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Show MOSOF POLICE SCGRED Bi COURT Judge Johnson Condemns; Employment of Detectives ! to Induce Crime. STRONG WORDS USED Jail Sentence Omitted in Punishment of Two Convicted Con-victed Bootleggers. On n. showing made by the defend-nuts, defend-nuts, T. Croft and K. W. Phi:-ter, who -were before ,ludgu Tillman 1). Johnson in the federal court .yesterday afternoon after-noon for sentence on corn ietion on the ' r.harifo of . bootlegging, that they had been tricked by a female detective in 1he employ of the. Salt Lake police department de-partment into . bringing intoxicating li.iior from Kvanston, W.vo., in violation of the T.'eed ainendment,, the fourt severely se-verely critie.izecl and cent.ured the police i department for inducing the commission ol crime. ''Ordinarily, in cases of this character,'' charac-ter,'' said tiie. court, "1 have felt it li i.V duty to impose jail m-ntcm-es. The court has the power to impose a t'ino i or jail sentences, or both, and heretofore the extreme penalty of a jail sentence 1 has been imposed. 'In this conned ion, I -wish to say , that 1 have no sympathy with the em-ploymcnt. em-ploymcnt. by the govern incut, the state or the municipality of detectives to induce in-duce the commission of crime. It is proper to have detectives for the, purpose pur-pose of detecting, but it is improper to have' detectives' for the purpose of inducing in-ducing the commission of crime. I "I have a strong suspicion that this 1 woman, perhaps, planned to trap these ! two defendants for the purpose of securing se-curing a conviction of one or both of i them, and it is highly probable that she : had something to do with the purchase : of the liquor in this ease and with bring-! bring-! ins it into this state. Having such ex-; ex-; tretnc doubt, 1 will fine each of the de- fondants in ' the sum of $100," ; Plea for Leniency. In making an appeal for leniency ou behalf of Uroft and Phistcr, Attorney I Thomas Ramage said that he believed i his clients were victims of circum stances, and thai no violation oi ine j law would have been committed if it ; had not been for the connivance of an - employee of the SSalt Lake polico de-i de-i partment. ( At the trial it was shown that Croft, who had been hired by Mary Smith, i variouslv known as Mrs. Pierson, Mrs. i McCTunery and Mrs. Williams, to make i the trip to Kvanston and to use the j taxieab of which he was the owner, for e the purpose, and that shortly after hav- i ing started from Salt. Lake, on learning ; of the purpose of the trip, wanted to I 1 urn back, .Mary Smith, however, insisted in-sisted on completing the trip, n Former Attorney General Albert E. i Rnrnes informed the court that he had - talked with tho police department con-v con-v cerning the matter, and had found that a I he Smith woman was an employee of the department, and carried a star in ' her pocket. Ho declared that ha had I become convinced that the woman had i! induced Croft to make the trip to Kv-i Kv-i anston. v c Woman Detective Gets Busy. i , -She had used Croft's taxieab on several sev-eral previous occasions, he said, and had planned to get Croft and Phister II into the clutches of the law. The Smith ; woman Mas working on a per diem, , said Attorney Barns, and had to make good to hold her position. Alter she had loaded the machine with liquors at Kvanston, Mr. Barnes i said that the Smith woman had tele-'I tele-'I phoned to police headquarters to inter-t inter-t cept the party and the two men were '' landed in jail. Croft, he said, had re-, re-, ceived .70 for the trip, $'20 of which : was paid by Mrs. Smith. Attorney J. It. Haas spoke in defense of Phister, saying that, the defendant ' had been of service to the government ' in the trial of the, case, and in giving testimony had saved the government considerable expense. Y. W. Bav, who conducted the case for the government, said that he could not contradict the statements made by-counsel by-counsel for the defendants, and that he would offer no objection to leniency on tho part of the court. |