Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-09
BarIow's Defense of His Depart
ment in american" Organ
Is Torn to Pieces.
FRIGHTENED LITTLE GIRL.
She Gave Diamonds to Police to Save
Brother, AS She Thought, From
Reform School.

both the mother and daughter said
that they were shocked at the story,
and said that their alleged statements
in print were ridiculous was de-
nounced as unqualitiedly false today
by the two women referred to, namely,
Miss Ermina Whatcott and Mrs. Anna
Whatcott. of SIC north First West
street, sister and mother respectively
of little Lon Whatcott. the boy who
was arrested on a charge of grand
larceny on order OF Chief of Police
Barlow becase his mother had re-
fused to give up TO the police
diamond ring and diamond stick pin
which the boy had found on the
street. last Monday morning.
The statement attributed to Chief
OF Police Barlow was declared false
hood by Miss Whatcott and George F.
Lloyd, we'll known business man,
who Is manager of the Cache Knitting
Works company, at Al south Main
street
The statement attributed to Chief
of Detectives George Sheets that the
account published in The News We'd
nesday evening "waS a tissue of les
was also pronounced false by the same
persons.
Miss Whatcott and Mr.. Lloyd stated
that they would swear to the authen-
ticty of their statements which were
printed as interviews in The News
yesterday. They declared that the fol-
lowing statement of Chief of Police
Barlow. printed In The Tribune this
morning, Is false, when Mrs. What
colt, who lives at 575 north First West
street, was assured that we Intended
10 protect her interests. after we had
explained matters to her. she readily
turned over the diamonds. After they
have been identified they Will be re-
turned to the rightful owner. The
story about the boy being PLACED In
cell was entirely false. There was not
q man in this Office or connected In
any way with the department. who
wished to put the child In jail"
WHAT GIRL SAYS
Miss Whatcott said this morning:
"My mother and never said that we
were shocked at the story In Tho
News and that our alleged statements
were ridiculous The statement In The
Tribune that later In the day the
parents of the boy called at the police
station and released the gems Is false.
NV mother has been confined to her
bed for two days, and Is seriously i'll
as a result of her treatment at the
hands OF the police. My father was
in Garfield at the time. 1t was l VINO
took the jewels to the police station
l did not do 1t, either, as Chief BAR
low says, because l was assured tnat
the police intended to protect our IN
terests' / released the jewels be-
cause 1 had been told that unless 1
did so within an hour. my little BROTH
er would be sent to the reform school
until he was 81 years old, and my
mother would be arrested and sent 10
the penitentiary. They said my brother
had committed grand larceny. and that
we knew the diamonds belonged TO
Exander, and that my brother had not
found them, and that he would be
sent to prison for stealing the stones.
NV mother had been driven to des-
peration by the police, and she feared
their threats. I was afraid that tney
would do something awful to my lit
tie borther. l knew my brother had
found the diamonds, but l was scared.
and the police frightened us all so
badly that / thought 1t would be BET
ter to give up the diamonds than to
have the police after my mother and
brother.
INV mother never went to the police
station Wednesday night. On the con-
trary. it was the police who came to us
Chief of Police Barlow accompanied by
Tribune reporter. came out to our
home last night Chief Barlow asked
my mother to deny the story printed In
The News, and she absolutely refused
| 10 do it. He tried TO make my mother.
nv sister. Lillian Whatcott. my broth
er Lon. and me. make written state
ments denying the story in The News.
| We said that we had given up the
diamonds because we didn't want TO be
| bounded by the police any longer, but
that we would not deny interviews
which we had given and which We
| knew to be true in every detail. We
are standing by what we said. and arc
| willing to go before a notary public and
swears to everything printed In The
| News"
MR.. LLoYD's STATEMENT.
Mr.. Lloyd said. "The police got hold
OF Miss Whatcott and bullied her
apain until she was so scared that she
,.eturncd the diamonds without my
knowing anything about 1t. l had en-
Gagged Atty. Moses Davis to fight tn
oaSe and we were determined to see
| n ont to the bitter end But the police
| friehtened the girl 80 that she ran nome
and got the diamonds and gave them
IN to the police. before we knew any
thipp about It, Her father was In Gar
all where he has been working, and
hor mother was sick in bed. have
roado no denial whatsoever OF the state
vents which The News quoted me as
saving am satisfied that the police
Su,,ndIed the Whatcotts out OF those
diamonds. / know that they never
We're identified by n good description
and I know that Lon Whatcott fount
them.
"This affair has opened my eyes as te
tho methods used by the police In deal.
,nc with helpless women and children
ana 7 have the greatest contempt fol
cbief barlow. When he says that th'
how was not In jail. he tells what III
l,nows TO be untrue. Chief of Dctec
lives George Sheets, in my own pres
ence said to the boy: We'll. ] guess
that vour faiks don't care anything 70
Won and they think you arc guilty o
Stealing the diamonds and Will let yoi
co to the penltentlary. or they woul'
Come To sec YOU The boy was arreste'
and nIaced in the city prison, although
no complaint had been filed agains
him. on a charge of grand larceny
when the police knew that he ha'
sound the diamonds. Chief Barlo'
knows that he refused to release tn
boy until / and my brother gave S1.Oo
bond before Judge Whitaker. I spen
| several hours walking through the cold
| Tuesday night, on Capitol hill finding
| LAWYER and trying to get the boy re
| leased. I can not understand how 1h
L ..,t cal fcoh