Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-11

It certainly looked like a big drop to
come from $4,000 bunco and robbery
down TO q matter Of taking $40 from
chnaman. or asking for the price Of
q suit ~ clothes but TO drop from sl0.-
200 to Il matter Of 81 IL certainly going
some.
The story OF the robbery Of the Mo
Whittier brothers of over $40 900 has
been told The public has been in
formed ls to how the scheme was
worked and how the guilty persons es-
capped through the carelessness CD OF
Chief George Sheets. Citizens were
also Informed through the columns of
the News" last evening that seven
gambling joints have been running In
Chinatown and that protection money
had been paid 90 one OF the officials
or the police department, the middle
man Zip Sing, a merchant, de-
clared to no less than three witnesses
that he paid 10 Detective George II.
Raleigh the sum OF so. These start
ling disclosures were made by the
News last evening, but the sheet
which IL published on Commercial
street, and which Is the organ of the
'renderloin and the American party,
the rag which poses as "A reformer, had
nothing to say about the case or
course. not because the facts reflect
seriously on American party hench-
,pen and the cry must continue to go
M; THANK God FOR the American
Rsirtyv'
xAccordng TO n morning paper. "Dc-
fective Lalley" declared that the stories
published last evening were untrue;
that he knew of no gambling In China
town and that he did not receive $40
from one of the Mongolians. He adj
mitted that he had frequently been
through Plum alley and Commercial
avenue, but how often he had been
through" 10 the extent Of $40 he did not
say.
A MILD DENIAL.
The big boss OF the detectives. not
Sheets, says there Is not a word of
truth In the story. Zip Sing, who con-
ducts a store az 10 Commercial avenue,
declared to three reputable witnesses
on as many different occasions. that he
paid 10 'Dcfectlve Lnlley" the sum Of
$40, and that protection was promised.
lie also declared that Chief Sheets
asked him for the price OF a suit OF
clothes. The evidence Is abundant that
certain Cinnamon have been paying for
protection. Does any sane man who Is
with the condition Of affairs In
Salt Lake at the present time doubt
that proprietors OF poker games are
paying for protection?
WHOLESALE GAMBLING,
q Gambling has been stoppa1,"
shrleked Judge Street. Is that SO?
Well, visit the places named by the
sNews' last evening. Then take Il lit
tie trip down Commercial street 10
Bruc Johnsons so-oalled club. This
dive Is located at AZ Commercial street,
IL IL frequently visited by Chambers,
the notorious negro policeman who, II
Is said, does the bidding OF Bruce John
son, the boss. Then take a "trip over
u Hatfield's Joint on Second South, Just
west of the Grand Theator. In both
these places poker and fBlack Jack"
games are played. These places have
never been raldcd by the police since
the great reform" party took charge
of affairs here Are the coored gamb-
lers placed on the same scale as that Of
the Mongoians? DO they have TO pay
only $40 PER week 20 the so-called mid
die man" or do they have to punge up
s25? Those who do not want proof will
rhut their eyes and say.
THANK God for the American Par
But ~ back to the beginning of this
story--what q drop from $4,000 10 n
measley 81
wILKlNsoN's STEAL.
on Sunday. Sept 70. oaicer carlson
arrested Mexican lahorer named NJ.
Romere, or NJ y. l. Romero. Ills