The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
HANSON TRIES To
HANDICAP POLICE
County Attorney Blocks Efforts
to Recover Jewelry Stolen
From Daynes.
MEN WHO CONFESSED
TURNED OVER TO SHERIFF
Police No Longer Able to Con
suit With Them to Cap
ture Thieves.

Anxiety on the part of County AT.
torney Hanson to handicap Chief OF
Police Sheets in recovering the prop
erty stolen IN the recent Daynes Jew
elry burglary developed Saturday. The
three men arrested in Denver for re-
ceiving portion OF the stolen prop.
erty wcrc forced 10 arraignmcnt and
transferred from the city TO the county
Jail for the sole purpose of hampcrIng
the police. and the County Attorney s
office is responsible for it. The names
of the three men are Phillips, McFar-
land and Jennings.
When the men were brought back
from Denver they were placed in the
city Jail. and they have been in daily
consultation with Chief of Police
Sheets and Captain Burbidge, assist
ing them in every way to recover the
property stolen in the burglary. Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Hanson feared that some
credit might reflect on Chief Sheets,
for one Of his deputies-a man who
ordinarily does not fight the police de
partment of his own yolitIon-came 10
the front Saturday and insisted that
the men be arraigned.
lnasmuch as the men are charged
with felony, 1t was the duty OF City
Judge Diehl, as soon as they were
brought before him, 10 remand them to
the custody of the Sheriff. In default
of $1,000 bail each. they were taken 10
the county Jail where the police can
not consult freely with them, which
was the design and purpose of having
them arraigned The men took until
Monday at 10 o clock TO plead,
Hanson s deputy gave as an excuse
for arraigning the men that they had
been in Jail too long to permit of fur
ther delay w r. Parent, the crook
who is helping County Attorney Han
son prosecute Chief Sheets, has been in
Jail since last February on charges of
robbery, grand larceny and conspiracy,
and has not yet been given 4 prelim-
mary hearing. w. ". Bell. the other
crooked protege of the Hanson Emery
combination, has been in Jail over a
month on the same charges, aud as yet
has had no hearing.
Charles Hansen, convicted by a jury
in the city court Friday Of beating
up Kate Ehman, a servant girl who
has passed as his wife, was fined sl20
and costs by Judge Diehl Saturday.
Hansen has no money, and will have TO
serve 100 DAYS, or four months, in the
city Jail. Autumn S leaves will be fall
ing before he gets out. and n cold win
ter is coming. y
The woman was not anxious to prose
cute Hansen, though she testified
City Attorney p. J. DAILY were deter
mined, however, to make an example Of
Hansen. and prosecuted him vigorously.
After testifying against Hansen, the
woman sat with him in court. She
laughed and chatted with him and made
goo goo eyes at him.
The Nelden-Judson Drug company is
the latest firm 10 be cited into court
for not paving a mercantile license.
The case against this firm was brought
up in Judge Dichl s court SATURDAY, and
was certified 10 the district court,
where it Will be disposed of along with
a number of similar cases which are
pending. The constitutionality of the
tax ordinance is to be tested.
Guy L. Pough was arraigncd before
Judge Diehl Saturday on charge of
forging the name of p. ]. Helm TO a
check for S42.5O on Mccormick & Co. s
bank II is charged that Pough passed
the check on Il. l.. Herrick on June Z,
Pough took until Tuesday to plead, and
in default OF $3.50 bniI he was commit
ted to the county jail,
j. j. Duke, Jr., was arraigucd before
Judge Diehl Saturday on n charge of
forging the name Of Hannah Duke, his
mother. to check for S25 and passing
it on j. p Gardner & Co. He pleaded
not guilty and waived preliminary ex-
animation. He was bound over to the
district court, and, being unable to
give q bond of $3.50, was remanded to
the county lail