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Show JUDGE DENIES MYERS LIBERTY Appeal Now C-oes to Supreme Su-preme Court; May Take Three Months MIAMI. Fla., March 21. A habeas! corpus wrIL seeking the liberty of J. I D. Myers, wanted In Salt Lake as Mil! ton D Joseph for the alleged embez -dement of $54,000 eight years npo. was denied late yesterday by Judge H. Pierre Branning of the circuit court. Myers will not now be turned over to the Utah authorities for au ap peal has been made to the state supreme su-preme court. Tnder the lav. this ap- I peal need not be perfected for from 30 to 90 days, and the date when the, supreme court will pass upon it is . problematical. . ! Myers was remanded back to Jail, i penning tho decision by the high court. Judge Brannlni; annwino-d num ih. bench that pending toe appeal, the. motion for which ho granted. Myers eould not be IUrratd on ball The habeas corpus on which Judg- Bran-nm Bran-nm ruled iho fourth in the Myers case, was heard before him Sunda afternoon, when 11 was argued for four hours by attorneys for Myers ... i r.,r ,,. Bt.itp. The state's attorney was assisted by two local lawyers re- j ned v, Qovernor Hardee us his personal per-sonal counsel. The habeas corpus hearing was or-1 dored bv the state supreme court, but, r, ,,!. r-irrn it lo bef..r. Judge Hran-ning. Hran-ning. The supreme court acted when ittornevs mr Myers a ppeal.-d h teh--graph directly to that tribunal when governor signed extradition papers for, Myers upon the request of the governor gov-ernor of Utah In Iheir wire to the supreme court, attorns D for Myen asserted that the governor was interfering with tho state's Judiciary and Insinuated that because the governor is a banker he v. 'i unduly Influenced In granting the requisition papers for the man accused oC robbing a bank Herbert I.ichter. chief criminal depot iheriff of Halt Laks county.! who came here from Tallahassee wllhl the extradition warrant for Myers signed by Florida's governor, and J. H j lirut. cashier of the Fait Iako City panic, who Identified Myers as Joseph, i v. ere tb leave tonight for Salt I,ak without their mn. Mr. Grut said he , would return when notlflod tho caae was coming up before the supreme who -anio to Miami eight years ago and claininlg Detroit, Mich., j as his former home, was re ognlsed on the streets of this city last February Febru-ary a Milton D Joseph, charged with the embezzlement of securities to the i value of $54,300 from the t'ontlner.ta 1 National bnk of Salt Iako on March 16. 1914, by D C. Dunbar, former dl-1 rector of the ffnit Iu.ke bank and at ! one time collector of Internal revenue ; in Utah Mr. Dunbar was spending the winter here and when he saw Myers he at i once notified tho bank, which in turn! employtd the Burns Detective agency. Photographs of Joseph were sent here, and. finally, Sheriff Louis A Allen, a friend of Myers, on March 2 was I convinced that Myers was the man wanted in the western state as Joseph.! and cauAod his arrest. Cashier firut of the bank arrived on March 7 and! Immediately identified Myers ae Jos- eph In Judge Rranntng's court yesterday. yester-day. V"hen Myen wa-s first arrested he was taken before Counts' Judge Frank Rlanton. who remanded him tO tall without bond until March 10. at which time It was believed tho requlsl- tlon question would be settled. |