The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-15
COUNCIL GIVES
CHIEF PITT HIS
FINAL QUIETUS
Votes to Sustain Mayor in Re-
moving Chief of Police
for INSTRUMENTATION.
RETIRING OFFICIAL HAS
THE LAST 1000 WORDS
SEEKS TO DEFEND HIS ATTl-
tube IN A LENGTHY
COMMUNICATION.

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Tom d. Pitt was finally deposed as
chief of. police of the city of Salt Lake
when the council last night voted to-
sustain the mayor. The vote was on the
motion of Stewart to reconsider. The
motion lost by a vote of eight noes to
six ayes. This is the vote:
Noes-BIack. Fernstrom, Ferry,
Hedgson, Hoiley, Hall, Martin, O'Don-
nell-S.
Ayes-Cowburn, Murdoch, Raybould,
Reedall, Stewart, Woods.
1t should be understood that this vote
is merely equivalent TO sustaining the
action of Mayor Bransford in removing
the chief of police for cause" or for
the good of the service"
On Unfinished Business.
Inc crowd IndI HlleQ the council
chamber last night waited. and waited
until Recorder Moreton reached the
order of unfinished business. Under this
head he read the communication of the
mayor removing Chief Pitt. At the re-
quest of Mr.. Stewart he also read a
communication from Mr.. Pitt, which is
subjoined.
| At the conclusion of the reading of
this communication. there was discus
! sion. lots of it. Mr.. Stewart rose to
speak, holding in either hand docu-
ments most formidable in appearance.
Il rise to a point of order said Mr..
Ferry.
state your point" said Mr. Reedall,
who was in the chair last night.
My point is, said Mr.. Ferry, that
1 Mr.. Stewart is about to read a petitios;
containing fifteen hundred names, and
many other petitions whose subject is
the removal of the red light district ]
maintain that the removal or non-re-
,moval of the red light district has MOTH
ing to do with the question-it is not
! germane."
| Il would hate to have my friend Stew
art choked off at this time" said Mr..
Black Let him get it out of his sys-
tenn
Mr.. Reedall permitted Mr.. Stewart to
proceed. He proceeded. He said that
while he had every respect for the may
| or, he wanted to be charitable to him.
He was quite sure that the mayor had
never seen the hellholes in the pro
posed district. where they would not put
swine, much less human beings.
Fernstrom Reads the Law.
Mr. Fernstrom quoted from the law.
/ He said that Chief Pitt had taken an
oath to perform his duty and to en-
force the law, but he had never done
so. in spite of the fact that there was
| plenty of law.
ANY officer said Mr.. Fernstrom.
"who rises in defiance of the mayor
should not hold office. I am for sustain
| ing the mayor. Pitt has grossly and
f1asrantly violated his oath of office
] during his incumbency." Mr.. Fern
strom referred to the fact that Chief
Pitt had collected regularly from fallen
women monthly fines the payment of
| which amounted. to a license
Mr.. Hall said that Pitt had told him
on one occasion that he had the names
and addresses of sixty-five women who
We're outcasts.
1T struck me as, being remarkably
strange said Mr. Hail. that, having
this information, Mr.. Pitt did not cause
their arrest. l am unalterably opposed
to the removal of these women 70 any
place except where they belong-jaii "
Mr.. Fernstrom said that the matter
of removing the chief of police and re-
moving the red light district were two
different subjects entirely. He would
never stand for the designation of q
place or sanction of a section for the
purpose indicated, but he was for the
| mayor
Mr.. Stewart wound up the discussion
by saying that he did not believe the
district would ever be established.
And when everybody got through
talking at the chair, everybody talked
again when he cast his vote
The letter of Mr.. Pitt follows:
Honorable Mavor and Members of City
Council, Salt Lake City. Utah:
"Gentlemen-Last Monday afternoon,
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