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Show POLITICAL PERSONAL. The grand jury Investigation is ended young "Bill" Nelson, cashier of the Jordan State bank at Bingham Junction and nephew of Joseph Nelson, Nel-son, former vice president of the Utah National, stands indicted for the theft of the $106,250 from the bank, the real thief is free to come and go as he pleases and the flght is on to make the sentence sen-tence of the man who has agreed to take the punishment pun-ishment for the theft as light as possible, while the big thief hustles for enough to "square" it with young Nelson when the latter leaves the rock pile and striped clothes behind. Will someone please pass up a wet blanket blan-ket while we tie it over the head of Justice and hang a brick on one of the scales? The grand jury in -returning even the one indictment in-dictment did more, probably, than any other grand jury that could be drawn within the borders of Utah would have done. The credit for the indictment in-dictment goes to a very few men on the jury. The rest had to be whipped, licked, kicked and coaxed . into line and only when it came to a case of "I'll be damned if I do and 111 be damned if I don't" did they swing in and vote for an indictment. Not to the doors of the grand jurors but to the doors of the men who worked with the jury must be laid the responsibility for the failure of that body to indict the man who conceived and executed exe-cuted two-thirds of the plot to rifle the reserve chest of the Utah National. There is not the slightest doubt but that every man on the grand jury knows to an absolute certainty cer-tainty who this man is. There is just as little doubt that U. S. District Attorney Booth knows. Londoner knows or makes you believe he does. Booth went in before the grand jury and declared de-clared time and again that they had not sufficient suffi-cient evidence to return any indictment, but that against A. W. Nelson. Other officials of the government gov-ernment in a position to know all that Booth knows, stated just as emphatically that the jury did have enough evidence to return at least one more indictment. However, what could not be accomplished one way will be done in another. There will very likely be another arrest within with-in thirty days. A. W. Nelson will never go to prison alone for robbing the Utah National. The grand jury knew that before it adjourned, or it would be there yet. The evidence against the principal is complete and his arrest is certain. There's another thing that seems pretty certain, cer-tain, too. that if some people can't see their duty plainer than they have the past few weeks and act accordingly, someone will be minus a portion of their work. It is openly charged that by arrangement with the principal thieves (thief would about cover it) young Nelson has agreed to stand punishment for the robbery. There can be little doubt of the truth of the assertion. The jury opened up one of the most damnable conspiracies ever hatched in Utah, in its investigation. The Plnkertons are still on the ground, though the grand jury made things highly Interesting for one or two of them for a few days.. They will pi'obably be retained on the case if not by the bank by interested parties. Five months are ahead for the flght to keep the real thief out of the clutches of the law and to make arrangements for getting young Nelson off as easily as possible. The man who stole the money and gave it to A. W. Nelson Is accredited by the grand jury as being the shrewdest and biggest liar in Utah, He has cleverly covered his tracks so far and what he can do in five months more remains to be seen. Some of the turns the Investigation into the robbery ftjiye taken would not be believed by the public werethey published, so unusual and sensational sen-sational have been their course. i Its moially certain, too, that the gum shoe r work of the next few months will outclass everything every-thing of the kind that has been done since January. Jan-uary. & & 8 One still hears Devine's name mentioned for fire chief. - That joke has gone far enough. Devine doesn't know anything about fire fighting in the first place and in the second he's a church politician. There isn't any danger of his ever going in, and there's enough else to contend with this hot weather without having to assimilate any more Devine lough-stuff comedy. v t5 Loose seems to think he still has a chance for the gubernatorial nomination. The "one who sat at the piesident's left" remembers what they told him at the Bee Hive and laughs that hearty, whole souled laugh of his. |