Show L NO gass p IN NEW criminal conspiracy now to be B charge preferred IMPORTANT DECISION FROM JUSTICE WHITE SALT LAKE CITY dec IS 15 the people of the united states won uon the most important case affecting utah in ganv years yesterday when nhen the supreme u court of the united states stained judge john A marshall in in the noted coal land ruling and reversed the decision of federal judge leas lev of colorado who about a year aga ordered the dismissal of the indictments against the big fuel companies and their agents who were charged with criminal conspiracy in making fraudulent entries on coal land this decision which was handed down by justice white of the supreme court in washington means thattie that the utah fuel company with ith six a of its it officers and employed emp loyes and four other well known Ut ahmen utah men will be tried on a charge of criminal conspiracy cors piracy under sec see of the federal statutes and each is liable to a fine not to exceed or to imprisonment not to exceed ten bears ears or to both H G williams general manager heads the list of utah fuel company officials under indictment the others are A H cowie vice president robert forrester geologist elroy V dark clark attorney william D foster and george A moore in the second case on which indictments were returned by the grand jury walter G filer charles M 1 1 freed bonc don C robbins and edwin edn i ri IV senior are under indictment judge marshall decided the case u in tavor lavor of the government simply imply holding that the indictments be sustained and in the colorado cases the evidence in which was practically the same as in the utah u cases judge lewig lewis decided that the indictments sheild be dismissed it vas the reversal of the lewis decision yesterday that in efel effect ct sustained jude judge marshall and had the supreme corn coul t sustained the colorado judge the utah men would have gone free without trial the statute andr r which the utah men will be tried i readi read as follows if t tuo 0 or birre persons compu u ea either to commit an offense against the e united states or to defraud the united states in any manner or for any purpose and one or more of such parties do any act to affect the object of nhe the conspiracy all the parties to such conspiracy shall bo be liable to a penalty of not more than or to imprisonment for not more than two years or to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court the government contended Lon on tended that the individual defendants while officers or agents of the utah fuel company conspired to make entries on the coal lands of utah and then for a consideration and expenses expense to turn the land over to the fuel company the alleged criminal part of the transaction arose from the fact that the utah fuel company as a corporation was as only allowed to acquire possession of six si hundred and forty acirit s of coal lands from the government |