Show SHEETS OX ON SHEETS Nothing more compromising can be said of or lh the George Sheets case than thant t the chief George Sheets himself has Said Id Nothing more incriminating than the thc statements of or his paper the Tri Tr- bune need be published Tho The man ro convicts himself b I One can not understand the po- po pok k of or Mayor Thompson who tlc dc- I r Glares that he believes Sheets has been c r unjustly accused excepting on the theW d W t f ground that that the mayor mayol Is as deep In f If the mud as the chief is In the mire Look at al the case cate o of Sheets against Sheets The story lor Is that two t came me to lo Salt Lal Lake e two weeks ago with J f yv somewhat more than ten thousands thousand t s r I dollars Is c cash sh A number of or bunko men including Jim Donaldson t two O'Brien's who are known crooks and 1 perhaps two others get the Into a brace brace card game and take awn away from from them two thousand dollars Th The declare they the have been robbed and one of or them goes oes out for fol foran an Q He lie returns with a bogus v officer wearing a a. star labelled Police Police Police Po lice and antl arre arrests ts the whole card party part including the two He takes tal es from these men all their valuables including tho the rather tidy sum of eight thousand more more dollars oars He Hc gives them a a. a receipt for this 11 f a amount m pt but doesn't search and antl r rob b 1 any t n if f the rest of or hl his prisoners Then 7 r JO he starts with the frisked victim to toI I the p police department In the office v of the chief of or police in the pre presence ence t of or that officer robber and robbed talk plainly of the Incident The robbers robber's pretense of being a policeman is known to the chief The chief Is s In Informed Informed informed In- In formed that ten thousand dollars have been taken from Crom the thc victim victim two two thousand tho in a game the rest relt by JW the pretended policeman The robber agrees to give back or or get for for the I victim one one one thousand dollars and amI i goe goes goes' out goes out to get set it He lie comes back backwith with two lo wo hundred and fifty dollars short shorts an and the Scotchman who has lost ten thousand and antl the flam film man goes out and an gets gels tho the two hundred hun hun- dred- dred and fifty treats It II as a n. loan to tho the victim an and takes his note for it And as Arid as usual In s such uch cases cases the tho vie vie- Urns tint are Induced to leave town Here is a a. ten thousand dollar bunko game squared In the office or of the chief of police under the eye of the chief of or police b by men whom the chief of or police knows bogus hogus policemen policemen policemen police police- men assisting In the job anti and all arc are allowed to go For more than a week robbers are arc about town The They change hange thousand dollar ollar bills The They pin 4 thou thousand n dollar bills on their bosoms bosoms' In restaurants In lieu of napkins They rhey revel In drink drink k shops They have a good time lime with the easy mone money Then the come back to tor toy y r town and the robbers run All AJ are I known to the police Two have ha been heen run out of or town before for fOl getting too strong One Is a vagrant a n. short- short card man nominated by a strong faction faction fac fac- tion of or the elt city council for tor chief of or detectives The police pollee catch none of them The police do not aid the county county authorities to catch any of oC them The county authorities get no assistance from the police The police pollee will not take a n step In tho the matter malter and the count county officials havo have to take It up UI for tho the good name of or the city city city- for tho the protection of or strangers for the enforcement of law i AH AU the essentials of or this condition I appear appear In the tho published statements of I the chief himself on a witness s stand of r his own choosing he before fore a tribunal trIbunal tribunal tri trI- bunal that was organized organised to acquit him him him-a a voluntary statement by hy which he ho must be bound No man can accuse Ezra Thompson of being dull No Xo man cnn can accumulate accumulate accumulate late such a fortune as his his antI and keep keepIt It without it-without without t being possessed of good I sense No man man manof of good g sense can cm read Chief Sheets Sheets' statement and declare him innocent Unless the person so declaring lacks himself The Tho Tribune has hag been fool Cool enough to o make politics of or this Sheets case has has been as muc much fool tool as scoundrel scoundrel- and that Is stating the case strongly It defends all the robbers abuses the victims who havo have been stripped of ot ten tent t thousand dollars vilifies the count county y attorney and the sheriff and antl applauds applaud s 9 I the chief and his men for their handling handling hand han ling of or the case casc That will not do Salt Lake ca canot can cannot cannot n not stand for that sort of or thing You Yo u I cant can't make politics or of f that for dem de cJe I I I m I cent people will not swallow Chief Sheets after l' l reading din his voluntary i statement And Antl without decent people people people peo peo- I no party part can ca'n can win an an election inthis in inthis I this count county Whatever hope there was that tint the chief could Gear coal up UI the ver very compromising compromising compromising com com- promising c c e against him has gone glimmering with frith his own declaration of what happened But gentle reader please observe this Is the sort ort of government you OU will have If iC lI the e Tribune and Its Us friends win control of count county and antI of state tate Since reading Sheets you O dont don't want it do o you |