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Show RUBENSTEIN FREED FROM DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS EM- I BEZZLEMENT NOT INTENDED. Jeweler Disposed of Ring in Legitlm- ( ate and Justifiable Way, and Is Discharged. . "When the caso of the state of Utah against I. Itubenstein was called In the district court Saturday afternoon, District Attorney N. .T. Harris asked the court to dismiss the action, which was done. The district attorney stated that he had carefully investigated the matter mat-ter and had arrived at the conclusion that Mr. Rubensteln w as . entirely Innocent In-nocent of any offense, and that a conviction con-viction before a jury would, in his judgment, be impossible. The attorney attor-ney further stated that then wes evidently evi-dently no intention on the part of Mr. RubnMeln to do any wrong cr s'vk to obtain that which did not belong to him. The charge preferred against Mr. Rubensteln was , embezzlement, the facts of the case being that he bought a diamond ring from A. H. Beath of Salt Lake, for which he paid $125. It afterwards developed that thr ring J I was the property of a Sflt Lake jew-! jew-! eler, and when the jeweler sought to j regain it by writ of replevin, Mr. Rn-i Rn-i benstcin had disposed of It in a legitimate legiti-mate and justifiable way for the purpose pur-pose of recovering the money he had in it, Mr. Rubensteln was discharged without prejudice. |