The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-14

4 the mystery of the Utah National =
y bank robbery.
/ = The detective is today no nearer :
y the capture of the man who took =
= the sl06.250 than he was on the day \
y of his arrival in Salt Lake.
He has confessed his failure to \
\ several persons. In explaining his =
y lack Of success. Londoner first of b
y all blames peculiar conditions in y
y Salt Lake. He also admits that the :
/ y bank thief was clever criminal and
| \ covered his tracks so well that even y
y the astute PinkeTtOn man is unable =
| y TO make d case against him after y
y months of sleuthng. =
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| The grand jury in the United States
court was empaneled yesterday and Inn
| mediately went to work. j. w. Houston
OF this city was named as foreman, and
/ the other members are: w. z. Ware, Salt
/ Lake: Edward Wall, Mount Pleasant; 7.
! c. Waltenspeil, Salt Lake: ]. f. Thorn,
] Pleasant Grove; c. e. Adderly. Bingnam
! D. n. Beal Ephraim; A. Chapman, Amer
lean Fork A. c. Fell ogden: Albert Ho-
gan, Mammoth; w. s. Hendricks. Rich
mond ID. r. Lyon. Salt Lake Peter Lar
sen, Lehi: A. NJ. Lambert. Salt Lake; e
W; Morgan. Park City; j; F. Marshall
| Powell. Roosevelt: w X. spafford, Pro
| vo. Those excused were Heber Bennlon,
]. W. Edmunds. John Holly and Melton
Moody.
The jury was briefly instructed by
Judge John A. Marshall who dwelt upon
/ the necessity of secrecy. He said that
each juror owed IL to the others to keep
sacred that which transpired In the jury
room and assured the jurors that they
could speak their minds freely and without
/ fear of having their expressions after
wards challenged criticised or commented
upon. Judge Marshall dwelt upon the alb
| solute necessity of care and caution in
| returning indictments in effect saying
! that il not infrequently happens that
/ person is indicted and the fact becomes
of his innocence does not receive the same
! degree of publicity.
| In Secret Session.
The only persons aside from the jurors
/ and witnesses who are permitted in the
grand jury room are United States Dis
trict Attorney II. f. Booth and his as
| sistant. w. NJ McCrea. As the utmost
! secrecy is observed in connection with the
grand jury work. no authentic information
| in regard to its Investigations may be
| expected until its report is filed.
! Deepest interest naturally centers in the
investigation by the grand jury into the
Utah National bank robbery. Service had
been had upon twenty eight of the thirty
five witnesses for whom subpoenas have
been requested The list of those upon
whom service has been had thus far is:
President w. s. Mccormick. w. F. Ad-
ans director; Joseph Nelson. cashier; AL
win c. Strong, teller; Mrs. Alvin c. Strong,
w. w. Trimmer. teller: Mrs w. w. Trim
mer; Q, b.. Kelly. chief bookkeeper; Mrs;
q. B. Kelly, Jonathan f. Openshaw. Fred
Rich MOrpni Iverson, Ida Engberg. ste
nographer; Jerry Langford; Fred Rich
mOnd. Harry j. Robinson, j., III. Garrett,
Farley p. Jensen, Hyrum White of Og-
den; o. P. Miller, James Chapman, De
Witt B. Lowe. ]. K. DOoly. George Sheets,
Dowse and Jack McCooey. chauffeur for
j. H Garrett.
other Cases Await Hearing.
Next in importance to the bank rob
berry case is the charge against Eben
Gregory accused OF sweating coins and
having in his possession counterfeiting APP
paratus. 4 number of lesser matters Will
be considered. among them the accusa
tiOns against the Greeks Puaolos, charged
with theft of mails. and Jack Lacey,
charged with attempting TO enter the
pOstoffice at Murray.
Evidently the first matter to be con-
sidered by the grand jury was the charges
against the saloon keepers and woman,
who are alleged to have bought soldiers
uniforms. The defendants are L. Solo
mon Albert Swain and Grace Fuller. Yes
terday a number of soldiers from Fort
Duchesne were witnesses. They were
members of the Twenty-first regiment,
stationed in Salt Lake at the time of
the commission of the offenses-
In Open Court.
term were also empaneled yesterday.
Those who We're excused are Z. c. Clark,
John Morley, Alfred Picot, p. p. Thomas
and S. E, White. Those retained for
service are;
r. A. Ranck and Harrison speirs of
Salt Lake City, A. MeBoyle of Ogden. r.
w King and John X Hardy of Salt Lake
City. W. ID. Terry of FairView, Alfred
Picot of Logan, James Martin OF Farr
West r. c. Watkins of Provo, II. G. Roll
Inns of Salt Lake City, P. ?. Thomas of
- L ,fcnr s.fI fr-srr
ham City. G. B. Bakely Of Salt Lake City.
Max Davidson of Ogden. J. A. Depu of
Robinson. William Armstrong of Milford
Roe Harris of Richmond. L. A. Colvin of
Dansie of Salt Lake City. e. E. Clark
of Ophir. H. c. Hanson of Logan. E. H.
Stout of American Fork. @. w. Brady of
Mammoth. William Dorton of Park City,
John Morley of Eureka, j. II. Mcdonald
of Heber Daniel Nelson of Moroni. j. II.
Halliday of Santaquin, II, g. Bluementhal
| of Provo, James Chase of Nephi. r. r.
Miles Jr. of Smithfield, S. E. White of
Pennington, B. r. Mcdonald of Price. w.
L. Mangum of Provo and Joseph Gribble
of Gunnison.
Cases have been set for trial running
into June. Some of the cases set may
| be settled and speedily disposed Of but
others to which only one day has been
assigned may take many days in their
trial
w. S. Mccormick said yesterday that he
was glad that the federal grand jury had
decided to investigate the robbery of the
Utah National bank
Il do not know what success the grand
jury will have" said Mr.. Mccormick. but
certainly hope that it will succeed in
solving the problem. / asked Mr.. Booth.
the United States district attorney. to
have the grand jury investigate the rob-
berry in the hope that the robber might
be apprehended. The grand jury can
proceed in its Investigations with more au-
thority than we could assume in our
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