Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 8 | Shooting by Dry Agents

m r rj I 1 j Shooting by Dry Agents 1 t RA RATHER THER ATHER more sympathy than Ulan necessary has been wasted on bootleggers who have hae S beell been shot b b by prohibition prohibit on agents Yet the lie fact remains that the prohibition age agent oi or policeman who is lis too qui quick k on the trigger is a mena e to the community JI In a a prohibition n agent saw saw sawa il a man in n on a a river in a rowboat He I-fe called to to him im to stop and shot shot- when the theman theman man man nian failed to to do so do so The Theman man was killed I It developed that he was an innocent nt man and and had not heard the officers officer's hail The dry dry agent was was sentenced to prison Friends of the dry agent asked Governor Fred W. W Green for a pardon Governor Gre Green n refused saying I have haye no sympathy for officers who shoot first and find out out- about it afterward Just because s somebody doesn't jump at an officers officer's command i is no just reason for forthe forthe forthe the officer to start shooting I There Then is altogether alto alto- gether too much much of of this this' this deplorable practice going on en When a known lawbreaker makes au an unquestioned un un- un- un questioned questioned effort to resist arrest an officer i is fully j justified in iii shooting A policeman mall would be a fool to ta fail t to shoot at fleeing bandits or in the face of a threat on his life But it takes akes a headed cool-headed officer to know in a flash whether or not sho shooting is ting i is justified