The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-20
OUTSIDER TALKS
OF SHEETS CASE
How the Whole Business Locks
to d Disinterested
Man.
POINTS OUT ABSURDITIES
AS THEY APPEAR TO HIM
Rapid Education Is Being Sc
cured by McWhirter
Brothers.

Since the Sheets case at present
constitutes an all-absorbing topic OF
discussion among the people OF Salt
Lake, the opinion Of a disinterestcd
party, expressed TO representative OF
The Tribune. will be OF interest The
views given below are based uDon the
opinion of a man who can rightly be
termed an outsider, and who has heard
all the evidence adduccd at each ses-
sion thus far of the preliminary hear
ing OF the charges against Chief Sheets.
have always considered tn>
United States of America to be the
grandest educational country in the
world,' said the outsider, "and the
problem presented to me in the dis
closures in the Sheets case more than
confirms this opinion
I'VE have here the spectacle of two
business men, hailing from the Land
of Cakes, arriving in Salt Lake City
four weeks ago, and by their every
action showing that they were help
less and harmless babes in the woods
So unsophisticated are they that in
order to avoid being kidnapped by a
stranger who accosted them in the
street they found it necessary to take
street car and 30 to Fort Douglas,
having at that time Il very vivid sus-
plcion that the man who had accosted
tlNiu was d very Ddtl HILL
Still More Suspicious.
''On their return from their attempt
ed escape, they are again accostcd bv
the same individual, whom they were
endeavoring to avoid. According 10
their own testimony, they were still
more suspicious Of his intentions in
the second encounter than they were
In the first. They, however, in spite
Of their suspicious, allow themselves to
be taken by him to n rooming house
Tor the osteusible purpose of meeting
a person whom they had never pre-
vlously seen
1.-The evidence Of the elder babe in
the woods is to the effect that up to
that time he had never seen a game
or cards played, nor had he ever handl-
cd deck of cards, and that his re-
hgious belief had taught him that card
PLAYING; IN any form, is sinful, In
spite of these facts, he takes hand
IN game of cards and on the very
first hand dealt him bets $2O50. and.
by his own admission, subsequently al,
lows himself TO be relieved of $4,000
more. He thereupon calls at the police
station and accepted a loan of $1,000.
Tor which he gives his note, from one
of the men who he claims assisted in
relieving him of the money he was
carving
He states that on the road TO the
police station he was continually threat.
enlng the man. who afterwards loaned
him $1,000, with imprisonment for fbe
part he had taken in the alleged swim.
die. His excuse for accepting this $1,000
is that his railroad ticket was eypir-
ing and that he had no money to take
him out of town, but after rcccivino
the $1,000 in gold his determination TO
prosecute the men, whom he asserts
robbed him, seems 10 have vanished.
and the two brothers leave the city.
Great Transformation.
''ln less than four weeks from tbe
date or the alleged robbery. we find
these two vcrdant Scotchmen trans
formed into sharp. keen -witted bpsi.
ness men, capable of taking the witness
stand and successfully enga ginp in a
wordy warfare with one of the bright
est lawyers in Salt Lake CITY.
In my opinion. there never was n
clearer case of the United States pre-.
eminence as an educational field and
| thlnk that If these same Scotchmcn
stay four weeks longer in this conn |
Try they should he educated sufficiently
by that time TO become chiefs of their |
clan when they return to the old conn. |
try; -,
''The evidence in the case. so far
appears TO have been directed entirely |
TO prove that the TWO ScOtchmen have |
been robbed The only real serious |
proof of Chief Sheets criminalitv IN |
this case so far submitted by the prose. |
,ution, Is that an alleged confidence
man attempted TO call him up by Dbone
but could not get him. | do NOT know
what the penalty for this crime is
but NO doubt the chief Will be given