Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-25
HUNGRY CROOKS
MAY THRIVE HERE
That is View That obtains Since
McWhlrter Robbery Came
To Light.
LOOKS BAD FOR THE CITY.
How the McWhlrters We're Whisked
Out of the Way--Mcans Only One
Thing to the Public.

The great army. OF hunsry cf"oHa
from all over America are looking lo'
the scent OF city with CRATER lot
chief of police. Crooks are always
willing TO make fair split up IN return
for the privilege OF operating
What kind OF reputation has peeh
gained for Salt Lake City by the simple
facts brought out by the story Of the
cold blooded highway robbery OF tns
McWhirter brothers?
How long will It take salt Lake TO
remove this reputation, with the pres.
ent personnel at the head OF the ponce
department?
The facts brought out about the NC
Whittier robbery did not tend TO prove
that a simple felony was nor committeu,
In the technicalitles that free the cniei
from the responsibility Of part III
compromising Il.
Two honest Scotchmen were lured TO
a room to meet Col. Rice" man VINO
was supposed TO live here. There po-
lice" officers wearing official badges
rushed IN on the room full OF people, ar
rested them all, and searched them an,
taking from tho MoWhirters S,zuO III
the name OF the law, ostenslbly to car
~ to the police station to deposit III
their favor.
one brother Informed Chief Sheets
and Sergeant Hempel OF this. while the
supposed officer. wearing the badge OIL
the department, was leading the other
brother over the city ION the way 10
the station"
The supposed policeman finally reach
ed the private Office OF Chief Sheets
with his victim, was branded as rake
officer in the presence Of Chief Sheets,
who had already been Informed OF his
character,
When Chief Sheets suggested that
the fake officer so aud get some OF the
money back, McWhirter insisted mat
detective 40 with him. Sheets told Me-
Whittier This detective had been sent
Later when tho other brother saw inc
man driving west in q buggy. with
companion, he brought to the chief
that information II was the chlefs duty
To- ferret out and search for, and was
Informed in his brothers presence that
the second man was a detective. The
second man was actually the other fake
policeman.
No effort was ever made to find on;
any details from the McWhlrters about
the crime. They were bubblIng over
with their story. Yet ii could not get
a hearing in the police station. They
told Chief Sheets the men had gone to
the New England addition William
McWhirter found this out by detective
work he did himself, when he wac sent
out from the police station alone ito
hunt the criminals he complained Of
The small boy sent out from McCoy's
stable found the gang In reyelry at
the New England addition, but no man
from the office of Chief Sheets went
out to run down this clue brought In
by William McWhirter, no man from
the once OF Chief Sheets ever sought
10 know how the men looked who turn
ed the trick. who they were, or what
their record was.
When the McWhrters we're hur-
ried 10 the train with the money pro-
vided them by Chief Sheets. which
he took from Bell and put under his
coat till he got II TO his desk. all in
vCstIgation apparently ceased No
EFFORT was made TO get a line on these
crooks to protect salt Lake from tho
stigma Of other cases of the same
kind.
Had not the sherir's office taken
action. the gang would still be here.
Honest George Sheets" would still
be ignorant Of the fact that Jim Dom
aldson was In that kIrA Of q game"
ard strangers would -. be less safe
here than they are la tho darkest
PARTS of China or Africa, and Salt
Lake would still be accommodating
class Of criminals who always flock
70 place whore the chief Of police
Is reputed to be a CRATER.