The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-23

The New York Times last Sunday pub
lished the following report of the pre-
liminary examination of Leon Graves OF
Ogden. charged with assaulting and rob-
bing his lawyer at New York
Leon Graves and John P. Ryan were
held by Magistrate Crane yesterday in
5000 bail and committed to Jail on a
| charge of assaulting and robbing Lawyer
Robert S. Clarke at Graves room, 2S7
East Eighteenth street. Mr.. Clarke is a
member of the firm of Scott 6, Clarke Of
$50 Nassau street. He lives at - Shepard
avenue. Brooklyn.
Graves is the son OF DR.. NJ n. Graves
of Utah He has an alias of Andrew
Johnson According TO the statements
made in 1orkville police court by Aessrs
Scot and Clarke. the firm some time ago
defended Graves and man named Bar
ton, charged with stealing $500 from the
Utah Loan and Trust company. The gov
ernor of Utah had applied for the extra
dition of the prisoners. but the lawyers
fought before Governor Black and Sc
cured the release of the men on 4 teen
nicanty. Mr.. Scott said that they had
then been retained by Graves taI.e- IS
counsel for the men in a suit for false
imprisonment
Graves, according TO MIR. Scott's state
ment, must nave then formed the design
of robbing his lawyers, and made per-
sistent but unsuccessful attempts to lure
Mr.. Scott 10 the furnished room where he
Mr.. Clarke appeared as complainant.
with face considerably bruised and
SCARED and burned with some kind OF
acid. His head was bandaged on account
of a scalp wound.
He said Graves was at his (Clarke's) Of
nee Friday, and knew that he had money
to take uD a note. He also knew that
Clarke was looking for a piano. and said
that his landlady had one to sell. An ap
Dointment was made for 3 o'clock that
evening, but Clarke was late, and when
hl al OF he. oh
Graves was on the stoop waiting.
Graves did not wait TO light a match
he said, but we walked UP stairs, and
when We got TO room, Graves pushed
the door open and thrust me in. Another
figure came out from behind the door.
and | was struck on the head with u
piece of lead pipe
Mr. Clarke said he was knocked down.
thrust on a bed, and again hit with the
LEAD pine. The men then took his dia-
mond pin. his watch and chain. his dia-
mond stud and $145 in money
One OF them then said to the other
that my notebook ought to be taken
away, so that l could not be identified
BY this time l imagined they wanted TO
kill me. The other said: Wen make the
job safe, anyway, and [ felt them bend
ing over me, and then something was
poured into my mouth. 1t burned. and |
closed my teeth and prevented the stuff
from going down my throat. The villains
then thought | was dead. for they relaxed
their hold. and | sprang from the bed and
and Police.' The police arrived so quick
ly that the men were caught"
While Graves and Ryan, handcuffed to-
gether were standing in the courtroom
waiting for arraignment. the former told
a remarkable story TO the reporters. He
said: For the past week Clarke has
Mecklen Brothers. at Greenwich and
Warren streets. He told me Ii would be
an easy thing to rob it,. saying that be-
tween u and 1 or l and in the after
noon there would only be one of the firm
in. and that ali l had to do was to reach
over and grab the bills and get away
Thursday evening | met Ryan in Stuy-
vesant park. He told me he was hard
up, and that he was ready for anything
by which he could raise some money
When l asked him if he would go in
and rob bank, he said: III go into any
thing that will keen me from starving.
told him to meet me the next morning
at my house. Then | told Clarke about
Ryan. He asked if Ryan could be trust
ed | told him yes, and he gave me s. to
invest in revolver and club. and told
me to do the trick during the day with
Ryan. and he would meet US at my resi-
dence at o'clock last night where ii was
agreed we were 10 divide the proceeds of
the robbery.
We didn't rob the bank" said Graves.
AT o'clock last night Clarke came to
my room. Ryan was there. We didn't
use any acid on him, nor did we assault
him in any way
Both Clarke and Scott were present
while Graves was telling this strange
story, and they holly denounced it as alb
solutely false.
Before Graves could finish he was called
to the bar by Magistrate Crane He said
after reading Clarke's complaint: This
beats Dick Turpin and all the others
Graves pleaded not guilty TO the charge !
and Ryan said. Il have nothing to say"
The policemen who arrested them
showed the TWO revolvers, the solder bar
two feet long. which they got with the
prisoners. the jewelry and money. which
were found on Graves. and the hearing /
was quickly concluded. Graves gave his !
age as p and Ryan said he was % wears I
old. Both were photographed for the /
rogues' gallery.