The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-19
ATTORNEY BOOTH FEARS
At He MAY Be TRAPPED!
complaints have been made about the
rifiing of the mail.
Intercepts a Congressman Mail.

rihipg of the mail.
Intercepts Congressman Mail.
A letter addressed to a Congressman,
supposed to contain n complaint against
the offending postmaster. was intercept
ed. carried from postoifice and lost on
the streets of Fillmore, near the home
OF the postmaster, and when IT was re"
turned to the writer 1T was found TO
have been opened and resealcd.
But these are stories that cannot be
told at this time.
A most careful investigation was
made of the complaints of the people or
| Fillmore against Frank L. Hanson, the
former postmaster. and brother to
Willard Hanson, the County Attorney
secretary to United States Senator
George Sutherland, and John Hanson,
former whiskey drummer, who is now
said to be engaged in business at Pl-
oche, New.
United States District Attorney Hv~
rum Il, Booth is known to have been
in possession of some of the facts COM
planned of and to have witnessed evil
dences of at least two of tho forgeries.
This was six months ago, and there has
been a Federal grand jury, II not two,
since that date.
Why Booth Was Visited.
After this thorough investigation was
made and learning that District Attor-
ney Booth was credited with having
given clean bill of health to Frank
| f. Hanson, representative of The
Tribune called at the office of the Dis
trict Attorney TO inquire if the Dis
trict Attorney was in possession of I'M
portant facts pertaining TO the Fillmore
postofice. it seemed incredible that If
he in truth did have knowledge of some
nT NM
the former postmaster of Fillmore that
he could possibly overlook these many
complaints, even though he were a close
personal friend Of brothers to the of.
Tending exofficial,
The representative of The Tribune
who called on Mr. Booth had never
talked with him on official or other mat
ters, and there was no personal differ
ence between them. But Mr.. Booth, IN
the Office of the District Attorney IN
the Federal building of Salt Lake, sus-
pected that The Tribune man was about
TO take some undue advantage of him.
and before the newspaper man could
state the purpose of his visit he rushed
at him with clenched fists, threa tened to
exterminate him and in a rage ordered
him from public Office,
Attorney General Has Case.
Afterward, when the attention Of the
Acknowledgement of the United States
was called to the discoursesy-o of his local
representative, a discourtesy that was
entirely upjustlied. ana "a citizen
who desired to lay before him evidence
of several felonies against the United
States, Mr.. Booth offered to give the
newspaper man a proper hearing. This
offer was declined.
The District Attorney explained that
the presence of the newspaper man an.
gered him for the reason that he had
been warned of the visit and had been
advised that The Tribune representative
was laying a trap for him. Also that
he had been informed that articles
which he believed to DC abusive 10 him
had been written by or inspired by his
visitor of the day before.
These were his excuses for his coarse
treatment on purely official GRAND.
To make the story brief, the affair
is now in the hands of the Attorney,
( General of the United States, and the
kinky head of the pompous United
! States District Attorney finds brass
tacks protruding from his pillow these
nights He was kicked out Of one
/ Federal position in the State of Utah,
and those who know of the incident
of last Tuesday forenoon, and all of the
circumstances leading up TO that af
fair. predict that there is another kick
/ a-comn9.
Says He Was Warned.
If MIR, Booth, as he now claims, was
warned of the visit of q representative
of The Tribune, and was told that a
! trap was being lald for him, that warn
I ing came from an official who cut a
! page from the records Of the postotjce
. at Fillmore and bore it with no good
| purpose 10 Salt Lake City. He, and no
! other, could have issued such warn,
! inc or placed such construction on
! the contemplated visit of The Tribune
representative TO the office Of the Dis
! trIct Attorney. And The Tribune be.
! lievcs that tlis circumstance will prove
/ very annoying TO both of these officials
( II the facts ever reach the ear of the
/ honorable and fearless jurist who pre-
I sidns over the District court of the
State of Utah,
Laying a trap for him. Indeed,
Was there ever n franker confes-
sion Of official imbecility than this7
Those who may be interested in
narrative OF the Fillmore affair had
best not miss copy of next week S
Tribune. The story will be told and
proofs presented that will disclose some
of the most shameful crimes and con.
snlracies known to the State