The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-24
United States Inquisitors Con-
clude Their Work and Take
Adjournment.
NINE INDICTMENTS FOUND
OUT OF ELEVEN CASES
Three of the Defendants Have
Not Yet Been Placed Under
Arrest.

Altcr being in session twelve days IL
the fedSral building, tho United States
grand tury returned eight Indictment:
SATURDAY, morning against persons
charged with ofrenses against the
United States government. which. to-
gcther with the one returned several
days ago against Zhon-ne, an Indian
makes a total OF nine indictments by
the jury out OF the eleven cases consid-
erred Two cases were ignored.
The grand jury. which finished It's
work Friday afternoon made It's full
report to Judge John A. Marshall OF tho
United States district and circuit courts
Saturday morning. The report was
signed on behalf OF the jury b. w. w.
Pltcr, foreman, and District Attorney
II. j. Booth. OF the nine persons In
dictod by the Jury. six are now in the
county jail and tho other three VIII be
Immediately arrested, Until their ar
The persons indicted by tho grand
Jury who are now I'm the county jail
arc L. Dale Stapleton. forge- on four
Morgan counterfeiting. one count; Frank
Sprague. co,Interfeitng. three counts;
William Morsap sonn'er5eiting aEio,,1m one
one count. Tom Rice, an Indian; man
slaughter ono cout
Mansiaughter Charged,
Tom Rice. rue Indian who is alleged
10 have attacked John Rice. another In
dian. with an AK, ipRictinS wounds In
his head which caused his death, must
stand trial on a charge of manslaugh-
ter. The ARRAY occurred on the Shlvwit
Indian reservation on December II, 1903
il was expected that tho Indictment
would charge murder but as II IS un
derstood that the Indians were fighting.
the circumstances would not warrant
n more serious charge than manslaueh-
ter. Rice's bond was fixed at S2500.
The Jury returned an indictment
against i? Dale Stapleton, charging him
with intent TO d@fraud John L. Conk-
ing paving teller OF the Continental Ma
four counts. &c being alleged that he
forged two United States postal money
orders ono for S1C0 and the other for
$50. Stapleton's bail was fixed at $1,000.
Joint Indictment,
joint Indictment was returned
ssainst Frank SpraGue and william
brought against the two separately, !
charging them with specific offenses. The |
Joint indictment charges Morgan and |
terfeit coins and utterine and passing |
the same as genuine. The two men are
alleged 10 have attempted TO pass coun,
terfeit half dollar piece on May Mitchell
charged with passing bogus coin upon
Robert Majors OF Ogden. On tho joint |
indictment the two men had their bail |
fNcd at $500 each. while on the sepa |
rate Indictments bonds were fixed In the |
sum OF $500 in each case, thus making |
their bonds total $4,000 each.
Linden Watson was indicted for haY
Ing In his possession certain moulds In
tho likeness and similtudc OF United |
States quarter dollars OF the mintage OF
1894 He was arrested at Cotton. Utah.
March s. 1910 His bond was fixed at
$4,000
The three indictments against persons
not under arrest were turned over to /
United States Marshal James II. Ander-
son. and tho arrests win be made as
soon as possible.