The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-13
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A TURN IN THE CONSPIRACY.

And so, the case against Chief Sheets
is dismissed. The attempt to try him
for felony when only a misdemeanor
was charged, was of course unsuccess-
full. 1t must have been known to the
county attorney that this would be so.
To say otherwise would be to proclaim
him so consplciously unfit for his office
that his incumbency of it is farce.
OF course he knew that he could do
nothing Of the kind. He knew Of course
that it was just as futile TO undertake
to try Sheets for robbery when he had
charged him with conspiracy, as it
would be TO charge man with assault
and battery and then proceed TO try
him for murder
What then, was the object of this
futile and scandalous farce2 Political,
of course. The case was forced upon
public attention first during last fall s
campaign. 1t was plainly put up Job
against Sheets. Absolutely nothing was
shown against him, and the case was
dropped Then when it was desired to
give the Legislature an "obJect lesson -
in order to influence it to pass IN I'M
constitutional bill to take the fire and
police control out of the jurisdiction OF
the city and to transfer it TO the State,
the case was revived IN even more
scanda!ous and shameless form. And II
was shown that Sheets was not here at
all at the time that the perjured wit
nesses for the prosecution claimed they
were dealing with him and paying hlm
money for immunity. Still, in pursu-
ance of the official conspiracy, Sheets
was bound over for trial. Then the
main suborned and perjured witness
was released on his own recognizance,
though charges of bunkoing and
robbery were pending against him.
And during the examination his attor-
ney was made attorney for the State
and has been paid $500 for his services
as such, out of the public money of the
county.
Then came on this abortive attempt
10 try Sheets on a felony count when
only misdemeanor was charged
against HIM OF course, the county at
torney, who has arrayed the county
against the city, compelling the tax
paying public to pay the cost OF has
malignant and unscrupulous political
conspiracy, had his purpose in forcing
this phase of the case. He did not
dare TO go TO trial on his conspiracy
charge. we'll knowing that it would be
exploded in a moment, when the facts
were developed. But if he could make
this legal misconnection, he could keep
the case alive for future use, and have
control of the time and place when he
would spring a new count on 1t, and
again harass the chief and VeX the
public with another putrid charge in
the list of the ingenious moves which
the public conspriators have made up.
This tactic is the most dIsreputable
that could be devised. None but
criminal mind could have managed this
so.called Cease against the Chief of
Police in the degraded way in which it
has been carried along. No lawyer of
honor or mindful of the ethics of his
profession could be induced TO practice
such low tactics in the conduct of a
case The procedure has made justice
a mockery, and has prostituted the
courts to the service of a base political
conspiracy. IN which the power of the
State, at the expense of the taxpayers
of the county, has been betrayed to
make an attack upon q portion of the
city government. 1t is the most out
rageous, scandalous piece of unscrupu
lous, unconsciopable, malignant perver-
sion OF public ethics and public ser
vice that has ever been seen in civil
lized community.