| Show BY BYTHE THE P Assistant County Attorney Han Hanson Hanson son Replied to Counsel For Defense CLINCHING SUMMARY MADE loriner Arthur I mattel 1111 of oC Alt lIr lu WIth the exception or of a few tew minutes nt at the opening and close coso ot of yesterday afternoons cession ot of the hearIng of at Chief ot of Police George A Sheets the tho entire timo was taken up with for tor time tho state Inlo by Ally Atty Arthur Arlhur Brown anti County Count AI Atty Willard Ally Atty C S R Varlan clotted closed tile hIli speech h for tor the thu rio on hl hIM motion to dismiss the charge against t or of withhold withholding Ing information tram from II a magistrate and amI compounding it II SOOIl otter thin opened and Inti Atty Soron X had Just begun time tho closing tot for the tho defense when the session was resumed until this morn mornIng morning Ing Following limo tho or of Judge Varian In which ho roundly Scored Atty for tor hl his part JurL In securing n a hearing for tor the Willard for tor tIme the state giving WilY after uCler n a brier brief to Lo 1 Mr Ir Hanson lId In III part ATTY HANSONS I 1 inn am sorry that Judge re erred to hI anythIng out outside of the tho mony In this case In time the course courso or of his hll lie Ill has hall anid that II a press has convicted Sheets before beloro his hlA trial Be that as L It ma may It II Is certaInly not In the record o of this ease caso and should not ho bo considered bitt since ho hohas hohas has advanced the point I ani only wIsh to toMY toMY MY this that It if a partIsan press pres humus hUll fount ChIef Sheets guilty II a press fleece has baa nice asu declared him him Innocent and has hall farther anti endeavored to 10 besmirch those thoo public who merely tryIng to do their duty In limo ease However I repeat It heL has nothing to todo todo do whatever wIth this rlue whIch must stand on Its merits without reference to whatever view rna may tie be taken ono one way 11 or time the other by the tho press Judge says Hays there Is nothing to show thaL Chief Sheets Wit was In any way vay In instrumental tn In or liar har boring the Iho Wh Why Chief Sheets lunch had one erie of at the gang In h his very or of orlice lice ThInk o of Why lie ho arrest hihi on ll the spot George Jeorge Sheets pay over In order the Ic dc Whiners could be gotten Kotlen out or of town and the tho go their way and rob somo Komo more moreA A GOOD we tIme tho right to suppose that Chief Shots suggested to Dell Deli during their In the corridor that sOlle ur of the stolen money bo be tt to the tho ns aim an 1111 easy way of getting gelling rid ot of them Dare JUtt Judge VarIan stand tand there thero and tell honor that George Sheets Is isa a 11 collector or of the loot ot of thieves and robbers robber and returns one tenth of oC It to the victims This Is their only defense und and ott on that defense Judge Varlan wants your honor lit In the of oC Justice to this d defendant Tho able attorney for tor the defense tried to 10 throw aspersions on Mark lie He calis hIm Holmes It Is nn an apt Icon and surely It if that Is a 1 good illus Ilius illustration then George Sheets Is the Mor MorIarty Moriarty the ur of tho iho gang of at thieves and robbers SENATOR BROWN AU Atty Brown revIewed the tho evidence na as did Atty but his conclusIons were very different In their character tram from the same sante basis or of testimony Un Unlike Unlike like the tho arguments or of Atty ALI arian It as 18 not necessary to p pass Important blocks or of testImony In order ardor to 10 cinch arguments and make theta plausible Tue o of M dos given by AllY Atty Varian is 10 vastly from rom the alleged summary In inthe the press which was recently In a 1 badly distorted manner toad It IL checks with that of L Drown Brown with the exception that parts were not overlooked by Brown In part urt ho spoke poke all as follows Thero Is no need or of splitting hairs over time legal aspect ot of thin offense ol 11 to Lo have hao been committed There Is BUril a 0 succession or nt acts nels as by tIme tho evidence as to prove live lIvo or ala lx separate offenses of whIch this Ihl defendant Is II guilty There Thero can be beno beno no doubt time crime ho nut before beloro this investigation Is com coin It would not bp be surprising Ir if he were not only proven to bo be accessory ory limo tho tact but also nn an accessory before the tact fact whIch under our stat mite Is precisely the Iho same as a principal In the o of time robbery itself We Ve are oro to draw our natural infer inferences from the tho evidence as Wf f lUst believe that time the bogus hogus police had 1 boon Jen placed outside or of the room event by br the robbers within easy colt call lury OBrien had hod 21 2 hours In whIch to La soL tho 1110 stage the drama anti and andla la lay thu trap jr the thu McWhirter TO ARREST The Tho says these inon were Is IH th lImit any defense These stickers more time the class ot of men that need the protection ot of the department It buL the tho men who are uro with whit the tho city antI the ways Irs or of the tho confidence who ho are to La be looked after They can call care caro for themselves What did Sheets Sheela do tb to ferret out this or to discover tIme the robbers II sent out with young tot tor to look for tor tIme the men inert The sergeant ergeant alks town wIth a 0 sluggish leaden pace lace all as slow as hI h can lie He does dou nut not send out 1 a capable man loan lIko but only thu th dull on hIs feet Merely out Hempel Oil OU title Journey was the itt or of time tho efforts or of the tho Sait uk Lake police to brIng these theae thieves to Lo justice When Shem lieU was In his ollice ChIef Sheets hive arrested It If he hewatt watt acting In good faith in III his efforts to tIme the criminals would any nuy Otto one ith sense I lm lT ACCUSATION When Alexander r asked askel him too 10 t n it detective with Bell lIell after thc lie Sheets replied I 1 will Why by the Ibo falsification Thy 11 he snitch I nu ama with the bogus its 1111 ho he saId he would Again when lie he wn wn told by the younger Mc Ic hIrter r that two had gone gon to tue New addition and Ind was 13 asked It if one of nr theco o men mn was the detective the thee e chief ler hall sent with Bell and h he replied that IhM It IL WI vas Another falsification Tho defense asks us a to point to In an overt moat ot of the th chief to harbor and protect these If the chief hail wid given Iven the robbers the th money with which hl h to escape justice would not that tbt have been nn an overt act making him In an accessory after tit tact What dIffer en care lIla Is there thre n giving the money to l Vu town nil this the maui Witnesses lse UI ot the tho robbery robben tito tho money mODey thaL will fake them out or of the city and state AntI It I is tint nol denied d th that t garo an Ihl M unIt hurl hurrIed Item henl ort off to tn a train fit tl 41 hernia AFRAID O OF After Actor th the rf returned to Salt BaIt Lake what made the r rubbers sud auth enly flee from the city elly like a 11 flock or of birds Were they afraid of at ChIef Sheets Oh no Through some Home crafty understanding they learned that the 1 bud bat returned anti and were Vera complainIng The Tho evidence ot of Sheets Itt In the swIll clIo Is apparent nil ull through title this case ense th the footprint Is upon the tho sand time the nature of the animal that leCt It Itcan itcan can bo be determined FrOnt th the IUru or of Sheets actions In this robbery all ull through there must ho be but ona On Ilon and that h ho was a 1 ber bel or of the Iho gang asked Sheets It If the fact that the money ns 01 In Ibous notes would not ho I a ele ehl tl 1 the discovery ot of the robbers time tho chief Iller replied that hills ot of tImid thilL denomination were very C Maybe they thoy art are around police pollee but the 1110 OP 01 individual lual knows that thaL or of that denomInatIon are rarely seen ox I copt lit III banks rhe lIue was a goo gool one arid subsequent have hRC shown that I It foil 0 up by the tho police the tho discovery ur of the tho cUi would have AFRAID OF rho duct told the victims ot of time rob robbery I bery to tn keep II WilY from reporters ant when hIs favorite reporter comes into loto hIs hil omco In full tull possession or of the facts In the tho case cruc the chief hushes hlll bins up aliI anti the story ot of the atrocious robbery is III quieted Il rainy have been een wise o 0 othe the part varL ot of the thO chief to llao haye kept I Irom IC from rom hd had he be hoped to catch th tIme thIeves but elites ho he sols lot time tho effort to cap capture ture lUr theta them what harm have havo rt re suIted tram from thu story lOI b glen given to h the un unless leu It was Wall that time chief was afraid to LImo public the facts taets In thu th case Ill not r follow time the or of Judge VarIan to snake II a pUbliC speech In rl cc ward lard to the version or of this case I 1 believe In staying within the evidence within the foyr Valls or of orthe time the court In making In my CITY ThICK THUGS Judge arian stated that the tho chIef was wIthout authority to tJ arrest n ii felon without n it It If this la is the tho case cas casI caseI I dont dOllt wonder wh why Lh the cl cIty Is he so o thick with thugs A Au II a matter mattor ot of fact the chief I is gIven express cause caus the arrest c c any ono one e ehas has r reasonable grounds to b believe lIeve is guilty or of a felony Ally Atty Brown closed after citing a 1 ot of cases case to Lo his conton conten contention tion anti All Atty Soren N Christensen was sas begInning arguments for the tie tense In hi cl closing the ca case when Judge Arm Armstrong trong adjourned court until unlit this mommy |
