Show I VII Ji I I II I i I I on HU U I I I it IU I JU U POLICE OFFICIAL DECLARES WE VE SHOULD HAVE MORE HE COPPERS It I requires s sixty four officers of or the law Jaw to preserve the tho peace and arid t dignity of the city of or Salt Sal Lal Lake e. e This number Includes the lie head of the paid force i three act active sergeants three desk sergeants sergeants ser ser- I geant four mounted men eight plain plainclothes plainclothes clothes men two jailers and three patrol patrol patrol pa pa- wagon drivers The rhe police pollee work Is divided Into three shifts The morning shift shir works 2 22 men and begins at nt 7 j o'clock the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon shift works 2 22 men and be begins at 3 o'clock and the night shift works 20 men beginning wor work at 11 o'clock That tho the police polee force torce of or Salt Lake Cl City Is inadequate for a cl city of or Jako this thissie sl sie l e Is beyond dispute It I Is la safe sate to toisa tos isa s say that no 10 et city In the United States with wih approximately the same ame population population tion has hus as aj few pol policemen emen A well well- known police officer speaking of this city's police system says Th TIme size of o the J police force of oC the cities cites of the East Is regulated b by the ratio of one policeman to each 1 population Kansas City llo Mo nati nat 0 O- and other cities cites have preserved ed this ratio rato for Cor some time If It I Salt Lake Lako would follow this method It Is readily S seen cn that It would be necessary necessary sary to about double the tho present number num nurn- ber of or the force torce There is some queston ques ques- tion ton however if it in this community that so man many mam officers would be sary nr There her Is however one thing thing- that should be bt done and that Is to give the residential residental portion porton of oC the lime city police protection by ly having these streets patrolled especially at nt night The police force Corce Is concentrated en en- en within the bu business district of oC the tho cl city awl and the residential portion residental of the city Is left entirely without porton lef police po po- po- po lice Bee protection If I policemen were ash assigned assigned as as- h signed ned beats In the residential portions of the city the constant residental and porton almost nightly ups' ups and burglaries would b bo be materially lessened Crooks kno know what that parts of oC the city are aro patrolled and In lay their plans accordingly Two policemen are detailed for or duty at the railroad depots one at the Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon Short Line and ono one at the Dener Denver Denver Den Den- ver er Rio Hlo Gran Grande e their hours being night from 3 in the afternoon until 11 ii 1 at nt It I Is a matter mater of or common knowledge knowl edge that all classes of criminals frequent frequent frequent fre fre- freI I quent railroad stations more morE than at i an any other place as a railway depot Is Isone isone I Ione one of the main surce sources 1 by which th tH they y gain Information concerning strangers coming to the city and at these places they keep themselves Informed when residents of o the cl city are leaving heaving which gives them the opportunity of at bur burglar burglar- lar- lar izing residences without fear ICar of bein being molested For th these o reao reasons s a a. a police officer I Is required to 1 visit 1 railroad sta sta- Ions tons at frequent Intervals during the night as well wel as the daytime A number o oj clever arrests have ha e been made b by the members of oC the force In past years year amon among which might be mentioned tho the capture of John Gray Cray Gry the famous safe cracker er In 1 1896 the arrest arret of Geor George e Shell Shel for burglary In 1897 and the daring capture capture cap cap- ture of oC A. A r T. Day a desperate negro who murdered H. H II I. I o Voss s in Frankln Frank Frank- lin un ln avenue October 23 of last year One of the biggest hauls ever over made by the police dragnet was wa pulled off oft In January y 1906 when William Pals- Pals Ie Ic ley was wac captured in this cly city after get get- ting lag away with wih about belonging belong belong- In ing to a n mercantile firm of Butte Bute Mont Detectives Cha Chase Chac e and Burt Burl turned tho the trick Paisley was spotted at the railroad station staton from Crom a description tion ton furnished th them m and followed to his room where the arrest was made Ho lie Is fg now serving a n sentence of or forty years in tho the state prison of or Montana Another skillful arrest was tas made b by this pair pah of or sleuths when Ed and andal Walter Walter Wal Wal- alter ter Burrell Burrel two brothers held up and robbed a merchant In this n cl city about a year ear eur ago These men were known to he be desperate characters but hut the lie ot officers er landed handed them In the Council Counci sa Sn- Sn s- s loon The They are now serving 18 years years' year each in In II the tue state prison pilson on |