Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-30
ANDREW NELSON
Now A FREE MAN.
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Indictment Against Him in Bank
Robbery Case is Dis
missed.
MAY ENTER STATE COURTS.
He Says He Is Not Satisfied and Will
BE Glad TO Have Matter
Come to Trial.

Andrew w. Nelson is Tree upon INC
streets in Salt Lake today, not by the
suffcrance of bondsmen, but with no
restrictions upon him, and the indict-
ment broughht against him by the fed
cral grand jury after record-DreaK-
ing Investigation into the Utah Nation
al bank robbery of last January, mas
been formally dismissed The only pos
sibility OF continuing the case now lays
with the state courts, and in the prob
ability that County Attorney Hansen
will take action.
In the federal courts peculiar
situation arose and the same sit
uation will transfer itself to the state
courts, with the assurance that an ex-
pensive trial will be necessary to du-
plicate the evidence on which the fed
eral jury brought in an indictment.
This IS because the one bit of evil
dence. considered as "clinching" in con-
nection with the general mass OF cir
cumstances and probabilities surround
ing the case was connected with the
authorship of a letter to w. i. Adams
ship of this letter it would be neces-
sary to summon the expert kitka from
San Francisco, and 1t is understood
that he is holding out for big fee.
Before the grand jury, Mr. kitka cs-
tablshed a reputation as an expert BY
his work on the handwriting OF the
Jurors themselves, and on many sam
pies of writing submitted. Then ne
took the Ogden letter. which had been
written before it was known that a
robbery had occurred, except to the
guilty parties and those they had in
formed of it, dissected its handwriting
in :, way that made the jurors share his
conviction as to its authorship.
NELSON DESIRES TRIAL.
1t is known that the Kitka. matter
was one of the things submitted to
WASHINGTON at the time the decision
was rendered declaring that the per
mission" given young Nelson to enter
the bank out of hours and to carry a
key to it, did not constitute agency
but was mere permission. kitka's
employment meant a large fee OF the
special witness" variety, and the gov
ernmcnt was not willing to expend the
money on such q slender hold as 1t
seemed to have on the defendant.
Andrew w. Nelson, in speaking of
The Diminishing of the Indictment says:
E'I am not satisfied with this dismissal
as a vindication. am anxious to have
my case brought in the state courts"
County Attorney Willard Hanson
takes the view of the case that it
will be necessary to have a complaint
in his office from some one Of the In
terested parties before proceeding With
the issuance of Il complaint, and that
as soon as such a complaint is filed he
will proceed with the complaint and
viii request from the u. S. district at
torney transcript of the federal
courts evidence.
I.ONDONER LOCATES HERE.
Detective n. j. Londoner. who was
in charge of the Pinkerton investiga-
ton which extended over the entire
spring and summer. and who has been
connected with a theatrical enterprise
since the indictment was brought an
nuunces the opening of q detective
agency here simultaneously with tho
Diminishing of the indictment in the fed
cral court. The title of the new agency
is the "Londoner National Detective
Agency" Prior to the bank case lie
had worked here often in connection
with irregularities in banks under the
protection of the American Bankers
association. At the time the robbery
occurred he was at work here tracing
what was thought to be q case of issu
ing bogus clearing house certificates
in imitation OF the emergency cur
lencyf of last winters panic.