Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-10

A BURLESQUR.
P. H. Lannan Arrested fOT
Forgery. 80
A TRUMPED-UP ACCUSATION.
Made by a RcllOw-'Iiberal,D With
a Purpose.
A TRUMPED-UP ACCUSATION
TsLEeRsms NOT QUESTIONED.
PROVED GENUINE,
Bot They Don't Touch the Pub
Iished -LiberaI'- Forgery.

1 SGtNt
Mr.. Lannan was mt one time a
butcher. That business was respect
able. Later ne became the manager
of newspaper. That would also
have been n respectable occupation
had there been anything decent
about the paper; but there was not.
| Mr.. Danuan has faults; and they
may be not few. He has faiIing5
and they may be many. But no
one who has any knowledge OF his
methods ever believed that his
faults lay in the line Of committing
forgeries His parsr has Published
boguas letters, made-ap ''rei-hot''
addresses, and almost if not quite
everything else ola contemplate ma
ture, butt was never intimated that
Mr.Lannon INDUCED in that style Of
dirty work. We do not believe him
capable Fit. Ii is another person
who is capable Of that kind Of BUSH
ness, and it isn't the chief editor
either.
So, when, on Saturday night, it
became noised abroad that Mr..
Lannon had beenarrested for forgery
the question was not "What has
lie fOrged?'' but" What new trick
are the liberals up to now?''
The trick came out in the farcical
investigation which was COM
men6ed OH Saturday evening.
! Deputies were rushing around for
witnesses, some Of whom they found
and some they did not find. In one
instance where the gentleman
wanted as n witness did not happen
to be at an office where q deputy
called, that deputy stamped around
| and acted in a way that
was uncalled for. Ii he had only
sent Q request, somebody whose
/ business 1t was not might have
hunted the witness up and had him
on hand at sonia place convenient
I for the officer 10 reach him. But
tie deputy didn't see fit TO take
that course.
We'll. the examination came on,
Mr.. Narian appearing FOR the prose
cution and MIR. c. w. West for Mr..
/ Lannan. There was complaint,
filed 10y one William Ochs. Who is
he? One Of the ''Liberal" outfit.
Ii charged Mr.. Ilannan, ''on Oath,"
with having delivered 10 the
Sll. Lake Tribune n GER
tain dispatchl ''trei and
there false ami forget" Then fol-
iowcd the copy Of Telegram pub
lished in MIR. Lanuan's paper. 1t
referred to Mr.. Barton, of Chicago,
as a''Iawyer Of no practice and little
stauding.3 IL also named as men
Of bad reputation one Chas. Arnold
and one William Ella.
This Is TIE telegram which Mr..
Lannan was accused 10y his COM
patriot, VIM. 0chs, Of having forged.
1t was evident from the exhibit
thus far made that the '-rsiUerais"
wanted 70 chow there bad been no
Sofsery connected with kilograms
from W. 4. Pinkert0n, Chicago.
But note this point. The bogus dis
patch exposed by the press as hav-
ing never been received stated that
s.Bartou was indicted for perjury in
! PENNSYLVANIA; he WIS ais0 indicted
in Chicago in ISIS for blaekmail-
ing, This was published in
'sLiberal'OTgan THE Tines but was
not quoted in the complaint.
VIM. Ochs was the first witness,
and testiiied-I received my in!Or-
nation from z certain portion Of the
Salt Lake press, the Evening NEWS
and Morning Herald. From those
articles ! had reason to believe that
| the dispatches published in the Tn
5luse were false. l have no further
knowledge concerning these dis
patches.
II. G.. Whitney testified-I am
| business manager Of the Salt Lake
/ Herald. My attention has been
drawn 10 the dispatches pro and
| con. The information l received
was from others whom | have no
reason to doubt. Referring TO the
dispatch concerning jesse b. Bar
ton, | saw the telegram as first pub
lished i'm the Tunes. Next day it
appeared differently in the Tribune.
I I met Barton, asked him about the
dispatch both rs il appeared in the
Times and Tribune, and he said he
would have some information fof
me concerning them soon. l met
| him later and he said he had re-
ceived dispatches and had given
them TO the NEWS and L could clip
them from that paper.
To Mr. West-I first met Barton
about a week ago, but don't know
Of my own knowledge that he came
here ON any special purpose.
Mr.. Narian wanted TO know the
object Of this line Of questioning and
said it had no bearing on the case.
Mr.. West-I wish 90 show that
this man was brought here for the
| purpose OF aiding in the election.
This is 10 take away more than the
purse il is 10 influence the election.
| and we have n right to know all the
particulars in connection with il.
Variant shall confine the exam
ination to the question Of the forged
telegram, and an examination on
other topics is not proper.
West-I think it is proper 50 long
as cOnfine my questions 10 the
point. Itseenis 70 me TO be very
pertinent TO ascertain who Jesse b.
| Barton is, where he came from and
what he is doing. It is barely pos
sible that the evidence may show
that there is a conspiracy on the
other side.
The commissioner ruled that the
examination was proper.
Witness 10 West-l have known
Barton n week or ten days. l first
became acquainted with him by be-
lug introduced either by II. w.
Young or Frank w. Jennings in
the Peoples headquarters. l was
not told why he was here or what he
was doing. / met him three or four
times afterwards and talked with
him concerning general news for the
paper. / saw the dispatch in the
Times and in the Tribune, but the
Times had arranged the dis
patch so that the serious
charge was male against
Barton, while the TTi5uae's was
against Arnold, I called at Bar
toms room and he said he had re-
ceiyed dispatch from Pinkerton's
agency claiming thai no such dis
patch had been sent. 1 went to his
room at night and he said he had
given the dispatch to the NEWS.
Mr.. West then asked for the
authorship Of the Herald article.
Mr.. Moyle who was present in the
interest Of the witness, said: In
the name Of the law, would ask the
court what right Mr.. West has to
ask such question in a proceeding
against p. II. Lannan for forgery.
Mr.. Whitney said he declined TO
gratifythegovernor's curiosity, unless
the court so instructed him. The
commissioner said he was bound to