The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-15
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. DEPHRTMENT'
A SILVER DOLLAR.
The Way Man Got 1T anu the
Trouble He Got Into Over 1t.
Ogden, Nov. 10.

The Way n Man Got 1T and the
Trouble He Got Into Over It,
Mr.. w. NJ. Anderson, of this city,
has a Singer sewing machine and mas
had the same for about year and
half. Until recently he thought the
same a we'll behaved and orderly ma
chine which was fulfilling the destiny
of sewing machines. However, on
Monday last there came to his place
of abode a man named Harry Miller.
who tipped the machine over, looked
at the oil plate underneath the place
where the machine ought to be ana
showed several bits Of spring winch
had apparently fallen thereon from
the innernost recesses of the ma
chimes anatomy. He told the ladies' OF
the house that the machine sometimes
made a poor underseam, that 1t often
broke the thread, and, in fact, that II
was out of gear from the fact that it
lacked a cape-spring. He set about
fixing it, pushed rags up into the dark
corners of the mechanism with MS
screW-driver, gave a few bits OF steer
to a. little boy and told him to throw
that old spring into the stove. After
wards he told the ladies to test the
machine and see if it did not run bet
ter. Mrs. Anderson said 1t did run
lighter, and she supposed defect had
been repaired. The man then asked
Mr. Anderson if he wished to pay
down, or make some other graceful
reminder of his work. The bill was
S1S5. The man, being an agent for a
regular house, said he made no charge
for his work, but that the cost of the
spring was what counted Further
more, through some arrangement with
the company, a dozen needles were to
come to the owner of each machine
repaired. Mr.. Anderson paid 81 and
said he would pay the 50 cents when
the needles came. The man departed
and then Mr.. Anderson began to think
He knew a little about machinery
himself, but he did not quite under
stand the tangle of technical terms
with which the man had described his
work. He locked at the machine and
! could not find any spring. new OF
otherwise, in the place where the
Then he did some more thinking and a
little talking Then some of his
neighbors did a little talking and a
little examining of their machines
| Then Mr.. Anderson did several things
and consequently there was yesterday
morning in the police court severa,
members of the Anderson household
| and the sewing machine County At
! torney Weber was there with look o1
/ determination on his face and a cata-
| logue pricelist of Singer supplies in his
hand The defendant Hill was there
with a look of aggrieved innocence on
| his face and a screw-driver in his
pocket. He was charged with obtain
! ing money under false pretenses. Johr
! D. Murphy was his attorney.
The incidents as above stated were
brought out clearly and logically by
the county attorney; and something
| else was also brought out.
! Mr.. Stevens testified that about :
month ago the same man called an6
wanted to prescribe for his machine
insisting that it was sick. The mar
had made bargain with Mrs. Steven!
when Mr. Stevens entered the house
and the machine was duly doctored
Mr.. Stevens described how the mar
deftly dropped and picked NJ
wrenches, bits of wire screws and tn
like. and how he had taken small
spring coiled it up, put it in behind
| the sfdebar. or some other place, and
had then took a long tube. which
might or might not have been mag
nifying glass, and had gazed long and
scientifically at the completed work.
Later he had collected SO. which would
have been $2.55 but for the fact of its
! being paid at once. Mr.. Stevens had
since examined and found that there
was no spring. no place for a spring.
and no need of a place for a. spring in
the SPOT where the microscope had
been held so long and carefully. Mr..
Stevens had said nothing, but bided
his time.
MI Murphy asked that the court
grant non-suit.
The court declined.
The defendant testified in his own
behalf that he had not said what kind
of spring nc intended to put in. At
Mr. Murphy's request ard in spite of
Mr. Anderson's protest he laid hands
on the machine, took 1t to pieces and
drew out of the region near the needle
bar a small wire spring, saying that
was the one be had put in, and called
upon anyone in the courtroom or out
of it to say if it were not a new one
Mr.. Weber recalled his witnesses. who
said the spring was not the spring
shown them; that the pieces of the
spring thrown out were fiat pieces. and
that the man. to the best of their
Judgment, had not taken that portion
of the machine apart.
Justice Bagley imposed a fine of S2t
and costs. amounting to $40.
The amount had not been paid last
night