The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-21
Preliminary Examination of
Detective Raleigh Is a
Roaring Farce.
COUNTY ATTORNEY is
PR0MPTER FOR COURT
Parent UnfOlds His Tale Again,
and Sandy" McWhirter
Takes a Hand.

4 judicial minstrel show was pulled
of at Waterloo Monday, with County
ATTORNEY Willard Hanson and F. NJ
Bishop, who dispenses justice to The
unfortunate and benighted inhs bitant:
of that suburb, as end man and in
+erlocutor respectively Nominally the
performance was the preliminary eS
animation of Detective George Raleigl
on the charge of conspiracy: actually II
was q roaring farce, and the audience
composed of Soren X. Christensen and
S. R. Thurman, attorneys for the de
fendaut, enioyer it hugely, emphasiz
ing their enjoyment By occasionally
laughing in Justice Bishops face at
some Of his rulings.
Justice Bishop proved however, that
he is IN a class by himself. That is
he showed that he takes seriously the
legal opinions of County Attorney Han
son. and nobody else in Salt Lake does.
He took the County Attorney S
''steer' on every ruling which he
made. and incidentally thereby dis
closed the reason why Mr., Hanson
brings every criminal case in which he
has 2 personal or political motive in
Justice Bishops court.
Bishop Assumes Jurisdiction.
AS matter of fact, Detective Ra'
leigh's case is pending before Judge
George @. Armstrong III the District
court for preliminary examination, but,
when County Attorney Hanson had as
sured the Waterloo justice that he had
jurisdiction, Justice Bishop, with the
he had, after which w. II, Parent,
the self-confeesed crook who is Han
son IS ally in the conspiracy cases, and
Sandy" McWhirter repeated with
parrot-like precision tho tales they
have previously told on the witness
stand The case was continued until
10 O'Clock Wednesday morning, when
it will be argued. The spectacle OF
Messrs. Thurman and Christensen argn-
ing real law to Justice Bishop will be
one FOR god and men to witness.
The case was set down for hearing
Monday morning, and the defendant
and his attorneys were on hand. When
ii was called Mr Christensen arose
and explained To the court that the
later had lost jurisdiction of the case.
He pointed out that Raleigh, together
with the other alleged conspiratore,
had been arrested on Feb. 20 on war
rant issued by Justice Bishop; that on
Feb. p the attorneys for some of the
Bishop for the purpose OF asking for
change OF venue, and that County
Attorney Hanson had then and there
entered into a written stipulation that
a new complaint in the case should be
filed before City Judge ]. j. Whitaker
against Chief Sheets, Mr.. Raleigh and
William Newton. Because this stipula-
ton was made no change of venue had
been asked for,
Transferred to Armstrong.
On March 81, Mr.. Christensen point
ed out, Raleigh had asked that his case
be transferred on a change of venue
from Judge Whitaker's court, he hav-
ing that right. County Attorney Han
SON was unwilling that the case should
be transferred to Judge c. B. Diehl,
so, as provided by law, it was trans
ferred to the District court before
Judge Armstrong. the latter to sit as an
examining magistrate. In view of these
conditions, Mr., Christensen pointed out,
Justice Bishop had lost jurisdiction Of
the case, and Mr.. Thurman followed
with motion to dismiss the case
against Raleigh,
Justice Bishop that he had jurisdiction
Of the case, and Justice Bishop prompt
~ took the County Attorneys hunch.
With solemn gravity he asked Mr.. Ra-
legh il he was ready to plead, and Mr..
Raleigh refused TO plead, The learned
man on the bench was somewhat non
plussed, but Hanson came TO his rescue
by informing him that under the cir
scumstancess plea of not guilty SHOULD
be entered, This was done, and then
Justice Boshop asked Mr.. Raleigh if he
was ready for examination. Mr. Ra-
leigh said he was not Asked how
much time he would require to prepare
for examination, Mr.. Raleigh said he
didn 7 need any time, whereat there
was more or less laughter witbip the
solmen PRECINCTS of Justice Bishop 8
dinlngroom, where his court sits.
1--WE will proceed thcn," said Mr..
Hanson, the master of ceremonies, and
he called Parent as his first witness
Parent, McWhirter ct al.
Parent told his tale, the same he
told IN the preliminary examination of
Chlef Sheets. It didn't connect Ra.
leigh with any conspiracy, although q
man would be safe in buying pools that
Justice Bishop will be convinced bv
County Attorney Hanson that Raleigh
is dark and bloody conspirator.
Then came HSandy" McWhirter. and
he failed even worse than Parent to
lug Raleigh into a conspiracy. He was
inclined to ramble in bis story. and
once Attorney Christensen intcrnosed
DO you think that is material, Mr.,
Hansonf" he inquired mildly.
Please make your objections to the
court, Mr.. Christensen" responded
Mr.. Hanson with n lofty air