Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-14 | Page 4 | Ben Drops the Ball

J BEN BIEN DROPS THE BALL the board of county commissioners t t'S S WHEN secretly engage engaged the sleuthing talents r of for former er Sheriff Ben Harries I I it appeared f t there might be a hot time tune around the old city I and county building F. F When he was paid for his work without r there was some t tiling a formal report cism This however was dissipated a short time later with the arrest of George W. W Smith q 1 I I the county gardener on a f federal deral bootleg l indictment when it became known the charge charger Mr Harries had hadI J was based upon evidence r DT pug dug up I r- r 1 A jury In the un United ted States court however however how how- ever ver has acquitted Mr Smith after Judge Johnson in hi his instructions declared that not a syllable of evidence ha had l been presented presented pre pre- that could in any way implicate former former for for- I l mer Sheriff Patten his chief deputy Mr Larsen or any of his force in the bootlegging bootleg bootleg- it II ging charge brought against the gardener 1 Mr r. r Harries in his zeal to earn the remu- remu j of his secret employment apparently apparently j j was not concerned with punishing the I f prosaic gardener so much as he was with the Sheriff ex-Sheriff Patt PatI Patten Pat Pat- law brothers gardeners gardener's I ten an and Mr Larsen whom he endeavored to toI t i I involve The exoneration of one former sheriff sherIf of j the indirect charges made by another must mustI be pleasing to Mr Patt Patten en as it is to his I friends but there still remains a lingering i suspicion that Mr 1 Harries' Harries activities were not i worth the money he received if the fruits of his labors are re to be judged by what happened t I In the first casel case l' l i Meanwhile 1 the county commissioners 1 might well restore the gardener to his duties tl und call it a day