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Show Outrageous THE arrest of a prominent gentlemun on the statement of a self-confessed, vicious hoodlum of a girl and the publishing of all her charges in a daily paper, we think, was as shameful a proceeding as we ever heard of, even in Salt Lake City. But that paper has been filled with shameful publications for many years. The character of the woman was and is perfectly ' known to the juvenile court; had the court done its duty it would have notified the family of tho gentleman in whose house she found temporary tempor-ary quarters; but instead of that, as soon as she was, returned to the juvenile court, the parade was made which was calculated to inflict a thousand heart-burnings on that same family, the object being, of course, to cast disgrace upon the gentleman himself. "We do not believe it would ever have found the light had not that gentleman been the counsel when Chief Sheets was assailed by the Deseret News, and a whole conspiracy of characterless char-acterless officers, backed only by the testimony of men whose word no court or jury would believe be-lieve unless corroborated. We are as confident as we are that we are alive that, except for that episode, the statement published broadcast in the News, could not have been gotten into the News for love or money, because the gentleman gentle-man himself is a Latter-day Saint in good standing, stand-ing, and that the News, which has condoned, or defended, or excused every crime charged against Mormons for a half century should publish pub-lish this about an elder in the church, is clear evidence that the purpose was not to vindicate justice at all, but to punish him for doing his duty in his profession. Nothing meaner or more contemptible has been brought to light in this city in the .last year. |