The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-08
PERJURER PARENT
CLEARLY FORSWORN
His Testimony Flatly Contra.
dicted by Many Reputable
and Good Witnesses.
HIS ALTBI is COMPLETE;
ESTABLISHED BY MANY
A Second Notion to Dismiss L.
Taken Under Amusement
by the Court. - u

After hearing which has occupie&
six days, Judge j j. Whitaker took the
application of the State for the binding
over of Chief of Police George A.
Sheets TO await the action of the Dis
triegt court on charge of conspiracy,
under advisement, announcing to the
counsel that he desired to make care
full study of the testimony.
The defense did not consume much
time in presenting it's case but it mar.
shaled an army of facts in refutation
Of the story of Parent, the crook, that
was convincing and conclusive. Chief
In his own behalf, and in the course
of his argument Judge Thurman ex-
planned this course by saying that he
did not 90 on the stand because they
felt if the evidence before the court
by the outsiders was not sufficient to
release him, any statement by him
could not make it So
The defense presented complete
alibi. They demonstrated that from
August 18th to August 2sth, Chief
Sheets was absent from the city, spend
ing his vacation at Meadowville, near
Idaho, and it was during this time that
Parent testified that he saw the Chief
number of times.
Thomas Halliday, proprietor of tho
Halliday Drug Store, corner of State
and First South streets. testified that
all the telephones in mis- store are 10
the rear of the building, that entering
BY the front door, the way by which
Parent testified he entered YOU have
to walk the entire length Of the fruit
store, pass through a swinging gate and
then through door in the partition be-
fore you reach the phones Parent
said il was on a glass showcase In the
ho 6ef f,koc p,
proves that he could not have heard the
conversation Bell had with the Chief, if
such a conversation occurred
George Goalen and B. l.. Cough, pro.
prietor and clerk, respectively, of the
store on State street, naar Second South,
N which Parent averred Bell paid
Chief Sheets $3.50, testified that Sheets
bad not been in the store on Septem.
Der 30 last, nor since his appointment
AS Chief OF Police, and be could not
have entered that place and the tran
sactlon taken place without either one
or the other of them seeing him.
AT the afternoon session the defense
recalled Parent for further crossex-
animation. Then Parents evil record
was given additional elabors tion. 1t
developed that in Kansas City he was
sentenced 10 ll2 days and served over
30 days IN prison, his number being
IS4. He claimed that he paid an alder
man, named Abel, $500 and obtained
his release, and he has about a dozen
aliases. among them was Morgan, Berry,
Tarrent, and it was under the name of
Walter Allen that he was convicted at
Kansas City.
The fact was also drawn out that
his brother, ''who was not in the same
business, as Parent stated in cross
examination, had served 6ve-year
term in the peniJentiary at Huntsville,
Tex, for robbery. He was not in the
hotel business then, except IN the ca
pacity of guest Of the State hostel
cry Pictures of both the men, taken
from the ''thieves gallery. were pro-
duced. Parent s brother 5 number was
1923.
While County Attorney Hansen was
making the closing argument, he read
portions of an editorial which appeared
in Thursday mornings organ Of
Smootism and conspiracy in support of
his contention. When he concluded,
been under the impression that the dis.
reputable organ was one OF the cocoon.
spirators on the side Of the prosecution,
and now they are convinced,
Before court adjourned, the case
against William Newton. charged with
conspiracy, was set for hearing Tues
day, March 18th.
Parent Proved Liar.
The first witness called for the de-
Tense was Thomas Halliday. proprietor
of the Halliday drug store. He testified
that all the telephones are IN the rear
of the store, with a partition dividing
them from the front room. To use the
phone one could pass through the
swinging door and through the door IN
the partition into the rear. There IS
no phone on the glass showcase IN the
front store and. the showcases run the
entire length Of the store.
George Goalen said he was proprietor
of the store. 60 State street, he was
i'm the store on Sept 20 last and knew
Chief Sheets.
Q.-Do YOU remember ever seeing him
in Your place of business. and If so,
when' Al don remember seeing
Mr. Sheets in my place since ne became
chief of police,
of Mr.. Sheets and another man
had stopped in Your place of business
on the 20th OF September last, would
YOU have seen himl Al certainly
O.-Is there or was there q showcase
of any kind in that placeI A.-No,
sir.
In cross.examination witness SAID
when Deputy Sheriff Sharp came into
his store and questioned him about the
matter he replied: 81 don Z remember
having seen him.
b L. Cough, clerk in Mr., Goalen's
store. corroborated the evidence given
bv his employer He was more en-
phatic than Mr., Goalen and gave as a
reason for his assurance that In his
boyhood he had a playmate named
George Sheets. He is dead now, but
when ne cnme to town he was anxious
ia see Sheets. and he never saw him
without thinking of his deceased play
Proving the Alibi.
Ii. q. Brockman, 4 travelling man. tssr