Show SALT LAKE NEWS A smooth swindler in tho tolls after he has plied his arts he fleeced many people of Zion Great republican demonstration at th scandinavian salt labs sept 29 the event of alie campaign so far was the political meeting by the scandinavian republican nn club held in olifta hall last night tho audience wae a very large one and the enthusiasm remarkably strong the speakers were judge good win stanton L dahlquist and andrew jen sen whose speeches elicited wild storms of doctor speigel correspondent and eminent sargeon has been held to the grand jury auder bonds in the cum of 1000 for passing a fraudulent check on john debei and in default of sureties i was taken to tho penitentiary he is without doubt the smoothest swindler that has struck this city in years he skinned almost everybody with whom he came in intact cn tact including many of the most prominent up to date people in zion to a well known resident be represented himself as the correen nd ent of ane new york herald and after havone interviewed the gentleman showed him a certified chece for and then touched hie victim for 30 hen made his appearance at i the templeton he registered as henry leo M di of denver and elated that he was an eminent surgeon having come to salt lake for the purpose of removing a sixty alve pound tumor from a wealthy lady on brigham estreet stated that dr pinkerton was to assist him and he slung medical terms about at such random that mr porter bever for once doubted that the areat denver surgeon was really dis guest the doctor needed money badly and asked mr porter to cash a certified check for him porter was suspicious and declined on the ground that lie have the money in the house bat consented to go to a bank with him the national declined to cash the check because not acquainted with the denature dg nature of the denver cashier who bad ostensibly certified to it and walker bros were next visited they were closed for the day however and the doctor deposited hs check for collection taking in exchange a certificate of deposit for it he evidently prevailed on mr porter to advance him 25 on the certificate of deposit and then aki pred after all the gravity will hardly be completed this year chairman doremus Dore mue of the board of public works reluctantly admits it as does engineer young at a meeting between the board and the contractors yesterday afternoon the latter mado statements that a long delay had been caused by the strike that tho board had refused to give them right of way and that the railroad company bad ordered them off the grounds captain admonished the board that if it wanted the contractors to go ahead at full speed then it must give them the reign of which he was in favor judge marshall said that if this meant that the condrac fora were to cut into alie city leaving an open and trench to be guard ed through the winter as a menace to eife and limb it would be criminal for the board to let them go on unbridled with the excavation it was a cerious matter in hie opinion and no trenching should be allowed than could be covered by the masonry chairman doremus stated there was feet yet to be accomplished complis hed and it having required four months to complete feet it was beyond bis knowledge of computation how the balance could be done in sixty days however the fewer must go on the best way out of the dilemma in hie opinion was through a conference committee from the council the mayor and the bord who would consider the matter conjointly and determine what might be done this waa agreed to and it was ordered that the contractors be allowed to continue through three blocks to second south street pending the conference between the powers contractor bobson says the force will again be increased this mornine which means a demand for extra men democratic chairman caine insists in his talks that it half as important to elect rawlans as delegate to congress as it isto is to elect democratic Demo cratie members of the constitutional convention thus is the split in the democratic management confirmed out of its chair mans own mouth charles thiede charged with killing his wife at murray on the of april was brought into judge court yesterday and entered a plea of not guilty to the indictment the prosecution wanted the case set for october ath but the defense opposed this on the ground that they know whether or not they could be ready for trial by that date and after the matter for some time J adge bartch stated that the matter of betting the case down for bearing might go over until next monday in the same court leon wright who had previously pleaded guilty to burglary was upon the suggestion of judge howat was ordered committed to the reform school at ogden W IT stewart found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon upon the person of dick atwood in july last came up for sentence and was let off with one year the closing arguments in the case of W M eddy charged with fornication were made judge powen for the defense and attorney howat for the prosecution ec were made before judge bartch yesterday and it was submitted to the jury who some hours afterwards returned into court with a verdict of guilty sentence will be pronounced october ast 1st the last case on alie days call was that of hanley colored charged with assault with intent to commit murder on the person of robert fortune on october 1 1893 at fl colored picnic at murray the evidence was all in at the leour of adjournment and taft case will be argued this morning |