The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-02
MONEY IN LETTER
CAUSE OF TROUBLE
Druggist George 7. Brice Sends
$40 to Food Inspector
Frazier.
FRAZIER VIEWS ACTION
AS ATTEMPT TO BRIBE
Brice, However, Puts the Matter
in Entirely Different
Light.

City Food Inspector Walter j. Frazier
Thursday asked the county attorney fol
complaint charging thc George II
Brice Drug company. with headGuarter:
In the Kenyon hotel building, with at
tempted bribery, but County Attorney
Job P. Lyon did not consider the evi
dence sufficient, and refused TO give the
food inspector complaint.
The attempt to secure the complaint
was based upon the receipt from George
T. Brice, the head of the drug company.
by Mr.. Frazier Wednesday morning of
somewhat ambiguous letter on the
drug company's stationery, reading ns
follows:
Dear Mr.. Frazier-EnCloscd find $50 to
pay board bill owing Captain Woods and
nny other expense chargeable TO my ac-
count II not sufficient call ana see ne,
Is aim TO treat everyone on the square.
Yours truly, = GEORGE r. BRICE.
When Mr.. Frazier opened the letter
two $40 bills dropped out onto the floor,
Indignant Mr.. Frazier, after at once
reporting the matter to the mayor,
sought out County Attorney Lyon with
request for complaint charging AT.
tempted bribery. The ambiguous let
fer, with the equally uncertain circum-
stances leading up to and surrounding
it, the county attorney considered not
sufficient to sustain such charge,
however, and the complaint was not
issued.
Mr.. Frazier says he doesn't owe Cap
tain Woods of the Salvation Army any
money and if the drug company does,
he knows nothing about IT.. and, any
way. it ism It any Of his business. The
only thing that could give the basis Of
n claim against him by Captain Woods
was the keeping at the Salvation Army
home more than a year ago oil two poys
as witnesses against two or three drug
minors, but the Salt Lake Charity as
sociation paid for the lodging OF the
bovs at the Salvation Army home, Mr.,
Frazier declares, which eliminates TINS
entirely Any way, these charges were
lost sight of and have never been prose
cuted somehow or other, Mr.. Frazer de-
clares.
MIR. Frazier's View.
Irvine Heron, a clerk for the Brlce
Drug company. was prosecuted at Mt,
FraZier's instance for selling drugs not
labeled. and in Judge j. NJ. Bowman 9
court, Thursday. was fined $50: The
letter received by Mr.. Frazier containing
the money is dated June %, three days
previous TO the trial of Heron, and this
siren CITIZENS Mr.. Frazier IN his belet
shat the money was sent as brlbe.
Here is Brice s version Of the. affair;
: ffThe $50 inclosed to Mr.. Frazier was
sent him BIZ me TO pay Captain Woods
of the Salvation Army for the board OF
two boys who were held here by Fra
zier some eighteen months ago 70 be
witnesses against me in a case of selling
poisons under conditions which did not
IN every respect conform TO the law.
The money was sent as he direct result
Tuesday, in which he referred to the
matter and stated that Captain Woods
was annoyed that The money had not
been paid. I sent 1T to Mr.; Frazer IN
settlement Of this claim, and If no debt
sxists. T am simply $40 ahead,
"Dr. Beatty of the state board OF
health will remember the circumstances
of the case and bear me out III my con
tention in the matter. 49,,
DIR. Beatty is out Of the city: The S2o
will be returned TO Brice, Frazier says.