The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-18
AN|MUS BACK Of
RA|l|NGS At Lyon
Federal Bunch Is Angered Be-
cause lie Is After the
SmOOt Mouth"
USING ST0CKADE CASES
TO ANNOY THE OFFICIAL
However, He viii Not Be De-
TERED From Working for
the Taxpayers.

Angered because County Attorney'
job j. Lyon is going to sue the county.
commissioners TO recover the $5725.50'
illegally paid the Smoot Mouth for
the printing of the 1908 delinquent'
fax list, the federal bunch and the com-'
mlssioners arc now out. at least tacitJy'
if not openly, to get Mr., Lyons scalp.
The order has gone out from the fed
eral lair and the attempt now is To-
put the county attorney in the hole
on the west side rcd light cases.
The sheriff's office has been dragged
into the play and at the behest OF
the commissioners and the federal
bunch is now making daily raids on
the west side stockade in an effort to-
fill the docket regardless of whether
there IS any evidence or not, and thus
embarrass the county attorney and
make it appear that he is dilatory and
dercllct in tho matter, when in realitv
1T is not up TO him to act. but to the
sheriff S office to furnish the evidence,
after which he viii readily Issue COM.
plants and prosecute the cases.
The plot is TO set up a howl.
through tho "Mouth." against Lyon
when there is any delay in the prosecu-
tion of a case and thus attempt 10
discredlt his administration. but the
anlmus behind the move as portrayed in
the fiaring headlines of red of the
Month"; is patent on the face OF 1t
and nobody, not even an infant, will
be deceived or misled by the play.
Evidence of Plot.
As evidence of the plot the sheriff 8
office first came TO Mr.. Lyon with n
request for the prosecution of woman
named Jane Taylor, an inmate of tho
stockade. To this Mr.. Lyon readily
agreed, but the evidence was not forth
coming. Instead, the next day, a dep-'
uty called with the request that Lucy.
Gray be substituted for the Taylor
woman. There was little or no reason
back of the request. but it was granted.
Then deputy called on Mr.. Lyon and
asked that Ruby Vaughn be prosecuted
first. In day or so still another
similar request for a substitution Of
defendants was made, and this is the
way the thing has been going for the
last eight or ten days.
In the interim the "Mouth" has
been shouting its head off at the coun-
~ attorney for his alleged delay, while
the real party at fault is the sheriff Is
office. 1t IS up to the sheriff's of
flee, not the county attorney s, to mako
the arrests, furnish the evidence and
swear 10 the complaints on which to
DaSe tEe prosecutions, ana so tar as
the howl Of the "Mouth" against the
county attorneys office is concerned,
those who know the facts in the case
do not take it seriously and those who
do not know interpret it as a criticism
of the county sheriff S office.
In the meantime Mr.. Lyon is busy
drawing up the complaint against the
county commissioners, charging them
with filching something like $4,000 from
the county treasury ard making a pres
ent Of it to the Mouth and is seek
ing TO recover this amount TO the tax
payers Of Salt Lake county, to whom it
belongs. The suit is expected to be
filed the first Of next week.