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Show Following Announcement by Smoot Organ That Perrent Had Made Confession Under Promise of Immunity Prom Prosecution, Prose-cution, the Bunko Nan Goes on Witness Stand and tells a Remarkable Story Charging Conspiracy to Rob Tourists. Chief Sheets enters an emphatic denial of the t i charge made by Parrent. He says the story is false from beginning to end. He has no, recollec- i 1 tion of ever having seen Parrent before th trial. MM 4 H M 4 umU tuntuuuui uit As' was promised by published, pub-lished, reports several days ago that W. H.-Parrent, the alleged bogus policeman in the famous robbery of the McWhirter brothers had turned State's evidence and been granted immunity, it became a fact this morning when Parrent took the witness stand in behalf of the State and gave startling evidence against Chief of Police Sheets, who is being tried in City Judge Whitaker'sj court on a charge of conspiracy. conspi-racy. Parrent declared that he was endeavoring to make a full breast of the affair and that all the reward he expected was '"hopes." His evidence was the. most i startling ,heardina. jcourt?! room in many days. Ie asserted as-serted that for vears a con-spiracy con-spiracy has existed for the robbing of tourists in Salt Lake City. He alleged that he paid for protection a year ago last summer through a "between" man known as the "painted kid" and that last summer he paid for protection pro-tection through Attorney William Newton. He further fur-ther told of seeing Chief Sheets receive money on two different occasions. Parrent occupied the stand during the entire morning session. Parrent opened his story by telling about his coming to Salt Lake City early last August, about the third or fourth of the month. He declared that he had been acquainted with Attorney Newton for some time and that Newton had promised to secure him protection himself. One of the decks is stuffed or made so that the cards run-in otir favor.. .The "sucker" shuffles -the cards and before he deals some of his chips are accidentally knocked off the table. When he bends down to pick them up, the stuffed deck is slipped in on him." With the aid of two decks of cards Farrent showed how the affair was done, "What did Baleigh sayt" he was asked. "He just smiled and said be careful." care-ful." "What else!" "He said don't cause much trouble and lead them out of town." The witness then told of a means used to get drafts away from persons and when a kick was made to. pretend to give them back their money through an -outside bank. A draft would be drawn in favor of the victim and the men would .pretend that It should be sent to thvttttn. At the same time the bank was instructed in the letter to send the money to the gamblers. The witness declared that he and Bell went to work on August 27 and the first day they won a check and it was placed with Newton for collection. It was agreed that Newton was to receive 20 per cent or collecting on all checks. "Wasn't there an understanding that you should give Newton $100 a week?" the witness was asked. "Yes, we did give him $100 a week," replied the witness. "On the second week did vou give Newton $100!" " Ves." "What was done to the suckers when they, were brought int" "We tried to get their money." "Did you see the Chief of Police about this time!" "Oh. I saw him walking about town.' "Did vou speak to him!" "Well) not at that time. I did some time later." "How was that?" "I think it. was some time about September Sep-tember 3. It wfis in the morning and he said I had on a suit that attracted too much attention and that T should change it and put on another." "Did you ever see Bell give Sheets any money?" "Yes." what is known as the "big mitt." They had two places where they were doing business. One was at Mrs. Peterson's boarding-house and the other was at a place on Second Sonth street." The witness wit-ness did not know the addresses of .either place. "Did you ever see their game?" "It isxthe same as the "big mitt." It is played all over the country. I did not see It. It is usually covered with a newspaper." "Were they in the same business as you ! ' ' "Yes." "Did you ever talk with them about Sheets and Raleigh f" "Yes. When we divided up the $10,-000." $10,-000." "On September 19, where were you!" "All over town." Parrent was then asked whether he knew that the O'Briens were operating their game at the Antler rooming-house at that time and he replied that he thought that "was the place. He declared de-clared that on the afternoon of that day he and Bell were standing in the doorway of the Gordon tailor shop in Second South street. They had just finished trying on some new clothes and were talking when Larry O'Brien came up. He seemed excited. ex-cited. In a few words he told them he had a "sucker" over at the room and had won $2000 from him and the man had several thousand dollars more. Larry, the witness declared, told Par-rent Par-rent and Bell that the fellow had called for a policeman and there was a chance for them to make a little easy money by making an arrest. Parrent said O'Brien handed him a badge and told him to come along. Parrent testified that he refused to go until O'Brien and he had made arrangements ar-rangements as to how much they were to get out of it. O'Brien said that Parrent and his partner were each to get a third. Parrent said he then -vent over to the room. He found two Scotchmen there. He said he let Alexander McWhirter I tell his story about having $10,000 and i losing $2000 in the card game. He declares de-clares he then turned to 'Jim' Donaldson Donald-son and that Donaldson then told his story. i to operate at tne "Dig mitt game, which, was robbing people by means of a card device, as soon as Parrent was willing to talk business with him. Parrent averred that along about August 16, last year, he arranged with Newton to go into the "big mitt' game should he find a partner. He declared that on August 21, J. J. Bell arrived in town and was taken as his partner. He declared that Newton was to act as "go between" man at $100 a week. The witness told of meeting Newton at the Chesapeake restaurant on August 25, and paying him the first $100. He asserted that he and Bell started to work the next morning and that their seat of operation was Nick Rossuto's saloon in West Temple street. The "suckers" they robbed, he said, were secured at the Temple grounds. Parrent said that a day or so after they had been operating they were walking along West Temple street when Chief of Detectives Baleigh came up behind them. Bell, he declared, slipped away, and Baleigh spoke to him. He said he and Baleigh went into Nick Bossuto's saloon and showed Baleigh the game they were playing on the "Buckera." As he was explaining the game he said Bell came in with a "sneker." "What is a sucker t" asked County Attorney Willard Hanson. "We would go up to the Temple grounds and get acquainted with some person and bring him down to the saloon wehe we would beat him out of his money at a game of cards," replied the witness. . Attorney Hanson wanted Parrent to show him and the court the game he had explained to Raleigh. After some parleying with Attorneys S. R. Thur-man Thur-man and Soren X. Chnstensen, representing repre-senting Sheets the game was explained. The witness declared that two docks of cards were used. He said: "We let the fellow deal the hand - - ..... f "How?" "Bell was not satisfied with Newton. New-ton. He believed that Newton was not giving Sheets the $100 a week." "Did you meet Sheets?" "No, Bell did. "Where?" "When we went out to lunch." "What happened?" "I gave Bell $5 and he said to me, 'We will pay Sheets this time ourselves our-selves and see that , he gets all that is coming.' He called up Sheets and made arrangements to meet him." The witness went on to say that the meeting was near the Knutsford hotel and was at about 7:30 o'clock in the evening. He said Bell and the Chief moved off to one side and he saw them in conversation for a few minutes and then Bell handed the Chief the money. "Did vou ever give Newton any more monevt' "Ves, I Baw Newton later. I met him in the saloon and he was very angry an-gry over the money and we decided to give the money to Newton after that." "Did you ever run in any more suckers after that!" "Ves." "What did you try to do wtih them!" "Tried to beat them if we could." The witness was asked whether he ever saw Baleigh after the meeting in the saloon and he declared that he had, but did not speak to him. His attention was then called to September Sep-tember 19, and he was asked whether he knew Larry O'Brien, who is also declared de-clared to' be implicated in the McWhirter McWhir-ter robbery, lie answered in the affirmative af-firmative and identified the photographs ! of Larry O'Brien, Jack O'Brien and "Jim" Donaldson. "What was Larry O'Brien's business!' busi-ness!' he was asked. - ' "The same as we were doing," he replied. re-plied. ' , : "What was 'Jack's' business?" "Jack, Larry and Jim were. playing n - V' He told, the men then, he declared. ' that there was a law against gambling in Utah and a heavy penalty attached. He asked, who had the money and he declares Donaldson handed over the two $1000 bills that had passed in the game and at the same time handed him over a "boodle," which is also known as a "phony roll." a piece of paper with a number of bills wrapped about it. He said he then ordered McWhirter to give up his money. From him, he said, he received $S270. McWhirter he said, wanted a receipt. The receipt was given and was produced in court. It read: "Received from Alex McWhirter $3300; Charles Hemenway." - Parrent- declared that" he then proceeded pro-ceeded to deputize Bell as an officer and left him with John O'Brien and the Mc.Whirters in the room at the Antler rooming-house; where the affair had taken place. ' Parrent declared that he took "Jim" Donaldson and Larry O'Brien with them and wont to a wine room in a saloon on Second South street a few doors from the Antler rooming-house. There, he said, he gave Donaldson and O'Brien $5000. While in the room at the Antler he said that "Jack" O'Brien and Donaldson had both given him their "phonv rods. " ' ' Did you ret anything else from Alexander McWhirter!" asked. Attorney Attor-ney Hanson. ' 4 McWhirter gave me an automatic Belgian pistol..' v ; . ' " .'- " The witness declared that as he came out of the Second Squth 'street saloon?, he met " BeU,"! the McWhtrters and "Jack" O'Brien. Parrent then went down the' afreet to the Sanitarium rooming-house on Third South street. When in the saloon, he declared, he gave Donaldson and O'Brien all the money .exeept $3000 .which he retained. "After the division "what did you" do!" "I went to my room at the Sani-(Oontinued Sani-(Oontinued ou Page 7.) ( 1 . i ' ...... . , : . . . ene mornlrtr, and frst speaking; of securing se-curing protPi tlon. Thpn Attorney THir-man THir-man procee-IM to sro after the wtiufs aa to what I nmunl'y he had been jr i-led i-led by turiiin Mate's evidence. lie stoutly contended that he did not expect ex-pect anything from theState. although ne had brought his lawyer along to taKe car of hi interests. "With all your experience aa a crook, aa you have shown you are, don't you know what you are to set?'? asked the at-, tomey. "The only thlnir I know, and the only thine I ever heard,' la that a person who turns State's evidence gets the worst of If -v - Parrent declared that he first knew that he waa to be a wltneas when Deputy Sheriff Joe Sharp told him a few minute before he went on the stand, and that he would probably have to testify. He said he told his story to his attorney on the t-ain coming from Denver to Salt Lake City, . In telling; of his first 'visit to Salt Iake when he was In the business of matching dollars, he said he purchased police protection- through the "Painted Kid' a character whose name was Harry Wal-der. Wal-der. This was In 1906. The cross-examination then went more Into detail as to 'his arrangements with Attorney Newton. He said that at the meeting with Newton at the Chesapeake restaurant, Newton was accompanied by his wife and two daughters. At this point adjournment was taken until Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when Attorney Thurman .will again take up the cross-examination. ' I xr Continued from Page 1.) tar . . .i to wait for Bell. As he did not p.T went to "Jack" O'Brien's Jo . There I found thev were all get-tin- rcjy to po to Donaldson's sister's placa in the ew England addition. I came Lack to the hotel to tell my wife. I came back .the second time, and at that time I saw. MeWhirter and Bell. I said I was too busv to do anything .with them at that time. "I walked down the street with them to the postofflce. Near the postofice MeWhirter Me-Whirter spoke to a. mail carrier and told him he bad been- robbed of $10,000 and , that we had done it. The mall carrier told him he was crazy. He declared they all spent' the sight at O'Brien's. "Did you see the chief after that?" - "I saw him on the morning of the . twentieth." "Where did you see him? " ' "I saw the chief come out of the back of the station after Bell had called him up." ' - ' ..' The witness then told of the split up of the money. He said that it was done in Jiin Donaldson's room at the Imperial Im-perial hoteL He declared that O'Brien and Donaldson kept the $2000 they had tvon in the game and that ho and Bell each got a third of the $7370. The remainder re-mainder he said went to Jack and Larry -O'Brien and Jim Donaldson. The amount he said was handed over to Donaldson. "Did they say anything at that time about the chief?" Attorney Hanson asked the witness. . . "They wanted us to agree to give him 20 per cent. We' told them we would take care of our own business." "Where did you go then!" "We went back down to the Sanitarium Sani-tarium and settled up the differences between ourselves." The rest of the money , he declared was placed in the bank. He told of later giving Newton $60 in the form of a check. . -. later he declared thev settled up k1' ir accounts in'the hotel and had de-1 de-1 '.ed the remainder of the money In ""l" left Bell and MeWhirter st the corner, bv the- powtoflice and I told him to take MeWhirter down to the police station." "Did you give him Anything at that timet" aksa the County Attorney. "I gavh him a $20. gold certificate nd he handed me over a 'boodle.' " "A phonv relit" "Yen." The witness then told of going out to the New England addition. There, he said. Bell came and told him that he could get the mem out of town If he would return $1000. He said he gave Bell the money and he went back, to town. iSiJ.; :, v.' He told"1 of driving out to New England Eng-land addition in a livery rig. While at dinner, he declared, a roan who was working around the house, came in and said that a fellow on 'horseback was outside inquiring for a buggy. He said that the rig was. taken back to town and that Donaldson, the O'Briens and himself walked back, to town. At that, time he said that 'Jack O'Brien had Just moved Into a new house and that he and Donaldson went there to stay for the night. In the evening he said ''Jack" O'Brien and Donaldson went out to get a $1000 bill exchanged. He said he did not .know who cashed it. but that they s.tiif some boktnaker had done it. He said that he then gave Bell $175 and that the latter put a like amount with it and thev went oat to settle up with Sheets. He said they wnt to the drug store across the street from the police station. He declared he told tho Chief that he was at the drug store and had something very important import-ant and wanted to meet him at onee. A few minutes later be declared the Chief came over and he and Bell sauntered saun-tered down State-street, going south. At a second-hand store just south of the T. M. O. A., he declared. Sheets and Bell .entered, Parrent followed and looked .through the window. Tie said" he saw Sheets and Bell stand near a show case and that Bell handed over the money. Parrent then went across to a boot black stand, where he waited for Bell. Parrent declared that he and Bell went back to work that afternoon. "Same kind of work!" he was asked. "Yes," he replied. "Did you see . MeWhirter after that!" "Yes." '.', ; "Where!" . 1 "At the Sanitarium." He went on to tell of himself and Bell with their wives returning from the show in the evening. He said that as thev went through the hotel they saw MeWhirter and another person looking at the register. . As they came through he said MeWhirter looked up. He said they went up the stairs. The McWhirterV Betuxn. . Parrent said that be and Bell stood on the head of the stairs and looked down at MeWhirter, and the other man. He said that MeWhirter and his friend went across the street and stood, and that he and Bell watched them from a window in the hotel. The men then went out of ' the back way and Bell called up Chief of Police Sheets .and told h im that the McWhirters were I back in town. '. Bell snd Parrent then went to the home of the O'Briens and informed them of the appearance of the McWhirters Mc-Whirters in town. The home of the O'Briens he said was at 168 Va South Temple street. He declared they both stayed there all night. At about 9:30 or 10 o'clock the next moring, he said, some one looked out the window and saw Detective Raleigh standing between the saloon and the high board fence at the house. Bell, he declared, went out to see him and that they talked excitedly together for a few minutes and Bell came back to the house an informed the crowd that "those two fellows have gone down to the Sheriff's office and we. have got to leave town," meaning that the McWhirters Mc-Whirters bad gone to the Sheriff's office. AU Leave the City. Parrent said that they all left town then., "Did you ever have any communications communica-tions with Newton . over the checks usedf" "Yes." Parrent then told of Bell writing to Newton when they were in Kansas City. Before they left he said between $900 and $1000 was placed in Newton's bands for collection. Not bearing from Newton, be said Bell wrote to Sheets and received no answer. . . "Where did you get the cheeks!" "In a game.'' "Did you see the hand that was played at the Antler room!" "Yes." v . "What was it!" "It was the Big Mitt.' " Parrent then went on, to show that the game played was stud poker. MeWhirter Me-Whirter had four treys showing and Donaldson had three aces showing. In Donaldson's blind was the fourth ace. When Parrent went into the room where the game was being played he said "JaekT' O'Brien introduced himself him-self as a mining man. He declared that Larry O'Brien pleaded with him and said that he wss very sorry the thing had come up and also contributed to the money that was taken away from the persons in the room by handing over a check .for $1000 to the bogus policemen. Parrent then explained to the court the method of taking- the victim's money by means of draughtere. He could not do this unless he remembered a specific Instance. In-stance. He said one was the rase of a "sucker" taken from the Temple grounds, and whom they "beat" out of $225. He produced a certificate of deposit of the kind used, and Inserted In the same letter to the bank for the return of the money a letter addressed to themselves, which the victim did not notice. "Why were checks turned over to Newton New-ton for collection?" "Ha , had a friend who was a saloon man. and the saloon man put the checks in for collection for him." At the first meeln of Bell and Newton, the witness declared. Bell wanted to meet Sheets, but Newton would not let him, saying that Sheets would not do business that way. Parrent declared that Sheets had said that he was very wll Mtlsfled with his and Bell's work, but that he heard "three or four kicks a week on the O'Briens." Attorney 8. R. Thurman then took Par-rent Par-rent In hand and examined him.' Parrent admitted that he had practiced his game In every State in the union with the exception ex-ception of the New England States. He said that he was arrested In Kansas City and had been fined $500 for gambling. He said that he was In Jail four or five days at that time. He declared that he was arrested under his right name, W. H. Parrent. He said that he was arrested after he had operated there for four or five months. His arrest, he said, waa on charges similar to those now made against him, and at that time he bad no police protection. He . declared he '"skinned ' a good many "suckers" there and after paying his fine came away with $1800. . He admitted that he was arrested in Dallas, Tex,, for fighting In a theater. Another time he said he was arrested In Denver for matching dollars. The game, he said, was to nave a partner. They would match dollars with a "sucker" the man having the odd dollar dol-lar of the three turned up to get the money. He declared he would throw "heads" and his partner "tails" so that on of them would always be the odd man and the "sucker" would loss hi money. He said he had never been In the penitentiary, peni-tentiary, but had practiced crime for three years. Ha declared that he was in Salt Lake City a year ago last summer, and at that time procured police protection protec-tion through a "between" man. His business busi-ness at that time waa matching dollars. He said that at that time ha saw Chief Sheets, who waa working at Keith-O'Brien's. Keith-O'Brien's. In doing his work, he . said he did not go out any more than he had ' to, and would spend a great deal of his time In his room. - He went on to tell of meeting Newton ' . . . i . r |