The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-07

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in this argument. / do not care TO
say much upon that proposition. Judge
! Hilton is gentleman whom ] am not
| personally familiar with, and ! have
learned in my life, and / am proud of
the fact, to presume everything always
in favor of any man unless L know. to
the contrary, Speaking by reputation.
! have heard that he is good lawyer,
but l join with my associate and as
citizen of the State Of Utah ] feel that
! would be derelict in my duty if |
failed to make the suggestion that the
relation of Judge Hilton in this case,
under the peculiar circumstances of it,
is without a parallel in the annals of
Jurisprudence. I undertake to say that
no case can be found in any book in
any land where tho State has not only
accepted the confession of the arch
criminal In a case in order TO convict
one of the lesser degree, but has dur
ing the trial associated with the State
the attorney for that criminal in order
to convict man of lesser crime. Poor,
bleeding Utah has suffered in the past
her history rs blotted with the tears Of
women and children, and | might say
written in blood, but we have never
yet had Il case in Utah, even in the
dark days of what we call the crusade,
when the great majority OF the people
believed that injustice was being done
by the administers of Justice; never
was 1T found that there was an uuholy
alliance between the State and the
arch-criminal in a case, and with the at
torney who represented him.
What Immunity for Parrent7
Now that is enough. In connec.
ton with IL, however. I want to say
Parent swcars he expects no immuni-
". Parent swears he had no promise.
PARENT says he only expects the right
10 1--we and he would not swear to n
lie to maintain that right. Mr. Han
sen sand, probably he did not mean to
say 1T or rather modified it; ] under
stand him TO say, however, that, quot
ing what Parent said on that quest
tion, he also says and say there was
no promise cannot dispute Mr., Han
sen, but / sayl wish ] could belive that
by some means or that by no means
whatver any hope had been held out
to that man. | want 1t put that way,
because L say-and / say it as citizen
or Utah say it without prejudice
that he is guilty of robbery, he is gnil-
vt of larceny, he is guilty of every
thing known TO the trade of the bunko
man, he is guilty of perjury, cold and
deliberate; and ] want that man, as
citizen of Utah, TO pay the penalty
of his crime, 1t will be n shame 10
turn him loose; and if what Borther
ndnSeH says is UTuc, JHaC ne entered ln-
TO no deal | say ii 10 the credit Of the
county attorney. But / want TO say
whether Brother Hansen has directly
promised him or not, and | say in the
face of the record here, that that man
Parent has had some assurance from
smoebody that he will escape scot free
if he will only implicate Chief Sheets
in this offense.
Sheets the Man They Want.
"Sheets is the man they want. They
don t care anything for Newton, they
don t care anything for Raleigh. Sheets.
Why Sheets7 Sheets is the head Of one
of the departments Of an administra-
tion dlstasteful TO the prosecution. an
administration it would like to down
and don e misunderstood me, ] am not
here as an apologist for the municipal |
| have nothing in com
mon with them. ] am not protecting it
IN this fight; | am defending George
Sheets as man, and ] am telling what
! believe to be the facts, and the whole
history of the prosecution of this man
from the time il commenced down TO
the present time bears ont the state
mont that [ make. In the midst of a |
hot political campaign they charge him |
with some offense, 1t is urged and be- !
lieved so that this cloud may be hang /
ing over him as this campaign goes (
'H. lHs campaign Is enuSuS uOn Z /,
know, it may have accomplished its /
purpose; I DON It care. But it is a fact /
Just the same, and no man acquainted |
with the history Of this State can view
it in any other light II is brought
down to the present moment; prejudice
itself at every point Of the
Prejudice of Prosecution.
we cannot suggest the palpable
'act that Parent was crook. which he
admitted on the stand, without the at
orney for the State coming back and
saying, so is Sheets a crook. - a
nan on trial, man entitled TO some
courtesy, to some consideration from
he State, man that ought to be, to
ome extent, by the State presumed to
,e innocent until the State shows by
he proof that he is not. We could
never refer to Parent, the confessed
;rook, the confessed flim9ammer, the
confessed robber. byt these names with
nut instantly having il flung into our
eeth that the defendant here on trial
vas crook. If we told our brothers
N the other side We were dealing with
crook, we made it because the man
lad confessed that he was. Immedi-
tely. 1t would come back, fYou are
sSsoclated with Sheets, presuming that
Sheets was guilty.
ine very lact tnat he Is at the head |
II department in a city like Salt Lake
ughtt be some presumption proving
o the contrary that he is not crook
md tlimilammer. His official posi-
ION by appointment of an administra.
ION elected by the people should have
zen something of mantle of p1otec, ,
ION by which he would at least have
ad accorded to him the ordinary pre-
IN criminal cases that he was !,
ot thief or a crook or man who
ondoned these offenses. But have we
ad any such consideration No, 1t
). something that has never been heard
I before IN the. State of Utah in the