opposed this and argued that it was apparent to any unprejudiced mind that the whole thing was a mis take lake the commissioner took the latter view of the case and ordered mr woods discharged |
