The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-12
Fraudulent Entry,

The second Indictment charges that on
the same date fraudulent entry of 500 =
oOI Tor printing and stationery was made
MHSh as matter Of tact only $12,7U was
Ihe third indictment charges that on
May II, 1904. the defendant made a false
ehlTy IN the cash book. indicating the
payment of S5,3S7 for advertising when
as matter of fact only s.. SIS had been
spent for that purpose.
Inc fourth indictment charges that on
May 4 1904, the defendant caused to be
entered in the bIotter a fraudulent entry
that the sum of s. 400 had been paid 10
charles +. Parsons for stationery and
printing when as matter of fact neither
that nor any other sum had been paid.
The nth indictment charges that on
May II, 1904. fraudulent entry was made
IN the olotter that $S,5l1 had been paid
to George Mckibbin & Son when in fact
no sum at all had been paid. All five
OF the indictments charge forgery in the
third degree.
The sixth indictment. charging perjury.
reclteS that the defendant for two wears
prior to April !. 1905. was an officer of
the Mutual Life, and that on Nav IL
lyU6, he appeared before the grand Jury
ana under oath swore that certain bank
account at DObbs Ferry was his personal
account and that it had been obtained
from his personal account elsewhere.
when as matter of fact the account was
as trustee of the Mutual Life, and the
money deposited had not come from the
defendants personal account, but from
the funds Of the Mutual Life.
Forgery Indictment.
The Indictment against Granniss for
forgery IN the third degree charges that
his report for the year ending Dec 81
1904, filed with the state superintendent
OF insurance. failed TO make any report
whatever Of Profit and income from the
sale at maturity of the ledger assets.
while as matter OF fact the COMPANY
net profits from that source for the year
indicated was S.044-05S- 1t charges that
on Feb. ., the defendant. well knowing
the premises, caused the report to he
prepared and verified under oath by two
Of the officers OF the company IT was
his duty. the indictment charges, to have
indicated and shown this profit and in
come as II was q matter particular in
the affairs of the corporation
The second indictment against Granniss
charges miSdemeanOT. the indictment
being based upon the same facts as al
legged in that charging forgery. It
charges that Granniss well knowing the
statement TO be false. UnlawfuHy con
CURED in having the the report so pre-
pared and the statement containing false
and untrue statements transmitted to the
superintendent Of insurance"
The grand jury in its presentment to
the court says.
THE evidence before it has clearly
shown that each year for years large
sums of the COmpany'S money have been
obtained by means most irregular and
fraudulent. and though probably applied
to uses thought to be for the benefit Of
the company, such expenditures have
been of so improper or questionable d
character that no entry of them has been
made on the books. nor have any vOuch-
ers showing the character of the disburse-
ments been made.
The system employed was Confessedly
designed TO deceive and conceal and has
rendered it very difficult to fix response
bility.
Moreover the death of several persons
whose evidence might have been Of great
value has apparently encouraged a ten
dency to throw burdens upon the dead
which others perhaps would have had to
bear had death not interviewed.
THE court charged that the law re-
quired we should not find an indictment
unless legal evidence satisfied US beyond
a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the ac-
cused. This injunction we have strictly
Obeyed, but its observance has made
1t easier for US to become convinced of
where guilt existed, than TO find indict-
ments based upon legal evidence which
we could say satisfied our minds beyond
all reasonable doubt.
'Tn more than one case crimes have ap-
parently been committed but some links
of the chain of legal proof have been
missing, and there has not seemed to be
any means by which they could be sup
piled.
1--WE have gone as far as we could into
this investigation in the time available,
and we are informed that subsequent
grand juries will continue the investiga-
tor