The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-17

working in the employ of the county
for some time having been east to Gin
cihnati, Omaha and other cities, look
ing up evidence.
VIII Be Indicted.
Hayken will in all probability be in
dicted today by the grand jury, in or
der that the matter may be brought 10
an issue and a trial had. The evil
dence which the jury has consists in
the testimony of Weary, Davis, Adam
Paul and some others, together with
glass negatives of what purports TO
be copies of the correspondence OF
Hayken with the firm, said correspon-
dence antedating the making of the
contract and running down to within
the last thirty days.
1t is claimed that spy has been
employed in the house Of the Andrews
company, who has secured every copy
of the letters written by him, and that
they have all been photographed.
Interview With Whittemore.
The Tribune may this morning print
a number of the alleged copies of these
letters How the paper was furnished
with them the public can judge by
reading the following conversation
with the county attorney, which was
held at his residence a few moments
before o'clock last evening.
A reporter for this paper saw Whit
temore and told him that he was aware
of the Tribune having alleged copies
and asked him to let this paper have
them also.
"Well, they are printing them against
my Judgment" said the county attor-
ney.
but you gave them to that
certainly you have copies of them"
mo. to tell you the truth, have
not" was the reply.
''They got them from YOU?
mo, they did not; they got them
from another place"
"Why, how could they get them
without consulting you?'
well" said the attorney, evidently
embarrassed for reply. 1t is this
way: They have been in possession of
this information for several weeks,
and while l regret very much that
they can not be induced to withhold
them this time, l assure you can do
nothing to prevent their publishing
these letters
isn't it a fact Mr.. Whittemore that
they got their Information from the
police department, which has had
members working on this matter for a
long timer"
ooh, Adam Paul hasn't been work
! ing this matter up" was the an
swer HE just went to Denver and
| followed Hayken here
well, then, how did the Tribune
get this information?
| The attorney did not say. He didn't
know exactly and he did. The attorney
was in a pickle.
81 will tell YOU" he finally said.
THE Tribune hasn't all the letters;
not half of them. They have a few
which they got podsession of, and they
will use them, against my will. I am
sorry that this is so, but it cannot be
helped now. 1 will say this, that the
grand jury Will have a whole lot of
/ this stuff and as soon as the indict-
ment is returned, which will be tomor-
row, perhaps, [ will let you have all
the correspondence on the subject and
it will make a good article
I'VE know that you have certain let.
tiers which have been used or are
about to be used before the grand
! jury. The Herald has clientage which
it serves with the news, and is entitled
to get all the information of public
nature which it has"
We'll. I cannot help the situation
tonight" said the county attorney.
''As said before, the matter got into
the possession of the Tribune without
any action on nay part"
well, can you tell us anything as
to the contents of these letters?"
Nothing special" was the reply.
But we have all Hayken's CORE
spondence with the firm from q time
antedating the contract up to within
the last thirty days and are firm in the
belief that we can convict Hayken
has admitted these letters are gen.
uine.'
HayI<en Tells His Side.
Having thus been cut off from the
getting of these letters, The Herald
man sought Hayken and found him at
his hotel.
Mr.. Hayken," he said, 1.-The county
attorney says he has copies of your
letters from the time you were here
making the contract and that you
have made admissions in which your
guilt is shown and that of Morris and
Bamberger."
I have written letters, that is true,
! but there is nothing in anything of
my correspondence to indicate that l
was engaged in any fraudulent trans
actions, for [ engaged in none. am
prepared to meet anything of this sort
which may come up"
III is animated that in those letters
you used the letters j. r. M. and II. B.
in connection with this cores pondence
and that you have made admissions
I concerning them that will convict you
and they?'
when / was here / wrote letters to
the house reporting the progress l was
making, the same as all other agents
do and the same as I have done from
time to time. L think [ have said
something about expenses. 1 have done
| so more times than one. [ told the
! that 1 was under considerable expense.
1t is possible that L may have used
these initials in connection with the
correspondence. But [ repeat that /
have done nothing criminal and am
prepared to meet all accusations All
that L ask is that the public reserve
its judgment until have had a chance
| to say what is the truth in relation to
! this matter"
Mr.. Lannan Interviews.
I'm the corridor of the court house
this afternoon continued Hayken, u
was approached by P. H. Lannan, OF
| the Tribune. He came up and said
! Mr.. Hayken, the county attorney tells
me that he has copy of a letter from
you to the house in which you say you
| have bought up the Herald and the
Argus, and that you are getting ready
to buy the Tribune. Is this a fact?
told Mr. Lannan that the county at.
torney was a liar and that l had made
no such declara ton.