The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03
COMMON, ORDINARY
THEFT TAKES PLACE
Thomas Richards Was the Goat
Whom the Conspirators Con-
cluded to Ride.

funds. Meyer s check was made pay
able to A, w, Hart, and is indorsed,
4" Pay TO the order of First National
Bank, Logan, Utah, A. W. Hart,
This is the bank that protected Hart
and Parkinson by refusing TO testify at
Malad. Joseph +. Smith and w. l.. Nc
CornIck, directors.
Abuse Of Public Funds.
This and similar uses and abuses of
Parkinson and Hart remained officers
of the district. For instance: When
the monthly estimates due to contract
ors became payable, the contractors
were constantly assured that the dis
trlct had no money in bank, hut that
If the amount due was discounted from
10 to 20 per cent, that Hart would
advance the funds from his privy purse,
and thus by discounting the district
debt: by discounting contractors time
checks. as well as store orders, at the
same time charging contractors interest
at from 10 TO 20 per cent upon time
checks that they had already discount
ed. the money piled up pretty fast Thus
time check issued by contractor for
$50 was taken up by Hart for SIS, and
the contractor charged up with the 500
ana interest at 10 per cent, making S22.
In other words, they were making no
moneys that in the first place were
never theirs; should never have been
used-whlch WAS usurious in any event,
and was nothing more or less than theft
from the district, the laborer and the
contractor, Yet these men were priests
of the Order Of Melcbizedek, members
Of the Quorum of Seventies; one was
president Of the stake. another was pres
ldent of the Young Men s Mutual I'm
proyement association.
When they needed any more money
than this % per cent per month that
the, district fluids would provide, they
took sums varying from $4,000 to SIS.
600 at time. Sometimes they would
issue due bill bearing no interest as
evidence of Indebtedness, At other
times they would not.
Forged Signatures on Contract
AS if all these methods were insult.
icient, here is another:
At one time Marion Henderson and
John +, Taylor were associates in a
contract. In curiously accidentally
way this contract bore the name Of
John +. TAYLOR Interlned, as one of the
parties of the first part, To this Tay.
lor was slgner. In an equally acci.
dental manner this document was lost
and IN its place grew another with Tay.
| lor' s signature forged to il. This docu.
ment, always in the hands OF Hart. has
also disappeared, Henderson denies
now most explicitly that there ever was
| any partnership whatever. and Hart in.
dorses Henderson; but this is what hap
| pened:
S. C. Chadwick Notary Public
| Attorney and Counselor at Law
a ", Hart Secretary o. l. D.; Sir
Deduct from John. L. Taylor estimate
! twelve hundred dollars.
| tSigned) MARION HENDERSON,
Note that this is written on the Joint
letterhead of unholy Chadwick and the
unholier Hart. The original is in the
handwriting Of Hart.
How Taylor Was Mixed.
The $1,000 was deducted from Tay
lor's estimate, and when he objected
he was told in no uncertain terms that
he was guilty of unchristian conduct
and when he still demanded his money
| Hart, Henderson and Parkinson swore
| that he had threatened their lives, and
| Taylor was arrested, taken before a
| Justice of the peace of the precinct
and ordered to put up cash bail in the
sum of $4,000. Being both unable and
unwilling TO obey the mandate of this
miscalled justice he was taken TO Malad
and there imprisoned in close confne
| p
when Parkinson. Henderson and Hart
failed to appear against him, and he
was turned loose, TO return to Clifton
his home, ut his own expense. AS tc
who divided the money it is only neces
sary to note that the order was writ
ten by Hart upon Chadwick IS letter
head. and dated at Preston, the home
of Parkinson.
Plan Ordinary Theft.
Another form of Just plain, common
ordinary, everyday theft occurs under
the contract of Thomas Richards. the
total amount of which was Sl14026. In
return for his work Richards states that
he received one warrant, No. IS, FOL
5000, which was discounted 10 per cent
he receiving $50, At this time be
was called away, remaining away q
long time-so long that the thieves
beheId a golden opportunity.
This is what appears on the district
ledger, as compiled by Auditor Rumel
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