Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-30 | Page 6 | Police" Morgue" Auction Will Attract Curion

L Lurio Polite 66 win Strange Tales of Many I v Crimes Reca Recalled led by I Odd Collection ny By FRANK G. G HUNT Ordinarily an an announcement of a house cle cleaning ing around police police police po po- po- po lice headquarters means that i there will be a few strange faces faceson I on the force Well theres there's going I Ito to be a cleaning in th the quarter quarters O of the Salt Lake department but people pe looking for strange faces will be he dis dis- dis- dis appointed t Salt SaIt Lake Is going to ha have ve an auction lion linn sale The municipality Is going to tn clean out the evidence room and start over o Evidence Evidence r In cases long ong dead lead the accumulation tion of ot twenty years will wilt go under the hammer In orden ordes to do this Salt Lake must have a new ordinance The ordinance has been drawn and presented to the he city commission It will be passed on this week No Or opposition to the proposed proposed pro pro- posed ordinance has been offered and It Is expected that the ordinance will have the undivided support of ot the commission When hen the ordinance is passed Chief of Police Pollee J 3 Parley White will wilt make arrangements for tor the the- sale The property property prop prop- erty In the evidence room he says will wUl willbe willbe be listed and advertised for tor ten days At the expiration of this period the date of ot a sale attie le wilt will be flu fixed and all property property property prop prop- erty unclaimed will be sold old to the highest bidder Tells Tragic Tales No o curiosity shop shop- contains a more varied collection than the large evi- evi room at police headquarters which is completely filled Every article has baa a story usually of ot i acute cute misery y poverty or or sudden death Here Iles-e la is the evidence of ot the mysterious deaths of ot unidentified men and women besides th the relics of cases cue once brought prominently before the Burglar Burglar Burglar Burg Burg- lar tools counterfeit money and many weapons used to commit murder are I Inot not in this list lIt These have bave been re removed removed re- re re I moved to the permanent permanent- collection case ee In the detectives' detectives room But Dut the story connected with I article to be sold is Ot often R Just justas as tragic or Interesting If It U were Vee only known I Here by the side aide of ot a baby r the I plaything of a prattling child lies a ablack ablack ablack black er revolver used by a despondent gambler to end his life lite I A certain huge bowie bowle knife attracts the attention According to the records record it tt was taken from a Chinaman who was robbing the rooms In the old Continental Continental Continental Contin Contin- I hotel in 1891 The Times of ot that period says the blade of the knife would have dropped an so o ox In the next compartment lies a Bible I Perhaps it 11 tells Its own story atory On the flyleaf Is written To Fo Donald Masor from his loving father and mother ChrIstmas 1908 It is 18 much worn and many passages are marked How U tt came to the police station statin n Is not known Bullet Hole Hot Spells Death I Among the clothes Is a coat that was fashionable twenty years ago On the thelen left len side i Is a clean cut hole such as a bullet would make A certain string of ot beads be was stolen by an Incorrigible youth whom the Times calls Tom lie He is said to have robbed his own mother There are several Beveral elaborately mounted opium pipes in the collection which recall the days when the Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese played a part In the history of ot the th city cit citOn On One of these pipes tagged with a n. name led to a long s samong among the files tiles of or the Salt Lak pers M Tom Lalonde sa says 11 the th I Jr died February 10 O. O 1891 He had iad the opium habit and haj Trained rained from hitting the pipe for two years Discouragement eves ovet failure of a mine brought hirn Salt Lake and the opium pipe pipeS died the second day after bistre hl his re e of ot heart failure mt Years ago the Chinese were at In Plum alley He Here e held weird initiation I some sonic oriental society One of thi deals which the applicant sion endured was to stand will back to a board while an expert thrower outlined his figur figure gurell knives On on one occasion the theft so expert a and d d severed red thi thio o the luckless The Th was confiscated by the pol police cc e added to the collection I On 01 May ay 8 8 1907 there was a a. r It at the Murray smelter The 1 from the south of Europe laid large supply of daggers and I repel repe any tny strikebreakers Man these were WE're confiscated by the pol poll Actor Dies of Delirium There are several pairs paira of ot crutt One pair at least has a atory story story- belonged to Irving King a once actor who died of ot mens raving in hi his cell of ot ps part and the applause of ot the theli I Relics compose only a small pat pa I the numberless which wn offered for sale For are forty lorty bic bicycles cles Every make represented Some are very old some are modern There is sift alti of silverware valued at BOO JOO Tare IT T r rare are also several odd bits of garni gamt apparatus auto tools auto tires tires' revolvers 22 rifles shotguns shotguns shotguns' thirty suit cases several rolls otA off per wire several suits of under and boxes of of gloves lap robe ceries and opera glasses There curious set of electric light tight fix stolen from some house in th the The owner never appeared to c his property w There are several bottles of u cx lent whisky in china bottles bottle andIc of ot other liquors There is a a. aln sealskin coat an and several odd pair shoes It has been suggested sugg-ested that the then t tion be held for the benefit o 0 of Police Mutual Aid society esting way of at selling man many of the thet and ends has been suggested J b bof of ot the officers According to his r the article will wili be wrapped and the bidder will w bid out cut of otur ur Ity neither the auctioneer n nor r bidder being a warp aware of oC the content the package 4