Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-24
nasses. end would not force "a case to
be brought.
CERTAINLY NOT, soREN.

Senator Brown says Sheets was present
when the money was paid to McWhir-
tire 20 get away, and this fact was
withheld from magistrate. How long
should an officer be allowed to waitl
Shall he run to a magistrate every time
a story is told TO him about Il criuey
Was reasonable length OF time al
lowed Chief Sheets TO actP II was
Just one week from Thursday as | re-
member 1t that the facts were in has
possession"
Turning to the matter OF others who
knew about the robbery, Mr. Christen-
sen failed to mention the fact that the
chief knew nothing OF the people whom
McWhirter had told of II while ION the
way to the station" and Of the fact
that he asked Hempel who knew OF II
before cautoning the brothers TO keep
1t mum. He did. however make a
great parade OF all those whom Nc
Whirter has stated he told about the
robbery while running about the
streets trying to find what sort OF n
city he had fallen into. Attorney
Christensen enumerated. the desk SER
eeant, Sergeant Hempel Capt Bur-
bidge, the drug store keeper ~ the
sun drug store, the Chesapeake cafe
cigar seller the clerk at the Cullen, the
Mccoy stable man, the boy who was
two postal clerks, and others whom tho
McWhirters have mentioned IN evil
dence, including the policemen whom
William spoke to after seeing Bell
drive west on Second South.
CALLS II DISHONEST
Following this the honesty OF the
prosecution was assailed, I" Ii they had
wanted to make an honest case said
Atty. Christensen, why did not they
put on other witnesses. Why did they
not bring this stable boy? Why did
they not call Sergeant Hempel? Why
did they not call Detective Raleigh?
Why did they not call this policeman at
the Rio Grande depot These were
about all the why's" left after the ev-
idence had answered so many Of the
bulk that were asked before the trial
Began, and Atty. Brown interfered long
enough to say he had tried to learn
the name Of the officer at the depot ana
failed and had had an officer out for
day trying to locate the boy who
went after the rig. Atty. Christensen
furnished the name Of the Rio Grando
policeman as Officer Ben Selgfus (alias
McGintY and Atty. Brown made note
of 1t.
ABOUT KEEPING QyIET
"A point is made of the fact that the |
chief told the men to keep quiet OF |
course he told them that, and IN doing
II he did only his duty. They say a
newspaper man suppressed the story,
and | want TO say for newspaper men |
that they generally suppress stories |
when they are told not to print them |
because It viii hurt the general COM |
munity's interests. In this case Chief |
Sheets had not yet made arrests. OF |
course he suppressed the story, and in
doing it he only did his duty and what
every other good officer would do UNI
der the circumstances.
What did Sheets do to pull back the /
story, after others knew It? Taking |
now the evidence, we find that II was
after the McWhirters came back that
they began to get suspicious. Braffatt |
tells them he Is suspicious, and gets /
them suspicious. When he sees the
two fake policemen at the Sanitarium
he tells McWhirter 1t would be useless
to call the police for they would take
them in one door and out of the otheD
at the station. am not arguing to
suppress testimony. Let It all go against
Chief Sheets. and still there is no case
made against him.
THE uNRIPE TIME.
Later, Atty. Braffatt, after he has
gathered all the testimony, knows all
the facts, and Is aware Of all the con-
ditions, tells Chief Sheets the timo
was not ripe to arrest Bell. If the con-
ditions were not ripe then, how could
you expect them 10 be ripe when Chief
Sheets knew hardly any OF the facts
and circumstances?
AS for compromising a felony by
mi IL,
kept the information only from Thurs
day to Thursday. Atty. Braffatt kept
1t from Monday to Thursday before
filing II with the county attorney
why did the McWhirters and PEN
degrass go TO Sheets on their return
TO Salt Lake2 For any honest purpose?
No. But just To entrap him. They
wanted no more assistance They were
suspicious. and they wanted data to
confirm their suspicious. so as TO make
a case against Chief Sheets.
What has Chief Sheets done? What
did he ever do?"
Nothing" replied Atty. William
Hanson in an undertone.
Absolutely nothing" echoed Atty
Christensen In dramatic tones, and
then while the courtroom laughed he
added, chief Sheets did all he could
and maybe in this case that was MOTH
ing"
ABOUT "BoLTING."
Taking up the use OF the word bolt"
by MoWhirter to explain his rushing
around town and down 10 the depot
Atty. Christensen asked again in dra-
matte tones, at the top OF his voice:
What does this word bolt mean?
understand 1t means on the race TRACK
to run away from the bunch or to
leave the other horses. That was what
McWhirter did. He ran away from the
ofiicer sent out to search with him. II
not then ] ask what meaning can be
got from the word bolt
Atty. Brown furnished the answer
TO bolt said he. lis, for instance
when a man gets away from the Re-
publican party There was general
laughter In which Atty Christensen
joined
Turning to the trip OF Sergt. Hempel
With McWhirter over the town Mr.
Christensen said that he was the most
negligent OF any officer. The chief
should not be bound by Hempels acts
lie had sent Hempel out to look for the
robbers. and there was no law to say
whether liempel should go fast or slow,
or look well or only poorly"
OF take an automobile" put IN Atty.
Brown for the state
NIGER ~ THE wOoDPILE.
The Niger IN tho woodpic' was
next treated toNa digging up
Where is this Niger In the wood
pile2' asked Christensen Proceed
Ing 10 answer his own question. he
said that the man OF color was Atty
Brahatt, into whose mind tho crea-
turc OF suspicion ciawled after he
bad failed TO got any Of the money
back. and he had transferred this
creature of suspicion to the minds of
the McWhirters Then after that the
whole fabric was built on suspicion
from beginning To end He oxniafned