The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-24
DEPUTY SHER|FF'S
BILL TURNED DOWN
State Board of Examiners Re-
fuse to Pay for Capture"
Of jim Donaldson.
SHERIFF EMERY MAY HAVE
TO PUT UP HIMSELF
Amount Is $246.7O, Which the
State Declines to
Pay.

The State board of examiners yester-
day refused to pay Deputy Sheriff 10.
seph C, Sharp's bill for the @ capture -
of James Donaldson at Hot Springs,
Ark. In their anxiety to make political
capital against Chief of Police George
A. Sheets, Sheriff c. Frank Emery and
has satellites have evidently overshot
the mark, with the result that the Sher-
if will probably be compelled TO pay
S24670 out of his own pocket. That
was the amount of the sworn voucher
Sharp submitted for his expenses on
the famous trip to Hot Springs,
The board of examiners, In refusing
to pay the bill, took the position that
it was an illegal charge against the
State because Sharp was not the agent
of the State named in the requIsltlon
papers issued by Governor Cutler. Sher"
iff Emery was named as that agent, but
before he could start with the papers
Donaldson readily agreed to come with
cut extraditiop, and left in company
with Sharp, who arrested him. Sheriff
Emery met the party at Provo, and, ac-
cordlne 10 present indications, all the
expenses the Sheriff or his underGngs
will ever be allowed for the capture of
Donaldson will be the price of the
Sheriff IS fare TO Provo and, in the
event he rode on pass, he won 7 even
get any money for that trip.
Says County Must Pay.
Chief Deputy ]. Farley White of the
Sheriff s Office declared yesterday that
Sheriff Emery had advanced out of hls
own pocket the S246,7O which Sharp
spent on the Hot Springs trip.
If the State won t pay that money,
the county will have to pay it," de-
clared Mr. White, who. In common with
the other men in the Sheriff s office,
was considerably pcrturbed over the un-
tn,l of I. ln ,T
examiners.
The State board of examiners having
held, however, that the expenditure by
Sharp is m illegal charge it is probable
that any attempt of the board of county
commissioners To reimburse Sheriff En-
cry for the political iunket of his dep
uty will be met promptly by injunction
proceedings.
II is fact well.known to all those
connected with the case that a simple
telegram to Donaldson that he was
wanted in Salt Lake would have
brought him here, and that the spectac-
u]ar arrest was actuated by desire TO
manufacture political capital against
the American party and TO grab off =
the $500 reward offered by Governor
Cutler.
Woman Pays Own Expenses,
One phase of the trip from Hot
Springs 10 Salt Lake has very peculiar
look When Donaldson was arrested he
was in company with woman named
Effie Fay. He had on him about SIPS,
of which he claimed $3.50 belonged 70
the woman, Out of this money Deputy
Sheriff Sharp paid the expenses of the
woman back TO Salt Lake. and when he
got here the balance in his possession
was attached by one of the McWhirters.
who claimed it as part of the money
won from him and his brother in the
alleged bunko game.
The Sheriff S Office is standing behind
the McWhirters in their effort 10 recov-
or this money; but the question arises,
in the event the money is held to be-
long to the McWhirters, if Sharp did
not commit an illegal act in expending
any part of it to bear the woman S ex-
penses back 10 Salt Lake.
The further question arises as to why
Sharp deprived the woman OF the mon
ey's possession, when, by paying her
expenses ont Of 1t, ne virtually acknowl-
edges that it belonged to herr She was
not a prisoner; she had not been ar
rested, and no extradition papers had
been issued for her Many people
think that Sharp, by admitting her own
ership of the money, and then depriving
her of the possession of it, laid himself
at least open TO an action for damages
on her part.