Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-08
BLOODY RECORD
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Good Citizens Can Only Applaud
Work Of Sheriff
Emery.
is A cEssPooL OF CRIME
There the Worst Glasses Meet to Lay
Plots and There Path to Ruin
Begins and Ends.

The work Of Sheriff Emery and his
deputies in ceaning out the murder
breeding dens Of vice on Commercial
street and Victoria alley Is meeting
With much communication from citizens
4 faith who love law. order and decency,
despite the slurring remarks about the
officers of the law being purity
gang. etc.
When one takes the records for II
A few Gears back and looks over them UP
to date, and contemplates the vile
crimes that have been committed on
Commercial street, and reviews tho
5lawlHss acts which have been commit
ted in other parts of the city but We're
\ Matched in dens OF infamy, the conclu-
sion rs forced upon one that it Is high
time that something he done to clean
out the human parasites.
10 say that the police department
was, not inactive is a joke. Women
of the town, colored female pickpockets
and nlurderous thieves and the army
OF loafers who did nothing but gamble,
steal smoke opium and live from the
wages of SIN of fallen women, were
practically protected. Other cities ran
them locked here whore their votes
were appreciated by the Americans
g /. 4 j y = y y (
SHERIFF. SUPPORTED.
The sheriff is receiving the support
of ell good citizens for the work lie
has undertaken in Kidding the city of
y the criminal clement, and especially
4 the negro crooks.
The murders, attempted murders,
y TCbberies and other crimes which can
n be traced directly to denizens OF Com
1nercial street and other vice breeding
localities, are simply appalling.
RECORD OF CRIME.
On Sept. ii, 1900, two desperadoes,
King and Lynch, entered tho Green
Light gambling hell on Commercial
y street with the purpose in view Of rob
& bling the same. Col, Godfrey Prouse,s
+ one of the proprletors, resisted and
was murdered III cold blood. Lynch
was shot but not badly wounded and
both he and King We're arrested and
y convicted OF murder. King managed To
get out OF the state prison. Lynch
made an attempt to escape but was
captured. His death sentence was COM
nluttd to life Imprisonment and he is
d now an inmate Of the Utah state prison
About one year ago Georgia Burton,
O woman of the town, was chased UP
the street by her Infatuated lover, shot
"a to death. and he then committed sui
eide. About two years ago q negro
& IlaInen H9rTy WllSOIl WAS sSllot5a5pS Il
cnlorcd man known as DIRTY" Thomas.
Wilson died at the hospital shortly after
the shooting,
On the morning Of Sept 10, Dave I.o-
gan, said to be a "hop-head" negro,
shot and instantly killed another col
ored man named Dick Hawkins.
In addition to these crimes, there
have been robberies, attempted muir
ders, vicious assaults and thefts too
numerous to mention.
1t was on Commercial street that Joe
e Sullivan and Joe Garcia planned the
robbery OF the Albany bar. III carry
ing out their crime they committed a
+ greater one by numbering in cold blood
a brave and faithful guardian of the
4 public peace, Patrollnan Charles S..
Ford.
RENDEZVOUS OF CROOKS.
The street has been a rendezvous for
Z criminals Of all classes Highway
men, thugs, porch climbers, pickpock-
cts, bunko men, sneak thieves and all
classes plan their offenses against So
5ciety in dens on the street and rush
there for u hiding place when officers
of the law are on their track. Young
girls have been lured there and ruined.
y Boys have been taught all manner of
vice and many of the crimes can be
3 traced to the habit of opium smoking.
Occasionally the police have raided hop
joints, but the croows usually escaped
punishment. As long as this class OF
undesirables are permitted to ply their
nefarious trades just so long will hop
joints and other crime centers exist,
and just so long will there be muir
ders, suicides, robberies and other
crimes committed, and the only way
to putsa stop to 1t is to run the thieves
out of town.