Show SHEETS GOES FREE In the Sheets case Judge Armstrong sitting sitt ng as an magistrate has hai held that there is no probable cause for fo r holding the chief of police poUce for trial on OP a athe the charge of being accessory after the thi e fact to a 3 felony felon and has dismissed the th case without expressing an opinion of 0 f the chiefs guilt or innocence h No one will question Judge Arm Armstrongs Armstrongs Armstrongs strongs decision on the law involved 1 and audit andt It may be assumed therefore that tha t the chief is not guilty gunt of compounding a felony In the McWhirter case On the th a ai question of or the chiefs continuance in 1 i office however there will be little ques question questIon question tion among those who followed the evi evidence evIdence dence that Sheets Sh ets is lS the wrong man for forchie fo r chief chie of police poUce His confiding nature h the Innocence which would let a crim crint criminal criminal inal get away with the goods after he Ii e had walked into the chiefs office Is of o f itself sufficient to show that he lie is too to 0 guileless to be trusted with the lives live S and property of Salt Lakes citizens The chief who can hold telephone con conversations conversations conversations and private office conversa conversations conversations conversations with sith criminals who have robbed men of In one swoop without suspecting them Is all right for a vii vil village rn lage la e constable but Salt Lake is no longer a village Sheets is a n likeable man he has been regarded as a shrewd man until re recently recently recently he has held public office so long it would be a pity to make him work for a living liying now Probably the Jest best est way out of it would be b to establish a pub public lic Uc and create the office of cus custodian custodian custodian for Sheets and close the at night for fear some bold bad man manfrom manfrom manfrom from Scotland say might come along and kidnap Sheets babies and all ll |