Show OUR 01 FRIEND SHEETS SH ETS ELECTED EVERYTHING WILL BE DEAD EASY Come alon along to Salt Lake LaliO as our oJ old friend Sheets has been elected chief of or police and everything will be dead easy Harry Pittman alias Harry Clark a notorious crook clook who has operated operate In Salt Snit Lake and 1 in various cities of ot the We West Vest t. t sent the foregoing Invitation to toone toone toone one o of his pals paIs in San Francisco Atthe At Atthe Atthe the time tine wrote the letter he lie h was In Jail at Ogden for grafting The letter was opened by 11 former Sheriff Sherif Joseph Bailey It was after the Salt Lake election lust hist fall fail an and George of or Sheets was assured tho the appointment chief chic of or police Mr r Bailey nalley who re resigned ro- ro sl signed ne from the sheriffs sheriff's office in il Weber county some somo time ago was asked about the letter Jetter This is what h he says sas Yes he not only onh wrote one ono but 1 ut a dozen ozen such letters lettel The They were all brought blought to me and opened 1 before being be be- lug ing sent an and m my deputies and ond I had bad several e discussions lon over cr them I do tIo not 1 remember the exact language which ho he used but I do remember that he told his pals to come along to Salt Lake CIt City that hut Sheets ha had been appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed chief of police and that the town would woul be dead easy now Whenever Whenever When hen ever er I would woul g get t back from Salt Lake City CIl Clark would usually ask aik me how his ol old friend Sheets was faring in the campaign and an if Ir there thoro was any nn hope of or his being elected Pittman has hns done time for tor various arlous crooked deals and antI he lie is rated as a tl clever er crook Chief Sheets knew Pittman Pitt- Pitt man was in Salt Lake Immediately after atter tile the San Francisco co earthquake He was arrested last October In Og- Og Ogen den en and he worried until tho the November November Novem Novem- ber election over the result because ho he was Interested In tho the chief of police The letter he lie sent to a pal in San Francisco was seen b by Mr Bailey who was then sheriff and anti It was was- wasso so strikIngly strikingly orl original and ontI unique that he lie did not forget torget that portion o of It lt |