The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-03
GREGORY HELD
TO GRAND JURY
Alleged Sweater of Coins
Bound Over to Answer to
Four Counts.
DETECTIVES TELL STORIES
RELATE MANNER IN WHICH
THEY WORKED UP CASE.

Eben Gregory was yesterday bound over
TO await the action of the federal grand
jury which meets on the 18th of TINS
month. Gregory is charged on four counts
with defacing United States gold coins
bv the process commonly known as
sweating" He was arrested two days
ago at the instigation of two secret ser
vice detectives who have been on MS
trail" for a long time. Bonds in the sum
of $3.50 were fixed for Gregory. but he
was not able 10 furnish them and was
taken back to the county Jail. The hear
ing was before Commissioner Charles
Baldwin.
The most important witnesses against
Gregory were the two secret service men,
Harry b. Richardson and William w
Fraser. Richardson told of having fol-
lowed Gregory. on March 81, from ms
home. No. 2S4 North Fifth West street. to
the Union saloon, at IS East Second South.
Richardson said that Gregory called for
glass of beer and rendered - gold
coin in payment. Richardson did like
wise and rendered a $40 bill. He asked
Hans Jepperson, the bartender, for gold
in change. and when the s. and the A.95
in silver had been given him, he asked
JeppersOn If there was any other gold
piece in the drawer. The bartender said
there was not. Richardson requested the
bartender to mark the coin. which he did
with the initials II. j. Richardson also
placed marks of Identification on the
piece. Then ii was sealed, together with
notes, in one of the firms envelopes and
placed in vault.
Coins in Evidence.
Fraser took after Gregory as his shadow
after he left the Union saloon and du-
plicated the performance of his chief at
the Plaza saloon on West Third South
street where August Ortelli was the bar
tender. Both of the coins were placed IN
evidence. 1t is the purpose of the gov
eminent to prove that one side OF the
pieces has been chemically treated in such
a manner as to remove part of the gold
particles.
The governments next most important
witnesses were employees of the pOstoffice
department. Mathis, who is the postmas-
ter at the Postoffice drug store. TESTIFIED
that he had sold money orders to Gregory
for $40 in the name of J. A. McEwan
This is the name of Gregory's wife VIII
liams. money order clerk at the postoffice
said that he had cashed the order and
that Gregory had asked for gold coin,
which was given him.
r. ". KatZ. saloon keeper. testified
that ne had cashed a check for $50 for
Gregory and that the latter had asked for
gold coin.
The purpose of this examination was to
show where and how Gregory obtained the
coins he is charged with having sweat
ed"
Search the Laboratory.
Upon his arrest. Richardson. Herman
Harms state chemist: Detectives Burt
and Chase and Fraser went 10 the Greg
Ory home and made an examination of the
place. The testimony was that. in the at
tic, they found laboratory. wherein were
a number of glass and porcelain vessels
filled with acid, an electric battery, Jars.
brushes and the like. The evidence of
the chief detective was. too, that the par
ty found returns from the Denver mint
for shipments of gold bullion.
Richardson said that he had been long
on the track of Gregory, and that the
result of all his work was the arrest of
the suspect He had seen lights burning
in the Gregory attic at night. Mr.. Harms
testimony related to the nature of the
acids found in the place Chemist Girls
mon, in effect gave evidence that the
coins submitted to him for testing as to
weight were approximately twelve grains
short of the ordinary weight.
Gregory was represented by Bailey &
Vickery. 1t was the apparent purpose of
Mr.. Bailey. who conducted the question
ing to show that the chemicals in Greg
ory's laboratory might have been for the
purpose of assaying ores. The detectives
said, however, that there was no ore
about the place. and insisted that they
had searched the premises thoroughly.
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