Show Weird Items Found S SV In Evidence Room V Human Skin Guns Gurs and Opium Included d in Coll Collection By BILL McDOUGAL 1 Murder robbery whisky dope and suicide Their tales of tragedy are told old in a grim room in lit the Salt Lake City police pollee station statton It is called the evidence room and in it are gathered mute bits of testimony silent witnesses to every crime committed in this city's history history his his- tory since police were In existence But grimmest of all the grisly things suspended from its walls is a apart part of ot the hide of a man a white whiteman whiteman man nan once known as Blackie Burns robber dope fiend mur mur- slayer derer-slayer of Police Detective Green B. B Hanby on a winters winter's night In n 1921 Genial Supervisor I That's th the kind of a placa pla the palice police po- po lice ice evidence room In Is b. b but lut presiding over ver it is a a. genial fellow not at aUthe al aU the he type on one thinks of as living with crime His name is John Allen property property property prop prop- erty clerk Johnnie to you And Johnnie Allen lets it be known that all aU is not tragedy in the evidence evidence evi dence room He lie guards a n lot ot ol of things besides murderers' murderers hides anc and suicide guns Marshaled neatly in hundreds of or square compartments are ar ar- ar tides police have gathered There for lor instance Is worth of narcotics 1000 samples o of whisky guns from cases solved and guns of unsolved cases quantities of confiscated fireworks slot machines barrels o of whisky and 75 stills 60 opium pipes and two Oregon boots nitroglycerine and dynamite and a pile of B IB B guns taken from irom small window shooting boys and eight bins fuU full o ot of murder and suicide evidence Few of Articles Those are a few of ot the arti arti- cles des But to return to the star ex cx- hibIt the hide of Blackie Burns 1 Jt SIt happened this way On February February Feb Peb- 8 1921 Patrolman attempted to arrest Burns in a South State street hotel Burns arrested disarmed him tied him ito to a bed and tIed Lied He fled across roofs until he came to the old Denver Den Den- ver vex hotel then at 61 2 1 East Second South street streel In the hotel he was cornered by bythe bythe the then Chief of Police Joseph E E. 5 S John Allen BurbIdge Detective Sergeants Clifford Clifford Clif Clif- ford tord Patten Patton and Roy Larson and Detective De Do- Hanby Guns blazed and Hanby fell dead but so did Burns I No one wished to claim Burns so his body was sent to the University of Utah medical school where a portion portion por tion of his skin was removed and arid presented to police Brew Most Lethal But of all the lethal weapons Inthe Inthe in inthe the evidence room Johnnie Allen AUen considers bottled bottled-at at home brew the most lethal Its It's Johnnies Johnnie's job to destroy destroy de do- stroy the stuff when occasion de do- manc mands So potent patent is some of the brew that it explodes when Johnnie dumps itin it itin itin in the sink sink explodes explodes violently showering glass and hootch in all directions So Johnnie wears a wire mask when conducting last rites over homemade brew And when Johnnie Johnnic has finished so he claims he drinks a toast to all home brew with the best liquor of or them all chlorinated all chlorinated water from the he tap on the evidence room sink ink |