The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-21
BELL TESTIFIES HE GAVE
CHIEF SHEETS BRIBE
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to me and the three of US went up to
4 the Antlers rooming house.
I'VE were met by Aleck and William
! McWhirter. Aleck said TO Parent,
Are you an officer?' Parent threw
| back his coat and showed a badge.
Parent asked what the trouble was,
, and AlecS MeWhirter said that he had
! lost s., 900 in card game. Parent then
/ said, have been gambling. How
much money did you have when you
came in here?' MoWhirter replied that
/ he had $4,000. Parent asked him how
much he had then. McWhirter replied
| $S,373 Parent asked for it, and Nc
Whirter gave him a little book and
asked for a receipt, which Parent
gave him.
Parent then said he would have to
take them over to the police station, He
took Donaldson and Larry O'Brien out
and then said that he would be back
| for the two McWhirters and asked me
/ to take charge of them while he was
! gone We stayed there d few moments.
and then started down the street We
went into several saloons on the way
! down. l was trying to shake the Nc
Whirters, but they wouldn't be shook.
/ Finally we went to the Cullen hotel and
/ got the grips of the Scotchmen.
! the police station SO we went to the
I White House corner and caught a car.
| After ii had gone a few feet, l jumped
/ off and Aleck followed me. Then l took
/ him TO some more saloons and then to
/ the Sanitarium, where we met Parent.
I He went with us to the postoffice. There
/ McWhirter asked couple of mail car
riers whether or not we were police
men and started to tell them about los
] ut n
made a motion TO indicate that Nc
: Whittier was crazy. The mail men
t smiled and went on.
Calls Up the Chief.
ION leaving the postoffice we went
I through Market street to the Sun drug
store on West Temple street. / asked
the clerk if l could use the telephone.
/ l called up No. 70 and got Chief Sheets.
l told him that there had been card
/ game and that l had with me the
| sucker The chief said that he had
heard about the game. / asked him If 1t
would be all right to bring the fellow
over TO the station, and the chief said
| that ii would.
We walked straight to the police
station from the Sun drug store. We
went along State street and into the
police station from the rear door. As
we came in l saw Sheets talking 10
some men at the other end of the hall.
He saw us and came toward us. Are
you the chief? 1 asked. He replied that
he was. We all went into the chief s
Office and l said, Chief, here Is man
who dhas been gambling and who has
lost $4,000 That is wrong, said the
Scotchman. Has there been $4,000 de-
posted here to my credit? The chief
said. No, you have been buncoed. Your
I
about it McWhirter asked, Is this
man a policeman The chief said, No,
he's not a policeman Then McWhirter
started to cry.
las McWhirter was crying l leaned
over TO Sheets and held up two fingers
and whispered. There's $1,000 in ii for
you if you help us keep this money.
( The chief nodded.
"Then he turned to McWhirter and
said, Do you want this man arrested
He said. want my money back. l
said, Did l get your money, McWhir-
ter? Did 1 play cards with you? Did
I search you or take your money away
from your No he said, but you
were one Of the gang. McWhirter then
said that he wanted $1,000 back.
offers McWhirter $1,000.
Sheets asked me to step out in the
hail. and when | got out there he said,
What do you INTEND to do with these
! out of town He said. You'll have to
give them some money back. told
| him l thought we could get him $1,000.
I'VE went back in the room and
! Sheets said, 'McWhirter, this man
wants to make a proposition to you
told him that l had a private bank
| account and that l would loan him
| 81, 600. but that he must repay me on
| recovering his money. He agreed to
! this and l drew up a note which he
! signed Then l told him that I would
! go out and try to get the money.
From the police station | went up
| town and met Tom Parent, a brother
! to the one wh,\ was with us at the
rooming house. We went to McCoy's
barn and ran into William McWhirter
We had a hard time stalling him off
| but after while we got rid of him, got
! in a rig and drove out to Donaldson 8
| sisters house i'm the New England adj
dition, where l had been told the
| bunch had gone. 1t took us quite a
while to get out there, because I'VE got
| lost on the way out and got tangled
up with some irrigation bitches.
When we got there we met the rest
OF the fellows and had dinner there
| Then we all walked back up town to-
gether. We stopped at the Salt Lake
hotel. near the county Jail. and Don
aldson called up the chief. He told
him that l was with him and said that
/ he wanted to see Sheets We then
went to the corner diagonally across
I from the Knutsford and met the chief
| Sheets told Donaldson that he would
have to give the Scotchmen back
! $1,000. Donaldson said that he thought