The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-01
CROOKS ESCAPE
FROM SHERIFF
c. Frank Emery Has Glaring
Record in Loss Of Men
In His Custody.
SCANDAL FOLLOWS ON
SCANDAL IN HIS OFFICE
HarlOt and Thief Married and
Live Together While Sery-
ing Their Sentences.

Conspirators against Chief Of Police
George A. Sheets. who have been max
ing the air vocal with denunciations of
him for several months, are silent con
cerning the record for incompetency ana
all-around inefiiciency made by Sheriff
G. Frank Emery and bis deputies III tho
administration Of such criminal bust
ness as falls to their lot.
During the year and four months that
George Sheets has been chief of po-
lice, not a single prisoner has escaped
from the city Jail; during the past
SIX months desperate and hardened
crooks have escaped in one manner and
another from the county jail in which
Sheriff Emery lives and over which he
presides, notwithstanding the fact that
il is supposed to be the strongest Jail
IN the intermountain region.
Those Who Have Escaped.
One of the men to escape was a bur-
glar named Egan, who was arrested by
the city police force, but the machine
county attorneys office only punished
him for petit larceny by giving him q
six months sentence IN the county Jail.
Once there he was made ''trusty
and walked away, Sheriff Emery has
no more idea where he is than the man
in the moon, and Egan still owes the
county several months of time,
Another burglar, named Bailey. per
mltted by an incompetent county attor
ney's Office TO take a six months sen
tence for petit larceny, made his es.
cape from the county Jail. and nobody
seems to know how he did get away,
All Sheriff Emery knows is that lie is
gone, and he took considerable pains
to conceal his going from the news
papers and the public.
One Brooks, who burglarized the Vi
emma bakery and was sentenced TO six
months in the county Jail, also made his
escape before be had served Any cagcs
sidcrs Bile portion Of his time, The msn-
ner of his going is likewise a mystery.
Riss Notorious Escape.
The escape of Kiss, one of the most
notorious crooks in the United States,
from the county Jail few weeks ago
was q shock from which Sheriff Emery S
! nervous system hasn t vet recovered
Kiss was arrested by the police depart
ment for burg!arizing j. d. Wood s res
idence, He was turned over TO the sher.
ltf s office, and that same day pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to serve seven
years in the penitentiary.
As a Especial favor" Kiss begged
Sheriff Emery for the privilege of
spending one night in the county jail
before he was transferred to the State
prison. After Kiss had left their hands.
the police discovered that he had at.
tempted TO saw his way out of the city
JAIL and Notwithstanding that Sheriff
Emery had devoted most of his time
for months TO an effort TO ruin Chief
Sheets's reputation in the community,
the chief caused the sheriff to be given
special warning that he had an eX
ceedingly dangerous man TO deal with,
and the sheriff was cautioned TO keep a
close watch on him.
Despite this caution and warning
Kiss was placed in a cell remote from
the jailer' Office, and the first night he
not only sawed out of The cell, but
sawed through one of the Jail windows.
and fed, So far as the sheriff is con.
cerned, the earth might as we'll have
opened and swallowed him. There were
ugly intimations of collusion on the
part of somebody in connection with
this escape
Peculiar Jail Methods.
There are many peculiar features tc
Sheriff Emery's management of fin
county Jail. They have been psrticu
brothers We're given free board and
lodging at the county Jail for CON
siderable period, although no court had
ever made any order directing that they
be held as witnesses. The sheriff ir
his anxiety to use them as witnesse.
against the chief, arbitrarily furnished
them with board and lodging Ut the
public expense.
W. II. Parent, the self-confessed
crook, thug and bunko man, who is
one of the chief witnesses for the CON
splrators in the Sheets case. is at large
on his own recognizance; yet he sleep!
and eats at the county Jail whenever
he is IN Salt Lake, although no courn
has directed that he be held as a wit
ness. In fact he has his complete liber-
ty-
That Jail Marriage,
Sheriff Emery several months ago per,
mitted q petit larceny thief and wo.
were serving sentences In the county
Jail, To be married and TO sustain the
marriage relation while they were still
in the Jail. This same petit larceny
thief was made n truSty, and, on one
or two occasions, when he came up
town while still prisoner, he got boil
ing drunk.
The fact that the sberiff's office
clipped off, to Apostle EIeber j. Grant
the fact that warrant was out for hls
arrest. permitted him 10 flee the coun-
try before II could he served, Such
brief is part of the record of one of
the leading conspirators against Chlct
of Police Sheets,
Dies on Journey Westward
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