Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-27

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any previous dealings Sheets may have
had with anyone. We tried to. Didn't
Bell start to tell about previous deal
lngs? Didn't he start to tell about
something which happened at the Held :
elburg? And didn't the defense heht to
have all this blocked out7 And now the
cry is raised we showed no previous
transactions between Bell and Sheets.
| lis that fair?"
NOON RECESS CALLED.
Atty Christensen objected to the at
| torney arguing upon points not por-
mitted to go into the records. While
| the question was still under debate the
| noon recess was called
DwELLs ON LAW.
Atty Christensen in resuming his ar
| guinent this morning spent some time
| upon the law which requires a verdict
| of acquital unless guilt Is proven be-
| yond a reasonable doubt. mo matter
what you think, If there Is some rea-
sonaDle doubt in your minds you must
bring in a verdict of acquittal The
burden is all on one side The court
VIII give you instructions and name
points with which the evidence must
dovetail. Unless 1t does you must
bring In verdict of not guilty"
WAICtt LOOtBOUROW."
Now Mr.. Loofbourow is going to fol-
low me and i want you to watch See
II he doesn't leave out some portion of
evidence which he uses to establish a
point against the defendant | believe
he will try to be fair but we have had
lots of experience with this and former
cases.
QUOTES LAW AGAIN.
,a
McWhirters were robbed7 No, Judge
Thurman admitted and we admit there
was something done which was unlaw-
full. The defendant is charged with
accepting 1880 that his acts might be
influenced Now l am not going to
bother about the amounts would
have been the same as a million. All
we are going to discuss is Did Bell
pay Chief Sheets $3.50 in q second
hand store on the goth OF September,
1906, in the presence OF an old manH
Gentlemen you cannot convict man,
guilty or Innocent, upon the uncorrob-
GRATED evidence of an accomplish.
That's the law. l want to impress that
upon your minds just at this point.
SHOUTS CONSPIRACY.
"Gentlemen, now for another point.
l presume you know jails are built 10
keep men in. And you know the
smallest things cannot get into 1ails
for prisoners without examination.
Then how did this transcript (picking
up bulk of bound typewriter tes-
timony) get into the jail? BY acci-
dent? And by accident into Bells
cell? Was II for Parent? Where ID
Parent? You have a right to pre-
sumo why Parent did not appear this
time. He testified once before That
transcript was taken to Bell so he
could read Parents testimony and
avoid the pitfalls into which the lat
ter fell.
DROPS GAUNTLET.
What do you eight honest men
think of such contemplate method
as the prosecution has used? II is
q conspiracy. 1t is an insult to in
telligent men to ask them to convict
upon such a trumped-np story. 1
want Mr.. Loofbourow TO explain how
that transcript got into Bells hands.
/ throw down the gauntlet. Bell said
he didn't read 1t. He really was
brazen enough to say that he had slept
on that transcript for three months
and never read 1t. Young simmons
came here and said that was lie;
that he and Bell read II together.
But simmons was a criminal, they
say When aid virtue tack itself up
on Bell? or the two. who Ia TO be
believed?"
Mr.. Christensen here began review
ing the events leading up to the rob-
bery. When he used evidence which
is not in the records of the case Just
ended. Dist Atty. Looffuurow inter-
posed an objection.
my memory, like that of others in
this case, is not perfect, and with
this insinuation, Atty. Christensen
continued his address.
PLEASANTLY SARCASTIC.
The speaker was pleasantly sarcastic
I'm telling how McWhirter was taken
around town on a wild goose chase,
under the arrest of man VINO was
doing his level best TO get rid OF Nc
Whirter.'
BELL said he talked TO Sheets from
the Sun drug store. The clerk saio
he called Sheets and in the next breath
Chief Raleigh (then chief of detcc-
tives). Isn't that proof he didn't get
Sheets?
"You remember Bell had pretended to
he an officer or at least to have a
stand-in with the chief. Yet what was
his first words upon reaching the po-
lice station? Are you the chiefT Those
were his words. He didn't say. Hello
chief or anything familiar.
WHY ARREST ANYONE?
NOW what would Sheets have ar
rested Bell for? Because he imper-
sonated an officer? No McWhirtor
said he didn't Because he had the
money? No. McWhirter said he didn't
Why? Because he was one OF the gangE
Yes? McWhirter said, No. l want my
money And when asked to stay over
they refused to decide to stay and
help get $4,000 TO save $50. No Won
der the chief thought there was some
thing rotten in the affair.
BRIDE UNMENTIoNEp.
was there any intlmatlon OF bride
MP to the time Bell and McWhirter
reached the station2 Mo- You can
search the evidence from beginning tn
end, and the first lntimation OF bribery
was Bells statement that he held up
two fingers and slgnaled that $4,000
would hold the money-that is, that
there was 1900 In II for Sheets. Did
McWhirter hear it2 No, Bell said he
meant that no one but Sheets should
hear 1t. There is absolutely no cor
roboraton on this point.
"And say was there one scintilla or
evidence TO show Geo. Sheets left his
Office 10 meet the gang at the Knuts-
ford hotel corner There was nothing
10 show he WAS not In his Office with
the McWhlrters as the only time he
was shown 10 have left the office was
by his own statement regarding going
TO supper"
The evidence on this point shows
Sheets was out from about six and
eight IN the evening. Donaldson testl-