The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-06
v. \. PARENT To
DROP OUT OF SIGHT
County Officials Plan That He
Shall Disappear When No
Longer Needed.
PRISON TERM LIKELY
FOR BELL, HIS PARTNER
That Crook Denies StOutly That
He Has Made Any COnfes-
sion in Case.

Preparations are made for ". H.
Parent TO ''slIidoo when he can no
Emery and County Attorney Willard
Hanson in their crusade against Chief of
Police Geogc A. Sheets. From an In
side source it is learned that County
Attorney Hanson does not intend to dis
miss formally the charges of robbery,
grand larceny and conspiracy which are
pending against Parent: instead be
will let the crook take advantage of
the fact that he is at liberty on his
own recognizance TO slip quietly out of
sight. And Sheriff Emery. taking his
cue from the County Attorney, will
never look for him.
Parent s fitting, however, will not
take place until the pending conspiracy
charges against Chief Sheets are
knocked out of court. as Hanson pri-
vately admits they will be. Possibly
he will be kept here until Hanson has
tried impeachment proceedings against
Hanson g mind. In the event that he
started a proceeding to remove the
Chief from Office he would want Par
rent 8 testimony.
At great sacrifice to his pride, Han
son has finally called his chief assist
ant, Job p. Lyon. into consultation in
the Sheets cause. Among lawyers
Lyon is rated as better lawyer than
Hanson Attorney General Breoden and
the kitchen lawyerhood all rolled into
one Mr. Lyon is now looking up the
law with a view to ascertaining wheth
or or not the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Browning case stands in
the way of Impeachment proceedings.
The chances are excellent, therefore.
that Hanson Will at last get some real
legal advice.
Where Will Parent Go?
Where will Parent go7 That is a
question which is agitating Parent
more than it is anybody else, The
Chief of Police of Denver has forbid
den him that town, which he claims as
bis home Not Chief of Police in the
United States would tolerate his pres
ence for a moment, and Parent him
self. 1t is said, realizes that ne is
pariah and an outcast even among
thieves and crooks, with whom he has
hitherto associated.
To keep up his own courage, Par
rent has been telling people that Chief
Of Police Charles ". Wappenstein of
Seattle. Wash, has written him let
ter telling him when he is out of his
troubles here he can find resting place
lii the Puget Sound metropolis; but
those in Salt Lake who know Wappen-
srein say that Parent viii find his only
resting place in Seattle in Jail.
Parent S career as 'bunko man is
ever No other bunko man in the
Omitted States would work with him
Sor a moment. Even Bell, his alleged
confederaterin the McWhirter robbery.
saws he is h "dirty rat and that he
ought to ''get life Those versed In
the ways of crime and criminals say
that Parent will either have to earn
an honest living or do "heavy work.
in the criminal line-that is. become
holdup man or a burglar.
Short Sentence for Bell
e Bell Parent S former running mate
will il is believed, plead guilty to the
recommendation for clemency from
the gang
1t is believed that Bell agreed TO
assist the Sheriff and County Attorney
in their fight on Sheets, but the point
has not been reached, and probably
Will not be. where Bell can do them
any good There is no prospect, i'm
mediate or remote, that Chief Sheets
will ever face a jury, or that Bell will
Therefore, Hanson will have no ex
cuse TO give the public for turning such
crook loose,
Bell himself denies that be has made
any confession duplicating Chief Sheets
or anybody else.
"I'm not a rat. and Parent is, - said
Bell to a friend the other day, ~ We
been a CRATER all my life. and I ex-
peet TO be one when I get out of this
mess. IF / went the route Parent did
/ couldn't live anywhere in the United
TOT of 6uf bn |
| d rather do good stiff bit on the
hill than turn rat like he has
Bell was asked what would become
of his wife while be was in the peni-
tentiary, should he be sent there.
well, We been grating and doing
the best | could for her for several
years. was his cool reply, land if I
get sent down she II have to do the
best she can till I get out
Bell Parent Superior.
Those who know Bell and Parent
brightest crook of the two, and he GER
tainly looks it. He gives one the i'm
preston of being a shrewd, sharp. rath-
er intellectual thief, while Parent has
every indication Of being cheap thief,
whose chief intellectual attainment is
low, sly cunning,
Both are young men. Parent SAYS
slightly older. Bell looks to be about
%. Parent dresses somewhat like a
eountrymap- arrayed iu his Sunday best,
while Bell dresses in the height of fash
ion. Boil would be taken for we'll
to'do young business man anywhere in
the United States.
Friendly With McWhirters
Those who have attended the Don
aldson trial for the past two weeks
have been edited with several exhibi-
tions Of friendship which exists be-
tween these two crooks and the Nc
Whirters, whom, il is alleged, they de-
spoiled. The two have had many con
versations with the Scotch brothers in
the corridors of the county building.
Apparently they were on the best Of
terms.
A few days ago Bell, observing Par.
rent and Alexander McWhirter in close
conversation, remarked;
.Aleck had better look out or Par
rent will touch him for a ""
Parent jocularly applied to "Weel.
I'm - McWhirter that same dav for a