The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-04
THAT INVESTIGATION.
Official COgnizance Given to Pri-
vats Affairs.

oome Time esince our attention wa
called to what pu ported to be fact
but what really was nothing but
rumor. connecting the name o. o. W
Powers with tina; of a young lady O
highly respectable character and fan. ly
OF this city. in base and ugly scandal.
We Immediately instituted an investi-
CATION with the view of fling the
rumor to the bottom. and learning II
there we're any truth connected with
it.
Throug our agency the matter was
brought 70 the no ICE of the Young
lady aud her family. and was found ne
oe, so Tar rs the young lady was con.
cerned. bsse anu uumiIigated SANDER.
without any foun atom Whatever in
fact.
Alter conversation with the Young
lady and some o. her trends on the
subject. We uLhesitatlngly cate to
this CONCLUSION, Notwithstanding the
willingness OF certain pa ties to
make AFFIDAVIT 10 the fact that
they had stem the government
otfirIal and the young lady the question
together. under Father compromising
ci'cumStanc 8, that the report was ur-
true. We were go thoroughly con-
WINGED that the lady had been wronged
that We Consented TO continue our in
designations until We had sufficien. evil
dvnce 10 vindIcate her character, and
until the origin Uf the defamatory re-
pOrt had been ascertained. In the
mrantIne. however. the report had
reached the ears Of the Judge and an in
veStigaiOn was commenced by the
Grand Jury. The edi or-iu-chief of the
osdenHeraid, two or three legal gentle
MEN aud hers, Including a representa-
i've oil The HER AID, were brought before
the jury anu examined as to their
knowledge of the affair. As our repre-
sentative was descending from the
Grand Jury room. he encountered an
attor.ey who had be n examined as a !
witness 10 the case the day before, and 1
asked his opinion concerning the mat.
ter. The attorney replied that be thought |
II case of mistaken identity so far As 1
the lady was concerned.
The editor referred TO above. was be. |
fore the Grand Jury on Wednesday last, |
and was afterward seen 10 the Marshal's !
office in company with the DETAINED .
Judge. On Thursday evening an edi- /
lOrial article appeared in the Ogden 1
Herald, purporting 10 give q history of /
the affair as II came to the editor, and.
in guarded sentences, denouncing the
action OF the Judge in having the IN
yestigation instituted. This article gave
more wide circulation to the despicable
rumor and furnished a pretext for a
public denial by the Judge. which fol-
lowed in Friday evenings Neirs.
We bad intended to say nothing what
ever concerning the matter, and do so
now only because IL has been made pub
-, I'll q
the 7Yib1fne. What the Grand
Jury's invesu alton will amount to it is
hard TO predict; perhaps it NAV de-
yelop sensation of sufficient
to have someone indicted
Tor libel; or perhaps the theory is 20
lndict several persons for conspiracy TO
libel. Perhaps,sgain, IL was feared that
Developments ID another direction
would come from private iuves tiga-
ton OF The matter that would prove IN
pleasant for some persons con-
nected with the Investigation. aid
the affair was put in the hands
Of the Grand jury 10 relieve individu
ais OF the trouble Of looking up the de-
tails. Whatever the motive may have
been, IT, places the investigators in an
position befo.e the public
and throws the Grand Jury open TO
5CNCAG CLlllClnLA - ~ llGL AOAfCS.
The healthiest dose Of medicine that /
could be given to person who would
start an unfounded scandal, impugning
the virtue OF any respectable young
lady would be & severe cas'igation with l
a good horsewhip IN the hands Of 3
healthy man,
Why the press Of this city took up
All published the horrid, nauseatlng /
affair. is matter that is best known 10
the parties who did 1t. The public will /
look ct the facts and form its own con-
illusions.
SO far as the Grand Jury Is concerned,
their investigation of the case; their
lending their official place ana infiu- /
ence 10 run to earth an unpublished /
rum0, and their eDdeavors TO discover /
the originator OF such q report only /
proves them to be willing tools in the |
hands Of the court.