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Show HIS FILTHY CRIMES; RAPE HW ADDED Jlevolting Charge Is Brought Against GledhiU, Who Is Now in State Prison. Special to The Tribune. PROVO, July 30. When Heber Gledhlll, tho American Fork prohibition sleuth, emerges from the state prison August 17 next he will be met by an officer from Utah county who will servo a. warrant of arrest on him on .a charge of felony. It Is alleged in tho complaint, which Is sworn to by Mrs. Annie Newton of American Amer-ican Fork, that Gledhlll. on the evening of October 0, 1909, at or near the city Ja,.n! American Fork, criminally assaulted as-saulted tho girl, Effio Pierce, 11 years old, and It is asserted by tho officers that Gledhlll not. only accomplished his nefarious designs at that time and place, but criminally associated with the girl on two subsequent occasions. At the time of the assault Gledhlll was acting as a police officer and during the day had arrested a man by the name of Newton, the girls stepfather, for drunkenness. The girl. It is said, went to the city hnll to see her father and was sent back home for tho Evening Telegram for tho father to read while ho was in durance vile. By the time tho girl returned with tho paper Newton had been locked in ft cell, and in order to get tho paper to her father, fa-ther, she hunted up Gledhlll. who was the Jailor and custodian of Newtorr, and asked him to let her take the paper Inside In-side tho Jail. Gledhlll let the girl Inside and when she emerged, It Is asserted, assaulted as-saulted her. Gledhlll Is now serving a forty days' sentence In the stale prison for a criminal assault on Olive Sorensen, a 13-year-old girl. The crime occurred near the Franklin Frank-lin school house in Provo early' In May of this year. And at the time Gledhlll was here as a witness in the prosecution of George Nichols; an alleged violator of the prohibition ordinance of American Fork city. Gledhlll claimed, when Officer Forrc took him In charge, that he was a special policeman of American Fork and to prove his assertion, exhibited a badge to that effect. Gledhlll was tried for this crime on July 6 and was convicted, con-victed, and on July 9 was sentenced to tho state prison for forty days. Gledhlll Gled-hlll received a light sentence because of tho fact that the girl was not injured and he did not accomplish his designs, and another reason that leniency was shown. Gledhlll has a wife and two small children. Tho wife was In the courtroom court-room when sentence was passed and her tears, no doubt, had their effect. The cities of Utah county have had a sad experience In enforcing tho prohibition prohibi-tion ordinances, which went Into effect January 1, in that they have hired men as spotters and Informers who have been convicted in open court of ncirly all the higher crimes in the catalogue of crlme3, except murder. Some of the cases against alleged violators of those prohibition ordinances or-dinances haVo boon" thrown out of court becauso of the known perjury of tho prosecuting pros-ecuting witnesses, and In other canes these spotters have been charged with burglary, and let off by paying a fine for petit larceny. And, now rape, one of the gravest crimes on the statute books, Is charged against another of the prohibition prohibi-tion detectives. These men have not been prosecuted by officers who are antl-prohlbltloulsts. but on the contrary the cases have boon worked up- and detected by men who are In sympathy with tho prohibition movement. move-ment. The sheriff of Utah county said openly. "It is all right for these men to detect crime, but they must not commit crime while doing It. If they do they will have me after them every time." |