| Show Invitation to Criminals IT JT IS something more than mere happenstance happenstance happen happen- stance that has las caused Salt SaIt Lake Cit City an and l neighboring towns to he infested l with desperate des des- gunmen in recent weeks l From rom the casti cast east i and from the west they have haye come to commit i robberies at the point of guns to break into homes and to spread terror as is they go This invasion of criminals brou brought ht here within the thc past few days a man and arid woman roman now now held in the thc city jail after an attempt at armed robbery at a downtown pawnshop Detective De De- Detective De- De R. R N. N Brinton gla gravely eI wounded and fighting for his life and Detective Griffin laid low by the bandits bandit's gun arc are in a hospital Max 2 Kev Kevitch of the loan office was grazed l by y a bl bullet let letas as he sought to defend him him- self Joe Harland said by police to ha have vc a felons felon's record in Colorado trapped in a hotel r room om after his escape was wing winged d by Detective Detec tive tivo Brinton as he lie 10 lay laj- floored b by two abdominal abdominal nal wounds Cravenly shielding himself with willi his lis woman Harland surrendered when he wp was wa hit Police declare both the bandit and she fired the thirteen shots for which empty cartridge cartridge cartridge car car- carI I shells accounted It is hoped the pair will win have occasion to topo I po ponder der that 13 when the courts have finished fin fiji with them That however is the ilic question Is it because word has lias tra traveled led through h the underworld that Salt Lake City i h a a. soft town own for rats lats and thugs 1 Though the police have na a brilliant record for trailing down evildoers evildoers evil evil- doers doel's what profit if sentimental juries and lenient judges turn them loose or impose sentences sentences sen sen- sentences which make travesty of law and justice justice justice jus jus- tice 1 Then what is the fear of punishment when a pardon board stands willing to cut down confinement to a fraction of the time for which the they were committed 1 lax prison keepers all allow on killers robbers and all aU manner of public enemies to while away way their hours outside the walls waIs unguarded what is to hinder escape 1 These are all invitations to criminals of all types to make this their happy hunting ground The Phe word must have gone f far r or why else should society be faced with this abnormal influx of bandits bandits 1 Police annals are arc filled with the grim records records records rec rec- of many recent murders murders but but when has the death p penalty nalty been imposed If imposed when has it been carried out It takes a long memory to recall the time If society is to enjoy an any sense of r f security juries courts and wardens will have to awaken to their responsibilities as upholders of the law They are dealing with hardened and confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed evildoers past redemption and yet ret they treat them as if they were novices only needing need need- ing lug a kinlI kindly word to t turn rn them back into the path of rectitude Cream puffs and frutti appeal neither to their minds nor their hearts What they are arc after is loot even eyen at the cost of human life They arc beasts of pre prey and as such laws law's due Detective Griffin six years ago almost to the tine day was shot down by bj a pawnshop bandit and after a long and fight on a hospital bed miraculously escaped de death The rIlle police department earns carns high praise for its work Undaunted by the guns of the thc bandit pair Detectives Brinton and Seager trailed them to their hideout and Officers Beckstead McGinnes Pe Ferrin rin Dastrup Lee Dykes Henninger Daley Colburn Eggleston Eggles- Eggles ton and others who quickly responded to the call took posts of danger to block escape if attempted Cool headed under fire thc they they spared the life of the the- cowardly thug as he lie shielded h himself with the body of his girl companion and p t his hands hand in the air One of the laws law's bt bullets would have haye drilled both bothof bothof bothof of them |
