The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-25
BIG FOUR PUNCHED"
Well Known Brokers Bump
Against Law.
INSTRUCTED SIDEWALK
LYNCH, THOMPSON, CONWAY
AND IRVINE ARRESTED.
rRUCTED SIDEWALK

Up in City Creek canyon, where the
touch of the autumn breeze is painting
the scrub oak leaves in all the gorgeous
colors of natures grandest season.
four well known Salt Lakers may be
found this afternoon unless stern jus
tice is lenient or cash sufficient to stay
irOn-handed law is found. The hands
OF this quartette have these many
years known nothing harsher than a
stock certificate and their delicate
palms may chafe and gall when they
grasp the vulgar hoe and pick and rake
and shovel with which the city supplies
its unwilling workers on the bouIe-
ward. They are John c. Lynch, J. G.
Thompson, P. j. Conway and W. H.
Irvine.
1t was afternoon on the RiaIto. Dusk
was stealing on apace over a goodIy
company gathered on the sidewalk
From the centre of the group strange
sounds cleft the air. Women who had
almost to walk in the street to get by,
gazed in gentle WOnderment on the
scene YEARLY cab horses pricked Up
languid ears and from the caverns
meath their steaming sides great signs
came.
Selling Mining Stocks.
sell Star 81" bid quarter" Give
eighth" Sold" What's offere7 for
Daisy?" Sell ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
forty 'nquarter-" To people who passed,
or tried to pass, the excited mob of
well dressed citizens might have been
talking Sanscrit. The situation was
rapidly going from worse to more of
1t when around the corner came a man
in uniform of blue bedecked with
bright brass buttons.
Upon his breast he wore a star while
at his side swung a short, thick club.
His jaw was set like a pint of plaster
of paris mixed the night before. From
this description it is plain that the man
was none other than Patrolman Palmer.
Twenty times during the afternoon,
now so nearly spent, Palmer had plead
ed with the assemblage to dispense in
the name of the state of Utah or in the
name of goodness or something of the
kind.
Officer Unkindly Received.
The crowd, however, gave the officer
not even a pleasant look. They dis
perse? Well. they guessed not. Wasn't
the man who made Mayor Thompson
right there with them? Would any
copper dare TO arrest the man who
made Mayor Thompson no matter what
he was doing? Well, he'd lose his job.
that's all, and we guess that'n hold you
a minute.
Not in these words, but in language
somewhat similar did the assemblase
continue its decidedly arduOus task of
skinning each individual member But
even the patience of humble policemen
has a limit. Palmer's was no exception.
At eight minutes after 3 o'clock, the
exact hour has been set down in the
journal of the stock exchange. Palmer
elbowed his way into the crowd.
Arrests Are Made
The next thing he did was to lay his
hands on the sacred persons of John 9.
Lynch, P ]. Conway and w a. Irvine.
He tried to catch J. c. Thompson. but
the human skeleton evaded the law
while trying to slip up the back stairs
in the rear of Walker Brothers bank.
The like of the cOmmOtion that fol-
lowed was never before seen on 'BrOI-
ers' Row
The four who were arrested for
blOckading the sidewalk were subjected
to as unmerciful d lot of guying as
ever fell to mortal men. Offers of bail
were few. ITO Jail with them. let
them be locked up behind the bars
boulevard with bread and potatoes for
dessert" was suggested as moderate
punishment If the mob had had its
way, it would have gone hard with
the unfortunates.
Prisoners Severely Joshed.
The brokers who were just as guilty
as the men arrested, laughed until they
choked and so did everybody else who
witnessed the affair The only serious
people were officer Palmer and his
prisoners. None of them saw any
humOr in the situation. The offenders
were released on their own recOgniz-
ance and Judge TimmOny will take a
chance at them this afternoon.
For weeks. nearly every afternoon,
the sidewalk on Second South street
where the brokers' Offices are, has been
packed with cur bers.'' Sometimes
they have made the way impossible
and the policemen on the beat have
frequently demonstrated with them 1t
is said that an example will be made
in the cases of Lynch. Irvine. ThOmp-
son and Conway as a warning that the
sidewalk must hereafter be kept clear.