Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-14
First Definite Information as to
Defalcatlons.
DUKE MAY WAIVE HEARING
Report To-day IL That He VIII Walt
Aud Make His Plea Of Guilty
10 District Court

The amount of defalcations alleged
to have been made by Duke and Rob-
ertson within the last four years-the
only period covered by the complaint
against them--wlll reach total of &c.,
400. This much can now be stated on
the authority of one who has been
closely associated with the inyestiga-
ton.
Ever since II became public that there
had been crooked work at the Wells.
Fargo bank. speculation has been rife
as TO the exact amount Of the shortage.
Until today this was all speculation,
and now for the first time is definite
Information given out
But this does not cover the total loss
to the bank, The populations extend
over period OF 10 years, and in that
time, II Is said that between $4,000
and SllS.000 have been taken. But as
the statutes say that complaint for
embezzlement must be made against a
man within four years OF the time in
which the crime was committed, there
is no redress for an amount more than
100000
The report most persistent from the
insiders today regarding the proposed
actions Of Duke, is thrs the assistant
cashier will waive his preliminary hear
ing and win make his plea OF guilty be-
fore the district court That he VIII
plead guilty. as was stated exclusively
in Saturday evenings News" there Is
no doubt, but as to whether the plea
viii be made at the preliminary hear
ing or before the district court Is now
a question Duke himself refuses to
divulge any information.
As to Robertson's course OF action,
nothing can be said with assurance
Neither he nor his attorneys are talk
ing for publication.
WORSE THAN TRACY.
The Salt Lake papers are pushing far
out beyond the danger line In their half
suppressed intimations that the law
should deal leniently with Robertson
and Duke. the employees OF the Wells
Fargo bank in THAI city, who looted the
institution to the amount OF 100000
while running the pace that kills"
In comparing the crimes Of these two
men with that OF Tracy, the escaped
convict. who Is being shot at like a mad
% I,n Ea1g 4 nlFn fn
would have Tracy slain outright with
dynamite, poisoned bullets or by any
other means Of summary vengeance,
The News~Register does not wish TO
be understood as offering any excuse
whatever whereby Tracy, the murderer
could be IN any conceivable way shield
ed from the just retrbuntlons OF violat-
ed law but this paper does feel called
upon TO object most vigorously TO an
attempt to magnify the crimes OF Tracy
70 proportions that would tend TO cast
any palliatlng shadows whatsoever over
the acknowledged perhdy OF two society
thieves.
The bank looter and llbertine are
more dangerous to society every day In
the week than is the man who arms
himself with a Winchester and declares
openly that he Will shoot down any
body who dares 20 interfere with him.
The man who, through hypocrisy and
eception-coyered with the gauzy
cloak OF apprehension society-pur-
posey flches the hard earned deposits
of poor laboring men and widows, 10
the end that ne may further reyel in his
lust. debauchery and seduction OF inn0-
cent virtue. deserves no leniency In the
complete vindication of statutory laws
bearing upon his crimes, neither does
he have the slightest claim TO recogni-
ton from responsibility because OF the
violation Of moral laws laid bare by
crimes acknowledged, Evanston News
Register.