The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-03
AVERY BAD BLUNDER
The Chuggs We're Arrested Upon
Very Flimsy Evidence.
TWO DEEP WATER DETECTIVES.
There Was Not Enough to Hold the Chuggs on
Even a Preliminary Hearing, and
All We're Discharged

1t begins to look as though someone con-
nected with the Union Pacific had blum
dered in causing the arrest of the conduc-
tors Chugg and Mrs. Chugg on the charge
of en1bezzlement.
1t would also seem that couple of men
and woman, who before their arrest on
the charge of which they have been &C
quilted, had borne excellent characters,
had good damage cases against the persons
causing their arrest.
The arrest of the parties created a pro-
found sensation at the time, and for while
there were many who could not help but
believe that some mistake had been made
The railway people, however, were sure
that they had direct case, and that the
evidence they would produce would send
both the conductors to jail.
The result shows bad olunder and the
Chuggs have many friends who will con-
| graduate them on the result OF the pre-
| llminary examination, which was held be-
fore Judge Laney yesterday, p. L. Williams
and Mr.. Eichnor prosecuting and Judge
Powers defending.
| w. H. Volett was the first witness called.
! He testified he was in the employ of the
Plnkerton Detective agency at Denver and
Came out here to investigate the alleged
ticket stealing business on the Utah dlvl-
sion of the Union Pacific. He made sew
eral trips with the defendant between Salt
Lake and Ogden and on each occasion
Chugg failed to cancel several tickets. On
November %, the witness rode from Ogden
to Salt Lake on a ticket which he pur-
chased in Ogden, and afterwards he re-
purchased that Identical ticket from
broker in Ogden.
On cross examination by Judge Powers,
1t appeared that the witness career had
been d somewhat checkered and varied one.
He ran away from home when a boy and
went to sea on United States man of-war
After that he made many voyages, sailing
sometimes as seaman and sometimes as Off
Ger. After visiting nearly every port IL
} the world, he went to Philadelphia and
, studied medicine at Jefferson college,
where he graduated. He then embarked
in the show business, and after taking a
Vaudeville company On an unsuccessful
coruse, was employed by the Pinkerton
agency IN Denver.
O. b. Holmes, another Pinkerton de-
tective, stated that he came here to work
up the ticket stealing business. He made
nine trips with the defendant between this
city and Ogden, and on every occasion he
saw Chugg take up tickets and fail to can
ell them. The conductors method was to
have little piece of card board in his hand
and he punched this instead of the tickets
: he took up, giving the impression that he
, , was cancelling the tickets. He purchased
number of trip tickets from brokers here
and at Ogden. He was present at the de
PENDANTS house when search was made
: Only three uncanceled tickets were found
E in the house.
t To Judge Powers, the witness stated
. that he was employed 0y the Pinkertons
I especially for "deep work." and the Judge
1 rang all the changes on this phrase and the
witness left the stand somewhat fiustered
p S. w. Eccles of the Union Pacific, testi
!, fed that it was the duty of conductor t.
: cancel each ticket Immediately upon taking
g it up and return all as soon as possible.
: Captain Lange testified that he made the
J.; search at the defendants house and found
+ three uncanceled tickets there. He after
p wards arrested the defendant when ht
+ arrived from trip, and brought him to the
station where he was searched in the
presence of a Mr.. Adams, and "a large mum
:, Der of tickets some of which were un
Cancelled, was found.
=. Mr.. Adams testified that the value of the
L unCanceled tickets found on the defendant
at the time of his arrest was 5000.
e On cross examination by Judge Powers
e however, it was elected from Adams tina
one ticket valued at $40 was, in reality
IL void on the night of the arrest as was ais
y one valued at S3I, SO that the value of tn
Cancelled tickets which had any real valu
II was slight.
r This closed the evidence, and Judg
ID Powers made a brief argument, in whc
; he said that there was not scintilla o
T. evidence tending to convict the defendan
e, with the sale of tickets to brokers. an
D. the mere fact that uncanceled tickets O
2 the value of So or 81 were found on the de
PENDANT when he came in on his train wa
not criminal. He paid his compliments t
d the detectives, particularly the one VIII
l. made speciality of deep work." an
:. closed by asking the discharge of the dc
% PENDANT
Mr.. Williams replied briefly, and insiste
that the defendant should be held.
Mir. Dickson, who had just come IL
closed with an argument for the defenC
ant, in which he discussed the legal phase
n of the case, and at the conclusion, Judg
~ Laney ordered the discharge of the de
PENDANT
% The prosecution stated that the cas-
against George Chugg was not as strong 6
W the case against John, and this case, tt
N gether with the charge against Mrs. Chug!
" was dismissed.
The Evidence Was Not Conclusive.
W Thomas Prayer and James White, WI
were arrested on Monday for inducing
W man to make bet with them and the