The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-14
BAIL RAISED
AND BOTH MEN
IN CITY JAIL
BARNETT and Brown Unable to
Raise the Necessary
Security.
ACTION TAKEN AFTER
WALKERS STATEMENT
PRESIDENT OF THE SUSPENDED
BANK TOLD DISTRICT ATToR-
NEY ALL HE KNEW.
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San Francisco, Dec. 13.-Tha +
bonds of j. Dalzell Brown and w. =
j. Bartnett, manager and vice =
= president, respectively, of the sus- =
pended California Safe Deposit & 4
Trust company, who are accused 4
OF having hypothetical securities \
to the amount of $205, 600 belonging y
= to the Cotton estate were in 4
creased today from $4,000 to $780, +
= 600 on motion of the district attor- 4
= ney. Neither was able to secure +
y the increased bond and both are =
confined in the city Jail tonight =
+. ID. Shadburne, a heavy de- y
= pos1tor in the insolvent bank, y
called Brown ''scoundreP' and 4
thief upon meeting the banker =
= in the hall of Temple Israel 4
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San Francisco. Cal, Dec. 13.-Assis-
tant District Attorney w Hof Cook
this morning asked that the bail of J.
Dalzell Brown, general manager Of the
insolvent California Safe Deposit &
Trust company, and W. j. Bartnett,
director in the same institution, whose
failure has made Christmas a cheer
less Gay for more than 1900. deposit
tors, be raised from $4,000 to 5000, 600
each, when the two financiers came up
before Judge Dunno for formal ar
raignment. Both defendants are
charged with embezzlement in connec-
ton with the disappearance of securi-
ties valued at S205, 900 belonging to the
Cotton estate, which had been deposited
in the bank.
Result of Walkers Statement.
Two hundred thousand dollars was
the amount originally fixed by Judge
Dunno when the warrants were issued
but was reduced in each case to SIS. 900
upon the plea of Brown and Bartnett.
The latter was at liberty on a bond for
this amount but Brown was unable to
get bail and had been in the city prison
since his arrest. The action OF the dis
trict attorney this morning came as
surprise to the two defendantss and
their attorneys and followed the state
ment yesterday to Assistant District
Attorney Francis J. Heney by David
F. Walker, president of the insolvent
institution, of all that he knew of the
affairs of the bank and Cotton securi-
ties.
Asked Time to Rustic.
Oscar Cooper, attorney for Bartnett,
declared that the increase in bail asked
for by Cook was an outrage How
ever. as Judge Dunno was somewhat
inclined to grant the district attorneys
request, Cooper asked for a continu-
ance until o'clock this afternoon,
which the court granted. Detective
Mulcaheys however, was asked TO ac-
company BARNETT until that hour
In an interview, after the proceed
ings, District Attorney Cook said:
From information and evidence in
the possession of the district attorneys
office. l have not the slightest doubt
of the guilt of both BARNETT and Brown
and am certain of a conviction in both
cases"
Absolute Guilt Alleged.
Cook intimated that startling evil
dsnce had come into his possession
pointing to the absolute guilt of the
two defendants. Bartnett was until a
few days ago general counsel and vice
president of the Western Pacific rail-
road.
When the case was called, Cook arose
and addressing the court, said:
since acquiescing to the reduction
of the bail from 100000 to 5000 an
has been made by the
district attorneys office and from the
gained and from evidence
in my possession. | feel constrained to
ask that the bail for Bartnett and
Brown be raised to 100000. After a
personal investigation by me 1 think
that your honor was right in originally
fixing it at that amount and facts war
rant me in asking that it be raised to
that amount again"
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