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Show ANOTHER PHASE OF L. & L." For Ways That Are Dark and Tricks That Are Tain, the Salt Lake Of ficlals Are Peculiar. A decidedly sensational affair came to light this afternoon which gives a new phase to the L. & L: cases, as well as to 6ome other matters which at least a portion por-tion of the public are interested in. The. facts were obtained from some of the parties directly concerned in the affair, and are incontrovertible. They are, in brief, as follows : One of the persons, whose name is known to have been on that list which Sheriff Groesbeck carries in his portmanteau, port-manteau, -and who gave bonds some time ago for. his appearance when he should be wanted, came into Judge Speirs' court this morning in accordance with some arrangement which had been kept extremely quiet, and indicated his readiness to plead not guilty. He had already been led to understand that by changing his plea to guilty he could have i the matter quietly fixed up without any noisy trial or other publicity. The party evidently came to the City Hall this morning expecting to find present some of those who had thus represented . matters mat-ters to him, but upon finding no one there he was in doubt as to what course to pursue, when the assurance was -given him in the court that the best thing for him to do was to plead guilty and have the business hushed up without further trouble. Under the delusion that the "fixing up" business would involve little or no expense he was induced to enter the plea as suggested, when lo and behold, the judge without anv further delibera tion assessed the customary fine of $299. The result was a perfect surprise to the party, who left the court room without determining what should be his next Btep. Uikhi further considering the matter mat-ter he decided that the keeping of the proceedings from the public involved a very decided uncertainty, and that he was not disposed to enrich the city coffers to the extent of $299, on such frail assurances. He had not concluded con-cluded upon any definite action when seen last, but was heard to say that if the City Hall folks failed to keep their promise as to secresy "he would be d d if he would pay" the assessment, and that he didn't intend to pay it anyway, as - he had been inveigled into doing something which brought consequences conse-quences he had not been made aware of. It is more than likely that the affair will develop into something more material in a very short lime. In regard to the whole proceedings the utmost secrecy was maintained "at the City Hall, the Judge going so far as to instruct the clerk not to put the matter on record, and to keep it from all newspaper reporters. It will not reflect very much credit on any of those concerned that such efforts at secrecy were put forth, for these are matters which the public as well as the reporters have a claim upon. |