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Governor Hunt Fixes Hearing for
March End in Case c. W. French
who Was Arrested here in His
Private Car Last Week

frenCn Cdll Lake plOuluNSl, {,
filed today in the United States
district court a 10000 damage
suit against the Hotel Utah op-
Grating company, A. 0. and Geo.
O. Rolf, and 'John Doe" Nibley,
said to be a Mormon bishop, all
of Salt Lake City. French alleges
the defendants conspired TO pros
ecute him when they had no legal
ground. . ..'
The, plaintiff, who is now in
Arizona awaiting a hearing on a
request for requisition papers
which would take him back TO
Utah to face charges of having
passed worthless drafts, filed the
suit here today. All the alleged
defendants, he says, caused sew
eral frivolous" criminal actions
to be begun against him.
Requisition papers asking the
extradition to Utah of c. w.
French, Pacific Development COM
pany promoter, arrived Yesterday
morning and Governor Hunt inn
mediately called Nicholas G. Nor
gan, assistant county prosecutor
of Salt Lake, and Attorney Robert
S. Fisher of this city, represent
ing French, for consultation as
to the date of the hearing Fisher
insisted that he required affidavits
from Vancouver before being
prepared to go on with his case.
Morgan opposed any considerable
delay on the grounds there was no
reasonable excuse tor waiting.
He was prepared to present his
case at any time.
Governor Hunt, wishing to
avoid any attempt at railroading
the case, gave Fisher until Mon
day, March ., to present his case.
Fisher departed last evening for
Prescott, saying he would spend
Sunday with his client and be
ready to carry on the preparation
of his case Immediately after
conference,
Receipt of word here that suit
for $500, 900 damages had been
filed in Los Angeles by attorneys
for French against the Hotel Utah
and others, alleging conspiracy,
brought statement from Morgan
who classes this counteraction as
"an, effort to raise the dust to
cover their own retreat"
Attorney Morgan last evening
authorized this statement:
Notwithstanding the fact that
over my vigorous protest, Cover
nor Hunt today granted ten
days stay in the French hearing.
| am convinced that he will event
ually grant the extradition warrant
The officials of the state of Utah
are deadly in earnest in this case
and are determined that c. w.
French be. brought before the bar
of justice in that state.
The defendant is now an outlaw
in California, which is his resident
state, and will be taken into GUS
tody the first time he returns to
his home.
Il have no fear of the final out
come OF this hearing. The COVER
nor of the state of Arizona cannot
afford to overrule the decision OF
the governor of California, deny
the demands of the governor OF
Utah and apparently make OF Ari-
zona an asylum for the lawbreak-
ers of other sovereign states. =
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ardizing advertising rates and
putting the printing business on a
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