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Show m is mm OF CiEf SHEETS Latest Story Is That the Conspirators Have Subscribed Money, to Be Used in Hounding the Nan Who Drove the Criminals Out of Salt Lake. ."Where's County Attorney Hanson? Couldn't he summon up enough nerve to stay on the fighting deck and swallow ,this second defeat and rebuke from the courts that he has received in the Sheets easel . Hanson-is "in the East," his colleagues say, but others intimate that he has gone to locate another one of the crooks who got some of the McWhirter money. This time Bell is the criminal that Hanson is supposed to be after. One mystery that has been puzzling the public Is with regard to the source from which the money for the persecution of Chief Sheets Is being furnished. The county has been worked to a frazzle and now the men who are fighting the . Chief have been compelled to fall back on some other source of revenue. A IT HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT ON THE STBEETS FOB SEVERAL VA)ATS THAT A NEW "BLOOD-MONET" FUND HAS. BEEN RAISED f WITH WHICH TO CABBY ON THE FIGHT AGAINST SHEETS. -One of the stories regarding this fund is that a gentleman who had a close call on a charge of bunkoing the Government has subscribed $2500 to this fund. Others who hate the Chief on account of his prosecution of criminals and bunko men nave also subscribed heavily to this fund. PUBLIC INDIGNATION .DIRECTED AGAINST THE METHODS ADOPTED BT THE POLITICAL CONSPIRATORS IN THEIR EFFORTS TO RUIN SHEETS CENTERS ABOUND THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY AT-L AT-L TOBNEY, THE MAN WHO WENT "EAST" THE DAY BEFORE THE DIS-1 DIS-1 TRICT COURT TURNED HTM DOWN AND RELEASED SHEETS. ' 1 The action of the County Attorney In this case is without precedent in legal 'history, and even the. oldest criminal lawyers have been amazed at the course he has pursued. ( First Hanson announced that Par rent had not made a confession, and that he doubted it he would put him on the stand in the case against Sheets. The ext day the County Attorney called Parrent to the witness stand-when .Sheets was on triaL and THE CROOK AND ALL-ABOUND THIEF TOLD A STOBY OF HIS OWN CRIMINAL ACTS THAT AMAZED COURT AND PUBLIC ALIKE, Every word that Parrent swore to that in any way. implicated Chief Sheets-was Sheets-was shown to be false by reputable witnesses. It. was even proved that Sheets was in Idaho at the time that Parrent said he was holding daily conferences with the Chief. The perjury of the crook was established beyond the shadow of a doubt. He also confessed in open court to crimes that, by the statement .Of District Attorney Loofbourow, CALLED FOB TWENTY YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY. - Yet a few days later, County Attorney Hanson made a motion before Judge WW taker that Parrent be released upon his own recognizance, and the crook, perjurer and self-confessed criminal was released by the court Judge Whitaker was asked by THE TELEGRAM if he and the County Attorney held a conference out of court to discuss the advisability of releasing this self-confessed crook. WHITAKER SAID THAT THE QUESTION OF RELEASING PARRENT WAS NOT DISCUSSED WITH HANSON OUT Or COUBT. Hanson says it was. . Who is telling the truth? j But Hanson's most amazing act was when, with the consent of the court, I he had Judge Hilton, counsel for Parrent, made assistant counsel for the State In the Sheets prosecution. Think of it! A COUNTY ATTOBNEY IN AN EFFOBT TO CONVICT AN OFFICIAL OF A MISDEMEANOB MAKES THE COUNSEL OF A SELF-CONFESSED FELON HIS ASSOCIATE AND THEN BELEASES THIS CBOOK AFTER HE HAS TESTIFIED TO A STOBY AGAINST THE OFFICIAL AND WHICH WAS PBOVED TO BE PEBJUBY BY SEVEN OB EIGHT BEFUTABLE WITNESSES. Not only this, but Hanson had the county pay a fee of $400 to the counsel of Parrent for the work he had done. 4 Few communities would stand for such methods as these. AND NOW ALL THIS IS FOLLOWED BY THE STORY THAT A NEW BLOOD-MONEY FUND HAS BEEN RAISED. |