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Show rl " . . : . -' ' ' " ' SS1ETS iETIttTiN; C? : is acts in to mmm cmse Council Committee to Make. Thorough Inquiry Into the Implications; Politics I Back of Charges; Chief Sheets Courts j Thorough Investigation of Affair. Chief of Police Sheets on Monday sent- the following letter to the Mayor and Common Council of Salt Lake City. It is self-explanatory: V To the Mayor and Council of Salt Lake City :- Two jnewepapers ,in Salt Lake, the Salt Lake Herald and the liter-Mountain ; Republican, - make grave - accusations ,fegainst me as Chief of Police, and the police department .of f Gait-Lake City. Personally, I denounce the accusations : fis malicious-and untrue, a willful, and deliberate false-noo false-noo and I defy the newspapers mentioned to prove the trh of their assertions. - VLi-view of the published statements, I. respectfully fcslrano? demand that you order a most rigid inquiry into the charges alleged.' - y . I . am confident that such inquiry will show the absolute abso-lute falsity of the charges alleged, as I also believe that it will disclose that political animus is behind the allegations. This inquiry I demand at once, and ask you to demand de-mand of the - papers mentioned that they produce what , they regard as the proof of their charge. Very truly, GEORGE A. SHEETS,. - . - J - . ... Chief of Police; - Salt Lake City Utah, October-:!, 49Qfo - Aellngoifthe request of Chief Sheets ffoT an investigation, as shown by tha - communication quoted in the foregoing, Chairman Crabtree of the Council Committee Com-mittee bn Fire and Police baa called- his committee together this afternoon and will make a thorough inquiry into the implications made against the Chief of Police. If possible a report will be made to the special meeting of the Council tonight. to-night. . Ch'ef Sheets courts the fullest inves-' inves-' ligation of the matter. v itnesses nave been - summoned to appear before the committee at tho police po-lice station at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Tha committee consists of Council-men Council-men Crabtree, Martin, ODonnell and - Mulvey. Weak Sides of Story. . . Now that Chief of Police Sheets has asked for a rigid inquiry into the charges made against the department by the three church papers, the cool-headed citizen is beginning to suspect that a political conspiracy on the eve of the fail elections has been uncovered and that the Chief has called for the conspirators con-spirators to show their hands publicly. The activity of the Sheriff's (and County Attorney's offices in this case . has, aroused the suspicion of men outside out-side of the American party that the f7 fi church cliques are- trying to engi-nt engi-nt a big political coup. Now that Sheets has called for a showdown the public will soon learn whether the three church organs can substantiate their charges. The Scotchmen's Story." " .' " Men who stop to analyze the stories told by. the two Scotchmen have butted into some surprisingly weak points to the case as these foreigners aided by three papers have presented it. It could hardly be expected that the Chief of Police Po-lice should send guards around with two foreigners who were out for a good time, their pockets full of money. The time the two men had here was a "good" one. They say they landed in New York with $10,000. They probably had a "good" time there and yet they arrived in Salt Lake with the $10,000 intact. They spent money here like they were millionaires. Yet when they went into that poker game with strangers they still had the (10,000 intact. in-tact. Not Like Scotchmen. A hard-headed Scotchman holds to his money. Yet these two Scotchmen were held up and robbed of their all that $10,000 still intact; they were willing to accept $1000 of it back and call it all off. Then these hard-headed Scotchmen, Scotch-men, having been robbed of their all rushed to the train and left town. Both were business men men of affairs, yet they would not stay over here for a few days to recover $10,000; they were willing will-ing to give it up without a struggle. "I don't believe any man in the world could have made that older brother hand over $10,000 in the way the story is told," said a hotel man who met the Scotchmen during their stay here. "Why that man had a square J aw that looked like iron. He would iave fought like a demon before letting let-ting any man search him . and take $10,000 out of his pocket." That $10,000 Intact. And so the deductions go. The stories told can be picked to pieces. The two Scotchmen had more money than they knew what to do with and they wanted to spend it. They evidently wanted to get rid of the money for, as they tell it, with "$10,000 intact" in their hind pockets they accompanied a total stranger to a rooming-house and took part in a poker game. The inquiry asked for by Chief Sheets will tell the story and then someone will have to take water. Sheets says he is innocent. He asks the church organs to prove their stories. i Now we will have a showdown. , Expect to Arrest Gang. "Everything points absolutely toward our getting all of the. gang implicated im-plicated in the McWhirter affair," declared de-clared County Attorney Parley r. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen this morning. "We nave clues as to where they all are at the present time, and we have every reason to believe be-lieve that the men will be all under ar-1 rest within twenty-four hours." Up to a late hour today none of the men had been arrested, although the Sheriff and the County Attorney claim to be positive as to the identity of the men and as to where they are. The names of the men they are unwilling to give. The last that was known of Jim Donaldson Don-aldson was that he was in the vicinity of Goldfield, but since then he is said to have made tracks in another direction. A detiuty sheriff is said to be working in the vicinity of Goldfield. 1 Miss Davis Talks. ! Miss May Davis, who was a sweetheart sweet-heart of one of the O'Brien brothers mixed up in the affair, was at the Sheriff's office this morning, and had a long talk with County Attorney Chris-tensen. Chris-tensen. She retold what she knew of the actions of the ang after SeDtember 19, and what part Jim Donaldson had in the affair from what she heard |