Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-17

j was left penniless IN a strange city.
Bell said, II It's as bad as that,
here's $50 OF my own money and he
handed me the 500 In a gold coin had
seen passed to him at the post
office Sheets turned around to
Bell and said to him. Can't you get
some Of the mans money back Bell
answered, Give me an hour or two.
and think ! can. I'll telephone you
every hour | am gone until return
MADE \ FALSE STATEMENT
sheets asked mo IL this was agree.
able said it was II he would send
an officer or a detective along. The
two went out together and Sheets re-
turned In minute. saying the man
had proposition TO make. Bell fol-
lowed him i'm and made II. offering to
loan me 81 900 Of his own money, out of
his account at the Commercial bank
II | would repay II when ! got my
money, and sign note for II.
agreed Ia this and he left. Then
Sheets told me ! needn't worry about
paying back the $1,000. He told me
these men had bunkoed me and when
| got the 81 900 10 stick to IT.. | asked
Cbief sheets If he had sent an officer
with Bell and HE SAID HE HAD
SENT AN OFFICER
SHEETS WENT TO DINNER.
Continuing the story It was narrated
that chief sheets then went To dinner,
while the witness went out to find his
brother He located the grips at the
Cullen. hut not the brother He then
went back to the Chesapeake bar.
whore he asked the cigar seller again
about the men and told him about the
robbery Theu he returned TO the po-
lice station
capt. Burbidge met him, asked what
ne wanted. and when he told him he
had been robbed he said the Chief
knew about IT, and passed on. Sergt.
Hempel then came GU and escorted
him behind the counter IA the front
office Hempel advised him ON NO
ACCOUNT TO OPEN HIS MOUTH
TO ANY OF THE OFFICERS, assured
him that the chief had the case in
hand, and would fix II up all right.
The brother arrived shortly after
wards Hempel took both Of them
into another room. Here Detective
Raleigh met them They sat there 40
minutes. Then Detective Raleigh and
Hempel passed by them Hempol as
surfing them that everything was all
right. and not 10 feel worried.
RALEIGH WAS THERE,
Chief Sheets came back from dinner.
and asked the McWhrters into his Of
fee. Hempel ana Raleigh followed
them IN. The officers spoke together for
two or three minutes. THEN MY
BROTHER SAID TO CHIEF
SHEETS" continued McWhirter in Civ
Ing his evidence 81 saw one Of the
gang drive out Of the stabling place
next to the Cullen In a buggy with an
other man. and learned from the sta
bic keeper that they had hired the rig
to drive 10 the New England addition.
west OF the city,
Il interrupted my brother TO ask
Chief Sheets If THIS OTHER MAN
WAS THE DETECTIVE HE SAID HE
WOULD SEND ALONG, AND CHIEF
SHEETS SAID HE WAS.
we then asked the chief If We hadn
better go to dinner as we had haC
nothing TO eat since dinner.
The McWhirters then went to dinner
They ate at the first restaurant en-
countered ana returned IN half an hour
and sat down In the office OF Chic
Sheets TO await the return Of Bell with
the money Philips of the Tribune
came in, produced a note book, and read
an accurate story OF the robbery
can YOU tell me anything about this
the reporter asked Sheets, and Sheets
replied I cannU. ] know nothing
about II and have nothing 10 say. The
reporter never once looked IN my direc-
ton" continued McWhirter. land went
cut asking the chief TO keep It from the
other papers. as he had scoop.
MORE CONVINCING TESTIMONY.
AT 1890 o'clock Detective Raleigh
entered, but didn't speak To US at all,
About IL o'clock my brother asked the
chief IL he had done anything about
our tickets. | pulled out mine and
showed IT, The chief handed 1t back
and said he had not done anything,
Raleigh was then there. and he re-
NAMED until the end. | asked the price
q new tickets TO the coast In case we
stald over 20 follow Up the matter, ana
the chief said they would cost over $40
each. My brother then said he was
afraid we had better go on. as we had
no friends here, and were without a
cent. In San Francisco we had friends.
| asked the chief II he thought Bell
would return and he said he thought
he would not, as he had promised TO be
back In an hour, and that was several
hours before The robbers, he thought,
would be scattered by now. | asked
Chief Sheets what he thought the
chances were OF our getting our money
back. and he said they were 10 10 one
against it. My brother then said we
had better take advantage Of our tickets
to get to our friends before We We're
stranded I'm strange community. |
asked the chief to take our address. He
A. Ok ,f d f1
desk | wrote on &C the address | eN-
pected to go 10 in San Francisco, and
the chief promised to send for us II
there were any developments. and to let
us know about them soon. We promised
TO return at once IL he ever wunted
us
RETURN OF $1,000,
During this conversation Bell re-
turned, with hls coat bulglng out. as
though holding weight under Il, He
did not knock, and came straight up
10 me. sitting beside me on the couch.
and began to talk TO me. lie said $3.50
was all he could get. ana | said I'm
answer to Chiefs Sheets that $1,000
would be the least l could get along
with in san francisco. Well said
Bell, 1 think / can manage that other
$3.50 If you viii give me q little time
Bell left the room, and said to Chief
Sheets that he had better search Bell,
and take away that $50 he already
had. He agreed, and followed Bell
into the hall. Then he came back with
his coat bulged out as Bells had been,
and spread out on his desk $3.50 In gold
coin, Pick It up he said as we started
to count II before any OF those report
ers come in While we were counting
Il. Bell returned with the other $3.50
having been gone Just few minutes
He put II down on the desk, and gave
me a note to sign for $1,000. | signed
It and he nut it in his pocket.
ADVISED TO KEEP QUIET
CHIEF SHEETS THEN SAID WE
WERE REQUIRED TO KEEP VERY
QUIET about Il all. IL II comes out
tho chief declared It would hurt his
standing, and on no account were we
10 talk To any rcporters who would