Show SWORN sw i STATEMENTS IN POLICE DIAMOND DAMOND CASE Affidavits Tell Tel Whether Wether or Not The News Published a False Story Barlow Will Wil Give Xander the Jewels When He Calls Cals for Them How a Woman a Little Girl and a Little Boy Were Bullied by the Police Chief of Police Barlow who secured possession of oC two lost lest diamonds which hud had been found foud on the street by Alonzo h of or north First West cst street last Monday Monda morning by fi frightenIng the child cid and his mother and two tO young OUIA sisters with threats threat to send the boy bo and his mother to the tho penitentiary tar tint on charges ches of a grand gand larceny if 1 It they thoy the refused refu d to give up tho the atones stones to him says SUS that ho Is still sti holding tho the diamonds The Tho head of the tho Salt Lake City Ct police department says that ho he will wi hold the diamonds until they are a called cled for tor by byJ b bJ J 3 II I Xander the man ln who claimed clamed that hat he owned them The rhe Tribune which has ha simply echoed Barlows dictation In this case cae stated this morning The police are of if the opinion pinion that the gems belong blong to Xander Nander and ami whoa when when they the are arc turned ovel over to Xander Nander the lie case cose ele against What Vh cott who Is I charged charged With wih grand lar lur larceny ceny cony cen will wl be dropped Mrs Anna when Informed of or Chief Barlows expressed Intention to o give Alvo the tho strains stones up to Xander Nander wild taid That Is very peculiar Chief Chlof of or Police Pollee Barlow Barow said Mid to me the tho the lost last lat time that I saw sw him on the tle night that thal he ho and a n a representative attempted to compel me le to sign a n written statement declaring the exposures in The News to tobe tobe tobe be false falso that he would not give the diamonds up to Xander Chief Chic Barlow said akl I 1 wont wont give up the diamonds to o Xander I am going to make a I thorough Investigation Xander Nander will wi have haye lave to tell tel when where and how ho came camo Into possession of at the stones I 1 hope that Chief Chic Barlow Is la proud of or hi his lit actions In this matter mater I 1 hope that tha hI hi IQ thinks think he has hn acted like a gentleman genteman and ind an honest public officer I hope that he le gets get the comfort of b because I know that he lie can cn get get just Justl just from tram no one else but himself I hope that Chief Barlow enjoys enos having beaten my m little boy out of or the tho reward for tor finding In the diamonds that Is 8 a 1 deed of o which any brave chival chivalrous chivalrous rous American ought to be bo proud CHIEF VIOLATES VIOLATES LAW LAW The Tue actions of or Chief Chic Barlow havo been een In iii violation of the tho law from froni start stait to o finish in this case In the tho first place piano pla h lie 10 arrested my boy without a warrant on n a a charge charAe of grand gand larceny larcen when ho lie hoenow know enow that the boy had hod ha found the dia dla diamonds monds mends and when no complaint had ha been jeen flied filed fed against a nt him hi In tho the second place ho demanded a 1000 bond bd be taro ore oro he ho would relea relea release e my m boy boyS when no 10 complaint had been ben lied flied fled against a the tho child In the third place he delb lied led to me mo by b telling mo me that thal I Im ny my m son had committed committe grand larceny and that he lie would be b sent to prison TERRIFIED BY THREATS The he pollen police pol p secured possession of the tile diamonds from tram us us when they had no right under any an law to compel com l us me to tolve give lve up the thin diamonds and they did It because my m little daughter Ermina had lad been terrified by threats that hoc her brother brothel Lon Ien r O and her mother myself would be 10 arrested on charges of grand larceny arceny larcen and would bo be b sent to prison Tho family tamly Is poor por but a multitude of at friends fIend and arid strangers whoso whose sympathies have been boon aroused by iy the scandalous conduct of Chief of Polee Police Barlow and Chief of oC Detectives Sheets have havo signified their eagerness to o contribute to a n fund to t enable Mrs Mrs to prosecute this t case ca In the courts Mrs wants want to apply appl to tho the court for a writ restraining Chief Barlow tram from from giving the stones up to Xander or anyone else else until tho mat matter mt mattel tel ter of at ownership Is definitely settled openly opel and above board beard bord According to County Count Atty Atty Job P r Lyon Lon Xander Nander told him that his sister had sent him the tho diamonds the thc stick stickpin pin being in one box and ad tho the ring In another mother box bo and that he had hod ha put pt them In his overcoat pocket and had hd dropped them out ant of a his hl pocket when he pulled pule letters leter out of at It to mall mail mal on the tho street corner It I has been discovered by b Mrs What cott colt that the diamonds were In a box bearing the name of at a Jeweler In a city outside of Utah and ad this fact tact adds ads to her fears that tt she is 1 the victim of a conspiracy Mrs may file fe suits for heavy heay damages against Chief Cl ef of or Pollo Barlow and Chief Chic of a Detectives George Georgo Sheets for false falso fals Imprisonment of or her 1110 boy bar Lou Ion Ln STARTLING AFFIDAVITS Startling affidavits revealing sensa sensational sensational toJI facts In iii tho case havo have been made mado by b Mra MIJ Anna and her daughter Miss Ermina Ermina Mrs Ir sworn statement Is 03 as a follows Believing that the thin people of or Salt St Lako Loice lo loCI City CI should know all al of a the facts con connected connected with wih the tile finding of a a diamond ring ling and a diamond stickpin by b my lit little l littie tie tle te boy 0 Alonzo which are arc claimed by b one J H Xander and which Chief of at Police Barlow secured pos possession possession I session of or through terrifying my m young daughter Ermina by threatening to I send her brother to the penitentiary unless she would turn tur the Jewels over overto overto overto to him him I Issue Isue the tho following statement The article printed on page 12 of at the tho Salt Lako Laico Le Tribune Thursday Thurly Dec 9 1909 under tho the headline Foolish Story In News Is Replied to by Chief Chic of Police Polee Is false That story stor in Tho Elm Tribune reads as 3 follows It I was merely merel another one of at those th without any an foundation I believe that that tho the general genera public Is aware that wo are ar not engaged In stealing diamonds When Mrs Ir who lives at north First First West street was assured lur that we wo Intended to t protect her inter interests Interests ests after after we w had explained matters mattera mater to her she readily turned tho the tune over dia diamonds diamonds monds mends After they have havo been ben identified they tho will wi bo be b returned to the tho rightful owner own r The Tho o story about abut tho the boy by being placed In a cell cel was entirely raise faise fue There was not a man man in this thi office or connected In n any way wa with wih the de department department who wished to put the te child in Jail jai Such uch was Wl tho the statement of ot Chief of a Police Barlow when shown a copy cO of a athe the tho Deseret News containing a n num number her ber br of ot charges charge against thu th th police de do department Tho The basis of a the tile story tor was wa tho the fact that Lon Len Ln a I news nowa newsboy boy bo 15 35 years yeas of age found a case con containing taming some seine diamonds on the corner corer of ot tf Second South and Main street Sout aln Mon Monday Mondy Monday day morning dy moring The he boy took tho the stones home homo to his hil mother and then went back to t selling his papers Jer In the meantime the tho man ma who says that that be he lost the tho diamonds diamond J 2 JH JH H Candor 15 cast cat Sixth South Louth street had haLl reported his loss to tho thin police de do department Ho He was wa not sure suro sur that ho h lost loat lot the diamonds and said Bald 1 that his pocket might have he b been cn picked pice Thc Tho police authorities made mo an n investigation tion ton which brought to light tho the fact fat that hat the newsboy had found tho the stones When a n demand for the te stones was WS made on tho the parents prent of o the boy by they the refused to give thorn thom up which was wu due the pollee say ay to the to advice the tho te parents had ha received from Georgo F FLloyd FLloyd Lloyd of or this city After Xander r lied had dono done everything oer possible to get set the parents parent of tho the boy boyto b bo boto to release tho the gems and ad nd b had given to the a I description of the tho stones ston and Ind also als said that he lie would produce pro uce a Jeweler who had examined the tho stone stoner ho ito went vent to tho to office of a County Atty AU Job Lyon J yon Wednesday afternoon antI and swore to a complaint charging caging tho tue boy boyLon bo boyLon Lon Ln with tho the theft thel of at the stones Later Iter In the day the punta of or tho the boy called caled at the station and nd released relee tho gems gema When shown The Tho Deseret News containing the story stor both tho the mother and cd daughter said that ilat they wore were ore shocked at the story and said that their alleged statements in n print were ivere ridiculous s Chief Chic George Sheets Sheet of or tho lie detective depal branded the story stor appear appl Ing big In The News as a a malicious attack atack on the tile department and said Id that It I was wasa W S Sa a tissue of lies tSIU les The Tue following statement is false and amI The Tribune knew It was wa false fal when It t printed the tho article When shown Tho The Deseret News containing the tho story star both boll the mother and Ind daughter aughter said that they tW were wore shocked at itt the lie story and said that that their alleged lese statements in 11 print wore were ridiculous On the contrary both my m daughter arid and myself told Chief of oC Police Barlow and tte thi representative of Tho The Tribune whom he h brought out to my m home with wih him Wednesday night Dee Dec De 8 S that tho the story stol printed printe In The News that tha eve evening evening ning fling was wa true and 1 ld that the quoted Interviews were wee correct In detail Chief Barlow and The Trio TriO I uno une representative tried to persuade me ma to make inako and sign a 1 written state statement statement I ment denying the story atol in The Thin News News This I flatly refused to do Neither my I daughter nor myself said sad that we vo wore vere shocked by the story star In The News nor did we say sty that our alleged statements In print were ridiculous as The Tle ella unc claims The Tribune was given the facts In Inthis Inthis inthis this case not only anI by us but by b out our attorney Mr Moses Davis and by sev several several eral oral of our friends In the business world including such reputable well wel known and prominent gentlemen as Mr Jr George F Lloyd Llo d and his brother Mr E T 1 Lloyd of or the tho Cache company Tho The Tribune utterly Ignored our side of at the story star although our friends went to the trouble of a going to tolie the lie office of a that lint paper papel and making statements concerning the case ea e TU Th Tribune distorted the details In Its Is story stor of a Dec 8 giving the version of or ortho tho tile polIce and treating me and my m son on very ver unfairly The story stOl printed by b The rho Tribune on Dee Dec Del 9 was wa even een worse than that of or the previous day da The Tho News has ha published the whole truth and and nothing but the truth regard regardIng regardIng regarding Ing this case cao to the best besl of or my m knowl knoll knowledge knowledge edge and belief bele Chief of a Police Barlow Barlo as quoted In Tho Tim Tribune said When Mrs Is What colt cott col was as assured that we Intended to tr her hel Interests after we had hail ex e f cd mater matters to her she read y I turned j over the diamonds After Uter they th have hare been Identified they the will wH be ic ye returned turned to their rightful owner The story stor about the boy being placed In a si acel acell cell was entirely false fals There was not tot nota tota cel a man In this office orlee or 01 connected In iii who any aD way W with the department wished to put tho the child In Jail Jai This Tills statement is false Chief Barlo Barlow v never ncr assured me toe le that he lie would protect my Interests Interest On the contrary he lie threat threatened 1 ened to arrest my little boy bO on a a charge of grand larceny and send him to prison unless I would turn the dia diamonds diamonds monds over to him Chief Barlow never neer explained matters maters to t me as a he lie says af afAs As a matter of fact tact he did all al In his h mater power to coerce and ad frighten me Into giving up the stones stono to him I did not readily or turn the diamonds over redl otherwise The police bulldozed and scared my little girl gui Ermina until she sho was so faint and and weak that she could hardly harMy wa s stand up and It was wa because they tho threatened to send her brother brotherto to prison and arrest me mo that the poor child without my m knowledge por or consent begged Mr MI Lloyd to take tale talethe the diamonds out of a his safe saro and give them to her and then ten site she turned them theta over to Chief Cief Barlow himself Chief Barlow and his brutal bullies bules never neer would have gotten goten possession of ot those diamonds from tram me They tried to frighten me mc for two days das into giving them up but I stood fast fat and refused to comply with their demands because I t knew that I had hal the law on my m side and that I 1 was In the right And I know knew Just as welt well wel that Chief Barlow a was In the wrong and that he knew It I Tho Thin was police polee stooped to the cowardly son sen means of at intimidating my and mens young daughter They The did not dare to deal fair and square with wih my law lawyer lawer the men yet yer er and myself and grown interested in tho the case The history of this case which is one oneat of at the tho most shameful blots that ever over disgraced Salt Sail Lako Lake City Is as follows fellows My Ms little boy bo Alonzo went down town early earl on the lie morn morning mornIng morning ing of or Monday fonda Dec C G to sell sel papers paper Ho came back soon afterwards with wih cae an armful of papers papel and a box contain containing containIng ing lug two diamonds He Ho said to mo mc I 1 picked this box up with these din dia diamonds monds a 1 stickpin and Ind a ring I saw sw thorn them the and so did another newsboy but butI I reached I them first frt A man by 1 the name of a Abe who sells pa papers paper pets pers to the tho newsboys saw me pick up tip the per box and came right up to me mo and asked me to sell sel them He Ho took them thom from my 1 In hands and examined them The sight of the diamonds mode made him himer him very er excited and ho he put his hand Into his pocket and drew draw out a D handful of ot money mone and said Lon Ln Ill Il give Ie you this for this box ren I 1 refused he said Ill Il give rIve you ou mote more mOle money and Ill Il go to the tho th bank and get you OU 75 I said No Il Ill take them homo home to m my mother But Bitt said Come on Dud amid lots talk about It frt first I refused again and ad got on the first street car carand carand carand and came camo homo home Mother therell therel be bea a big bli reward offered for these dia diamonds diamonds monds months and you can have the thin money mane so you ou keep them Then Lon Len went back down town to sell sel the tho lie rest of his papers paper In the 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