Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-19
POLICE CONSPIRACY.
Schema 10 Enirdp Chief Pratt, Captain
Donovan and 0,h.F 0llcsrs.
Az INFAMOUS rLob II TRUE.
Detective Rhode, said 10 BE M.x.d Dup
In The Affair-llc Loses Ills Star--
Liquor Men aud l. wi Wom,u.

An expose has just been made Of an
alleged consprlcy IN the p,lios he.
paflmUut u tuis city, which Tor dis-
gustlns details anu anticipated results
IL purhapa the most Infamous plot ever
brought % light in that biAnch OF the
municipal government, sni In recent
years emotional and uusavJfy oase1
have not been wanting.
For hveorsIx weeks pact the heads
% the department nave had Informal
zion that a certain element In the
Liquor Dhslnr5 association we're, Ia
police p1rIance, ".aytng Tor them" IL
was learned slso that some ono on tho
iofcc was "lpaking" to tho saloon mon.
One Of tho suspected recfuan! officers
was CITY Detective Rhodes, VINO was
promltly pul undcr a surveillance %
which ho him-olf knew nothing. He
was cJua,autiy Swallowed aud his
movements reported TO headquarters.
All OF the time ho was doing duty for
tho city aud, 10 would seem, according
GO tie charges be viii bee called upon to
face beIo.e cue lire aud police commits.
zion, gradually wtavinga weUb around
him'ulf from which escape seems well
uigh impossible.
On Ffiiay night James Hilton, pro-
priotgr VI the Continental Hotel saloon,
unI Rhodes were iouuu tn close com.
munluu. On Saturday night they
were traced 90 an Infamous resort on
FuuSlin avenue where 10 Ia claimed
aud in pnr; admitted, that plot was
evolved or rather made known which
had Tor 900 uud the downfall VI Patrol.
men Gillespie aud i1b,r,s, twU men
who have made the greatest ouslaugnt,
says Chief Pratt, on iaNlsss characters
~ any men on the force-mun whom
lao says he rhu trust any where aud
under all circumstances ana whom ho
knows ~ be above ropreach or puf.
chase.
The story IL that certain "nrl.to.
cratic, well.cducated.and.ha
btttrt.iayt. Euglisnwomau"was vtiut-
Cd $1,000 ~ accomplish tue ruin And
disgtacu OF these two officers. rhs wv.
mau was confronted almost immo.
diateIy afterwards with tMsufa VINO
are said 10 DO true - the department
anu the reputation OF the city,. 49,,
was asksd Tor particulars but
10 give them.
Slhr elimination and exposure came
on Saturday night. RaoIes anu Ill.,
ton were ordered into Chief PfattSs
office, the young English woman anu
tue madame OF the establishments OF
which she was an Inmate were NJ NJ Tor,
Commissioners Jennings Aud Emppy
were present The women ldontinul
Rhodes and Hilton as the
men wins sought 10 bubo them. Both
men acknowledge visiting the women.
Rhodes said he hAd ust "dfOppruD in
without any design VI evil aud Hilton
says he was 20 dTunk no uiduit know
what ho WIS doing, tu. hu conceded
that ho had done wrong anu almost
uu his knees uuaklGs with fear he
beggci Guioi Pntps forgiveness. But
lur chief hoes NOT propose 10 let tue
matter pass by 10 easily, and Interest,"
INK developments arr scheduled b. np-
pear itUm time u time. o. course, De.
luCtiye RhOIes'a star was taken from
him aud his suspension ordered until
ON cinl investigation eau be- made.
La connection with this the IN iavlt
OF IL notorious woman was u Je OBJ.
tnined from Denver COMPROMISING
CulBi Pratt and Information ~ the mOst
sensational character was o. up sprung
ON Captain Donovan. Chiuf PnIt
says the whole al,ir Il dcnigngd
% csst disctedit anu iuiamy upon his
Tor thi reason that
hc has prcsisiuutly rvfused 10 cater 10
1r allow the gamblers anu salaOn men
10 Iun ihcir business lu violation OF tho
law ON Buulays. lie says further that
q IuFuNt ann M fuUUau he's la...
gised iar tho purpJsa aud that there
no men behind the movement whose
lamc-, u published In tubs connection
i this time, would stattle the com.
nuuily from center TO circumference,