Show GOAL COAL FRAUD CASE GASE VS SHO V NEV PHASE i I Government Introduces Witnesses Witnesses Wit Wit- I nesses to Substantiate Peabodys Peabody's Claims TIDWELL hOWELL LIVENS HEARING Aged Miner of Sunnyside District District District Dis Dis- Tells How He Earned r I I I The coal conI fraud hearing of or the Utah Fuel FucI company compan case was enlivened yesterday yes yes- es by the presence of or Jefferson Tidwell 73 years cars old a L resident of ot tho the district for many years ears He said that he wa was j a n coal miner and had five sons and six daughters The sons were George Washington TIdwell Joseph Joseph Joseph Jos Jos- eph Jefferson Tidwell and others all nil stalwart men ho he said and had al always always nl- nl ways wars feared and respected the law a w. w Much to the tho amusement of counsel and spectators Mr 11 TIdwell was al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to tell how he lie had taken up acres of coal land and had transferred tho the land to somebody he did not know at the instance of or TV W II H. Bird and antl Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Foi Forrester roster whom he lie knew only to tobe tobe tobe be connected with the Utah Fuel company com corn pany ho be had signed several papers paper for which he received Other witnesses were 1 W. W S. S Royne and J J. J R R. TIdwell also of Wellington who substantiated Jefferson Tidwells Tidwell's statements with the information information information inform inform- that Mr Ir said that as tho the grantee of the tho deed he ho had signed ho he noticed tho the name of Royal C. C Peabody I Knew It n Curd Cont Lunil V VV V The wl witnesses ts were called by ov n t. t to to In on phase ae of the coal fraud case caso that t er all the parties admit tho the land larid taken up b by Iy bythe the to have o been coal land the only question being that raised b by bythe bythe the government In its bill that the cn- cn were wore hired by ly the Utah Fuel F company to take up the land to be afterward transferred to the company compan The fraudulent part of the deal was brought out from the witnesses yesterday yester yeater- day when they said that they had not paid tho the 20 0 per acre or the 3 00 fo for Cot the he ICO acres but had merely merel signed certain papers at nt the Instance of or the agents of the Utah Fuel company near fleurs Out Peabody The prosecution hopes to show that the were employed by tho the thoc c company which through Its agents paid said the government tho the 20 20 per acre for or tho the coal lands acquired The claim of or the prosecution substantiated substantiated substantiated sub sub- by the deposition of ot Royal C. C Peabody that the tho lands were deeded deded by the lo to Royal C. C Peabody and md b by him deeded to the Utah Fuel company compan was borne borno out In effect by bythe bythe bythe the witnesses yesterday rda and camo casio as ast t nt evidence for the prosecution The present phase of or the case turns on the attempt of or the government s to recover the coal l lands lands' no now no embodied In inV inthe the o district for tor tho the reason rea rca V son on that the they were obtained 1 by fraud through the employment o of with the und understanding that tho the land should afterwards be bo deeded to the company compan l |