The daily sentinel., 1907-06-28

I = AZ me OGLOuSI term or the a
/ q Mesa county district court. x
At the request of the attorneys for
the defense Justice Hill withheld max
/ ing an order of his decision until
/ this morning so that the old bond of
| ButterwoOd had furnished to secure
his release from Jail might hold good
until today when a new bond was ar
ranged with the names of Salt Lake
friends of the defendant attached.
The decision of the justice. pro-
nounced Immediately after the argu-
ments of the attorneys, was general
| ly expected by all who had watched
the case and heard the evidence
/ There seems to be but little doubt
of Butterwood's guilt. In fact at
different times he has admitted guilt
of the charges preferred by Mr. Walk
er.
At the preliminary hearing yester-
| day the defense offered no evidence
whatever. II relied upon securing
| the dismissal of the charges against
ButteIwood by continually objecting
to all the evidence introduced and
having these objections sustained. In
this the defense failed although many
Of its objections were sustained.
Justice Hill presided over the case
involving so many sharp tilts between
the attorneys, with absolute fair
ness and dignity in spite of the dirty
SUR cast at the court by the morning
publication.
The evidence brought out at the
| preliminary hearing indicates that
| Butterwood has been guilty of one
of the boldest and the blackest
swindles worked in the city in many
day.
The prosecution clearly brought
out that Butterwood last November
went to Mr.. Walker and offered to
sell HIM 10000 shares in the Wilson
Mesa Mining and Milling company
for the sum of S2,50O alleging that
he was sore" at certain members OF
the company and desired to get out
Of tbe company and go to another
mining field where he could reap
better profits in a shorter time. Afte"
several days Mr.. Walker decided to
purchase the stock Buiterwood rep.
resented to him that the companys
title to every one of the claims know 4
as the Wilson Mesa" claims in t.
La Sal Mountains was entirely good
that he, as one of the locators of the
claims had decided his rights to the
company. He especially urged that
the title to the Black Cat, the richest
of the claims, was good. As Nc.
walker had known Butterwood for
quite a long period and regarded
him as a square" man and as the
many prominent and level headed
business men of the city, who had or
iginally organized the Wilson Mesa
company, were apparently satisfied
Will ha " n
reason to examine into the titles as
closely as he would have done had
he been buying real estate property /
Consequently the deal was made, But
terwpod got his money and Mr..
Walker secured the so 900 shares OF
stock. The next day Butterwood went
to Mr.. Walker and advised him to sell
the stock he had purchased at once
and not ask him the reason why. Mr..
Walker insisted on knowing at once
Just what Butterwood meant. Butter
wood finally told him that the com
pany had no title to the richest claim.
the Black Cat, admitted that he had
grossly mis-represented the facts TO
Mr.. Walker but said that after learn
ing that Mr.. Walker had put his own
money in the stock Butterwood stated
that he did not want Mr. Walker to
lose as he was "after another man,
therefore he advised Mr.. Walker to
sell at once before the whole thing
came out" Mr.. Walker told Butter
wood that he certainly would make
no effort to unload the stock that he
now knew was apparently no good. /
Butterwood then told him that the
company had no deed to a 6-S inter
est in the Black Cat, that It had been
resold by several of the original 10
Gators among whom were Butter
woods brothers and wife, to a man
named Thomas and this man Thomas
had sold to n man named Kelley who
today lays claim to the property.
Investigations by Attorney William
Welser at the reqE-<t Of Mr.. Walker
proved that no deed to the claim had
ever been filed for the company
though there is sufficient reason toI
believe that the deed was once made
but is now mysteriously missing.
To make a long story short But
terwood offered at times to produce
deed to the property for 5000,
again he offered to do II for SlO.-I
600 finally for $4,000 and it is claim
ed that to one Interested man he off,
fered to procure It FOR S2,50O. HIS
game seemed 70 be 10 hold up the
companv. He also had a desire, Oft
! expressed to have Vengence on q GER
tain member Of the company. ltI
seems that Butterwood often admit
ted his fraudulent deed 10 various
persons. He or his attorney made
proposition after proposition TO Mr..
! Walker to "saye MT Walker from
loss" but Mr. Walker declined to ac-
cept any of these propositions and
preferred to stand by the company,
/ in a fight for the title to the G-S In
terest to the Black Cat, the deeds to
! the other IS interests being I'm hand.
Butterwood, It seems, often said
that che got the wrong man" when he
swindled Mr. Walker. Henry r.
Rhone testified yesterday of having
a conversation with Butterwood in
which Butterwood said 81 don't want
to catch Mr.. Walker, he had treat
ed me right. but l was after the man
| across the street and Walker walked
/ into the trap"
There a great many other sensa-
tional features connected with the
case and many new developments are