Show SHEETS ACQUITTED ON THIRD BALLOT Jury Finds Former Chief of Police Po Police Police Po Po- lice Not Guilty of oF Taking Bribe OUT ONLY A SHORT TIME TIM Accused Official Shakes Hands of Jurymen f-Jurymen When Ver- Ver er diet dict Was Reads Read I f J O O-M O H M t k t M t H ft l-k l U t. t t I t t t O 4 t SHEETS VERDICT 44 4 4 44 4 Wo co tho time jury in 4 tho time above o CH case CH-C find finel the de de- de 4 t fondant not guilty 44 4 4 buN JAMES IES Foreman 4 06 OMM 0 4 6 4 i t. t George A. A Sheets former chic chief of f police was found not guilty of or briber bribery er cry ery b by y a jury jur of or eight citizens of oC Salt Lake Lako count county In the criminal criminal division of or the Third District court yesterday esterday afternoon On the lie third ballot the Jury voted unanimously 1 for acquittal and returned return return- ed ell to the tho court room before Judge Charles W V Morse lorse an hour and fifty minutes after the tho fate Cato of the former police pollee chief had been given into their hands hand The Jury jur on first ballot stood four tour for acquittal and four Cour for conviction antI and the third ballot showed showell eight hl for acquittal When the jury returned at just 4 55 4 55 o'clock less than two hours after aCter It had left the court room It was wa's was known almost to a a. certainty that a D. D verdict of acquittal had been reached Conviction was not expected after aftel so short a a. deliberation of or the evidence in the tho case Sheets Heaves cs a Sigh Sheets and n a number ot of friends In the court room when the verdict verdict ver ver- dict diet was brought in Foreman James handed the to tho the bailiff y ho who in turn handed a it J to Ga 1 rs Deputy Howard A A. King Xing read the tho verdict verdict ver ver- dict and tho the troubled expression that h has hovered l over the face o ot i 1 j jS t S tor iv n m months iiii t V- V j alook lu q 1 x an U l lA A fe ra 3 R ReUler 4 i. i t j Q eUler i lt 0 toe the Jury w tr after the tn Juf rS i r b jeh ked r. and ed i d by Judge Mors and anI and ho hI wrung the hand of oC each ahon one Tt ro ra was a scene e ne of ot s-ene s general al Jollification a after er court had adjourned and Sh Sheets and his lila attorney 9 and friends had reached rached tha the bu business district the thenon's news non's of the had bo been n spread over 01 0 town Sheets was congratulated side on ever every Tho The verdict ends cpUs one of ot tho the most sens sensational cases cares a er e ever tried in Salt Lake e. e Sheets was was' chief of ot police when hen Alexander and William McWhirter two on the tho Va way from Scot Scotland Scotland land and to San Sami Francisco were wera lured into the Antler Antler- rooming house and Inveigled Into a a. card curll game Alexander Alexan Alexan- le der lost 2000 and then W. W Yo H H. Par- Par rent a a. bogus policeman took the tho re remainder re re- of or his mone money away Continued on fl Two SHEETS ACQUITTED ON THIRD BALLOT Continued from froni Ince One from him That was September 19 1906 1006 I A deal was consummated in Chief j Sheets's private office between McWhirter Mc- Mc Sheets and ono one of ot the bogus I policemen named W. W W. W Bell Dell whereby where where- b by tho the got 1000 bad back and antI left town The Tha robbery was hushed hushed hush hush- ed up until the Mc returned I to Salt Lake several se days later From that day until yesterday the thc Sheets case case- vexed the minds of or tho the populace the bogus police pollee r f G Olgo A. A Sheets m man man n testified in a 3 preliminary h hearing hearing hear hr r ing that Sheets was WWi In oi on 01 a conspiracy He Implicated the whole gang g-ang- Jim Donaldson who participated in the card card game next confessed He also Implicated Sheets Jim was convicted of grand larceny an and Is now under a year ten-year sentence to tho the penitentiary ry awaiting awaitIng- a n ruling by tho the Supreme courton court courton on his motion for tor a new trial Bell Dell was next arrested and ho he also confessed during the Sheets trial He Ho was as the third member of f the gang to implicate Sheets Tho The other two members the OBrien O'Brien brothers have havo not been heard from since the robber robbery rob rob- ber bery Clo 6 With Ar Arguments Soren X Christenson and E. E A A. Wedgwood for the defense and Fred C. C Loofbourow for the state argued from tho the two points of view low yesterday yester ester da day taking up practically all nil of or tho the time Attorney Christenson had been interrupted In his argument on the adjournment of ot court the night before and continued for Cor nearly an hour and anda a halt half yesterday He went Into th the case deeper than either cither Mr Thurman the day before or Mr Wedgwood pointing out every step stel- and aDd giving Its IL meaning as It occurred to him Mr 11 Wedgwood take talked takei for only about ton ten minutes but it Jt was a a. concise urgent appeal for tor justice and for tho the discharge discharge dis charge o of the defendant Attorney Christenson devoted par par- attention to the testimony of Bell DeH as compared to that of Bell Boll had ha-d testified that a transcript of or 1 testimony had been left loft In the jail so that he could get hold of or It if he had so desired But Bell declared declared de de- de- de dared that he had never nover once looked at it it Attorney ChrIstenson contended that Bell had read rad that thaL testimony and antI that he lo le had profited b by It In that he ho did not fall Into the same pitfalls that had at tho the first hearing 1 In Testimony District Attorn Attorney y Loofbourow v devoted do- do voted no little attention to a comparison compari compari- son of the testimony given by Chief Sheets at the investigation of ot the council and that given hen on the stand during duPing the present hearIn hearing At the tho cout hearing the tho chief had testified that Bell Dell appeared to be bo a Scotchman the tho same sarno as the Mc Mc- c- c but In his own behalf he said he ho never mado that statement and that he he- knew all the tho ti o that Bell was not of or the same nationality He could well afford to sa say that Bell Ben was a n. aScot Scot when Belt Bell was not riot In tho the city but now that we v havo nell Bell here the chief remembers that he ho never said anything about It at all nil He Hen n never ver said Doll Boll was a n. Scot he ho tol told you All vere were agreed on on- onte the te fact tact that the asked the railroad faro fare to California If Ir the chief chief- promised them that h he could have their thel tickets extended wh why vy was I it that such such- sucha a was as ask asked d b by theMe the rs If IC the they had hall been assured that their tickets could be extended would they have as asked ked that Or Isn't It cx exactly what they ey would have 3 a asked If th tho chief had told toM them that he could not get their tickets ex et tenc tended ed as athy they y have havo t d Hunt Hum for Briber Tho attorneys to forthe fox for the the- defendant defendant- have been very severe In attacks upon the state for tor using tho the mony of or Bell and Donaldson in this case They are unduly severe in tellIng telling tell tell- ing log about us using crooks Ill I'll ask you OU from whom we would get such evidence e It if not tot from crooks Tho The chief did not go to honest men on su suh suha h ha a proposition An honest man has hIlS no reason to offer a a. bribe And a thief has no t reason ason to give a bribe without he ho expects expect immunity for tor his mone money And that's exactly what happened happened hap hap- In this case ease Mr Loofbourow finished his argument argument ment meat at nt 55 2 o'clock and Judge c Morse Immediately started reading hl his instructions in I to the jury jun They took him Ju Just t 16 15 minutes and at the tho jurors filed tiled out of the tile room 1 Judge Judge- o Mor JOn oR o's os In Instructions The reading of or the tho Instructions occupied occupied occupied oc oc- oc- oc only a a. few minutes Tho The mo most t points are The first contained the charge against Sheets You Second Second You are aro Instructed that under the laws of this state ev ey every rv ry executive officer who receives any bribe upon an any agreement or understanding understanding under under- understanding standing that his action upon any an matter then pending or which may maybe maybe be brought before him in his officIal capacity shall be Influenced thereby Is Js guilty of receiving ln a bribe Third You Third You are further Instructed that the chief of or police pollee of or Salt alt Lake Like City Is an nn executive officer within the meaning of ot tho the law and that the law la makes it the duty of the chief of or police policeto to apprehend all persons committing any offense against tho the laws law of the state Fourth The Fourth The burden of or proof rests upon the state to prove provo all the es essential es- es facts constituting the crime charged to your our satisfaction beyond beonda a reasonable doubt It Isn is n not nt t sufficient that one or any part of or these fets be he proven beyond a 3 reasonable reasonable rea rca doubt but It Is necessary In order to Justify a verdict of guilty that each and all of such facts be proven pro to the satisfaction of the entire en n tire jury and bo beyond ond a reasonable e doubt Testimony of or Accomplices ices Sixth Under Sixth Under the laws o of this thi s state a n. person cannot be convicted o oa of ot ofa f a n. crime upon the testimony of an accomplice unless such testimony i is s corroborated by other evidence e which In itself and without the aid of or th the e testimony of an accomplice tends t to o connect the defendant wIth the commission com com- ml mission sion of the offense and the corroboration corroboration cor cor- is not sufficient Jt if It merely merel y shows the tho commission of the oCren offense e c cor or the circumstances thereof Th The rhe e ee corroborative evidence need not be he sufficient of Itself to establish the guilt of the defendant but It must tend In some degree to implicate and connect the defendant with the tho co commission of or the tho crime charged and It i Is not necessary n that the testimony of an nn accomplice should be corroborated in every ery circumstance which he ho details In evidence hat Not to Relieve Believe Seventh Seventh If If you find from the evl evidence ence that William St. St Clair Glair William Bell Ben or James Donaldson were vere either or both accomplices Inthe Inthe in inthe the commission of or of the crime with which the defendant defendant- is charged then you sou should eliminate from your you I con- con the evidence of ot the accomplice accomplice accomplice ac ac- ac- ac or ac accomplices and anti examine all the other evidence in li-i the case with a 1 view to ascertain if there be evidence tending to connect the defendant defendant de de- de- de with the offense charged and If It after atter such consideration and examination examination ex ex- you should nna anc no such evidence you return a a. verdict of or not guilty but if It after such examination examination ex ex- and consideration you OU should find that there thero is such evidence then you ou should consider all the evidence evi l dence In the case including tho the evidence evi dence of ot such accomplice or accomplices accomplices and determine under the rules given you ou in these in In- In the question lon of the guilt of the tho defendant Tenth You Tenth You arc instructed that amere a 0 amere mere mero preponderance of the evidence in favor of ot tho the prosecution Is not sufficIent sufficient suf suf- to convict the tho Before Be lIe- fore toro he ho can be convicted con each juror must be convinced of his guilt beyond beyond be be- yond a n reasonable doubt Sixteenth If If you ou believe belle any witness has wilfully testified ed falsely as asto asto asto to any material fact in this case you OU aro are at liberty to disregard the whole or any apy par part 0 of the testimony of ot such witness except as he may have been corroborated b by a n credible witness or credible evidence in itt the case ease Credibility of or Accomplice Seventeenth An An accomplice cannot cannot cannot can can- not be bo compelled compell tI to testify and If Jt he lie voluntarily gives evidence then I Ii determining hl hI credibility and the weight that should be given to his testimony you OU should talco take into consideration consideration consideration con con- an any motive so far as tho the same appears appear from the evidence or or from Crom legitimate inferences to be drawn from t tho o facts proven which ho he may have for tor giving such evidence Eighteenth When Eighteenth When you OU retire to dell deliberate borate you should appoint one or of your our number foreman Your verdict must be in writing signed by your foreman and when signed it must bo be returned by you Into court It re requires requires re- re quires the unanimous concurrence of or orall all the jurors to find a verdict LOOKING Toil FOIL SHEETS BACK Officers Officers' Jollification at V Verdict Chief Pitt There were doings at nt police pollee headquarters headquarters head head- quarters last night that certainly did die not meet with the heart hearty tI al of or Chief Chic Pitt When the news headquarters that Sheets had been acquitted there was a a. general tion More 1010 than one ono man In uniform gave avo vent to a whoop that could be bo heard for a of blocks Tho climax came camo when tho the flag was run up under tho the direction of or And Andy a n lieutenant in tho the fire tire de department de- de e- e When Chief Pitt was W in informed Informed In- In informed formed that tho flag was floating and the tho rea reason On for for- forIt It he said eald that he hadnot had hadnot hadnot not authorized a a. demonstration An Any policeman on the force who will express an opinion at all frankly rankly j states that ho he exp expects to see Shee Sheets reappoInted chief of ot police pollee before before- many days doys kayo have p passed cd |