Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-04

| lUS III ana making defense boft re
any Charges had been preferred against
nim. He then moved that the reara.
sentaayes of the papers be requested
20 appar before the committee on Fri
day afternoon at o'clock and present
any charges they might have against
the chief.
SHEETS ISSUED CHALLENGE
ernstrom contended that She's has
defeu the papers TO produce any evil
dence against him and had charged
them with publishing falscho1 H..
Sheets issued the challenge to .he pa
pers and he thought the chief Should
prove that the accusations wee false
Flo said that the newspa pers are not
eclne to come before the committee and
give II 1ir evidence away, but z shoe
! brought the matter before the courts
they would show Elm.
SHOULD Go TO COURTS
Wells argued that II sheets dhl not
want TO submit to questions rs ID the
| circumstances connectc with the AZ.
| FAIR he should go to tie courts ior re-
| fress by bringing a libel suit. Tn that
| pe"f witnesses could be compoliel 10
| Gltend and s'ye evid nee and all the
| facts would be brought cut
IDEAS OF BLACK.
! Black said that II the papers did
| not come before the committee and
| back up their charges they would
| be condemned by the public. He
thought that the matter should be
continued and the papers officially
requested 10 be present Mulyey
agreed with Wells that the only re-
dress the chief could get from the
newspapers was IN the courts as the
council has no jurisdiction over the
papers
Preece then broke in with the state.
ment that the newspapers were not
under Investigation by the council
but that the police department is
After It was agreed by the "Ameri-
can" members of the council that
chief Sheets would make a stayA-
ment. Ferry's motion requesting the
newspaper men To appear before the
committee tomorrow afternoon was
carried
Sergt Hempel was then called TO
the stand and related his knowledge
Of the affair Following him Chief
Sheets was called TO the stand and
the maner in which he wound him
self up Is told IN detail in the report
which follows:
Following Is 4 stenographic report Of
the proceedings, taken down by T. 5
Pendergrass;
SERGT HEMPELS PART.
Mr. Hobday--I would like Mr. Hem
pei TO make statement as to what
he knows regarding the bunco game
which came up here two or three weeks
ago.
Mr.. Hempel-I don't remember the
parties who We're there but there was
little Seotchman came to the
station about four O'Clock one afternoon
and said he had lost $1,000 In bunco
game, and asked him where. ! don't
recpllect the date Of this occurrence
II was soine time last month about
four o'clock In the afternoou-between
four and four thrty.---a little Scotch
man came into the police station and
made few remarks to Desk Sergeant
Smith. and Smith turned around TO me
and told me there was man who |
wanted to see me, and ! stepped up |
10 the desk and be told me that he
and his brother just came over FROM |
Scotland and that he had lost $1,000 |
In game OF poker He said that
they had been decoyed into room |
ing house way down on the street, he
couldn't tell me just where, but |
he said about three or four blocks. I
! asked him II he could take me TO
the place and he said he could. And |
then | asked him haw II happened and I
he went on TO say something about |
their going 70 have an automobile !
ride and they did not want to GO
and that the fellow steered them Oft |
down Second South street and thai
they finally landed in a room IN the |
Auiler rooming house, and when |
they got IN there there we're two fell
lows sitting talking and that they |
showed them some maps and specl-
mems in the roam. Finally two par
ties IN the room said IL they had no /
objection we VIII finish our game |
He said these fellows said they had !
been playing a little game there. They |
started In to MAY cards, and the par |
~ who took the Scotchmen in said. III |!
YOU have no objection | Vill ioin in |
the game" and they hnally Induced 4
one OF the Scotchmen TO play. and he /
said he played and lost $4,000; and |
that then he said 10 his brother 'Gu 1
and get policeman and the little /
Scotchman started to go out hut the .
little fellow that brought them up Z
there said II viii get one and he /
went out and stayed few minutes |
and brought back two men who said |
they were police, and they arrested
the whole tunch of them, aud he 'Nld /
"They took 5000 away from my |
brother, and they are supposed To be /
on the way up here now" H. said /
one pf the fellows ran away from him. /
and he said one of the other fellows
was on his way up here, and J took I
him into the criefs office and tod /
the chief that this fellow had been
buncoed, and the chief said You had /
better go out and try TO find them
WANTED TO GET AWAY
As we walked out of the station he |
said something about having to leave /
that day-somethlng about their tick I
cts running out--and | told them we (
might not be able to get those te!- /
lows today. but he said they would |
have TO go that night at II or n4o.
I said, II will get your tickets extend /
ed so they could stay over and we |
would try to get these fellows We I
walked ont from the station and went /
out to State street and down state |
street to Second South and then along .
TO the Wilson hotel lie was walking /
probably rs feet ahead Of me. He went
into the Wilson hotel and then into the
Wilson hotel bar. and | waited outside 4
and when he came out he said there I
was none of them there and then we
went ON 10 the Mint saloon and he (
didn't find any of them there so we /
Went down TO the White House bar .
and from there TO the cullen hotel and /
from there down TO the Antler room !
ing house. He showed me the room I
where they were robbed. | don't know
now which II was, but | think Il was
room No ., We went into the room.
but there was nobody IN there, and |
rang for the andlady aud she said
that two young fellows had rented the
room, that she had never seen them
before and had only seen them three I
or four times during the time they /
were there.
WAS QUITE WORRIED