The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-03
Council VIII Hear Them Sitting
as Committee of the
Whole.
NOTICE WILL BE SERVED
ON MEN MAKING CHARGES
Christensen, Emery, McWhirt-
Ger, Bralfet ct al Invited to
Come Forward.

The Council has ordered an inquiry
into the charges alleged against Chief
of Police Sheets. The investigation will
be made by the Council, sitting as a
committee of the whole, and the inves-
tigation Will begin this afternoon at
2 clock.
This action was decided upon at the
Council meeting Tuesday night and was
in compliance with the written request
Of the, Chief made to the Mayor and
Council.
Come To tho Front.
Now that this has been determined,
the Council should serve written notice
upon all the parties who have been
named In connection with the scandal,
County Attorney Christensen, Sheriff
Emery, the McWhirter brothers, Attor-
ney Braffet, the newspaper men who
printed the charges, should al be asked
III writing to appear before the Council
aud give testimony. OF course. D gem
cIal invitation should be extended to
every enemy that Chief Sheets has to
appear before the Council, and to every
one who claims to know anything about
this case. But this general invitation
will not suffice. Personal service should
be had on the persons who arc directly
Interested
The inquiry will be open. There Will
be 40 locked doors. 1t will be most
searching and the probing will be most
thorough. 1t Is up to the accueers Of
Chief Sheets. The opportunity is pre-
5ented for them to come forward and
establish their charges.
Due to Conspiracy.
The opinion is rapidly gaining ground
that this onslaught upon Chief Sheets
Is due TO a conspiracy upon the part Of
the criminal element and that the gam
bling fraternity arc behind the move.
From the day that George Sheets en-
tered upon his duties as Chief OF Po-
lice the crooks, thieves, gamblers and
all-around criminals have been after
him They had to leave Salt Lake.
told to move, aud they did.
Ever since these criminals have
sought by every means to ind some way
by which they might be enabled TO re-
turn. AS last resort, the conspiracy
was formed which eliminated in sen
sational charges made public Monday.
Cutler Offers Reward.
Gov. John c.. Cutler announced late
Tuesday night that he had decided to
offer reward OF "$500 for the arrest
and conviction of one or more of the
perpetrators Of the alleged swindle Of
the McWhirtere. Gov. Cutler stated
that he had not yet framed Up the
proclamation offering the reward, but
upon his return to this city tonight from
Provo, TO which city he goes this morn
ing to attend a meeting OF the officers
of the State Mental asylum.
The desperate efforts being made by
the three Mormon newspapers OF this
city to cast discredit upon the police
department on account of the manner
In which the alleged robbery Of the Nc
Whirter brothers was handled by the
Chief of Police and his assistants IS be
ing met by the governing body Of the
ever answer the SANDERS of their en-
enies. Not because they considered the
ridiculous charges OF corruption made
against the Chief TO have any founda-
ton in fact, but because they are dc.
termined to have every single fact con-
cerning the crlme-if there was crime
and the manner IN which 1t was re-
ported to and handled by the police de
partment, blazoned to the world so that
Eninutest details, the Police committee
OF the City Council started promptly
Tuesday afternoon with an lnvestiga
ton that will never be abandoned as
long as there is citizen IN Salt Lake
who IS not satisfied.
First Meeting Held,
The initial meeting Of the committee
was held in the Chief s Office Tuesday
Besides Councilmen Crab
tree, Mulvey and HOLIDAY, Of the Police
committee, there were present Mayor
Thomson and Councilman Black. As
step the committee called
before it Chief Sheets, Capts. Raleigh
and Burbidge, Sergt. Hempel and Z.
4. Phillips, newspaper reporter.
These witnesses told the committee
what they knew OF the visit of the
brothers to the Chief Of
Police on the evening Of September IS.
Searching Public Inquiry.
After hearing this testimony, the
committee decided to push through the
Council resolution calling for the
most searching public investigation,
TO be commenced at 2 O'Clock to-
day. All persons having any knowl-
edge whatever of the case are asked to
give the committee the benefit of
that knowledge, so that tho exact
truth may be arrived at. An especially