Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-02

Mexico, when headed of by the sheriff
and interviewed last night told how the
gang had flashed $1,000 bills and how
they had scattered when the victims
came back to town.
ALL-ABsoRBING SCANDAL
These are few OF the indicators that
point to the commission OF crime.
The grave scandal continues to he the
all.absorbing topic and II Is not infre-
quently heard on the streets that
Sheets made great mistake in go
ing out into the hall and interviewing
the man Bell alone and returning with
the money.
When told by McWhirter that he had
been arrested by Bell. Sheets made an
other grave mistake In not arresting
Bell on the charge of impersonating an
officer. There are a number of other
iishy incidents connected with the
| crime,
Sheets says Mcwhirter reported at
the police station when In reality the
station through the back entrance, and
station by the back entrance, and
Sheets stood for the bogus officer.
PECULIAR ACTIONS.
Sheets and the Tribune are inclined
| to doubt the story Of the Scotchmen,
yet the victim had the receipt for $500
dollars given him by one OF the gang
who impersonated an officer This they
| showed TO the police, to say nothing of
the six $1,000 bills which were changed
In this city by members of the gang.
Why did Sheets make McWhirter
pick up the $3.50 laying on the desk as
he explained 80 that the reporters
could not see It," If the chief Of police
thought no crime had been committed
| and there was nothing to conceal?
| In the face of the story told why did
not the chief of police send a man out to
shadow Bell when he went off to get
the money?
Sheets says he did not know the man
Bell, yet he calls him Bell. Who in
| troduced him.
McWhirter says he didn't.
Sheets was perfectly willing to re.
| cover part of the money for the vic
tim. Since when has the police de-
| partment gone into the collection
agency business to the neglect of run
| ming down crime?
The Tribune says that $40, 600 rob-
| berry has no news value: what consti-
tutes news value?
IL Sheets told McWhirter that he had
better get out of town because pub
liclt ~ would spoil any success In the
SubotiutUN tlltSi VI tHt EdlEs w II
DID SHEETS ALLOW BELL AND
HIS PARTNER TO REMAIN AT THE
I SANITARIUM BOOMING HOUSE
FOR FIVE DAYS AFTER THE
CRIME?
These are just few OF the questions
that are being asked on the streets to-
day not only by the rank and file. but
by prominent citizens.
one bank cashier this morning said:
81 am heartily in sympathy with the
American party and voted for the tick
ct at last election, but from what |
can learn, please excuse me-"
A STAGGERING FACT.
An attorney also voiced the same sem
timents in almost exactly the same
words, 1T looks pretty rotten to me-"
he said. Where can man go who
has been wronged IL not to the chief OF
police. Nice kind OF advertising TO give
Salt Lake, isn't It."
That twounsophstlcate Scotch tour
lists could come to Salt Lake, be fleeced
out of $4,000, and then deliver one OF
the gang 10 the police, or rather, 10 be
more correct, was delivered into the
hands Of the chief of the police by the
bogus officer of the gang OF harpies,
is staggering fact.
MAYOR is NOKRlED.
II Is known that Mayor Thorn son
IS doing some deep thinking about the
scandal. and particularly the astonish-
ing part that George Sheets played.
He knows that he was responsible for
the appointment of this same man
Sheets who whenever he has been off
the force FOR the good OF the service"
spent the most OF his time In trying TO
hapk usif q LOT ai,a inn
that was significant. Accordingly, II
Sheets permits bogus officer to come
into the quiet OF his department and
tell him of crime; II he gets and
handles some of the stolen money,
money that amounts TO more than
$40, 600, makes a settlement as be-
tween thieves and victims, with the
victims getting only a tenth of that
they were robbed Of; when after
this he allows the thieves to escape
and exclaims according TO the story
OF one of the women In the case when
he learns that the boys have got
away. THANK God for that" sort
of companion JOY to that OF Thank
God for the American party" small
wonder that the mayor Is worried and
that he will be held responsible before
all the public In just so far as he
condones Sheets and his methods.
Surely, In the vernacular OF the day,
II is up to Mayor Thompson To iDves-
tigate, and investigate with wide open
doors so that the public may hear the
questions asked and the answers that
are given. There should be no secret
session and no whitewash
THOU SHALT NOT SQUEAL..
When 1t comes to uncovering the
shameful methods OF the Salt Lake
police department as shown by It's Of
cha head, the organ OF the Knockers.
the tenderloin and the gamblers, cries
out perverted command Thou
shalt not squeal." and woe betlde the
unfortunate within or without it's
ranks that dares to do the peach" |
act This morning it gives Sheets
such a certificate OF character that
the devil never gave 10 his most active
agent on this mundane sphere. II
pays some people 10 hang together
that they might not hang apart. And
that Is evident what will be done In
this case, the worst spot that has ever
been made on the history OF the de-
partment
COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE.
Tonight the city council will begin |
an investigation OF it's own accord. II |
has seen tracks that lead very close
up To the municipal chicken coop and |
has examined some Of the feathers
mat have fallen. about the roost It |
VIII endeavor to ascertain to whom |
they belong and why they are there. !
AS TO Mr. Sheets the expert on crooks |
ana criminals. he is TO be given an |
overhauling.- II appears that he has |
asked for II. II he can explain his |
conduct to the satisfaction OF the pub |
nc ne may be put down as a wonder Of |
wonders.
NAMES or THE GANG
lhere can be little question that the |
big trio that played the bunco game |