The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-24
SHERIFF SAYS
HE WILL CLEAN
OUT THE TOWN
Salt Lake to Be Made as Pure
as Snow If Emery'S Pro-
gram Goes Through.
DRAGNET THROWN OUT
FOR FALLEN WOMEN
SUDDEN MORAL OUTBURST GEN.
ERALLY INTERPRETED AS
POLITICAL MOVE.

The lid" is on and Sheriff c. Frank
Emery is sitting on it,
Salt Lakes underworld was as quiet
as a graveyard last night It's rudy
lights didn't even flicker.
Two scouting parties were out from
Sheriff Emery's Office and they found
everything quiet along the coast The
birds" had either flown or were under
cover. They secured the sporty sec
tion." but the denizens of the world
of crime and vice kept away from
their grasp.
There was no mistake about il. the
lid was clamped on the red light
world. Sheriff Emery had every avail
able deputy sheriff that he could scare
up to help him keep il down.
1t is only the beginning of the
end" Sheriff Emery told a Herald re-
porter last evening. I'm in this cru
SADIE to stay. I've got them on the run,
and I'm going to keep them running
The first bunch of gum shoe men left
| the county jail at o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Headed by Chief Deputy
! Sheriff Joseph c. Sharp. six pseudo
sleuths stealthily invaded Commercial
street. Victoria alley and other ave-
nues of the under world. They raked
the places a. if with a finetOoth comb.
There was absolutely nothing doing.
The tip" had been spread before
them.
| Not alone did the deputies roam
through the under world. but they
scrutinized all the strollers on the
| downtown business streets. They were
open for suggestions, but found that
their company was not wanted.
Net Is Spread Again.
Undaunted by their failure Sheriff
| Emery had the net spread again in the
evening. He sent out Deputy Sheriffs
Joseph c. Sharp. Charles Sperry. Ike
Emery. Axel Steele Claude Russell
and Fred Butler and half dozen other
picked men from various parts of the
county. They went on another still
hunt through the red light" section.
Up to midnight last night the purity
squad" was banled. Though they
| searched every nook and Granny, they
did not find sufficient justification to
get their hooks on anybody. The lights
were out, the doors were closed and
the inmates were still.
Sheriff Emery insists that the cru
SADIE is not a spasmodic effort for a
political purpose. He maintains that
his sole intention is TO enforce the law.
He said:
Il propose to root out this evil for
once and all. I'm going to keep right
on the heels of those promoters OF vice
and crime and chase them out of Salt
Lake.
II am doing this on my own initi-
alive 1 have received no corlmunica-
ton from the governor. the attorney
general or any state officials. l have
had conferences with the county COM
missioners and the county attorney,
and they agree upon the course pro-
pose TO pursue.
|
Salt Lake will be rid of its immoral
and other unsavory characters before
get through. 1t is either a case OF
reform or get out.
my office gives me the authority TO
do this. so / am acting solely within
my rights. l am going at this with a
determination and persistency that
knows no such a word as fail
Pitts Terse Comment.
Chief of Police Pitt, who maintains
that the under world" is a necessary
evil. said:
Sheriff Emery started this crusade.
Now let him finish it. Wen see better
where he is at after he gets through
The first squad went out at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon and was on the
job until Z O'Clock. They again start
ed out at o'clock last evening. and
were at il in the early hours of the
morning. Sheriff Emery proposes to
have no regular hours for his men to
get busy" as he intends TO start them
going at almost any hour Of the day
and night. There will be no intermis-
sion sessions for the unfortunates
whose trail he has camped on.
Politicians all over the city discussed
the so-called crusade with deep inter-
est They were wondering what eff
feet il would have on the coming cleo
ton. All were agreed that it was ex-
> ecuted as a political move. and they
, are trying to dope out what effect It
will have.
. Fallen Women In Court.
The fourteen "Nomen of the town.
who were roped in Tuesday night,
; when the opening gun of the sheriff's
office was fired, were arraigned before
Justice of the Peace F. NJ Bishop of
Farmers ward at II o'clock yesterday
. morning. The big array of prisoners.
: who rode from the county Jail to the
court on Eleventh South and Fourth
East in q street car, came in for lot
of curious glances and remarks from
the crowds which looked them over.
Twelve of the accused women, when
arraigned, asked for the statutory
; time. twenty-four hours. in which TO
decide upon their plea. This was al
lowed by the court. Two more entered
pleas of guilty and We're placed under
the same bonds as the others.
Because of the overcrowded condition
of the county jail. seven of the four
teen women were taken to the Murray
/. Jail Sheriff Emery. District Attorney
Loofbourow and County Commissioner
+; Clinton went to the Murray Jail ahead
of them and made arrangements to
have them incarcerated there.
Three of the seven colored women
/; who were transported to the Murray
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