Show I CHIEF ChEF SHEETS IS V I INOW NOW NOSY OUT OF JOB Honest George Hands In His Hi Resignation Because I of Charges V I ECHO OF CROOKED DEA DEAL j Captain Burbidge to to V I Control of Department V T Temporarily j jt t f 4 4 Ht t t- t V I I To the Mayor anti and the tho lionI lion Hon V 1 I I- I K J JH City Council V VI H I- Gentlemen Gentlemen- V t. t f. f dt A AI t s sI I I- I I hereby present m my resignation V I I nation na tion as chief chIc of or police W tho nt ho V I- I City of if Salt Lalo to tal take ef eleC ele 4 I- I r feet C lt Immediately f fr V I r GEORGE A. A A SHEErS 4 I- I r Chief ChiC of or Police Pice f fAt 4 44 4 t 4 4 t 4 44 t 4 At last at the direction dirc of or the thit r nC now F z of or the earns party part V I of Police Pollee Georgo A. A A Sheets has has' h hait B I pen forced to tn ti step stel down anti and out cv i he chief chlof I is char charged ed with grand mccay mc lar- lar cay eny and with bribery A year oar 3 ago O h ie IC Invited in vindication In b by means meon of or pen open investigation InvestIgatIon-i ho got ot It It Tho The Tesi resignation of or Chief Sheets was was laced in iii the hands of or County Record Record- er Moreton r late lale last Wednesday even even- in ng Up lo to the hour of closing 5 the o'clock clock the recorders recorder's ier's DUlce prof professed 10 o 0 know Jenow nothing about Sheets Sheet or his re V Al At Friday rl ay flights flight's l ht's meeting o of ohe tIme the city Ity c council the matter mailer of or the iho lc lg- lg lation of ot Sheets SheeL will undoubtedly b bl be i There T cr will wJ be belk talk lk and antt V Valk alk talk about how this disgraced raced and amid disgraceful dis graceful official has finally found lound tho iho cmor Jiul cm of or his string t V V J Chief of or Police George Geore Sheets hns hn been I In tn i n 4 that t l 1 n r Abeen A many years yeal Jut JUKI now there are ace two charges a aKa agaInst aln t V VV V V him ilm him one of bribery and one 0 of larceny A year ago more or less V In itt itt- Sheets demanded Honest Georgo h ets Thompson On like ilke likewise etI Mayor wise demanded that ho he he be Investigated late l at e ed at fit the same time Hmo exonerating him V t Are Arc l 1 t n nt t t V When hen Donaldson Don d on and Bell carm V confessions cons confes through recently with their tho the newspaper that had Imad ha upheld the tho chief and had ha libeled l ov every 9 one l who vilo had hati f Intimated l t that tl ho he ha had d In i n th U t t e slightest SU degree been connected con e v t the g gl l tIb tIba a 4 41 1 V tu cease caRe its support rAt rV r r. At 3 30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon afternoon after ater- V noon V Soren X Christensen n left heft lh Ow I office ot or Mayor Ezra Thompson on tOr S. S en n X i is one o ot tf 7 J 3 l it n V p reporter r u n I t l i C- C t L. L J nm te II Shu rC J eu ln r i fJ nothing e i rit tIt J J i anything were Avero doing It be In rn Inthe zi V the time otTIc o of or thc the city ct recorder At 4 l o'clock S. S II R. Thurman A. A Jc J Wedgwood c anti and Mr 11 Christensen hud had hudi hadi lL i i at 01 the corner cam of or Second South and Main streets All Alt of thorn ct none non o of them thorn ire oro Sh Sheets Sheets' ts lawyers yet Ime new anything about Sheets Sheets' mi r V t loii e it lit the I Ime V ThIC is current talk that a u new ni will VIii not slot be appointed 1 nt ot on once c. c but that the ranking police poUce department department depart depart- ment captain John Juhn U. U Burbidge HIe will HI willbe be e C permitted to perform the duties i of the chief If It the time chief should happen to be acquitted o of tiC which there here does doos remotest possibility not seem eem to be tho the wise vIse wl V he lie will w be b say the ones onea The chief still has lies some staunch friends In his called so-called 1 political party that he should fuco faco and they Insist Ins the music In his oH official capacity They Th realize that lint It would be fi a much moro George to convict difficult cutt matter the time police pollee chief than n to convict convict con eon Sheets Sheet the individual Indi vict George e Sheets V There has been some Ime talk tan about to Sheets Torn Tom Pitt as ns the successor tu w seems the tile general impression but department will be prevail pre that the ti-ic along without a a. areal areal 1 permitted cl to drift until after Sheets has ha been chief real 1 Ca 1 in tm fear convicted con There Thre is great groat ent that I headquarters l. however cr 1 police nt flU may bo 10 made acting act ll Sergeant SerSe bo bono there then would l' l chief C. C in which event ent no lii more nt entente nl than there thery I Is I I between Cn a lamb iamb and a wolf |