The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-09
HANSON TRIES TO
HANDICAP POLICE
county Attorney Blocks Efforts
to Recover Jewelry Stolen
From Daynes.
MEN WHO CONFESSED
TURNED OVER TO SHERIFF
Police No Longer Able to Con-
suit With Them to Cap
ture Thieves.

Anxiety on the part Of County At
.orney Hanson to handicap Chief Of
Police Sheets IN recovering the prop
,rty stolen in the recent Daynes jew
.lry burglary developed Saturday. The
three men arrested in Denver for re-
,eiving a portion of the stolen prop
srty were forced to arraignment and
transferred from the city to the county
Jail for the sole purpose of hampering
The police, and the County Attorney s
,ffice is responsible for it. The names
ST the three men are Phillips, McFar
and and Jennings.
When the men were brought back
.ity Jail, and they have been in daily
consultation with Chief of Police
Sheets and Captain Burbidge, assist
ing them In every way to recover the
property stolen in the burglary Evi-
IDENTIFY Mr. Hanson feared that some
.redit might reflect on Chief Sheets,
for one Of his deputies man who
ordinarily does not fight the police de
9artment of his own volihon-came to
;he front Saturday and insisted that
he men be arraigned.
Inasmuch as the men are charged
with a felony, it was the duty of City
Judge Diehl, as soon as they were
brought before him, To remand them to
:he custody of the Sheriff. In default
II $1,000 bail each, they were taken to
;he county JAIL where the police can
vas the design and purpose of having
!hem arraigned The men took until
Monday at 10 clock to plead
Hanson s deputy gave as an excuse
:or arraigning the men that they had
oeen in Jail too long to permit of fur
her delay. w. r, Parent. the crook
who is helping County Attorney Han.
ION prosecute Chief Sheets, has been in
Jail since last February on charges OF
.obbery, grand larceny and cons piracy,
md has not yet been given prelim-
mary hearing. ", W. Bell, the other
crooked prctege of the Hanson Emery
combination, has been in Jail over a
month on the same charges, and as yet
aas had no hearing.
Charles Hansen, convicted by jury
IN the city court Friday of beating
1p Kate Ehman. a servant girl who
aas passed as his wife. was fined S120
and costs by Judge Dienl Saturday.
Hansen has no money, and will have TO
serve 120 days, or four months, in the
.ity Jail. Autumn S leaves will be fall
ng before he gets out, and a cold win
er is coming.
The woman was not anxious to prose
.ute Hansen, though she testified
City Attorney P. j. DAILY were deter
mined, however, TO make an example of
Hansen, and prosecuted him vigorously.
After testifying against Hansen, the
woman sat with him in court. She
aughed and chatted with him and made
u goo-g eyes at him.
The Nelden-Judson Drug company is
The latest firm to be cited into court
Tor not paying a mercantile license.
The case against this firm was brought
ap in Judge Diehl s court Saturday, and
was certified to the district court.
where it will be disposed of along with
number OF similar cases which are
pending. The constitutionality of the
tax ordinance is to be tested.
:: Guy L. Pough was arraigned before
Judge Diehl Saturday on a charge of
forging the name Of P. j Helm to a
check for S42.50 on Mccormick & Co. S
bank, 1t is charged that Pough passed
.he check on R. l.. Herrick on June Z.
Pongh took until Tuesday to plead. and
in default of $3.50 bail he was commit
led to the county Jail.
j. J. Duke, Jr., was arraigned before
Judge Diehl Saturday on a charge of
forging the name Of Hannah Duke, his
mother, to 2. check for S25 and passing
it on j. P. Gardner G. Co. He pleaded
not guilty and waived preliminary ex-
animation. He was bound over to the
district court, and, being unable to
give bond of $3.50, was remanded to
the county lail