Show SALT S. I J TAKES TAKE'S SHAME I Boise Dolc CI City News e 1 Salt SaIL Lake Lako has had many months of or unsavory notoriety in connection with wih grave gra ra e charges of misconduct on the part of or its Is police pollee force torce especially In connection with Its Is chief of or police Several months ago two charged that thal they were relieved of or several thousand dollars by hy a bunco game In that city and ch charges were made against the chief of ot police who figured in handling some of af the money In 0 tu way that looked very vir queer hut but th the case against him was dismissed t and tho the matter wa was thought to have been heen dropped But nut lately a a man roan acknowledging himself a 3 part of the gang hn has confessed to tho the existence exist exist- once ence of a n.- conspiracy In which a a. certain attorney of or the city who has a reputation and tho the chief of or J police were ere Involved for far the Ule purio purpose e of or robbing tourists of or whatever money could coul be obtained from them each ench of or tho the conspirators con con- tho the chief of or police included receiving n a part of oC the money thus thua obtained Upon this confession the chief chief of police was a again gain arrested ar fly- rested the ca case t of the tho two men again figuring Inthe in tho the st. arii-st. and a after a n pr preliminary examination Ita haS Jias been hen bound hound over r to the district court An unu unusual feature of the case sc Is If the fact fae that part of th the tho papers of ot tho the city assume positively that thal the chief Is Innocent and I Is being made the subject of a n political politic l persecution antI and they ate are arE exerting pv every r energy in creating creat creat- ing log a sentiment that will wi result resul In a mistrial of or his Ills case ce when It comes up In tho the district court Tho Capital News of course has no means of ot knowIng knowing know know- Ing the tho merits of or th the tho case but things thIng have come ome to a pretty pass pas when great papers of a great city of this feel called caled upon to question queston tho the justice of or their own o courts courtR and the motives and acts of their own officials of of- in a matter of or such importance as this One of the things noted in some of the papers paper Is the wall vaiL that the chief of ar police should not be held to to trial upon the confession Ion of a confessed criminal criminal Who Vho but buta a criminal would have haye a C confession to make and If Ir a contes confession lon such a as this Is to be disregarded why should confessions ever be bc regarded When people and anti papers use such arguments in defense of or pelson persons accused of ot it In invariably leads to the conclusion that the they realize o that they have a n. poor case caRe but hut want to make a defense of some kind lend any anyway wa way whether the charged pat party he be Innocent or guilty The chief of police of ot Salt Lake may he be perfectly Innocent of ot the charge that has been brought against a him but hut the defense being made by some ome of or the papers of ot taht city leads to the conclusion that they the thet at tt t least fear that hl his defense will wl not b bo as good as they he d dI it I might b be |