Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-25
SHEETS TALKS
FOR HIMSELF
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selves thought Mcwhirter lost $4,000
and had been offered $1,000 back"
You didn't think he had lost ss,ooOT"
NO.
Didn't you see receipt Mcwhirter
had for $4,000"
NO: the frst time J saw the receipt
was In Judge Armstrong"
Didn't McWhlrter tell YOU Bell had
posed as an officer and took $S,0oo?"
HE said two men had come In, but
this was after Bell had gone"
Didn't he tell you Bell was one of
those menu"
NO; when he spoke OF the gang he
said Bell was one of them"
HAD HAD EXPERIENCE
What made you think Bell an out
side man?"
From similar affairs. l thought Bell
was a CRATER but that didn't excite
my suspicion ! didn't know one was
a crook and the other a Scotch tourist.
McWhirter talked all right. For while
I thought both were grafters. Graft
ers come In to settle their troubles once
In awhile. ] had no reason to believe
Bell any more u CRATER than McWhir-
ter"
Didn't the younger Mcwhirter tell
you about It earlier?"
SIMPLY STARTED TO TELL.
mo; he started TO- told Hempel
TO go out with him and see what he
could do. Serg. Hempe was the one
who said, You've been buncoed; the
chief knows about such things not J."
After the long time wen the Nc
Winters waited and learned that some
one had impersonated officers, why
didn't you arrest Bell when he came
baclSe"
Il had learned nothing Of the kind"
THEM SCRIPTURES.
Fl. ID. Simmons, young fellow.
WAS called and said he was in the
county Jail recently and while there
be and Bell read transcript of tes-
timony and discussed its contents.
laugh was created when Simmons re-
ferred to the transcript as them
Scriptures" The states objection
against further testimony from the
witness was sustained. Under cross
examination simmons said he is 81
years old. Els last Incarceration in
Jail covered four months. About
nine months ago he was on trial an
other time. but could not remember
the offense on which he was con-
victed. He was in the reform school
three months for running away from
High school. and the two offenses
were committed while the young fell
low was out on parole After bring
ing out these facts the state excused
simmons.
OFFICER Joseph w Burt was the first
witness called this morning. He de-
MED that in the telephone message
sent to 80 police station, anything
was said about the boys going out
Ia New England addition.
PHILLIPS TESTIFIES.
+. A. Phillips, the newspaper man
who came in.o the chiefs office On
the evening II the McWhrter rob-
berry, was next called He said he
had heard something about the story
and asked about it. The chief said
ne knew little about 1t at that time
and referred Phillips to the Scotch
men.
THOUGHT 1T QUEER.
They would tell me nothing, so l
asked the chief If anyone else was
going to get it, / said | thought it
he thought 1t queer. We discussed
some of the queer points. / doubted
the genuineness of the crime as the
McWhirters seemed more anxious
about their transportation than the
money. The chief told me he had
fuS StSteu tnelf staying over out tlSy
said they couldn't"
Under cross examination Mr.. Phil
lips said he turned the story in, but
could not say why the Tribune, for
which he was working at the time,
did not publish it.
THE story looked funny. 1'he
chief told me that Hempell was eth
er trying to have their transportation
or would. and vet stay over
and help him catch the fellows. The
whole situation made the story lock |
funny" Mr.. Phillips was excused
INTERVIEWED DOCTOR"
George L, GeiGer, another news
paperman, was next called. His tes-
timony consisted merely of answering |
the following question: "On or about |
Oct. 81, 1906, did you and others |
visit James Donaldson in the county |
Jail, and did he say in substance: |
Sheets and l have not spoken for |
and If >e had anything to
10 with this case, 1 know nothing
about it?'"
Yes. sir"
Mr.. Gcigsr was excused without
ross examination.
HEMPEIfS TESTIMONY.
The defense. when its motion for dis
nissal was overruled yesterday brought
IN John Hempel. first sergeant of po-
ice aS tia frst witness TTep1peI said