Show POLICE ARE AE IN A GlE 1 t RIvalry Intensified d by Latest Lat st ing incident t t WORK AT CROSS PURPOSES p HS BE SOLD THE TB PISTOL T Jacob 2 t Second ouk the pawnbroker who jold the weapon n that the police pollee maintain killed klU Jam R Hay two weeks ago 10 o at last n night and who the police poll claim claimon on Sunday ge e every indication that be he could identify as ail au the pur purchaser chaser ha er has for lr some ome reason taken a a stand against the he police Yesterday h ht declared he had never seen before b fore confronting him on Sunday and anI affirmed that tte M police r here ere en vor I ng to force bim him to identify Identity a fUtta he not conscientiously On ly This Thia latest i t development at ot the H Hm Hy Ey m mystery following the tion ton of Chief Hilton and Detersives Dete ve Davies Davi and sperry perry over OV what they t be believed b to be the discovery of ot the e last missing element to convict L I generally regatta rega r gard d as the outcome or of the bitter rivalry and spirit of or fac ftc factionalism factionalism and n the police department Froin FroM tart start finish the th Inte nl fare waging la In the department has haa prevented the te ease came camet t from being cleared up George Sheets Sheet T hc heads the opposition against Chief I I enjoyed the first t Inning when be he arrested From that time Um I tile the prisoner was wag 8 in the t cu custody tody of t the thief chief until he was turned over to tim tile sheriff In the th interim the tt chief lef awl a his hi men and Sheets She tand and nd his hta adherents have been teen working at t cross cr s purposes The Mysterious Revolver Two men working the personal pers pere l fla aJ I direction n of ot Chief Hilton HUton traced the f revolver and a d recovered It 11 om Thoma Boyle of Mill Creek reek the tIe man who found it at State and Thirteenth South streets over a week T ago No N secret is made of the belief bell t In police circles that the other not only math light of the th discovery but threw obstacles so far as n the way of the officers seeking JO to o fol low up the clue clui clu 1 f Chiet hief Hilton and the men t 1 e working on the thc th case cae ea insist in l that the pa 11 gave then them every reason to beul ve on Sunday that he recognised b but bat t hesitated he tat to make mak Ms 1111 is identification ab says ays the trio is Ia dreaming and that he heis is the he victim o coercion The rhe does not speak any too pleasantly of in relation rela on to his experiences ex rJ encee in the thEt SAO ma connection iii h m the past pant and n j l intimates intimate here the trouble iles Hes J Sheets and Pawnbroker On the other 4 Sheets tM avers ivers v rs he hei i saw mw th nd y afternoon od that thai he is a very genial g trust trustworthy trustworthy worthy q citizen ea of guile pile and nd burning with fth desire to serve the pub lic lie Sheets says he is out of the Mor t case and glad of it If the case had been closed up last before bero t hief hiet Hilton s men made their And it would have been stronger Chief of Police Hilton when seen last Jast night in regard to the turn that things S have taken expressed himself as RE fol low lows 3 It looks yel very ery strange to me that a man would make one statement t me rne tie day and th then n flatly deny It H th t the next It strikes me that there must be something andes amiss somewhere Of course COUnIe I vas was not present when confronted Mort and did not n hear h ar Lie Lis statements but I 1 know k Jw that the t two officers whom hom I had working op u uhe t he e matter a aTe are e conservative men and andI niI I have haYe the utmost confidence in tte He te correctness of what they reported to tome torae I me rae They The are not men who would ex cx exaggerate exa a anything or try to make it appear something that tb t it was wa not just to further their ends i iSaid Said Was Nervous i They reported to me that Morten sen was visibly nervous when wilen the Loe LQ pawnbroker entered the cell coil and that thit picked him out of the therow crowd row d of prisoners present aji s the th man mas manS S looking like the one to whom w om he Iso hethe p sold the gun n My officers told me t S while would not swear no poe poeS ely that was the man he h S had by his words and actions given them every reason to believe that he thought he was the same man JJ and wanted to see se him again under UDder ent circumstances to oE see ee if he be could ld not fco identify him It j looks very strange that he should now no completely go back on his elate Uste m ments and declare that he could sever n identity the prisoner Of course tonne I liLy have my ideas id sho bou the ataIr a a Q 1 re otH no r Ho share them with pg hut but what or y yare are I will not notT notT mey T ik It Is Es Right Gun bj the he tand that to iiI toi pa i take t now pow makes it b poat for gt to pr pre jiVe e anything in relation to toi i he the by him yet we are as aa 5 confident nn as ever that we WP have the right un We intend tr keep k p working on onh onS S h Ii matter regardless rep leu of the present 1 v and nd we expect exp t in some a ay to t be toe able to prove rove that we WP art ase right we get et h The two officers Whom Jn T 7 have had working on the th matter are as confident as aa I am un T 1 out the gun and they propose e to koep kep ep on with ith their efforts to prove that the gun Is the property of ot ome e argued that the gun was lost Int in vie tte road but if It that had laad ad been he case ca the notice which It has hu d would hive brought the Ios I loser r to claim aim It Disclaimer I 1 am positive I 1 never sold a gun canto to Morten en This is the a assertion from Jacob that hat has stirred the police poll department I IsolE solo solE a s weapon like Uke that found some i UP we w an co to m a man ma who Si 51 50 fin fn it to keep veep off oft tramps tr l he said no flO mea of ot identifying the revolver When Ten I t went to the county jail Sunday to try to Identify the pure aser er the police pointed out the man in tn advance I went In Ia s where he was and he and I Il locked l ked al 4 each uh other When I rame amE amEt ov Ot t I sam it was not the man They 7 urged me and I told them tb m If they could year vear It wa the man all an right I They had my m clerk David Meyers Myers look at him but he tell ten anything about the case cue s n th tt the afternoon I r talked with City Detective Sheets S1 about abOtt the case cue and told him I Iw w uld not Bot identify I wont s 8 sear ear r mans life away aay to bd help out police Officer Davies Position When I learned of 01 the S C change of front I was greatly sur ur Vr declared Officer Edward EdwardI I avles vies i believe as 88 firmly as 8 ever that we have the right weapon and think we will prove it e in time Officer 2 Sperry and I visited very every f pawn shop and secondhand store stor in the rity ity Sat Saturday Saturday evening and nd the t th hp only weapon of the kind that ast hn JUt hul 1 been sort 4 re recently recently came oame from When hen we took the Uti paW t the j Ml l Morte wai wat brought b ht down where other rs were at dinner and without ny intimation as to the iden identity Idt Identity n of the men wai wa Inside He lie came ame our air ur on Morten i s 1 when he enters 1 tN h hf l v n 1 took look him in tat Wt J He said the purchaser r impressed him h im s being stouter abon about the waist and a nd taller than The aa aw w wa e sitting tUng down and wan HI not dressed as a s Was the visitor r who bought ht the re to revolver tolver volver v lver from him Jake left saying he hew hea w Dd a return ret Md J ov man mal mald d w b Deputy Sheriff T F Thomas could c have him differently attired i l e t lAed that the pawn brak b C Wied further opportunity ity i ty to view vI w the man m D to positively Identify Men Iden Wy him bi His clerk had bad never seen the purchasers face so of course was wasn wasO n Officer O Davies statement was cot cor corroborated IQ r in detail by Officer Sperry wc w ho worked with hint him throughout the theca ca ese c e |