Show I f H HIST ST EARDLEY FERNSTROM AND HEWLETT SAY I Salt lAke Ilke City Utah Dec Dee 29 1 12 Z I To the Honorable President nn an and l City Cay Council Salt Lake City Utah Gentlemen Gentlemen c We your Committee on Police Po Po- Po- Po I lice and Prison Department beg leave o to report a as follows follow In the matter of or crime and social evils of oC this city we wo I your committee beg bee leave lea to report that thata i after a thor thorough uch and careful In lion tion Into these matters have found that there Is and ha has been for years pa past t an nn element In this city that HuH Is not desirable desira desira- ble but It la Is i not at present any worse than It has been for years and an the I char charge e that young boys are arc found visitIng visit visit- In Ing these places we found Sound to he be untrue In fact this element clement Is more closely conI controlled con con- trolled today to b by tho the Police Pollee department I than It has been n for tor y years cars and we have found that some newspaper articles have ha greatly gratl exaggerated this matter maUer and In InI Inmany inmany man many Instances IJ the thc reports are entirely I untrue For Par Instance th the stories of oC many holdI hold- hold tips that hero have been published hecl broadcast by y certain newspapers are nearly all aU I false t ant and untrue and tho the same reports would have undoubtedly been ben continued continual l Jf It It lt had not been hen for tor the fact tact that some Bomo of oC tho the papers In Justice to tho Police dop do- do p corrected th those there false statements state state- ments which had hl the tho effect o of aging others from making similar r re re- ports And again In the case of or Dr Paynes Payne's arrest arrest ar aI ar- ar rest and the tho statement made In one ono of Ie tho the local papers that thru a bushel of oC letters was found in his office reflecting upon hundreds fl of or ladles ladies of or tho the State has been boon been found after utter our Investigation to be an on absolute falsehood as us only two of or that nature w were rc found Such belr being the case your your our committee would T recommend that this Council Join with other citizens now note proposing to ask for Cor a n grand jur Jury who ml may ay Investigate ate and thereby make mae an nn official statement which would woul undoubtedly repel the tho slander slander der tier that unscrupulous newspapers havo have Inflicted upon this city and upon this State for tor o after t r examining and comparIn comparing In ing other other cities with the tho same number of or inhabitants n to Salt Lake City W wo we woUna tin find Una that not a n single one ono In this thin countr country can compare comp In morality with Salt Lake City V Wo o I find less crime and und a 0 smaller police forgo here than thon In an any of or them and we c think It l Is unjust and nd inexcusable able for newspapers to try to blacken a community which stands so 80 high as os Salt Lake City dory today today for morality l and anel good order Respect Respectfully ully submitted 1 K IC J. J AnDLEY 11 F F. S S. S F i F. F J J. TT |