Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-04
PELT|ER To ASK
FOR NEW HEARING
luV Found Him Guilty on Three
Counts After a Lolg
Debate,
TWO COUNTS WERE IGNORED.
n,tudont and Attorneys Much Sur.
prIsed at Verdict and Claim
New Trial viii Rasult.

j. c. peltIcr did not leave salt Lake
,,,terday afternoon ms he had hoped TO,
instead his attorneys, Powers a. Mar
ioneaus, win bo forced TO continue the
Asht for his release and VIII do no by
moving for q now trial at the first
available opportunity Mr., MorIonoauN
slaled 10 tho News" this morning that
,he grounds for the application would
no nsu0lclenoy Of evidence and mlsdl.
reellon 10 the jury, Tho verdict OF the
Jury brought In after ak hours of de-
hate. at $3.50 o'clock yesterday after.
mon. WAS great surprise 10 both Mr.
paler and his attorneys, ana an at
,empl was made then 10 move u new
rial but II was ruled out OF order unlll
afler tho date for sentence mad been
0yed. Tho defense had submitted hut
ltlle evidence In tho fun belief mat the
enso of tho prosecution was lnsuillclonl
10 convict, and MI Pcltler himself WIN
nrobaby lake the stand IN his own be-
XIII IN the next trial He tells u story
OF what really happened IN his salt
iako adventures quite NJ variance with
maj OF his one time hosts, ana n VIII
make interesting testimony II stated
from the stand,
on the Ave counts In the charge
agalnN peltor the Jury brought In
verdict nnding him guilty on three,
Judge Marshall rnl.d out one count
that of false impcrsOna llon with intent
10 dofraud 4. Fred Wey proprietor ~
Inc Wilson, and tho jury disregordcd
the count charging him with false I'M
PRESERVATION with lnlont 10 dofraud w.
A. Doles out Of $40 lie was found
guilty Of false Improvisation with IN
tent 10 doiraud Fire chief W. H. ny.
water on two counts, ana with intent
10 doiraud l., A, Dolcs on one count
During the long wait for the Jury 10
come In, pelllor laughed with the men
In the mHrshals office, and seemed per-
itclly at case, but when tho jury came
In with a verdict Of guilty, his face
hAnched for "A moment and he seemed
about 10 break down, but he soon re-
gained his composure, ana his ever iol.
IN expression, "a mistake has been
made he declared, they have con.
yc,ed an innocent man, who never IN
hs llfo dcfraudod any man ont OF
cent, or ever took a dollar that was not
Mn due
IN explanation Of his dealings with
Bywater Nh poltier declared that
No WAS asked IN 80 many words To got
railroad pass east for ByWator, and
agreed 10 do H. pelllor by tho way car
rles n pocket full ~ railroad passes,
most oi them marked "oN-omployo,"
and he satcs that he IL IN fact a friend
n Senator Burrows M he minated 10
Senator Nmool and spent his boyho0d
IN The same Michigan town whore tho
senator and also Judge q, W. Powers
spent their boyhood lie know both
Of them AN youngsters, and ho INSERTS
that what he represented 20 Bywnter
WAS that NJ was IN the secret service
Of the railroad, whSh he says " n
fact and merely mentioned senator
BUTTONS as an acquaintance,
When asked by ivwator 10 get him
transportation 10 n IRE CHIEFS oonvcn.
lion Nc told him he could get him 4
pass east ~ the Missouri, and hair
rates that far The $40 wns given him
70 secure this half rate, s3b was glvcn
HIM personally and S5 was sent 10 his
hotel and later ,ho whole amount re-
turned through Arthur Atwood, an old
faroad conductor who secured re-.
colpt for II from Bywater, II did not
70 TO Bywoter' declared rolticr The
came 10 mo-"
IN regard 20 his bills nj the Wilson,
Mr. Peuor denies the statement OF
\ Fred Wey that he did not pay them,
" paid $3.50 to the hotel clerk nj one
me- ana on the morning left WIN my
baggage ! asked the clerk what | owed
nm lie said g. and I paid him that
amount, throwing down 81 gold piece
rom which he handed mc the change,
! was In Sal Lake with my wife, and
We were on our wedding trip. When
lboy wanted me they had no dinlculty
W locating me because I had given
.hld liywator my III paso address,
why ! spent here four or Ave tunes NJ
much money nv these people stated |
gol from lhom--Ond what thoy accuse
me NJ doing nobody but child or u
fool would do"