Show I They The Recall Mild Mild- Mil Earlier lays Days I tk i g f i ls A A 4 S 'S i 1 2 S l I. I I Captain J. J B. B Burbidge Retiring Vet Veteran ran T Tells ells Of Wheelbarrow Dr Drunks It was a day for forr reminiscing at police headquarters Friday as I two veterans of the service Det Detective Captain J. J B. B Burbidge and Detective R R. L. L Eddinton officially were re retired red Captain Burbidge Burbidge the the ti tiie le hast has been an honorarium the years since he actually was a captain captaIn Joined tho the police pollee force 3 years ago when drunks were hauled to the tho station ho hou by cabbies or in rows If It a man got drunk on the westside west westside westside side he was privileged t to take a a. joyous joyous joyous joy joy- ous ride in a horse drawn cab the driver receiving 50 cents Competition tion was keen among the cabbies Captain Burbidge recalled Shootings Fewer Then But If U a man lay in Inthe the gutter or otherwise celebrated on the east eastside eastside eastside side the best beat ho he could expect was to tobe be dum dumped ed into a wheelbarrow V and trundled in by one of the 13 officers who made up the force Captain Burbidge would rather rather- talk about Salt SnIt Lake City as he knew know It three decades ago than he would about cases on which he worked All cases are alike he says and ho hasn't any use for forthe the officer officer i eer who blows his own horn There nero her weren't many shootings I I Detective It R. R L. L L Eddington E on- on then and few teV robberies and bur bur- When the boys came cam in from the mines fist fights were about the tho only trouble the captain remembers He said there arc are alot n. n lot moro more shootings these days day In Several Gun Fight Fights The veteran officer weathered more than one political storm Only once did the ax fall on him when him he refused to join the Urn old American America party The mayor fired him bu bunot but not for long He was soon joon bac bacon back backon on the job The thing Detective Eddington remembers best in his long career caree as a peace officer was his capture of two men who killed a n Chinese i in Ogden carne came me to Salt Lake City pulled several robberies and shot ahot a prominent citizen Detective Eddington Eddington Eddington Ed Ed- arrested them with drawn draw gun The detective engaged in severa several gun fights but never was wounded Captain Burbidge plan i. i vaca yaca yaca- yaca bion tion on the Pacific coast and then to do a lot of fishing Guess IGuess Ill I'll just stick around the house said Detective Eddington |