Show C SALT LAKE LAIE AND STATE NEWS HELD fIELD FOR MANY NANY CRIMES POSTMASTER OF FILLMORE IN INDICTED INDICTED I BY GRAND JURY One of the Postoffice Inspectors of This Said to Have Shielded the Fellow Salt Lake City Nov No are a re suIt stilt 0 of an Indictment brought la last t week b by the United States grand jury juO Frank Hanson former Cormer postmaster at Fillmore Millard county count Utah and anda a brother or Of Willard Hanson ot of this elt city and George Georg Hanson to Senator Sutherland was arro arrested this morning m my United States Deputy Deput Marshal Riley and Is held b by the government on charges of rifling mail and the destruction of government property Three counts wore were brought against him two charging him with rifling mall mail and ono one charging hi huh l with the destruction of oC property The arrest was made maie without trou trouble he ble Willard Hanson brother of the accused and former Carmer count county attorney turning the prisoner over to the lie He remained In the custody of the tho deputy tutu 3 this after anel afternoon noon when ho was taken before United States Commissioner Charles Baldwin for arraignment Bends or of were fixed which It Is said will willbe m bo be raised thIs afternoon b by Willard Hanson Thief Clever tt at Work The Tho crIme or of which Hanson was oc onset Is to bo be serious and felonious The rifling or of the mall mail It ItIs itis Is assorted covered a period of sc sov oral eral months and cost the govern government mont ment thousands of dollars through the he loss Joss of registered letters anti mono money orders ardors D By a system of oC retrace retracing Ing the orders It Is charged he are ar arranged ranged matters so that ho he secured the mone money and the government was not able for fol some tIme to trace the tho exact source of the loss Joss Besides the mone money orders he I is alleged to have havo rifled registered let lel and to have removed mony inter misplacing the lie letters Jetters or disposing of theta them In a manner which threw the lie blame outside his office Among others who are alleged to lo liae havo lest by his workings were El ElIon Jon Ion Day Ora Peterson and a woman named l Mrs r J Jackson In the tho Peter Peterson Peterson son case lie he I is alleged to have taken takena n a 20 O hI bill from a letter sent b by Jas of EI Ely Nov Ney to his wife or of It is not that lIml time the case will he reached in Uw the federal court before the tue term bitt ut It IL Is said hat when It does docs como come to lo trial It will prove proe to bo b an one The Indictment Is said to he clear and It Is understood that It ItIs ItIs Is based upon the finding of these letters Jotters breaking into the setting the lie buildIng on fire firo and rifling the malls mails It II Is also understood that the indictment Is backed lip by the he of Millard county the town lown marshal of Fillmore and h 13 man per por sons soils who during the past few fow years have havo hail had dealings of oC one nature or an another other othor with the accused man Feeling is l at fever heat heal against Hanson and It is said lint the bitterness of time the toward the man caused the theJa Ja laying of an exceptionally large Jarge amount of no now evIdence at the door of the government Little Inside History Hanson Is ono one of the most desperate crIminals of the state He has used the torch to the property of a half hair dozen of his neighbors In Fillmore He has the malls He has burned the twice and kept the people of liia home hom town In ner nerous votis ous dread and lear ear for more ban two years While postmaster no mall mail was safe In iii his charge IJo He forged fored registrations ions for tor registered letters He rifled letters containing alone monc He is 15 said to have Intercepted mall mail containing merchandise lse and to ha have 0 distributed It among acquaintances He treated as a repaid mone money orders purchased b by patrons and amid made USe of oC these Ill gotten funds Helps Him HimAt HimAt At least loust one Inspector committed a felon felony to protect Hanson having cut from the ree rec records ortIs a sheet containing evidence of Hansons grossest forgery forger And Coo Geo Hanson Hnnson the senators secretary one onetime time lime la Is alleged to have intercepted a aletter letter addressed to How eli eH presumably to protect his broth brother or er This letter was as found on the of Fillmore lu iii the tho trail of Gee Geo Hanson havinG been boemi opened anti and re resealed sealed Prior to this George complained lie he bud bad lost a valuable let letter letor ter or It was a rotten state of affairs and he wore so 80 determined to lo cover Frank Hansons crimes that the matter became a public s scandal andal Recently Frank Hanson Hnnson was virtual virtually ly Ir caught In the net act of burning a barn barnIn In iii Fillmore The Tho city marshal had watched him and finding him running from the barn harn he had the marsh marshal al aJ drove Hanson Into the arms of the tho sheriff and the capture was made A moment afterward the barn burst Into For this Hanson Hnnson was placed In jail and afterward released under 1 bonds banda Search of his homo home I a package or of letters Jetters that had been mailed at the afternoon the o was burned Those letters Jetters were supposed to have boon been dest destroyed In the tho fire A considerable or watches and jewelry was niso O found durinG this search |