The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-23
SHEETS ARREST FOLLOWS
CONFESSION OF BELL
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ter started to tell about the bunco game
and the chief said he had heard about it
from his brother and that he had been
buncoed. The chief said: Did this man
have anything to do with it?' McWhirter
said, He took my money 1 said, BE
careful, McWhirter, and tell things as
they occurred The chief asked, Did this
man have anything to do with 1t? Do
he wanted his money and began to cry.
Held Up Two Fingers.
ct looked at the chief and raised two
fingers, meaning that he would get $1,000
out of it. McWhirter did not see this
as his back was turned to me. The chief
then called me out In the hall and SAID:
What do you intend to do with these
people? How are you going to get rid of
them? I told him that L would get them
off on the night train for California and
the chief said IL 1 could do that 1t would
be all right. He asked me If thought /
could get any of the money back for
them and l told them that 1 thought l
could get back a thousand.
To Repay $1,000.
I'VE went back into the room and the
chief said, This man has a proposition
to make to you, McWhirter.' I asked Nc
Whirter how much he wanted and he said
he wanted half his money back. 1 told
him that / would loan him 81 600 out of
mypersonal account If he would agree to
repay 1t when he recovered his money.
McWhirter agreed to that
81 went out and found Jack O'Brien
and Jim Donaldson. / told them We had
to give a thousand back Donaldson said
we ought to settle with them for less and
he went out and got a bill changed. lie
told me TO try to settle for $50.
After l went back to the police sta
ton I told McWhirter l gould only get
$50. He said he had to have 1000 and
said I would try again. L went out IN
the hall and the chief followed, saying:
srTfl--. EN- for hn
gave him the money and walked into the
detectives room and sat down. The chief
came in in little while and said, Hurry
up. That train leaves in little while.
l went into the chiefs office again and
went to the train with the New hirters.
Chief Gets $1,000.
1.-THE next day we met in Jim Donald
sons room and divided up the money.
Eighteen hundred dollars was set aside
for Chief Sheets. Parent and 1 took our
share and went to the Halliday drug
store. 1 called up the chief and said,
Chief, have got your bit for you Where
will meet you? The chief said he would
be out the back way and meet me on
State street.
Il saw him as he came out the back
way ana went with him into the little
second hand store and paid him $3.50. He
asked me where the O'Briens were and
told him ! didn't know. He said it was
a straight 20 per cent proposition with
them.
Bell Dimes With Sheets.
'"The next day 1 met Sheets in front
of the National Bank of the Republic.
He asked me to get 81 900 bill changed
for him. l went over to Walker Bros
bank and had it changed into twenties.
l took the money back and gave it to
the chief in the doorway between the
bank and the Chesapeake restaurant.
That evening l was eating in the Chesa-
peake and Sheets came in. He gave me
the office and sat down and we ate to-
gether | told him all about the way
the McWhirter game was worked; about
the bogus policeman and all.
81 told him the O'Briens were going to
work again the next Monday. I said that
we had lost several days in this deal and
said that what we had paid the chief
ought to apply on the hundred week,
and he agreed to it.
"A few days later / saw Alec Nc
Whirter looking over the register at the
Sanitarium and recognized him. 1 called
up the chief and told him he was back
in town I said I thought he would go
to the sheriff. and he said he thought
so, too. ] told him that we were going
to leave town. The next day we went
to the O'Briens' house and Raleigh came
there and told us the sheriff was on TO
US and that we had better leave.
Writes to Chief Sheets.
THAT night Parent and went to Den
yer. We stayed there few days and