Show ONE IS fiNED 50 THE OTHER ESCAPES WITHOUT A SCRATCH Story or of is Recited in Court Much to Disgust of State Stale Officers Stale Food and Dalr Dairy Inspector WIl WIllard Willard lard Hanson State Chemist Herman Harm and Deputy Foot Food and Dairy In inspector H e C Smith of oC Salt Lake hall had hallan hadan an Inning In ht the municipal court of this ell city this morning and wore sore knocked out The knockout blow came In the second round of the COli court rl pro lire regarding the disposition of oC meat containing handled b by Ogden n dealers last summer lien I dismissed the case of the Uie State StaV against lames Jams Ballard The Tho first called was that of the tho ys s A Beckstead the complaint in this case being identical with that In flue Ballard case charging tho rho sale of steak August Augut t 5 1901 1109 containing a 1 preservative containing sulphites Mr r Beckstead pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to pay the minimum fine fino provided In the statutes lucre were six cases of this kind brought hy by the stat state against Ogden I meat deniers pleas of guilty guilt being entered h by the defendants In all n of them and lines imposed until the t I Ballard cato case was lied In the municipal pal court thIs morning Mr Ir Ballard represented by Attorney T D John Johnson son entered a plea o of not guilty guilt rhe Elie witnesses who testified against Mr Ir Ballard Dallard were the flue deputy state rood food and dairy commissioner and the slate chemist t State St te Food and Dairy In I Willard Hansen Hannen was an In Interested spectator Mr tr Smith stated that on the tho or of August 1909 lie he purchased u a small I or of Hamburger steak at Mr Ir IrI I Ballards butcher shop Twenty fourth street and turned turnell the same over to State Slate Chemist harms to he be tested as to JL its purity The Thc state chemist t stated that he had tested the tho steak re referred to hy by Mr Ir Smith and lead that lint It contained a preservative composed of sulphites Upon this testimony Prosecuting A Attorney Jensen rested the he case The defendant offered no proof but hUl asked that the case be e dismissed on the ground round that the state had failed to 10 prove proe n a crime tinder th the statutes The contention of the y for Cor Ballard was that preservative or given In Inthe inthe the testimony or of Stall Slate Harms Harm did ld not nol mean anything In th case because no ProOf was given that they ther or it it or whatever it fl might bl be were wom substances or that rendered the and also that there re wa was lit fn proof given by the state that Ihl this preservative was waR not salt or 01 saltpeter or some other preservative which the law la Ha says s tutu ma JO ho used to lu cure re meals an t The case was dismissed crl on till this |