The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-19

The prosecution in the Sheets case
played another strong card yesterday aft
ernoon in the testimony of William Nc
Whirter. He is the younger of the
brothers who were robbed of over $4,000
on Sept. 10 at the Antler roominS house
and as the result OF which robbery Chief
of Police George A. Sheets now faces a
charge of compromising a felony.
McWhirter yesterday afternoon cOrrob
Grated in every detail the testimony of
his brother regarding the robbery. and
testified further to OVerhearing a CONVEX
satiOn between Chief Sheets and Sergeant
John Hempel. in which Sheets asked
of the robbery. Hempel said that an Of
ficer on Second South street had tele
phOned in concerning the Swindle, saying
that the boys" meaning the swindlers)
had gone to the New England addition
Hempel added that McWhirter must have
told the officer OF it. This conversation,
McWhirter says. was carried on in an UNI
dertone, and after ii was over the chief
called the McWhirter brothers into his
office and said:
Keep this dark or it will go hard with
me-"
Prior to that Hempel had advised them
not to say anything about the case to
any of the ether officers
Heard Telephone Call.
The Younger McWhirter also testified
that while he was talking to Sheets about
4:30 o'clock that afternoon. the chief re-
ceived a telephone call and talked over
the telephone few minutes. This was at
about the same time that Alexander Nc
Whittier testified Wednesday afternoon
that Bell. the pseudo officer. had called
up number which sounded like 10 from
the Sun drug store. Chief Sheets tele-
phone number is IS.
McWhirter also cOrrObOrated his BROTH
er'S testimony in regard to the visit of +,
A Phillips, police reporter of the Tribune
n office the chief nf in
which he asked about the robbery ap-
parently knowing most of the details, and
the chief told him he could give him no
information in regard to it.
He told in his testimony of the incident
of the rig going to the New England ad-
dition, in which Bell and a companion
rode. He said that his brother asked the
chief if Bells companion was the detec-
tive he had sent with him and the chief
replied that it was.
The chief. when seen in the corridor Of
the court house during a recess, said:
THE fellow is lying He has been
coached. L only said a few words to him
when he came TO headquarters"
Donadson's Sister on Stand.
Mrs. Mary King and her two daughters.
who were on the stand in the morning
corroborated part of young McWhirter's
story Mrs King is a sister of lin
the gang of swindlers who robbed the
young Scotchmen. and lives in the New
England ADDITION OF the city. She said
that on the night of the robbery Donald
son and three other men came TO her
house about o'clock and that later on
two more men came out there and all
of them sat down To eat. but one left
early She said she understood that two
of these men-the last two who arrived
came in a buggy, and that later a man
rode up on horseback
Young McWhirter said that after he
two men left the livery barn in the rig
he told the man at McCoy's livery that
they were the ones who had robbed him.
and that the man got on horseback and
followed them.
identified the pictures Of the two O'Briens
house with Jim Donaldson. and one of
the daughters said she saw the buggy
drive up with two men in the rig
May Davis, sweetheart of Larry O'Brien
whose picture was identified by both of
the McWhirterS as the ''steerer'' who in
duced them to go to the place where they
were fleeced. was also a witness yester-
day afternoon. She swore that in re-
Spouse to a telephone call she and Mrs
John O. Bren went to the police station
one Saturday night. and Mrs. O Brien
called on the chief. She stayed in the
hack and did not know what passed be-
tween Mrs. o. Brien and the chief.
She identified the photographs of Larry
and John o. Brien and also the one of
Donaldson. She said she was living with
the QBriens at 126 South West Temple
street up until Sept. 10, the day of the
robbery, when they moved to 16S West