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Show "Not Guilty" For Trieodoie.Niclioles Jury In (he Latest Granite Club C'n.c Sii'M .Manager Hid .Vol Sell llooze (o One Samuel lliikhinson. Theodore Nicholcs was tried Wednesday Wed-nesday beforo Justice Adolph Nielsen for selling six bottle of lagar bcor to oiiu Samuel Hutchinson on July 2nd, 11)14. Tho whole forenoon wns taken up In securing the following Jury. Thomus Prlday, Kmmctt Lynch, Jos. Searlo and Niels Nelson. Attorney Snyder of Salt Lnko City represented Mr. Nlcholes and Judge Whltecotton looked after tho Interests of tho city. Witnesses for tho city wero Vcrn Holey and Uum Harrlntou, aged 17 nnd 1G years respectively, Samuol Hutchinson and his brother, tho latter lat-ter only testifying to having seen Samuel In tho Un-nlto Club ono day with n packet under his arm. Tho City's story wus that on tho second day of last July, thu two boys, Holey and Harrlntou, asked Samuel Hutchinson to go In tho Granlto Club nnd get them some beer. They gave hint $1.G0 for this purpose. Ho went In tho front door and later camo out of the yard In tho rear and gave them two packetB, each containing three bottlos of beor, which was given them In tho rear or Larson's blocksmlth shop. Hutchinson testified to having I received the money, going In tho Gran-' Ito Club, buying tho beer and bring-' lng It out to tho boys. The Htory of all three witnesses wns perfectly straight. j On oross examination by Attorney Snyder, It developed that young Holey nnd Harrington, Huusuq.ui.it to July , 2nd, had boon arrestod for "hooking" beor from a buggy near tho Apollo , Hall. Ihey wore In the custody of tho olllcors for two dajs, and un jigieement was roached wIm. by the lioys wero employed to act is de-Jcutlvos de-Jcutlvos for the city. A horse and1 buggy were to bo furnished them free , Thoy wero to bo paid $2.00 per day each when In the service of tho city If 110 casos wore secured, and t 00 per day when they wero successful However, It appears that (lie hoys only worked one or two dnys. They wqi-o not able to secure any new oases, but' gave the officers Information Informa-tion on a case tin t had already I11111-pened I11111-pened ' On cross Humiliation Hutchinson u stilled Hut Ji- li d br.. m j.ui from Saturday, two w .in u60 tin o" fo. 1 lowing Tuesday, when ho signed an nffldavlt Implicating Nlcholes in tho case, und agreed to back up .ho aM-Jalt aM-Jalt In court. Tho conditions wero that tho City Marshal was to uso lila lnllucnco to hnvo tho sentence as llcu-eut llcu-eut ns possible. Tho following day ho changed his former pica from "not guilty" to "guilty." The case of tho defenso was tho tostlmony ly Nlcholes denying tho transaction, and tho story that, oub-sequent oub-sequent to his rarest, Hutchinson had told him on tho street that ho did not rfnow whether It was Nicholcs who 3old him tho boor. Tills conversation .vub corrobojnted by Ed. Robinson. On cross examination Nicholcs testified testi-fied that ho wbb manager of tho Granite Gran-ite Club and ns such received consignments con-signments of liquor for Its members, who generally pnld for It when they got It. Ho also admitted having been closed out by soarch nnd solzuro and injunction proceedings, H H The jury after being out scmtPH hours brought In a verdict t'-H JP guilty. H f A largo crowd, in.lmllnt; a dH YA station of Indloo, witnessed the .W U4 codlings. Hj V n |