The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-11
BURGLAR BAILEY
F[EES FROM JAIL
Rank Management About the
County Bastlle Allows
Prisoner to Escape.
SIX-M0NTHS CONVICT
WALKS AWAY FROM EMERY
Bungling Methods and IncOm-
potency Permit Dangerous
Criminal to Escape.

There III come time some day when
the people of Salt Lake county Will
have a Sheriff who Will devote part
of his time to attending to their bust
ness 1t is the current opinion that
the incumbent in that Office might do
something for the taxpayes, besides
draw the salary which they pay him,
il he were not too busy with his tele
scope looking for the flaws in the work
which is being done by officials of op-
posite political faiths. Every day
Furnishes proofs that c, Frank Emery,
the fat, the foolish, the representative
OF the hierarchy, who parts his name in
the middle and bluffs his way to all he
gets, is positively incompetent TO dis
charge the duties of the Office TO which
elected him, and to which he now has
the Immaculate nerve to ask them To
return him.
IT would be tlresome TO cite the
thousand and one Instances of his in
competence Let the latest one suf
fee as fair sample. Go to your tele-
phone, call up the county jail, No. AL,
and ask the tlme-server In charge;
Where is burglar Bailey? Then listen
to what he has TO tell you, and you II
get few minutes Of high.class enter
tainment.
Where Is Bailey?
Where is burglar Bailey? The Lord
knows, but He won t tell. Sheriff
Emery is his keeper, but he don Z
know, AS a matter of fact, the whole
gang of cheap politicians who serve
as deputies to 'Ethe fat and foolish
have been losing flesh since last Sun
day in a helterskelter search for the
gentleman of burglarious proclivities
ha
Sabbath day and wandered forth into
the unknown. Here's little history.
On Sunday, August 10, Roy L, Bailey,
who had found employment as drug
clerk at the Sun drug store, Market
and West Temple street, was arrested
on charge of burglarizing a room at
the Lincoln House, on First South
street, and taking therefrom lot of
wearing apparel belonging to lodger.
goods on him, In his pockets the de-
tectives found skeleton keys and pick
locks. and it was thought there would
be no trouble in scoring a conviction
in the case. But some how or other he
escaped.
In less than a dozen hours after his
discharge from court, he was caught
IN the act of rifing the cash drawer of
drug store at the corner of Third
East and Second streets. The officers
broke In upon him and took him red
| handed. There was nothino for him
/ TO do but to confess his guilt and
throw himself upon the mercy of the
| trial court. On his plea of guilty to
the reduced charge of petty larceny, he
was sentenced in the Third District
court 10 serve six months in the county
Jail.
Takes French Leave.
In burglar Bailey Sheriff Emery saw
u piece OF highly available ''trusty"
mcdiately elevated. The Jail was irk~
some to him. So, he was detailed to
take care Of the Jail horses and milk
The Jail COWS. This work was all right
at first, but IN the course OF time it
began to pail ON the burglar He was
aweary. Ennui was his portion. Last
Sunday he threw down his curry combs
and milk pals and walked off, He's
probably walking yet.
Tuesday night Charles Sperry and
John Larson, deputy sherlffs, declared
solemnly to a Tribune man who called
at the county Jail that Bailey was in
his cell. They lied. Bailey had not
I been rear the county Jail since sun
} day, and they knew il. They were
simply trying TO conceal the fact that
i bungling methods had permitted this
dangerous criminal TO walk away Mt
his own sweet will.
Is Still at Large.
Wednesday afternoon. when man
named Simpson called the county Jail
by 'phono and told the deputy in
charge that Bailey was in a Commercial
street saloon, the whole Sheriff's force
rushed TO the scene TO capture the
man whom they had safely locked up
IN their bastilc! A bunch Of dozen