Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-21
VILE ATTACK ON
CAPT. BURB|DGE
7uIe or Ruin Organ Vents Its
Venom On Tried Police
officer.
PAT LANNAN is DlsGUSTED.


once George Raleigh and Jim Dom
aldson were competitors for the favor
of Chief Sheets. and appointment as
chief OF detectives. ostenslbly to han
die the "city graft" Both followed
Sheets TO preliminary hearings and
one has preceded him to final trial
After defending them for year, isn't
Il 4 little ungrateful for the "Ameri-
can" organ to admit their guilt in
box headlines. and call for the resig-
nation OF police captain with
clean record of 10 years duration, just
on the plea that he was in the depart
ment when they We're?
This morning the second attack on
a police captain was made i'm typical
Tribune fashion by the political
leader" whom prominent "Ameri-
cans" say has led so finely that he
ought to go away back to the COW
counties and lead the animals out to
drink.
The attack is characterized as das-
tardly by people very near to the
source from which II comes, Pat
Lannan said i'm a conversation this
morning that it was the worst and
most un-American thing he had ever
seen in the Tribune. and he has seen
about all that he been there since 1t
started.
That the Tribune will receive a
third consecutive rebuff in this at
tempt to dictate is the opinion of
those near to Mayor Bransford and
Chief Of Police Mckenzie.
CHIEF M'KENZIE EMPHATIC.
Chief Mckenzie was found in his Of
nee this morning answering telephone
messages nf 4 A. a 4 {pt, g,.n,
quarters, but he Interrupted the phones
long enough to say that while he did
not wish to be quoted, still he felt
that to make a change in this position,
would be distinct detriment to the
service, and that the interviewer could
rest assured that that office was ilut
peing run for any newspaper or am
political end
Il don't want to mix up In these
fights" he said. You know I didn't
want this job at all, bur now I'm
here / want the best administration
that can be had for the good of the
whole city, and that only There's one
thing you can say. / am going to visit
every saloon In this town right away
ana tell the proprietorS of each one that
l personally want them 10 remain
closed on Sunday. 1 want to be fair
with them. They are doing well. finan-
cially. You seldom or never hear of a
be contented to operate on six days a
week. and leave the seventh alone. |
am going to tell them that l shall re-
woke the license of any saloon I find
running on Sunday, and 1 think that
Will be one improvement"
That the Tribune attack has failed to
awaken single echo anywhere within
the American party is evident from
the general opinion expressed towards
1t today. In insinuating that any coun-
Gilman defending the attacked police
captain does so for bad purpose, the
Tribune makes a blanket charge almost
against the entire council as all who
could be reached today endorsed him,
and resented the attack, with it's OBJ
vious show of falsehood In narratlng
ostensible history, and its very appar-
ent venom.
McWHIRTER is ANGRY.
Alexander McWhirter was an angry
Scot this morning when he read the
attack on Capt. Burhidge. THAT Is n
lie" he said; Just the same as the
Tribune has always lied about the case.
capt. Burbidge never shook hands with
me. only saw him for a minute and
that was when l came In from looking
for my brother | asked him II he had
heard anything more about the robbery,
and he looked at me with an expression
L
was talking about. l then told him the
chief knew all about 1t and he said II
the chief knew about IT. 1t was being
taken care OF. and went out. Sergt.
Hempel came towards me as soon as
he saw me talking to Burbidge and
took me TO the rear.
II never saw Burbidge again. and
never shook hands with him, and un-
less Chief Sheets or Detective Raj
eigh, or Sergt. Hempel told him about
the robbery he never knew q thing
about 1t, for | told him nothing. and
know of nothing he could have learned
about 1t, except from those | talked
TO-"
People who followed the McWhirter
trial well know that the name OF Bur
bidge was not connected with II. al
though the footprints OF certain
councilman were very apparent and
also the work of Detective Raleigh,
and the service 81 Hempel In taking
Alexander all over town looking for
the robbers while CHIEF Sheets had one
of them In his private office, "whack-
ing up the swag." The late show Of
morality in making the attack is In
itself evidence OF Its motive.
TRlBUNE's ATTACK.
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