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Show ': zzcckes mm .' . ' , i . County Attorney Hanson Has "Judge" Hilton, Hil-ton, Attorney for Bunko Steerer, Entered En-tered as Assistant Counsel for State; Parrent on Stand in Sheets Case. - 'Crucify Sheets and we'll have a wide-open town and a clear field for hold-ups as we had under the last two police administrations," is the yell o fthe crooks who are now in full cry on Chief Sheets' trail. Every crook and scoundrel that Sheets has convicted or run out of town is in the pack that is now barking at . the. Chief's heels. ' Sheets caught and convicted Riis, the desperate criminal crimi-nal who looted seven office buildings on Main street in one night. Ten hours after Sheets turned Riis over to Sheriff Emery the prisoner escaped, and this after Sheets had warned Emery that Riis had attempted to saw out of the city jail. Who let Riis escape from the county jail? Sheets captured the criminal and convicted him; Emery let him "cape. ' . j : v' . The Sheets trial was resumed this afternoon with W. . H. Parrent, the confessed crook and thief, on the stand. He is being put through a brain-scorching cross-examination. fleeced had complained to the conductor. At this juncture Frank E. Hanson, a brother of John E. Hanson of the Des-eret Des-eret News, came into the courtroom. County Attorney Wlllard E. Hanson Immediately Im-mediately arose and . requpested that Frank E. Hanson withdraw, as be would be called as a State Vjtnes la the case later on., When Parrent was questioned as to his occupation, he stated that he was a gambler. When asked if when he was called upon as a special police officer to hold up the McWhirter 's, he thought this and his other experiences were in the class of gambling, he said that "anything in which there was a chance to get the money wents'in the gambling line with him.'.' Witness Insults Thurman. Short, terse, pithy and to the point were the answers of Parrent to Attorney Thurman. Thur-man. Inanswer to one question, witness .said that If he could have found a policeman police-man on the street the day the McWhlr-ters McWhlr-ters were In the Antlers rooming-house, he would have sent him up to the room Instead of Impersonating: an officer himself. him-self. "What policemen do' you know?" he was asked. A large crowd was present in Justice Whi taker's court this afternoon when the case against Chief of Police George Sheets was called. Every seat In the courtroom was occupied with persons anxious to hear the cross-examination of W. H. Parrent, one of the men lmpll-" lmpll-" eated in theT'McWhirter robbery last I fall. Expectation ran high as to fur-I fur-I , ther sensational evidence. . Chief Sheets with Chief of Detectives Detec-tives George Raleigh, Attorney William !' Newton and a number of others, are I having a preliminary hearing before ' City Judge 1 J. J. Whitaker on the I charge of conspiracy to defraud tourists. tour-ists. ' . When 2 o'clock arrived all the parties par-ties to the action were present in the courtroom. ' County . Attorney Hanson ' appeared early, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Joseph Sharp and the prisoner, W. H. Parrent. With them was also Parrent 's attorney, Judge Hilton. Ready for Hearing. Attorneys 8. X. Christensen and S. K. Thurman, with Sheets and Raleigh were in their 'seats long before the hour et. Parrent appeared as neatly dressed as he was on Saturday. He left behind be-hind the light blue necktie and had in . its place a dark green piece of neckwear. neck-wear. He was clad in the. same dark fcnv suit, neatly pressed. A jihe first move was by County Attor- ; i r Hanson, asking that thme name of Farrent's attorney, O. L. Hilton, be entered en-tered as assistant attorney for the I State. It was duly entered. "Oh. Riley. Wilson and Shannon," was the reply. "But I wouldn't have sent them up." Answering to an attempt upon the part of counsel to impeach witness, the latter said with, emphasis, "I never told a falsehood false-hood in my life, and Iwouldn't tell one to save my life." "Why do you associate with thlevee," Thurman asked. Tor the money therVa in it," Parent replied. "Ton protect them for the money, I associated, with them or the money. It's all the same thing.' ' As the trial progressed,' Attorney Thurman Thur-man vigorously arraigned Parrent. After a particularly heated explosion from the attorney. County Attorney Hansen said: "I want that statement to go into the records." "If it does, it will be the only truthful thing there," retorted Thurman. Chief of Police George A. Sheets has sprung as big a surprise as the evidence evi-dence against him by W. H. Parrent, who declared that he was one of the crooks who acted as a bogus policeman In the famous McWhirter robbery. Parrent testified that he saw his partner, part-ner, J. J. Bell, give Sheets money for protection on a certain day. It develops that the Chief was not in the State at the time, but was spending his vacation oa a ranch in Idaho. Under a hard cross-examination Par-rent Par-rent declared positively that the occurrence, occur-rence, of the money being given was between be-tween August 21 and August 25. On these dates Chief Sheets can show conclusively that he was on a ranch at Bear Lake, forty miles north of Logan, on the border line between Idaho and Utah. By the Oregon Short Line auditor's report Chief Sheets declares that he ean show that he and his wife and daughter went to Logan on August 15, and returned re-turned on August 28. 1 was dnring this time that Parrent declared he was paying pay-ing for police protection. The newspaper files of August 29 show news paragraphs to the effect that Chief Sheets had just returned from a pleasure trip and vacation of' two weeks.. ' Parrent when put on the stand was asked whether he knew what changes had been made in regard to charges made in the McWhirter case against him. At first he was evasive. Then he admitted that it was grand larceny and robbery. The witness said that with one exception excep-tion he had never been in jail. On the one occasion he said he was taken in a buggy about town and down to the Sanitarium. , The reason, he said, was that Judge Hilton, his attorney, wanted him to, be sure of his dates and locations. Parrent declared that he secured the services of Judge Hilton to look after his interests. He averred he did not have any I knowledge of what, Hilton's relations ' were with the State. Today he declared he was taken around to a number of saloons in company com-pany with Deputy Sheriff Sharp. In coming and going from court he said he 1 is taken in a carriage. - ' i For several minute Parrent tried to cet out of telling of bis first trip to Salt Lake City. - He said he got into a ' fame on the train and got off forty miles from Salt Lake City and took 1 the next train. J His ideas of stealing were then gone into by Attorney S. R. Thurman, who was cross-examining the witness. In cross-examination of Parren this afternon Judge Hilton interposed an ob-jection ob-jection which immediately brought Tburman to his feet with the query whether Hilton represented the State or the witness. At this juncture County Attorney Hanson also interposed an objection, ob-jection, with the statement that Hilton did not represent the State in this case. . Parrent was reciting the circum-k circum-k vees attendent npon his coming to ' : Lake City and told how that he i accompanied by two crooks, Sullivan Sulli-van and Thompson. During the trip he and his pals -got up a card game with some passengers whom they were fleecing fleec-ing and upon the advice of the train conductor they left the train at Soldiers r .'.mmit, and came into Salt Lake City I Her. The passengers who mthe grafters V '. ' f |