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Show !0N TRIAL AT LAST Alma Fague Ex-Cashier of the Neplii Bauk. MAKING 'FALSE BilTBlES Is the Charce Alleged in the Indictment vne ota Serletror Case Afjaiut-t the Man-Strenuous Efforts Were Made for Another Continuance of the Trial. The District court was crowded this morning with spectators anxious to hear the evidence in the celebrated Haaue case scheduled lor trial to begin be-gin today. Mr. Alma Hae;ue in the particular case now on trial is accused uy U. S. indictment of making false entry upon the general balance book of the First National I3ank of !Nephi on January 3, 1894 whiie acting as cashier of the bank. That the false entry was -made showing that the bank had loaned Engram BrotherB $575.00 on their note, when in fact the bank had not loaned Inerani Brothers $575; and that the entry en-try was made to defraud the Pirst National bank of Nephi, and to deceive any acent who miuht be appointed by the comptioller of the treasury to examine ex-amine the affaire of the bank. The defense ib represented by Brown & Henderson ot Salt Lake and S. A. Jving and W. -N. Dusenbeny ot Provo. The prosecution is conducted by U. S. District Attorney J' dd and special U. S, Ojunsel John A. Marshall. Mar-shall. Judge Aleiritt on the bench Immediately upon calling the cate Mi. lirown announetl Ui.it the defenke was not reaoy ana arktd fot a continuance contin-uance on the ground" thiU defendant had liequeutly asked for the .irivilege of exuimning the books of the bank for the purpose ot explaining the en-jiy en-jiy here complained of and to enable his attorneys to prepare for the casi , and further that Ins cout-sel had not baen able to examine the files in the case tor the reatou that tht y had not been in the custody of thp cierk of the court, but had beer in the custody of United States Attorney Judd in Salt Lake; and that Mr Hague cannot safely go to trial without the presence of Bauk Examiner Zeph Hill, who " ould testily that tho eutrv upon which the indictment is based did not deceivb bim. This application for a continuance was swot n to by the defendant, de-fendant, and supplementally "by an afii davit of Attorney Brown as to the inability in-ability of himsell to obtain access to the files. The application was argued pro and con extensively, the essential points of all of the allegation:) in the application applica-tion being stienuously denied by the prOEecutiou. The application was de-nied. de-nied. Exceptions, were taken and trial of the cause proceeded with. The prospects are that the whole day will be occupied in securing a jury. |