Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-23
Samuel Dowse Is Called Before
Grand Jury In Utah Ma
tionaI Bank Case.
PLAN OF AMERICAN PARTY.
II Was to Use Information Given 10
Dowsc as the Lattcr's Discov-
cries While Investigating.

The grand jury switched suddenly to-
day from the examination of bank oili-
cials to take up the thread of the utah
National robbery where It is directly
concerned with the theft u the 100000.
sleuth Samuel Dowse was before the
Jurors for more than an hour. Dowse
has "pcddled" tale from end to end
of the town. telling every person he
could get chance TO, that he has evil
dence in the matter sufficient to bring
in an Indictment. and that w. S. Me
Cornick was remaining silent on this
evidence because of a promise that he
should be sent to the United States
senate. Dowse has changed his story
and altered It from time to time and
to suit occasions. and once on making
representations to certain bank direc-
tors that he had important clues he was
allowed to file report with them en-
bracing its main features.
The Dowse story is what the salt
Lake Tribune had in mind when 1t de-
cared a month ago that q deep plot
had been made to conceal the guilty
bank official. and insinuated that it was
going to publish the details of the plot
TO the world. The details were
actually given to all other pa
pers and to the Associated Press
in the hope that some one of them
would prove unwary enough or unin-
formed enough to use them. Failing In
this. Dowse was set about the task
of "peddling' the clues" around
town.
DoWSE'S THEORY.
This morning he repeated his story
to a number of listeners before going
into the grand jury room. 1t was to the
effect that the money was taken out
of the bank in borad daylight by How
ard Carrot. who received 1t in cur
rency from Teller Strong, who in turn
acted under the orders of Cashie Mel
son. The money was used, he said, at
one time. by Nelson and Garrett to
buy Saltalr stock, hoping to turn the
beach over to II. II. Hartman at u
profit; another time he stated that it
was used by Mr.. Mccormick and Mr..
Nelson In speculations which failed,
and this morning he alleged that Mr..
Nelson had confessed the matter to
friends, who had counseled him not to
carry out plan he had perfected of
bnrying 100000 of the money in the
backyard of Mr.. Adams. from which
DoWse alleged he would have spirited it
away to his own cellar inside OF min
ute and 30 seconds.
after II was put there. As substitute
for the plan OF hiding the $50, 900 in Mr..
Adams yard, Dowse claimed that n
plan had been matured for Mr.. McCor-
nick to go the senate in payment for
silence. and that this matter was
preached to him acceptably by Mr..
Nelson.
AS TO MIR. ADAMS.
When first he started to "peddle" the
tale he claimed that Mr.. Adams would
back him in getting grand jury.
Then he had a version that Adams had
been sllenced by President Mccormick
with an offer of a handsome salary in
his bank. The latest version now Is.
since the Kearns papers are afraid to
carry out their threat of publishing the
"details of the horrible plot that Mr.
Mccormick and his son visited Mr.. Sc
frit OF the Tribune 1--WE times in one
day and paid to T. Kearns $4,000 as a
consideration for the silence of these
papers. How much the grand jury gets
II it falls to bring in indictments along
the line Dowse has predicted has not
yet been made public by the enterprls-
Ing sleuth.
Besides Sleuth Dowse. former Chief
of Police George A. Sheets has been
active In the case lately, while Sleuth
Coughlin has not reappeared above the
horizon In the matter since his esca-
pade in doing shadow work for Harry
j. Robinson. he believes at the instance
of w. r. Adams. Sleuth Miles has
not yet had hand in the mystery.
and he is the only private sleuth of
local fame who has not been involved.
Rodney r. Badger, cashier of the
Utah National. was witness before
the grand jury preceding the calling or
Samuel Dowse, Mi Badger brought
with him many of the banks books,
and It is thought that his testimony
had to do with the accounts of Mr..
Adams. Mr. Nelson. Mr. Garrett and
others who have been under investiga-
ton.
Following Mr.. Dowse, John Henry
Smith, director of the bank was
called in. Mr.. Smith is related to MT.
Strong, formerly assistant CASHIER
That Dowse's weird story had nothlne
IN il needing further comment from
him Is suggested by the fact mat nc
was paid off on leaving the room