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Show R 1 I Um Topics ot me Day S The financial and other difficulties B of the present city administration are Sj increasing right along. City Auditor B Alff has taken a tumble to himself B and refuses to issue any more war- M rants in excess of the legal debt limit. jH M'r. Alff is wise in taking this course B in self protection. His party blames B, him for the stand he has taken, but he H would be exceedingly foolish to run B his head into a noose for his party's B sake. H B The Sheets case is becoming more and more complicated every day and B the gross inefficency of the prosecu- tion more apparent. The case is now B so muddled up that it is extremely B doubtful if it can ever be brought bc-B bc-B fore a jury even if handled in the fu-B fu-B ture by the cleverest lawyers. The B prosecution of all these cases should B be taken entirely out of the hands of B those who have been playing at prose-B prose-B cuting and competent lawyers should B be engaged to take charge of them. B District Attorney Loofbourow on ac-B ac-B count of the close friendship which B for years has existed between him and B Chief Sheets should not be required to B prosecute him. Another reason why B the present prosecuting officers should B be relieved is that too much politics B has been injected into the case. Poli-KS Poli-KS tics should have nothing to do with it whatever. The "American" party is K7 backing up the criminals and alleged B 1 criminals and as it is well known that B both the District attorney and the B county attorney in the past have been B strongly in sympathy with that party B they should not be required. to prosc-B prosc-B cute these cases. B ... B The defendants 'in the McWhirter Q robbery case and their newspaper B organs are very much perturbed over B the capture of Bell who it is charged B was the bogus policeman who assist- JKT etl in the robbery. They are afraid H Bell will "squeal" and tell all he B knows. An emissary from some of B the defendants found means to cotn- H mimical- with Bell and assured him B that if he kept silent they would stand Wb by him and urged him not to make a B booby of himself as Parrent, who turned state's evidence had done Bell, it is reported, said that unless they paid him well he would tell the facts and unfold a talc that would strike them with consternation. n |