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Show THE SHEETS CASE ; '1 he piiluninary hearing of the H case against Chief of Police Sheets, HJ charged with conspiring with a gang HJ of thieves and bunco steerors to rob HJ touiists and sti angers unacquainted HJ with the "customs of the country" HJ was concluded Friday afternoon and HJ taken under advisement by Judge HJ Whittaker. The star witness against HJ Sheets was Pairent, one of the gang H who confessed his guilt and turned HJ state's e idciice and gave away the Hi whole snap. Parrent' testimony was H most damaging to Sheets and other HJ members of the police foice, and the HJ defence failed to refute it. In fact H l'arrcut's testimony, making due al- H lowauce for the fact that he is a self H confessed crook and a co-conspirator HJ was almost as damaging to the dc- HJ feudaut as the statement by the chief HJ of police himself a few months ago HJ when the charges were first made HJ against him. just after the McWhirter HJ brothers had been lobbed of $10,000. HJ The 'testimony of Pr.rr.ent standing H by itself would not be worthy of HJ much evidence, but it was highly HJ cortoborative of fac's and circuni- H stances previously brought to light H and testified to by the McWhirters HJ ami other reputable witnesses. The HJ defense based its hopes on an at- H tempt to prove an alibi contending HJ that Chief Sheets was in Idaho on a H certain date that Pan cut testified that H the chief was in Salt Lake, and HJ "standing in" with the thieves and HJ icceiviug a share of the money stolen HJ from the victims. Whether Sheets H was here on that date or not, was HJ not -vital at all as there were plenty HJ of other circumstances relied upon HJ by the piosecution to show that the HJ police dcpaitment and the bunco men H had a pet .( understanding between H themsiclvc . HJ Chief Sheets did not testify in his H own behalf. That fact from a strict- H ly legal stand point should not be HJ counted against him, but from the H icw point of the ordinary layman, H it put the chief in a bad light. The H court has the case under advisement HJ as to whether or not there is prob H able cause for holding him for trial, H and in the meantime wc don't care H to express any opinion upon it furthei H than wdiat wc have already said that Sheets is cither guilty of the crime I laid to his charge or he is more of a H sucker than the rank suckers that I were taken in by the bunco men. I The Tribune and its satelitcs of course stand by Sheets, and will of B course do so to the end, because they can't help it. That foot theory of thcir's that Sheets is the victim of I a conspiracy, is too idiotic to merit I even passing consideration. I J |