The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-14
Denounce Statement Printed in
the SmOOtite Organ as
Untrue.
TRIBUNE HAS NEVER
TRIED TO MISLEAD
Has Made Every Effort to Inter
view Them and Present
Their Story.

Some member Of the family which
runs the SmooJ organ down on West
Temple street wrote and published a
story on the front page Of that organ
Saturday morning in which he tried to
make it appear that The Tribune police
reporter is attempting to FIX the
MeWhirter brothers by making ever
lures OF peace to them and inviting
them to his f'private Office at police
headquarters. That all the representa-
tions made in that story are false can
be proved by the McWhlrters them
selves. They Gas much as they dislike
The Tribune and everything connected
with it,, will state, and have stated,
that there is absolutely no truth III the
ever made any proposition to them 10
g. "6x' the Sheets case or to do any
thing else that was not manly, right
and decent The Tribune reporter has
repeatedly asked the McWhirter broth
ers to go with him to The Tribune Of
fee, or anywhere else that suited them,
and talk over the case, which has at
tracted so much attention. He has been
after them since the day the ridicu-
lous charge was made that George
Sheets had been guilty of sharing in
the fruits of the alleged robbery. He
is after them yet, and will continue 10
camp on their trail until the truth is
known to all the people of this COM
mupity.
Denounce the Story.
At 4:30 o o'clocl1 Saturday afternoon
the McWhirter brothers stopped The
Tribune representative az the corner
of Second South and Commercial
streets. Alexander McWhirter's first
remark was: "We're awfully sorry
that thing appeared IN the paper about |
you this morning. 1t was entirely un-
to Ak us and your Invitation to US
to see you and talk this case over was
open and clean. -
The McWhirters talked with The
Tribune reporter nearly an hour at the
point named Saturday afternoon, and
the elder brother, Alexander, would |
have signed statement reeiting the
above facts if requested TO do so. The |
organ which published the story, II 1T
is half as energetic in getting at the
truth as it has been in its attempt TO
hurt fellow newspaperman, can get
such a statement from the McWhlrters
any day They are now visible TO the |
naked eye. They're about the streets |
every hour of the day. They are broke, !
tensen have no further use for them.
They must now fight their battle out
alone and unaided-unless they ''dlg
up more money to grease the wheels
Of the Emery.Christensen machine.
The McWhirters are not bad men.
would tell il If permitted to do SO. That
is lust what The Tribune has been
trying TO induce them to do ever since
The story Of the robbery was sprung
Inaccessible to Tribune Reporters.
4 few nights ago, when the Tribune
was engaged IN exposing the rotten
methods by which an important pris-
oner was permitted to escape from the
county jail, the McWhirters accosted |
the police reporter of this paper and |
asked him why the Tribune had not
printed their statements regarding the
alleged robbery.
accessible to The Tribune at all times
since your claim 10 have been robbed
You have been carried around in the
vest pocket of Frank Emery. Our re-
porters have been denied the privilege
Of talking to you. The truth loves the
light. It proclaims itself from the
housetops. You have hidden away in
from you TO ask why we have not
printed your statements when you have
refused 20 make them TO US
The elder Mr.. McWhirter had another
question to ask. "Why," said he, "do
you make a political issue OF usf We
know nothing, and care less, about
your Utah politics. We're foreigners
We've been robbed. We want our
money back. Why do you make us an
issue IN your politics7''
Had Made NO Crime.
His answer was waiting for him
He was shown that the friends of Mr
Sheets had made 10 issue, political or
otherwise. That they have been, and
are, defending him against the dirtiest
attack ever made against a public Of.
fetal They were invited, then and
there. IN the county JAIL with Emery's
hired minions losing flesh in the fear