The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-05
ACCUSED OF PAYING
TO PROTECT CROOK
Money Is Accepted by
Detectives, Who Prom
ise to Give Bunko Men
Immunity, but They
Reveal Plot to Grant.

IA7lLLARD HANSON, former
NV county attorney OF Salt
Lake, was arrested ct
12;15 o'clock last night and will
be formally charged with bribery
OF members Of the police depart
ment. In the possession of Chief
of Police B. +. Grant is $50, al
legged to have been paid by Han
son to Detectives W. c.. Geese and
Herbert Leichter to obtain immun-
ity for clique OF poolroom
sharks and bunko meu who have
been operating more or less sue
cessfully in Salt Lake for months.
The detectives say that they received
money from time to time during the last
four weeks, usually in $50 sums. The
money was promptly turned over to
Chief Grant in each instance.
Hanson was arrested by Inspector
Carl A. Carlson and Captain John Rob
erts as he was passing out of the Jail
yard by the back way after secret
visit to the storeroom of the detective
office at police headquarters. In his
possession at the time was found coat
ho,- hetl he lar
case against Alfred Sorensen, who shot
to death Tom McGillis at Sorensen IS
jewelry store last spring.
Chief Springs Trap.
The storeroom had been left open by
arrangement with the detectives, and
Chief Grant had folded the coat and
placed it where Hanson had been told
to expect it.
Every movement Of the secret visit OF
Hanson to the storeroom was watched
The detective offices had been purposely
cleared to afford an opportunity for the
midnight visitor. Policemen were sta
toned at every exit from the building
and yard at the police station to pre-
vent a possible escape after the coat had
been taken.
The securing Of the coat through the
supposed connivance of the detectives was
the boIdest and last OF the alleged at
tempts OF Hanson to corrupt the officers.
Hanson Is Seized.
Embodened by his other dealings with
the detectives. Hanson went to his fate
serenely confident Believing that the de-
teot,ves were conniving with him in every
move. he did not suspect the trap that
had been laid for him SO shrewdly by
Chief Grant. lie was wholly unaware
that q score Of eyes were upon him as
he entered the storeroom. and as he mada
his exit with the coat in his hand, lie
was permitted to walk into the alley lead
ing to State street before he was arrest
cd Then he was seized by Inspector
Carlson and Captain Roberts.
The detectives were first approached
after they had uncovered the operations
Of a ring OF poolroom sharks and racing
touts. who on July swindled Il. Il.
Cleary OF Spokane, Wash, out of $3.50 IN
a fake poolroom on the third floor OF the
Grand hotel.
Cleary Is Fleeced.
Cleary had been induced TO visit the
place, and finding 1t equipped with all
the apparatus Of a regular poolroon, be-
lieved Il to be genuine. He was intro
duced TO Mr.. Long who proposed to
Give him advance information on races
through his connection with the Western
Union Telegraph company. Cleary tried
the tips he received and won at first.
81 Haf
money which he had telegraphed 10 Spo-
Lann for. the tip failed. CIeary lost.
Victim Of Cancer
WASHINGTON, Sept %-Dr. W. c. Nc
Ges, noted anthropologist. geolosist ny
drologist and author, died here today from
a cancarous growth. DR.. McGee was