The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-18
WHY CRIMINALS
CONE TO UTAH
Deseret News, HeraId-Republi-
can, Sheriff and Church Re-
publicans Invite Them.
NOTORIOUS MEN ALLOWED
TO WALK OUT OF JAIL
Parent and Bell Were Treated
as HOnOred Guests in the
County Bastile.

Every fall there is necessarily an
flux of criminals into Salt Lake. ca
graphically Salt Lake is unfortunate
that the transcontinental criminals mu
stop off here. Burglars. highwa VINE
yeggmen. confidence men. card shark
gamblers. and even petty thieves af
all birds of massage.
In the fall they leave The norther
cities and drift toward the south. Their
are more reasons for their migration
than the mere desire to escape the cor
weather. During the hard winters %
the northern cities the people stay in
doors As much a possible and the 4uis
lars and highwaymen necessarily nate
a more limited sphere in which TO "ore BE
tracks IN snow makes escape more az
ficnlt, There is less travel IN INC WI
ter time and fewer unsophlstlcateg vi.
Tins for the confidence men ANU
card shark. -
Enroute to SUMMER and moIe psoutb tbs
i've fields of nefarious, endeaEor ,.rn. ,n
criminals stop off for day al inc Ell SaIt
er cities through which they pass' xa, n
Lake is in direct line OF fravei Iroh,
east to west and, from northern winas
to Califorpi, sunshine 1t is not Sui
prisinp then that Salt Lake gets her
share Of these criminals.
Why Criminals Come.
That many have come. via san l.Sm9
reasons The prize fight at Reno oe,
tween Jeffries and Johnson attraftea :
an enormous assemblagc OF every chai '
acter who, after the> Eight scatteleu .
Themselves over the. west; many OF enem o
coming to Salt Lake. Another rgasva hava :
is that fhe race tracks of the east hs.e :
hnsn closed and the race track fou's n y
and hanecrso on have come west wgere /
racing with bookmaking is permitteo p
and with the race trnck comes the traln I
of attendant evils in the form OF drug a
fends, women Of III repute and crlmin- a
ais OF all description. T
But far more potent than all other /,
reasons for the crime and CRIMINALS IN {
Snlt Lake this fall is the fact that the V
Hersld- Republican. the Deseret News, Il
the sberiff,s office and the church Re d
publican. politicians have extended an
open invitation 10 the criminals of the
world 20 make Salt Lake their head :;
quarters. In
Heraldine abroad the vicious SANDER -
hat peace officers. of Salt Lake are in
announcing to the world that r
,ther forms of crime are nearly as com :
non in Utah as polygamy. this element !
n Salt Lake endeavored TO place. Salt i
Lake at the mercy of the CRIMINALS IN r
,rder. forsoofh. that the Republicans :
nav make political capital out of imper- !
ling the lives and property of the peo- !
'lp of Salt Lake.
Furthermore the county admlnistra'
ion has established reputation for
reeing criminals and. guaranteeing
hem immunity that is almost past be- :
ef In the county Jail county deputy '
,criff who was supposed TO be on duty :,
llmiv- slept while one of the most =
ptoffaus criminals in the United States
erriIy sawed his way out OF Jail.
Permitted to Escape.
This man had confessed to practical T
all the crimes covered by the Grim.
ii code and if he had been prosecuted
! all of them and given the mini
I'm sentence IN each case his life
uld have been far too short to have
we'd out the sentences He had been e
,victed and sentenced TO the state
vet through design or S
pid insttention, he was permitted TO G
ape.
When the present county sheriff. who I
ads the band of fifty-five deputy
eriffs as peace preserverS In salt
Ike City, was chief criminal deputy s
connived with two Of the worst Grim 9
Ills on the American continent TO sub 6
Z testimony against tue Hhe "i,
ief of police in order to make political
ofit out OF the case.
and Bell, the illustrious
ends of the church Republican lead,
5. who hv their own confession had r
mmitted enough crimes to merit ever
sting confinement in prison, were
.atcd as honored guests and when they
d given their, perjured testimony
,re released and permitted TO go mer' {
v on their criminal way.
4 third man who was not nearly so :
epIy involved in crime as they, was ]
Mt to the penitentinry for ten years
cause it was fancied that he was ]
litically opposed to'the church Re
blican party. ., I
The record of the county sheriff s of
&c has been one of glorious bungling
almost every case. And yet the
eriff's office is permitted not only
create a wave Of crime in the city,
IT is now brazenly asking the credit
Y suppressing 1T.