Show OTICE 14 SIDE policeman gray ICe Ite pIles plies to rey hey 31 H mead editor enquirer enquirers 1 PROVO nov 23 1698 the fact that rev bay M H mead in your paper of saturday saw fit to rush into print and with such ouch unblushing dia disregard regard for truth troth attacked the police department of this city must be ba my escusa for ra re questing you yoa to publish this reply I 1 wish to state that instead ot of riding toward his bis home as he gestates states he was riding in the opposite direction he be was riding conj street between gih and ath if be role rode as aa le be states it was another time than the one for which he ba was arrested I 1 also state that a week or ten days ago I 1 found him riding on the sidewalk eidew a ik between ath and ath on G albeet and notified him he was riding upon prohibited groundnut ground but with a perfect indifference be rode on rd marking that i I 1 I 1 this sidewalk is all right i 11 the gratuitous charge which he makes that favoritism is indulged in by any one connected with the police department I 1 me nt is a contemptible con falsehood the the police department is under the I 1 charae and direction of the city marshy marshel who is a non mormon and the statement that mormons cormons are favored t non mormons cormons is as aa silly billy as it is groundless if the reverend gentleman cent leman had bad any raa reasonable excuse for doing as aa he be did if an accident had happened to his wheel wheat as he be states why did he bs not make atiat anat statement to the court instead of that his bis demeanor in the court was that rf cf a bully when the complaint was read to him he be pleaded guilty the tha court then inquired it il he be had anything to say in mitigation H he stated no what I 1 have to say I 1 will say eay to tue others the court ali then en explained what the penalty was as pre by ordinance ord loance he remarked in a manner that would better become a street corner loafer or a barroom bully than a professed minister of the corpel that it made no difference whether the airie would be I 1 or 11 he ha would pay it he offering nothing in mitigation the coutt court asse assessed sied a find of exactly tha amount that had been paid paid by all others under similar circumstances cum stances atances his bis remarks that there wasa was a malicious prosecution because ashe asbe wishes the reference to be ba drawn he is a non mormon is a puerile attempt to pose as aa a maiter for every one of the six cases that hays have been up each one a t ent business man and all ail except perr haps one members ot of the dominant church here completely dispels the charge in this connection would it not net be well for the reefe ry areni n geat gentleman leman to peruse what I 1 should infer he be had bad not the V chapter of Matth matthew evro and especially when he be undertakes to indulge iu in invective or to set himself up as aa a subject of injured innocence JAMES JAMBS GUAY GRAY |