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Show COUNCIL INQUIRES REASON F03 REGENT CODitf DISMISSALS Chief of Police and City Attorney Tell What They Know Aboat Actions. Ckief of Police Samuel M. Barlow emphatically declared last eight that aot nearly so muck crime existed ia Bait Lake City aa certain medium would have the public believe. The declaration came at the special city council meeting, which met as a committee of the whole to further a resolution parsed two weeks ago oaring oar-ing oa the chief to 'explain why he had not done n:org to suppress the social so-cial evil and the selling of liquor ia rooming houses, as well as why convictions con-victions had aot bees secured is certain cer-tain cases. As sooa as the meeting waa open the city attorney was called os to present hi side of tke ease. He latd the blame on the court rather than ea the police department. He attributed at-tributed the failure largely to the seg lect or failure of the courts properly proper-ly to instruct the juries in the eases. Chief Barlow was then called and for nearly so hour underwent a rigid examiastioa, with Fernstrora and Slc-Kinney Slc-Kinney in the role of chief questioner. question-er. The- chief declared that he had always al-ways trie! to enforce tke law and was willing to do so to the best of bis shilitv at all time. 1 "TVhea asked why "hensJnorerva certaia warraote of arrest the chief replied that be did not have sufficient men to serve them. Kernstrom wanted to know if too chief waa not aware that ' cribs' were running outside of the stockade, to which the chief replied. re-plied. "No.'' MrKinney asked if the chief had attempted at-tempted to prcseeuts inmates of the stockade without first securing a. war rant for their arrest sad again the chief answered. 'No. ' Chief Barlow then produced a resolution, reso-lution, puroorted to have been adopted at a caucus of heads of department of the American party, in which it was understood that Mrs. Dora B. Topham, knowa as Belle London, would be eliminated elim-inated from the stockade snd thst th: place would cease to be monopolized and would exist in strict . obedieuce with the Isw relative to the aal of liquor. The intandurtioa of the resolution esuaed a warm discussion, but another resolution unanimously adopted by the American men. I ers of the city council coun-cil at a caucus held st a later date, in whtch it was provided that the American Amer-ican party w.iula enforce the law rela-t:ve rela-t:ve to the social evil irrespective of where it mty be found, also wss read. Speaking r,n the resolution referred to by Chief Barlow, t'ity Attorney 1. ninny showed that the American cnfcus had only taken such action after aft-er it bad been agreed by resident ef tke west side that the eentrslixstios of the ev.l the stockade wss aot objectionable with Mrs. Topham eliminated. elimi-nated. Lieutenant John Hempel also was questioned by the council relative to the socisl -evil and gambling. Tke hearing will be continued next week, whej various papera, said to hi.ve a hearftig oa the investigstion, w II be brought in. |