The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-19
NEW TACK TAKEN
AGAINST SHEETS
Pauper Fund Used to Send
Men Away to Aid
COnspiratorS.
ALLEGED PAUPERS ARE
TO DISSEMINATE STORIES
Man Claiming to Be Journalist
Sent to Omaha on
Mission.

A new tack has been taken by the
prosecutors of Chief Of Police Sheets.
The contingent fund Of the Sheriff s
office has been used; the fund of the
state has been employed by the con"
spirators against the Police Chief and
now the pauper fund of Salt Lake couu"
ty is brought in to send alleged paupcrs
away from this city whose object is TO
disseminate all kinds OF stories against
Chief Sheets through newspapers in the
localities where these alleged paupers
are know and where they can work of
alleged confessions duplicating Chief
Sheets
The latest move by which the tax
payers of Salt Lake city and county
are beig hoeced by those in the conspir-
acy against Chief Sheets came to light
yesterday when the County Attorney s
office secured transportation for an
nblebodled man, who has posed here for
several months as the representative of
q Chicago newspaper, payment for such
transportation 20 be made from the
pnuper fund OF Salt Lake county. The
mission of this pauper7' is slated above
pnd the taxpayers of Salt Lake county
must pay the bill.
Goes Upon Mission,
There left Salt Lake City on. We'd.
nesday afternoon man by the name OF
!. W. Goldstone. His destination was
Omaha. a railroad ticket was furnish
ed him on an order from Salt Lake
county Pauper Clerk Lundbcrg.
This ticket was stamped on the back
In red ink ''Charity.' ii Will be paid
for ont of the pauper fund of Salt Lake
county. 1t was issued at the direction
pf County Commissioner Mackay on the
personal request Of job Lyon, assistant
county attorney.
]. W. Goldstone is on able bodied
man. He claimed to be a newspaper
nan representing Chicago newspaper.
Yesterday afternoon Goldstone i'm
parted the information that he was go.
ing TO Omaha on n mission. That mis-
sion was to meet County Attorney Will
lard Hanson of Salt Lake county who
would arrive In Omaha Saturday morn
ing and accompanying him would he
Bell, the long sought for man, who il is
alleged, was connected with the Nc
Whirter case. and he, Goldstonc, was to
write a story about the matter for n
local newspaper, the main object being
TO give Chief of Police Sheets hadcs in
nm alleged confession from Bell Gold
stone s connection with the Chicago
paper would, he claims, enable him to
get 1t spread broadcast over the coun-
Try.
The order for the transportation was
numbered l3O. It was signed by Mr.
Lundherg. and when II was presented
at the rairoad office ticket No B. 6,
6697. Salt Lake TO Omaha was issued.
and the amount was charged TO the
county of Salt Lake.
Order Given to Lyon
The order for the transportation was
pot given TO Gladstone personally by
Pauper Clerk Lundherg, as the latter in.
formed The Tribune last night but was,
Mr.. Lundberg stated, handed direct to
Assistant County Attorney Lyon. the
clerk not knowing nor never having
,een Goldstone.
Asked If II was not an unusual thing
10 Issue an order for railroad transpor-
tation 10 pauper for so long q dis.
lance. Mr.. Lundberg said that it was.
II is seldom he said. - that we
issue an order for a ticket CARRYING a
person so great a distance, but if it was
done it would he only when the party
was charge upon the county or about
to become one, and il would only be
done in an instance Of that kind upon
The order Of one Of the commissioners.
In this instance continued Mr..
Lundberg. Mr.. Lyon and Commissioner
Mackay had prolonged consideration
IN my office, and when it was concluded
Commissioner Mackay directed me TO
Issue the order. This I did and handed
IT TO Mr., Lyon, ! never saw Gold
stone
Assistant County Attorney Lyon when
eslled up by telephone at his home and
psked regarding the matter, said that he
bad secured the order for the transpor.
satlon for Goldstone, but denied the
.tatement by Goldstoue Of his mission
Said Attorney Lyon; al became ac.
1uainted with Goldstone several months
sgo. meeting him in police court He
claimed TO represent Chicago news
paper. He has been around the Office
Eeyeral times and always with hard
luck story. ] have helped him at times
and today he came down did 90
end get the order for his Transportation
from the county. But he has no mis-
slon from this Office To meet Hanson
You. can easily verify whether or not
be has a message from either of the
Be that as il may, Gladstone had No
hesltancy IN telling where he was GOING
and what he declared was the object Of
Ais mission. VI