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Show HMD -tipped off: GOHLESS GUISES Sheriff Accuses Deputy of Nullifying Well -Laid Plans. After 'days of preparation, during which time half a dozen gambling houses were located and evidence obtained against fifty or more women of the underworld by the sheriff's department, a wholesale raid planned last night by deputy sheriffs and six members of the t'ivic.Betterment union was rendered abortive, according to Sheriff John S. Corless, by the betrayal of the plana by one of the sheriff's deputies and the alleged co-operation of members of the police department. "The raid was timed for 10 o'clock," said Mr. ('urlcss, "and at 9 o'clock Mayor JV. Mont Perry called me up on the telephone and asked me if the raid . was to take place, lie did not divulge-the divulge-the source ot hia information." Mayor Ferry as commissioner of pub-lie pub-lie safety is the responsible head of the police department. The descent on the underworld was conducted by Deputies Hughes, Pritch-ard, Pritch-ard, Turnbow, Oswald, McDonald and Spendlove. It resulted in tho arrest of eight women and two men on Jane and John Doe warrants charging vagrancy. At midnight the police department conducted a counter raid and CRUght sixteen women in their net'. ! Sheriff Corless, in co-operation with members of the Civic Betterment union, had planned to show up the alleged im-' im-' moral conditions that exist in Salt Lake a-s charged before the city commission by Professor John Benry Evans of the L. D. S. university, and other members of tho union. At that time the mayor and Chief of Police J. Parley White had denied that an unusual amount of moral crime was prevalent in Salt Lake. Mr. Corless said that the failure of the raid was due principally to the betrayal be-trayal of his plans by one of his trusted deputies. He refused to give the man's name, but said that he knew who he was and that he would be removed from office. One of the women arrested asked the officer who took her in charge and who was in plain clothes why she had not been notified that she was to be arrested. ar-rested. When the deputv told her that he was from the sheriff's office she appeared surprised. The sheriff's deputies had been on the streets for several nights watching the movements of the persons under suspicion. Last night they had not been out over fifteen minutes when every familiar face had disappeared. . The counter raid conducted by the police at midnight seemed to come as a surprise to many of those arrested. It was construed by the sheriff as an effort to show that the police were not failing in any way to do their duty. |