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GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 13 J
WILL THE GRAND JURY GENTLY LAY TO ITS
FINAL REST THE UTAH NATIONAL BANK
SCANDAL?
The Federal Grand Jury has struck the Utah
National bank robbery.
What Is going to happen?
Is this theft of $106,250.00 from the reserve
chest of the Utah National bank, committed
months ago, to remain forever unexplained, un
solved and now almost uncriticized?
No more disgraceful scandal ever blackened
the financial history of Salt Lake City or of Utah
than this robbery. Weeks have gone by with an
investigation being made by the PInkertons that
is little better than a farce,
ing made by the Pinkertons that Is little better
Out of all the surmises, deductions and al
leged facts that have been printed since the dis
covery was made on January 5th that the reserve
chest of the Utah National bank had been robbed
out of all the interviews and alleged interviews
I that have been published, and out of all the ru
mors that have been floating about town, but one
fact can be gleaned with absolute certainty, and
that is that the bank's reserve chest was robbed
of $106,250.
Four months have elapsed since the alleged
discovery of the theft. From four to six Pinker
ton detectives under the supervision of J. N. Lon
doner, assistant supeiintendent of the western
agency of the National Pinkerton Detective
Agency, have been in Salt Lake every hour since
that time, ostensibly hard at work on the calfe.
With the four months gone not one single state
ment has been given the public by the officials
of the bank or by the Pinkerton agents thatJndl
cates in the slightest degree who stole the
$106,250.
There is a general and decided impression
about town that the identity of the thief or
thieves is known to a praotical certainty. Presi
dent McCornick denies this, and his associates in
the bank deny it and the Pinkertons deny it The
public laughs at the denials and asks more ques
tions. The manner in whih the investigation of the
theft has been conducted is a disgrace. Every
business man in the lntermountain country and
westward to the coast has watched the develop
H ment, or rather lack of developments, in the case
H closely.
It is up to the grand jury now. If the grand
H jmy cannot see its way clear to loturn Indict
H ments against the allegod thieves in the Utah
National or take some other decisive stop it is
H safe to say that the seciet of the robbery will
never be lovealed.
The Federal Grand Jury is all powerful. Busi-
ness men will not allow themselves for an In
H slant to believe that the lobbery can over be
jammed or kicked through or past the grand jury.
H It is a general belief that President McCor-
nick and the other officials of the bank are mor-
ally certain as to the identity of the men who
stole the money, the manner In which It was stol-
en and the time. Their Information may or may
pot have come to them as the result of the inves-
tigation conducated by the Pinkertons.
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The proposition has been advanced several
times and is gaining credence that the officials
of the bank have up .to this time taken no de
isive step toward the arrest of the men whom it
Is believed stole the money at the bank, because
of tho great business risk involved, to say noth
ing of half a dozen other reasons, any one of
which would be sufficient .to cause President Mc
Cornick and his associates to hesitate before they
made a move toward an arrest. But where the of
ficials of the bank would hesitate to take the per
sonal responsibility of signing a complaint against
the men believed to have taken the money, the
grand jury would not hesitate to return an indict
ment. In short, the impression prevails that the
officials of the bank are practically sure of their
men, that they are going to turn their evidence
over to the grand jury and saddle on the grand
jury .the responsibility of bringing to the bar of
justice the men who robbed the Utah National.
Up to date President McCornick, James Chip
man, Joseph Nelson, O. F. Miller, J. B. Dooly,
Chas. W. Nibley, W. W. Trimmer, W. F. Adams, Q.
B. Kelly have been called before the grand jury.
About twenty other witnesses have been summoned.
AT THE GRAND.
The attractions at the Grand for the coming
week will bo "Sappho" and "East Lynne." "Sap
pho" will open and "East Lynne" will close the
week at the popular playhouse. Big scenic produc
tions will be mad'' of both plays and as they are
both 'old favorites the week's business should be a
record breaker.
Mr. Lorch wil be seen as Sir Francis Levlson
in "East Lynne," and Miss Grace Bainbridge will
be seen as Sapho in the in the play of that name.
This will give Miss Bainbridge her best oppor
tunity since her engagement with the Lorch com
pany for emotional work, and much may be ex
pected of the talented young actress.
George Ade's latest comedy sketch "The May
or and the Manicure," has been secured by Eu
gene Jopson, the brilliant actor who lias been
loading comedian with Maude Adams and Ethel
Barrymore, and who created the principal roles
in Mr. Ado's, two comedies of the campus, "The
College Widow" and "Just Out of College."
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A full half hour must have passed, when the OTI
same horseman, coming1 from the same direction II
as at first, again came Into the circle of light t j s0
cast by the lire. This time he only came into the il
outer circle of the firelight rays and turned off j $m
to the left. 3g
"That's strange," remarked an officer. "11 j $
could almost swear that that is Nesbet." ffl ijra
"I wonder what the young daredevil Is up J l9
to?" another answered. 1 JM
"It Is strange," another ventured, "I guess I'll jS
investigate. '! W
He had risen to his feet to do so when again m M
the horseman emerged from out the shadow. m
This time the colonel acted. jg
"Halt," ho commanded. w 4
The well-trained cavalry mount stopped in his jg j
tracks, and we all sprang to our feet and were B J
soon by the horse's side. . jg i
It was young Nesbet. He was sitting bolt up- .1
right in the saddle, one hand grasping the bridle ,m
reins, while the other hung dettly at his side. 9
It took but a glance to show an azzagias was m
clean through his body. He was stone dead, and W
the firelight was reflected upon a pair ot glassy, M
staring eyes. 9
It took the strength of two men to pull him S
from the saddle, and the leins had to be cut, so M
tight did the dead man grasp them. m
The leglmental physician said that tho spear, IS
in passing thiough the body, had encountered ffl
some nerve, whose name I have lorgotten, and M
that all the muscles had instantly become set. M
I have had many gruesome experiences during m
my eight years as a war correspondent, but to m
have a dead man ride 'up to the camp lire in the S
dead of night proved the most gruesome of them W
all. II
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money stiingency I decided not to ask you for an
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Hubby Dearest, you are ill
Wife So I just went ahead and got it. m
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