The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-18
UNCOVER EVERYTHING.

I the alleged furniture steal, by which
it Is said this county has been swim
died out Of from $4,000 to $4,000, is
now under fair way to come to an is
sue There has been so much promise
and so little performance. so much
mystery and so little matter of fact.
thai the public had come 10 the con-
cluson that great cry and little
wcd' would fairly describe the So
caled investigation.
Tae arrest Of Mr.. Hayken and the
exclusion of his attorney from consul
tati9n with him, and the publication
Of htters alleged to have been written
by AIM to the firm which ne represent
ed, nave made a great sensation in this
city. and the public will now refuse
to be satisfied without a thorough and
complete investigation into the entire
transaction in reference to the f1rni-
lure swindle.
IT Mr.. Hayken wrote those letters.
COMES OF which Mr., Whittemore, the
county attorney. reserved for a Re-
publican paper-refusing them to the
other papers with genuine partisan but
utterly unprofessional zeal-either some
of the former county officials were
brioed. or MIR. Hayken paved the firm
OF which he was the confidential agent
for sums Of money which he pocketed
While pretending to use them unIaw-
fully.
Dir. Hayken denies the authorship
OF the letters. bur in such manner as
to lead to the belief that he is pro
testing too much" If they are for
series. as he rather weakly declares,
they have been concocted with much
ingenuity. We are inclined to the be-
lief that they have been obtained sur
reptttiously and photographed as ex-
planned already in The Herald, and
that the writer was playing a deep
game with the furniture firm.
There are names mentioned in those
letters which are considered here to
he above reproach. We will not be
fieve the differences concerning the
gentlemen who bear them which those
letters convey, without more evidence
than those missives contain. We do
not believe that Hayken obtained,
either by money or otherwise, assur-
ance of help in any form whatever
from any newspaper in this city. Only
one reporter on The Herald has known
anything personal of Hayken; to the
rest of the staff he was an utter
stranger, except through such informa-
ton concerning him as the published
proceedings have disclosed.
If Hayken hes bribed anybody, the
individual or individuals who. have
been thus corrupted ought also to be
indicted This should be done in ev-
cry case, no matter who may be af-'
fected by the prosecution. We do not
think it likely that much if any money
viii be recovered by the county
through this investigation. Be that as
1t may, exposure and punishment
should overtake every person, firm,
paper or corporation that has taken
money from Hayken, either to consent
to a fraudulent bargain or to cover up
or condone or apologize for the swim
die.
With the theatrical displays and i'm
proper course of the county attorney
we have no sympathy, and we are of
the opinion that Mr.. Hayken, coming
here as a. witness in the investigation.
was shamefully treated in the manner
Of his arrest, detention and denial Of
the common right of comforting
with counsel. Eut with a full and
complete investigation of this entire
scandal We are in hearty sympathy,
and repeat the demand that It be with
cut compromise and without attempt
to shield anybody who has been faint
ed with the touch Of the fraud which
seems to have been perpetrated.
Nothing connected with the affair
should be KEPT concealed; nobody
ought to be whitewashed. If any city
or county official has been brEbed, or
any newspaper man has been bought
to cever up or aid in any way the
gU1ty-which we do not believe-let
the whole truth be known and pro-
claimed.
At present we see no proof that any
of those persons has been corrupted:
the evidence simply extends to the Pc
culiar tactics of Hayken in trying to
make as much for his firm as posi-
bic out of the Salt Lake public and for
himself as the go-between in the
transaction. But there must now be
no halfway business; uncover every
thing, and prosecute the guilty,