Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-01
NOW BELIEVED TO
Be GRAFT SCEHME
Evidence Indicates Dynamitinq
OF Hotel Utah Was
Holdup Game.
WILSON OUT "AFTER coINv
Approached City Editor Of Dcseret
News With oGcr to "Pcach'--In-
formation Given to the Police.

The arrest of Frank Wilson and
James Delaney Friday on a charge OF
dynamiting the foundations and equip
ment oil the Hotel Utah early Wednes-
day morning last has led to what is
considered by the police as a graft
scheme. the like of which has never
been experienced in the country AS
evidence develops it seems as II the
plot to dynamite had nothing behind It.
but the holding up of financial interests
which are concerned in the erection of
the hotel.
The very morning after the explosion.
which did practically no damage and
marked the attempt as the work of
tyros, Wilson approached r. D. Jones
manager OF the Jones Construction
company, which has the contract for
the erection of all the steel work on
the big hotel and told him that IL he
would produce 500 he would turn up
the men who did the work
Directly after that he made connec-
tlons with the Hotel Utah company
and made a similar proposition to them
guaranteeing that he would give abso-
Lutte proof in regard to the dynamitfng,
how 1t WAS done, and who the men
were who did It,
IL ti' ttltti tnltJCu the Office
of The Deseret News and told the city
editor that If he gave him s25 down and
$40 afterward. he would tell the news
paper who were the guilty parties and
describe in detail their method of op-
Grafton.
I'm after the coin" he said. but
want you to know that l am no crook
| have accepted money from the union
with the understanding that I would
help to pull the matter through
got the information I wanted and now
I'm selling it,
GIFTS COLD FEET.
Wilson was rut of. by the city editor
but an arrangement was made with
him for the following day CThursday)
at II o'clock. But he failed TO make
his appearance. He evidently had ac-
quired a bad case of cold feet.
The Deseret News placed all OF the
information which it had acquired In
the hands OF the police and the result
was the arrest OF Wilson and his room
mate, Delaney, The latter has con-
fessed enough TO enable the police to
work lines which are expected to
develop enough evidence to Convict
both men.
Friday morning letter was received
by The Deseret News as follows:
II YOU NoulU llh6 10 ltdIH SUlnt-
thing about the men who attempted
to blow up the Utah hotel. inquire at
521 Judge building, the Globe Inspec-
tion company.
JAMES GIBSON,
Camps Lane.
city"
This letter was also turned over to
the police
Mr.. James Gibson is very much
wanted man. but he cannot be found.
The Globe Inspection company knows
nothing of him and the police have not
been able to locate him
WORK of AMATEUR.
The first thought that the dynamiting
had been the outcome of the fight of
the American Bridge Building company
against union labor has given way to
a theory that Wilson, with Delaney
as his tool engineered crude attempt
at holding up business corporations fo5
what he could get out of them. The
work With the dynamite was very
amateurish and looked either like 4
bluff or an interrupted attempt on its
face Evidence is IN favor of the
former theory.
UNION CONDEMN AFFAIR.
The union iron workers VI the city
unite. in condemnIng the affair and
there is much Indignation among them
because OF the implication that or
Ganized labor has had anything to
do with It. The police at present arc
busily engaged in trying to find Glib
son. who Is thought tc b. able to tell
where the men got their dynamite. and
also in a far reaching investigation of
the past of both men under arrest