The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-23
,'|ilR NUGENT IS
l|SDNER IN JAIL
VIZ With Obtaining Money
False Pretense in
s. 1TNESS IN
d IOYER- HAYWOOD CASE
>&soner in Boise, and Had
GLong Talk With
Orchard.

rrH. l.. Nugent is a prisoner
0iy iail. He is charged with
money by false pretenscs and
psecuted By one, if not more,
L,,ut victims. The story of Nu-
IL Gibson s, operations in and
La Lake was published in The
! Ks thsn a week ago, when it
I6sbt that the officers were on
II Al that time he was known
Il tbe city, but he managed in
L,nsr 10 elude his pursuers and
(ut Of sight until Friday. when
.,bbed by q deputy sheriff at
5rer. Utah, and held on sus-
II bsine the much-wanted man.
Lro, 10 Green River has not vet
IA but it is said that he passed
n there as an Independent
representative named Albert
,sd had, to all intents and pur-
knpcd a harvest of suckers
the one he had so recently
10 Salt Lake. Immediately
zrest the Sheriff Of this city
f,d and Deputy Andy Smith
10 bring the prisoner back.
s7eral Victims Here.
adv set forth in The Tribune,
Irmbered among his Salt Lake
c1e Max Florence, proprietor
Emc bar on lower Main street.
was one of half a dozen or
i.ll for various sums ranging
/ 10 fifty dollars.
Is one Of the witnesses for
rse in the Mover, Heywood,
struggle of life and death
ID courts. II has been said
|r Of the shortcomings Of Glib
squarcd, preventing his arrest
|nbsr of instances on charges
u the one now made against
De Florence matter, however,
|fIed up and II is on the com
the saloon man that the ar,
made.
Understood that certain local
|tiOos friendly 10 the defense
Bioyer-H Heywoed case held a
|shortly after the report of the
y Gibson reached Salt Lake.
|psse1 10 the fullest extent the
luestion Of the attitude which
|gganizations should assume in
lovu that Gibson finished
;hs Idaho State peniteniiary
bout last Thanksgiving day,
d he appeared in this city
|sfterward. Here he cut out a
y from the start, aud was al
<zsdiately in trouble on ac-
ihe refusal of the Boise bank
<his draft.
The most persistent Of those
cashsd his checks were an
fis man and a Commercial
rlocu proprietor. IT is said that
3 the Gibson checks began to
Nk from Boise marked ono
they ran him down and de-
lnmediate settlement of their
threatening TO have him ar
4, he threatened 10 "come
II is known that Gibson
. from serious annoyance until
l'to Max Florence.
, Inc demand of the saloon man,
Z, for Gibson s arrest, and the
u. refusal to make any more
l'aits good, that caused him TO
leaye The city,
Fnlatives Of The Tribune had
es'Ion with Gibson at the
ell last night. He had retired
llshi when the reporters called,
.snicd an interview. He would
s.u' however, TO discuss fully
ZION to the Haywood. Mover,
u u ease before he had dis
W matter with Judge Powers,
:s'm ne expects TO have an inter.
morning, but he admitted that
yen confined in the Idaho pen
u9lil recently and had had
sa!lon with Orchard, the man
pnltted the murder.
:al INTO the penitentiary for a
~ 'iau accomplished if, - was the
.uu tnat Gibson gave. He would
saether he had had more than
q s~Slsailou with Orchard, but ad-
''' ne had ample opportunity
~ !. that when lie left here he
y tne impression that money
(, /, deposited in the Idaho bank
"A we checks which he had is
- ~ mat a remittance was also
a the name Of "'Nupent" at
pnsr, .er because he did not desire
d;d Reilly To become known there,
b 81 NOT use the initials of "the
Ia ueahing the attorney at
W. mas been retained for the
siiIn.o,f[ iI"s [aet ct q Of his having repre-
saai snscli at the Utah town TO be
n o",atlve o of the Independent
4 H. company, he said he did not
els"nsh represented "the Indepcn-
Ilerp,a IlpaVne , company bnt '1au
ipns...ele nm. telephone company"
4 tgS,esspn Is he desired To convey
rdara@ i, went there in the interests
m;aS. m;vESehdent telephone company:
ILrnsuu.. SECURE franchise for the
ci tnt Of new phone com
4, y ne w ADDED that Of course "'the
.,b,s. s.'nld have TO be transfer
|he h1, eol ng would have told them
lssleo'ui not himself establish
sitnss.n iqs neen considered an i'm
Hcy,~uoessss by tho defense in the
h. bmo9d hood case, and the conver-
|besp9n pSa with Orchard will have
lug on the case.
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