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Show i Kv i V0t,N0.33 uX fr' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 20, 1927 r Mystery surrounds Money Is Offered b In Vain Attempt to Quash Booze Story AW? U.S. ' Wants A v.' ' , - - THIEF TAKES INTOXICANTS, ; COUNTS' HEADS SEND AGENT TO EDITOB WITH FSOITEB Or $1,000 CASH TO TOBGET STORY ON HOLES INSTEAD. . . . - OFFICERS .( Who stole seventeen and pital alcohol barrel at theUJab Federal prohibition.' The, barrel ,Waalnsjvifc! two keyi vOm LIQUOR "PARTY1 Proffering a bribe o $1,000, an agent of County Commissioners H. Stenacker, R. T. Dahlquist and Union H. Labrom, sought in vain late last Friday afternoon to buy the silence of The Utah Statesman on the commissioners booze party at the Carstensen home. The editor sent word to the commissioners that neither he nor the paper could be bought and on Saturday morning The Statesman published the story, being the first newspaper in Utah to give to the people the accusations against the Salt Lake county commissioners which were set forth in formal allegations in three damage suits filed later that day in the district court. When The Statesman vent cm the streets with the story the formal suits SHORT $1365.84 - ' "W. . the Lambs Astray I fch. Sheriffs - had not been filed, but The Statesman had the facts, it believed the public IN CITY was entitled to these facts and that it oved a public duty to the people to Ut tell the- truth. Mdld-eeadjater tho Mr lrfd aTatauKMslbla; to iff Make Bed Seeks Rosea of follow to forced was salt daily press After being booked at the jail, he is . when the formal court actions were For asked by the jailer if he wants to furfiled in which Mrs. Hattie Carstensen, nish bond, and having been notified Mrs. C. W. Parker and Mrs. Belva Numerous complaints to the effect in advance that a prisoner Is about that Sheriff Clifford Patten Is foster- to be brought in one of the profesBurgner formally charged tbe commisthe operations of professional sionals Is on hand In the jail office. sioners with Indecently assaulting ing bondsmen for the enrichment of rela- The jailor then tells the prisoner them during a drunken carousal at the of The total shortage In the accounts J. Fergus Johnson, late chief clerk tives. are being made by prominent Carstensen home. Here Is a man something like this: in the city street department, amounts Salt Lake attorneys and their clients, who FIXING" He can fix bond. will RUMORS OF go your to $1,365.84, to a report sub- who allege that it has become almost Rumors that the newspapers had mitted to theaccording you up In a few minutes and we can commission Tuesday city under arrest turn you out. This gentleman is a been fixed" and that the story of the by City Auditor Alvin Keddington. In impossible for a person booze party would never be printed, a letter accompanying the report, the to obtain bond from an Independent qualified bondsman." reached the editor of The Statesman auditor states that he Intends to go source. If the objects to the prolearned that According to the complainants, the fessional, prisoner orders him locked the Jailor early in the week. It was back a over books to the period prior or the sheriffs office is overstepping all the an attorney interested in behalf hustled off to and forthwith he is up, to of the date Johnsons appointment, bounds of propriety In an attempt to the commissioners had told several people on the asks If he permission hoosgow." chief that the former theory monopolize the ball bond business In to communicate with his friends, he that the dally papers wouldnt print outhave clerk bills collected may had of hands Smith, the county George the story and The Statesman whpn he assumed bis duties, rardner, and his business partner, E. Is told he may do so later. Meanwhile, been bought orf for $400. Bets were, standing after he has been In jail a few ours, have and the money. pocketed may T. EglL offered by politicians in the City and word is sent to him to the effect that Mr. Keddingtons audit disclosed some would In even Is It the quarter charged story that County building the first shortage In Johnson's bat methods which are questionable "that bondsman is still out here in the ' that not appear. accounts occurred in 1936, about from a legal standpoint, are being re- office, but he will be leaving soon. If Last Thursday afternoon a member four months after heJuly, became chief you wish to arrange for bond right of the Sevens and a man in dally close clerk. This shortage amounted to but sorted to for the purpose of compel- quick, you had better say so before he commisto arrest Individuals under accept county the with ling association leaves." $1. The following month $4 disapsioners called the editor of The States- peared and thereafter numerous sums the sheriff's relatives ss sureties. In Not knowing how long he may havtf in claimed to Is connection that It were this going man and asked if he to to remain behind the bars unless he of from $1 $25 were taken. and When many Instances, the county jailor use the "rommlssloner story. As Statesthe professional, tne prisoner, in told last weeks Utah accepts or the editor indicated he intended to man, Johnsons favorite method of hid- his deputy jailors, In the absence anxious to gain, his freedom, usually down" from the and to Smith actually jail, him Egli asked drop this man his peculations consisted of the handle the bonding business for them, decides that the quickest way is the to the City and County building and ing use of fraudulent duplicate receipt Informathe prisoners money and she him to get some more (Continued on Tage 8) books, which he bad printed without accepting else is necessary to whatever doing The editor didnt "drop." tion. the knowledge of his superiors. The transaction. SPY SENT OUT. total shortage in the street perqilt complete the . make-ufor is which day fund amounts to $1028. according to Friday, George Smith, said one prominent The Statesman, an agent or the com- the auditor, while $337.84 is missing Statesman The missioners went to from under the heading of Accounts attorney a day or two ago. Is a of the sheriff. lie is on thp of looking Receivable." print shop on the pretext as gardner, and, towhat to learn county payroll and ad an sought for Johnson's largest defaults appear to a of T. E. with the way had gether Egli. is in the bondi have been made through methods othThe Statesman 1 am reliably informed story, when the paper went to press er than the use of his fraudulent du- ing business. of these men could make and when it came ofr the press. plicate receipts. Thus Mr. Kedding- that neither He apparently learned that The ton reports finding six checks, total- good on a forfeited bond If it came to It is generally underStatesman had a story but he didnt ling more than $300, which Johnson a bondsknow just what. cashed in the city treasurers office, stood that in order to qualify as with a editor men. Smith and arranged Egli the and Friday arternoon, while the he money ostensibly certain re- receiving to a house deed to The Statesman Although Article 5. section 1, of the attorney, was making-uto office. These his taking it bark and could of the state of Utah conso latter constitution the the Smith from qualify that call City a ceived checks were never reported as having phone who owner. asked man as a forbids the holding by any a from clusively property been received, Johnson, according to County building However, if it ever came to a one person of two offices In different the auditor, pocketing the cash after the editor to meet him ata designated on a forfeited bond of any branches of the government, and alhe wanted to give cashing the checks. point up town as some Into doughnuts that though section 1786 of the compiled is It dollars size, Important him (the editor) The six checks were as follows: this house would be deeded back to laws of Utah would appear to disbar formation. Utah and Traction Light company, as The Statesman editor met the man $123.82; a Mr. Hoimquist, $45; Reese its real owner in less time than it him from appearing In any court a of Murray city, Fred R. from to the Temple takes walk attorney city at the appointed place. This aman, Wortham company. $28.25; dose Plumbing member or the Sevens and Shows company, $15.52; J. L. Grif- grounds to the county building. Origi- Morgan, judge of the Juvenile court, la what editor the asked fith company, $100, and H. J. Flint, nally there was another attorney In holding both offices alonera promptly commis- Judge Morgan, according to Murray $25. The Utah Light and Traction on this combination, and the underhe intended to do about the office city officials, baa been holding tbe sheriff's was the that standing cherk to been have appears fi"Prlnt ItT was the reply of the edl- - company the largest individual sum which John- was to help Smith and Egli monopo- city attorneyship there since January.a lize the bonding business; these two, 1926, and has been drawing $90 son's peculations netted him. insince discov- in turn, would throw all the business month salary in that capacity Without further sdo the agent Johnsons were defalcations was that time. Ilia salary aa Juvenile he formed The Statesman editor that of ered a few days before his body, with possible to the two lawyers. It judge la $210 a month, according to was the suthnrized representative to a bullet wound through the head, was not long however, before this arrangelaw- the state auditors office, and he has, and second the when ment proceeds flopped, found in the cellar of his home (bo commissioners would kill on yer claimed the bondsmen wore net or course, been drawing this regularly offer the editor $1,000 If he August 1 of this year. giving him Sh even break as against during the same period. are Auditor taken being by Steps IGNORE LAWS. inf. Vto Keddington to collect on Johnson's his contemporary. Tbe methods employed to furnish Apparently the Judge, like many anbond of $1000. which wi'l reimburse r bondsbe bought. business other could to good Republican, goes on the the professional 'ho city to within n few hundred dolnor the pnper men related to the sheriff." continued theory Whnts the Constitution Beamount of ASKS CONDITIONS lars the missing. unthe complaining attorney, "amount tween Friends?" Here Is what the The agent then asked the editor 5. See. 1) refrain would he renditions simply to this: Tlmt when arrested, a basic law of the state (Art der whnt The pow" of on the of without commissioners woud the subject: release jsaya can story. ignations the his gain prisoner from printing or i tab com The resignations of the three was serve the public good better than pub- ever seeing the inside of the Jail ifjthe government of the stale s shall be divided Into three distinct delication of the sordid story. he will accept Smith and Egli missloners. effective Imedlately. t Tbe agent attempted to get the edi- bondsmen. whereas, If ho refuses to partments. the Lcgls.atlve, the llio response of the editor. no person and will the Judicial; tor and commissioners to on In" the resignaandjutlve is thrown compromise" three he them, If the exercise of rowers write out and sign their resignations tion of Dahlquist and failing then alowed to remain there until the charged with the to one of thee dedert sought a compromise on the resigna- Jailor gets good and ready to let him properly belonging and file them with the county function or Dahlquist and Stenaeker. telephone, or in some other way. com- partments, shall exerciseofany before 9 nclork tomorrow (Saturday) tion ' the others, either to to or mralnfrom for waa demand Three the of outside will none, agree we appertaining friends hla municate with morning, continued the the editor. except In the cases herein expressly the purpose of arranging a bond." publishing the story, directed or permitted." There Is no The resignations were not forthcoro ANXIOUS FOR RELEASE. editor. ! iWe are willing to make this In the case of the Ju concession because we believe the re- log. Naturally when a man la arrested exception made STREET MPTSWEIASHf Brother-In-Law- ft ' wSlvsI It appears that while Mr. Nebekel Ferry Is unitor chargee of having caused the death, in air automobile bookkeeper at the county hospital and crash on July 15, of Calvert Feller. 16. official custodian of the hospital alcohol supply, was away on a vacation reof Bountiful. William Perry, twin brother of Tru cently, the disappearance of seventeen man, and McHenry Luellwlti, who and a half gallons of alcohol from a were In the Ferry car at the time of barrel In the hospital vault' the fatal smashup, were both ar- was discovered one morning. raigned on charges of being drank and The door of the vault was found having liquor In possession. When the unlocked and open, the light on and case was called, both youths changed two little gimlet holes In the barrel their please from not guilty, to guilty. above the bung showed how tbe alcoEach was sentenced to pay a fine of hol had been extracted, it evidently $299, and given six month in the coun- having been caught in a container and ty Jail. The Jail sentence was sus- taken away as there was no evidence pended however, on condition that of leakage on the floor. the lines be paid Immediately. Both The federal prohibition officers were were also forbidden to drive an notified by thp hospital end made an within the confines of Salt investigation. It la learned that the Lake county for one year. officers found that the lock had been In passing sentence, Judge Morgan unlocked with a key and taken away, warned the pair that if they were the hasp and staple being in perfect found driving a car within 12 months, condition with no evidence of being they would, if the matter came to hts 'jimmied" or broken. attention, be compelled to serve the The federal officers obtained an affidavit from Mr. Nebeker, official cussuspended Jail terms. Truman Ferry, who drove the suto todian, In which he set forth that at the time the Feller boy was killed there were but two keys to the lock, on Dead Mans Carve in North Salt one of which was in his possession and Lake, waa given until Friday to furn- that at the time of the disappearance ish a new bond of $4000. No date for of the alcohol he and his key were trial on the manslaughter charge was away on his vacation. brother-in- -law set. GET AFFIDAVIT. It is learned that the officers then asked Commissioner Stenacker for an affidavit. It was given and recited that the alcohol had been found miss- Juv, Judge Morgan Holds Two Offices ing. No mention was made by the commissioner, in this affidavit, of any key in his possession. The federal officers decided that ait affidavit, having learned that the commissioner carried a key to the alcohol vault. They demanded another giving information as to this key. On July 7. the day after the commissioners' party" at the Carstensen home, Commissioner Stenacker made another affidavit. It Is learned, in which he acknowledged having a key to the alcohol vault but asserted that the key had not left his possession and he knew nothing as to how the alcohol had disappeared. The federal officers, decided that all keys to the alcohol vault should be in the hands of one msn and, we are in- show-dow- p show-dow- '"rXorTaM JLwwm ff'l. n air Exce-accep- - f outo-mobll- BROTHER-IN-LAW- p ' venile court or Judge, nor are there any other exceptions as far as can be learned, which are covered by the constitutional phraseology, save perhaps Justices of peace, notary public and similar minor offices. According to ail authorities, the Juvenile Judegabip is unquestionably a part of the Judicial department of the government, while the city attorneyship of Murray comes under the head- formed. required Commissioner Stening of the executive. acker to turn over his key to the official custodian of the hospital alcohol. CANNOT PRACTICE. Even though the state constitutlbn did not expressly forbid Judge Morgan holding the two jobs, he would DEMOCRATS ARE be legally disqualified by section 1786 of the 1917 compiled laws, under the CALLED terms of which he cannot appear in the. of court and exercise functions MEET the city attorneys office by representing Ills municipality In legal actions. Here la the law (See. 1786) :".Tu.Ie Formal rail for a meeting of of Cannot Act aa Attorney Exception firers and members of the Sail A Justice of the supreme eourt, or a Lake County Democratic committee. precinct and district rhairnn-Judge of a district eourt or a judge of a city court, or a Judge of a muniand all Democrats Interested, lia. been issued by J. W. Stringfellnw, cipal court cannot act aa an attorney or connael In the rourt of which he ts county chulrman. and Y. J. Kortli, a Judge, OR IN ANY OTHER COURT, secretary of the committee. except in an action or proceeding to The meeting is to be held at Parwhich he la a party of record; prolor 11, Newhouse hotel, at 8 p. m., vided ( that a judge of a city court and Thursday, August 25. Matters or a judge of a municipal court shall he Importance are to be taken up at the meeting. permitted to practice before the discontinued on Page 8) ! TO a it |