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Show Gunderson Guilty; Barred from Office John Gunderson, who was re-elected to the office of county commissioner commis-sioner of Sanpete county at the last November election, was barred from office Monday of this week. Judge Dilworth Woolley, who presided at the hearing of Gunderson, when he was charged with unlawfully taking property belonging to the county, pronounced the sentence after the accused ac-cused man had been found guilty following fol-lowing a trial lasting four days. Gunderson Gun-derson was charged with malfeasance of office, six charges being filed against him, those of taking produce and goods, but not any cash. In the complaint it was charged that Gunderson appropriated to his own use five tons of hay, 14 tons of coal, ten bushels of potatoes, and $25 in cash from the county infirmary during the time Aston Christensen served as superintendent of the infirmary. in-firmary. When the discrepancies had been discovered, Christensen was re-4 re-4 moved from office and a thorough investigation in-vestigation started, with the result that Gunderson was found to have had a hand in the appropriations of the materials taken. The . charges, ' divided into six counts, were as follows: January 15, 1929 Appropriating one ton of alfalfa valued at $10. July 1, 1929 Two tons of hay, valued val-ued at $20. July 1, 1930 Two tons of hay, valued val-ued at $20. August 1, 1930 Fourteen tons of coal, valued at $35. October 30, 1930 Ten bushels of potatoes, valued at $7.50. March 15, 1930 Appropriating $25 in cash. At the trial, which attracted much attention, Gunderson testified in his own behalf that he, in every instance when he secured produce and goods from the infirmary, had paid Superintendent Super-intendent Christensen for the same, and he strongly denied taking the cash named in the last or sixth count. Christensen denied that he had ever been paid any money by Commissioner Com-missioner Gunderson for the goods mentioned in the first five counts, and testified that the commissioner had taken the money, which he said was cash payment for an ice box sold by the infirmary.' At the next meeting of the county commissioners, Chairman Metcalf and George Cook, the remaining officers, wiil. name a commissioner to take the place of Gunderson. No intimation intima-tion had been made as yet a to the successor, but likely a man will be named from Mt. Pleasant, the home of Gunderson. v , |