The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-24
DRISKELL CASE TO
GO TO JURY TODAY
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before Mr.. Parks repeatedly had to ad-
monlsh the prisoner to address the
jury or tell the jury, not me. about
| it
with the exception of being surcr
about his dates and more positive in his
| charges of cruelty and duress against
the police. Drlskell merely repeated with
ella borations his story of Tuesday
One OF the Celebrations WAS that the
confession, which almost takes up two
typewritten pages, was on one long piece
of paper which was so folded when he
next day Chief Sheets. Driskcll said,
came into his cell. gave him a Jolt of
yenshe. told him the police had his con-
against 1t. Detective George Chase also
gave him some whisky Just before the
party of business men questioned him.
Driskell insisted. Chief Sheets told him.
OF the best criminal lawyers in Los An
geles. was influential with both the gov
ernor of California and the governor OF
Utah. and would beat the confession
for him so that he wouldn't have to re
main In prison long, and further told
him to tell the business men the same
stated in the confession, Chief Sheets
told him to demonstrate TO the business
men how he killed Riley. too. Driskell
reassertcd Induced by fear he did as
IoIUs relying upon the pTOHllStS, ne Salt'
The day. he was transferred to the
county Jail. Driskell testified. Chief
Sheets and County Attorney job P. Lyon
held a conversation in which Sheets OBJ
jectcd TO his going to the county Jail,
SAYING:
You know what those fellows down
thcre'u do
Chief Sheets also wanted him TO plead
guilty in Police Judge Bowmans court.
Drisker said: and be bound over elimi-
mating this danger. He reiterated that
Chief Sheets called on him at the county
Jail and told him we will crnck your neck
IL you don't stick by the story you told
us
'T told him that I'd give him run for
his money" testified Driskel.
Neatly Picked UP.
When Drislxell was turned back to the
state, Mr. Loofbourow picked him up
neatly by asking him II he had not said
Tuesday that Detective Chase was the
only officer who ever told him Ocksrci-
der was an attorney. Driskell couldn't
Sheets was his friend for he took him out
of the dungeon.
Driskell then was excused, after be-
but not until Mr. Loofbourow had made
him reiteraIe that when he broke away
from Officer Riley something like twenty
feet north of Second South and State
streets. he had looked back after getting
across the street and seen Riley and
Kennedy only very few feet farther up
the street than where he left them.
The poStnn for hii TaS S1 wne1
by the defense, took the stand. Poulton
said that the night OF the murder he
observed Riley. whom he had known for
two or three years, walking up State
street between two men. Riley then was
directly In front OF the Studeb baker estab-
lishment. Poulton said. The Studebaker
street by actual measurement. so. Poul-
tons testimony irreparably hurt Dris-
kell.
At this point the defense moved for a
terial witnesses. Dutch Duncan and
Thomas Hardin, driver OF the sprinklng
cart into which DrislSell says he almost
ran. In crossing the street getting away
from Riley, cannot be found. but the mo-
ton was denied. The defense then rested
and the state began putting in It's re-
buttal
Sheets in Rebuttal
Chief Sheets was the FIRST witness in
rebuttal. His explosion Of Driskelrs
charges against the police department
was only an incident as TO what was to
come.
Chief Sheets did not see Driskell un-
I'll October IA. the day after he was
present when he was searched and
stripped and placed in the so-called dun
geon. didn't take him out OF any dun
geon, never gave him any 'yen-shee,"
for Driskell never asked him FOR any.
and he didn't know that he was a dope
fiend. Only once did he allow Driskell
TO have any whisky, and that was when
Detective Chase said that Drislsell was
begging for whisky: and Chief Sheets
told him 10 get a little out OF the dis
pensary and give II 10 the prisoner.
Chief Sheets told Detective Chase to get
some at Halliday's drug store, which was
done. This was the day before the bust
ness men visited the Jail, Chief Sheets
testified.
Chief Sheets never told Driskell that
Ocksreder was an attorney, good. bad or
indifferent. and never threatened to
"crack his neck II he didn't stay put"
that is, stick to his confession. Neither
did he visit Driskells cell and read 10
him his confession or any other state
ment, nor did he visit Driskell's cell with
Rlleys bloody shirt and the revolver
found in the prisoners room at Ogden
and, waving them at Driskell. cxclaim;
This is the bloody shirt OF the man you
With" for the reason that Riley's clothes
were taken from the police d few hours
after his murder.
No "Third Degree Methods.
On cross examination Mr.. Sheets said
that he frequently gives prisoners whisky.
but not drugs, because he knows little
or nothing about drugs. but he does
know something about the effects OF the
other. Neither does he adopt measures
for the forcing OF confessions from pris-
OnerS. IL Is VI Sou-
vcrsation, my wits against his. II he'll
talk declared the officer. II never mis-
treated a prisoner In my life" affirmed
Chief Sheets.
Mr.. Thomas then attempted to drag
In the persecution of the officer follow
ing the alleged robbery of McWhirtcr
brothers OF $4,000 In a bunko card game
which eliminated in the chiefs acquittal
of the charge OF conspiracy. Mr.. LOOT.
bourow objected. but too late. for Chief
sheets unhesItatingly and boldly replied:
Yes" In answer to the question as to
whether or not he had been prosecuted
in connection with that case.
II merely ask this for identification
purposes explained Mr.. Thomas
Really was the sarcastic rejoinder
Of Mr. Loofbourow. "You don't expect
to convict him OF that now. do you?'
Thomas "Puts One Over
NO hardly, since my learned colleague
over there failed" retorted Mr. Thomas
To impeach Ollie Pierce, the negro fire.
man who testified that Driskel at Sec
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