The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-19
TESTIFIES WITH
TEARS IN EYES
M'Whlrter Tells How 1t Feels
to Be Bunc0eG Out of
$4,000.
WITNESS AT SHEETS TRIAL
JUDGE CALLED UPON TO- CURB
SCOTS ELoouENcE.
WITNESS AT SHEETS TRIAL
The Sheets Jury.

VIC OHCCtS Jury.
Francis Il. Dansie. West Jordan, sheep
Homer p Burt. 1910 Indiana avenue,
Salt Lake Sity. electrical engineer
Samuel Perry. Sandy, farmer.
John James, 81 Center street. Salt Lake
CITY, retired business man.
Oliver Duke, Salt Lake City, confec-
Alfred j. oliver, 257 East Second South
street, Salt Lake City, tailor.
Jens Hanson, MILFORD ward, farmer.
Peter Butler. 81 North Second West
street. salt Lake City, brewer.
With tears in his eyes Alexander Nc
Whittier recalled painfully yesterday after
noon the incidents of the $4,000 robbery in
the Antler rooming house on Sept 19, 1906,
OF which he was the victim. and retOld the
narrative of his futile efforts to recover
the money and TO bring the robbers to
Justice Alexander is the first important
witness called by the prosecution in the
case against George A. Sheets. former
chlef or police, now on trial accused of
accepting bride from the bunco gang
that robbed McWhirter in return for al
lowing the members of that gang to es-
cape justice.
In a quaint Scotch dialect, softened
somewhat by a year and a half in Salt
Lake, Alexander told his entire story from
me me time that ne and hAs brother vii,
the robbery at Salt Lake without missing
a single detail He was emphatic in his
statements. at times almost to the point
came argumentative and II was neces-
sary for the court to insist on his an
swering only the questions put TO him.
Last Three Jurors.
The last jurors in the case were Sc
cured yesterday morning and the taking
OF testimony was begun in the afternoon
The last three jurors secured were Alfred
j a I.aly
son. farmer. MILFORD ward. and Peter
Buller, brewer. Salt Lake. Oliver was
the first man examined when court opened
Yesterday morning He proved acceptable
10 both sides and was sworn as a Juror
The state peremptorily challenged A T.
Watts, barber at the Cullen hotel and
ne was excused from service On the jury.
The challenge used on the barber was the
last one the state had The defense used
its last peremptory challenge on Thomas
X. Baysinger of Forest Dale, an employe
farmer of MILFORD ward, was accepted Ev
both sides as the seventh juror. William
ID. Kuhre, a Sandy iumberman, said he
had formed an opinion concerning the case
from what he had read He was eX-
cused. Peter Butler. proprietor of Buffers
brewery, Salt Lake, was accepted as the
last juror.
Following the completion of the jury the
Information filed against George Sheets
charging that he had accepted a bribe of
1850 while chief of police of Salt Lake
from w w. St. Clair. alias Bell. w. H
Parent. Jack and Larry O'Brien and jim
Donaldson, was read to the jury by Ma
than Tanner, deputy clerk. An adjourn
ment was then taken until ? o'clock in
the afternoon.
Opening of Prosecution.
District Attorney Frederick c. Loot
bOurOw opened the case for the state with
a short address TO the jury II the state
In the case has any evidence Of q sensa-
tiOnal nature 20 spring the district attor-
&c no
in the opening statement He did not at
tempt elOQuence but told in a concise and
logical manner that the state expected
10 prove that the McWhirters had been
robbed of over $1,000; that Sheets, then
chief of police, knew of this robbery; that
he connived with the robbers in aiding
them to get rid of the victims; that for
his part in the affair he was paid 81 $50
a bride by W. w. St. Clair. alias Bell
Ezra Thompson. for1per mayor of Salt
Lake was the first witness called. He
testified that at the time charged in the
complaint. I'm September, 1906. George
Sheets was the duly appointed and accred-
tied chief OF police of Salt Lake. There
was no cross-eXaminatiOn- ]. d. II. Nc
AlliSter, assistant county surveyor, identi-
fled a plan which he had drawn of the
room at the Antler rooming house in
which the robbery took place. He de-
scribed the room in detail.
Alexander MeWhirter's Story.
Alexander McWhi~ter was then called
by the state. He told the story of the
robbery and OF his subsequent dealings
with George Sheets with but few Varia-
lions from the story which ne has often
repeated on the stand at various hear
ings in the different cases arising from
the robbery. His testimony as referring
10 the conversations with Sheets relative
20 the robbery was the portion of the evil
dence given by McWhirter that had d.
rect bearing on the crime charged to
Sheets
Alexander was turned over to f. A.
Wedgwood of the counsel for the defense
for cross-examination shortly before 5
o'clock. Mr.. Wedgwood compared Alex
anders testimony on former OcC ssfOns
with what he swore to on the stand yes
terday and made him account for the dis
crepancies. This nettled Alexander and
often he tried TO argue with the attorney.
but was forbidden TO do so by Judge
Morse.
The most important point gained by the