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Show Patience With Criminals in ! Utah Is Exhausted and Thugs I Are Warned of Quick Justice j An Editorial UTAH is done with patience and sympathy for men who pain t their livelihoods .in lives of crime. A pood and determined start has been made to rid the city of thugs and gunmen. Those who remain do so at great peril, for they may expect no mercy 1 when misfortune overtakes their pursuits. The precedent has been set in the trials of the three men j who engaged in a pistol dud with police officers Tuesday morning. Within three days they had commenced serving long terms in the 1'tah state prison. Their acts, under the leadership of Tom Rums, the dead slayer of Detective O. U. llamby, as revealed in confessions, prove them desperate characters. There can be no miscarriage of justice so far as they arc concerned. The guilt of the trio is firmly established, and there I can he no hiding behind the dominance of a master mind. .They must pay for the chance they toot uud the error orT'TjTgmcnT which characterized their measurement of the temper of 1'tah. Prosecuting officers are to be commended for thu zeal and interest shown in the prosecution of the cases. The speed and determination which marked the trials should be a solemn warning warn-ing to other criminals who would select t'tah as a fertile field for operations. With this precedent there should be no turning back. Similar treatment should meet every gunman who is convicted in the state. A zealous continuation of this policy, is the only way to teach transcontinental crooks that there are no stopover privileges in 1'tah. Moreover the citizenship should insist that the sentences of the court be carried out to the letter. The pardon hoard can undo all that has been done with premature paroles or pardons. We trust' that the board of pardons will sense this fact, and immediately abandon its policy of misdirected sympathy for confirmed and hardened criminals. |