The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-12
THAT FORGERY CASE.
Owens Held to Await the
Grand Jury'S Action.
FULL TEXT OF THE EVIDENCE.
Hughes VALVES standardization
Fail to Furnish bonds Owens
stiu G aims 20 be Innocent

ested gathering OF principals, lawyers
and spectators. Barney Hughes. Ia
mig. curly-headed Irish miner, who
looked incapable OF signing his own
name. much less forging ihat Of nun-
bsr Of others. sat in che cox eI; =. {.
! Ovens. the neat and natty young CLERK.
book-keeper, devoted OF the Thespian
art. or whatever he may be called. sat
silently st the able Hith his lawyer, N
a. Kaiehn, q little less spick and span
from his Two lights contact With the
rrison walls. Lansing. the sctor. with
whom Owens had visited Park City and
/ ,l,yed in the melancholy remembrance
{ Nsvasz-Eas a curious spectator. hr:
] lanes Mclean, one OF the owners oi
I me Yo.emite No. ., and whose
name was one Of those forged was III
| affandauce as a witness, aud OesiQes
/ those there was the usual congregation
OF reporters, policemen, BUNS anu
] other spectators.
Quite a wait occurred Tor Brown ana
I Tcmuey. the yictimlzed saloon keepers:
I In the meantime Mr. halgnh asAtu
| Ore1s 10 consult with Hughes on some
7.
ne, had not cOnversed together longer
ttsu five seconds, however, w1en Fer
gusop. Movies representative, sald
sbarrIv: Let the defendants be k=pt
separate" and the conference came to
an end with a shrug OF the shoulders
Il on the part OF Col. kaighn-
The case against Ovens was hrst
taken up. and AZ the witnesses, at Col
Kagha's request, were excluded from
the room after being sworn, some SUI
prise was created when Hughes MN
sell wss sworn IS witness asalhs {
IOEsns. The first 20 TESTIFY Wa
{. ". 2rown, OF the Sldeooarl saloon,
VINO told the story of now ne mad been
Iinfroduced 70 Ovens about q month
ago as the secretary and paymeSter Of
me Yosemite No. g Owens had intro
duced Hughes to him about twelve days
AGO IS 2 miner. "a good boy, ana 4
hard-worker from Bingham" Hughes
had come in on the night OF the oth ana
asked for 2 few dollars. saying that ne
desired 10 help q comrade off 10 BlnS.
nan next morning; he had produced
the aper reciting that he had deposited
lSl29with J. J. O'Reilly. and on THIS ne
; rad given Hughes SIS. Hughes mad
returned that night and asked that the
order be given pack 70 him, Offering 20
leave his watch in its place. Brown re-
= fused. and next morning Hughes had
,o,pe AGAIN. and obtained the order, OF
certific re Of deposit, under the pretexl
that he would get IL cashed. DE mac
no.iced that Hughes had not gone to
; wards O'Reillyis store. and had there
mon sIipped up to 0'Reilly's himsei
erd asked about It IS SEQ as lie nat
2 Leaned IL was a forgery, he had mac
!, Hughes arrested, and had seen him tea
M the O'Reilly order and the UnioI
National check signed by Mclean, en'
5 fiag them into the ditch. de hat
> directed sam. Gibson, who had Hughe
? under arrest. to pick up tie pieces, q
= they formed the evidence Of u
e Bgowx said that on the night he ha
Il casbed the certificate for Hughes, p
had shown It 10 Owens, who happere
TO drop in. Hughes. and companio
% named Mccarthy, had just g ne on
= and Owens had said, Look OUT Tor thS
e crowd: they're q pretty hard lot.
1, On cross-exam nation, he said owen
le had told him Il was the man who va
Is with Hughes who was hard citzeI
ie Mr.. Brown said he knew the wrirn
in the bO5y OF the ceruhc2l
a was that OF Owens. Mr.. haighn bel
SD oke up and said they admitted thf
IN owens had written both the check 2
N ! the certifcate-out he had put no sig
~ natures to them.
10 c. I. HARrs. clerk at the Walk
- House. stated that on Monday, the 81
h Owens had entered and asked him f
a blank check or draft. and blaI
check on the Uclon National CIke tn
lie found on Hughes) had been given hi
n, The PROSECUTOR here introduced ~
is drafts reading SIS follows, the sisnatuI
es of which are fair limitations OF n
ID Days genuine sprawl.
II. ie 500 BuIrE, MOSTASA. oct 9th, 1.s5
Il Ninety days after date, pay TO the order
N Barney Hughes seven Hundred Dolls
account OF MARCUS DAILY
y, ~ To Hegue & Daily, Butte, Mont.
n $50. BUTTE, MoSTASA, Nov. 5th, 1Sst
es sixty days after dEte, pay TO the order
nd Barney Hughes one Hundred and r
10 Dollars. value received, and ehargethe 81
se- - the account OF MAkCOs DALI
IN To Hogue & DAILY, Butte, Montana.
ut JANzs MCLEAN testified that Owl
J. had been in his employ three mOn
es book keeper. BE knew bis han
writing. and said. the two drafts
the body OF them-was that of Owe
OFFICER CALDER was called TO So
his LldE De nlQ ltNnN tuccc ANu II axis
w HUGHES person; he was absent, hs
in ever. and Ar. Haighn said ne wO
=" reserve his obiection that these drI
.n- were papers outside the case, II
on Calder testified.
-. DETECTJvE FRANCS was called,
On nothing OF importance was ELECTED
~ J. J. O'REILLVs said he had I
NJ Owens while he was keeping books
81 Bingham; Hughes had worked for
- on q mine for several days. he !
e. shown the certificate for Sl29, sigI
he with lis name, ana repudIatsd
- 7 signature and all Knowiedge Of ii.
10 Z 81 BROgS was recalled. and S
-be he thought the writing In the body
III nd Daily drafts was thai OF Owens.
- Nv-g-rf-E SAM GILsoS said he
,sn szeI Hughes tear some papers up W
the he Lad been arrested; had picked
m fragments up, andfTom them had IN
me out the O'Reilly certificate and
80 Leans check on the Union NstiO
,-e Bank; had seen Calder search Hugh
oSs and bad seen him take from hi
,1cb blank Union National check and
two DAILY GRATIS.
Movie and Fesguson nov intrOdu