Show t END OF THE SHEETS TRIAL The jury has failed to o convict George Sheets of ot having received a aI I bribe in the case and he heIs heIs heis Is again a free tree man t I r i. i It was Impossible apparently to tor if r f establish the charge when the absolute lute Jute proof of the act depended o on the testimony of a man confessedly as j j I guilty as the prisoner was as alleged to tol F b be b. Every step in the case up to toL l L the actual receipt of the bribe bribo was wasT r y T J. proven and there can be no logical v conclusion other than that expressed in the indictment But the receiving of the money by Sheets was not pr proved ved by Y credible witnesses such as 4 4 established the who l who every other necessary link in the chain Mr Loofbourow and Mr Ir Hanson are areto areto to be congratulated for having made madea maden a n good gd fight They were confronted with peculiar difficulties from the beginning beginning beginning be- be be be- ginning and they discharged their duties ies most cre creditably i blY The failure was not theirs It was simply an inability ina ma- f J to support the main point in inthe the proof with acceptably corroborative 1 J tive evidence And d where does it leave the former I t. t chief chie Why just here He knew two thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars donars had been taken r from om two 9 strangers in the city and be he did not arrest or try to arrest the thieves who took it from them He knew eight i thousand dollars donars had been taken from them theta without even een the poor excuse of oE a gambling device and had In his office of of- t fice flee one of the culprits and made no ljJ ef effort ort to detain him nor to catch the rt rest of the robbers who were then lo certainly certain within reach of or the police police- if It f the police poUce had bad wanted to catch them S He knew of the game knew of the manner manner ot of the theft helped make settlement settlement set set- between thieves and victim and azid let the matter drop N Now w of or these points there is not the the sl slightest question They are established es es- es- es on the evidence of ot many witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses and in the main by George GeorgeI In Inc Sheets's own sworn testimony I c view of these facts there was only one thing for the state to do Either ask for a commission in lunacy or file filea 1 a criminal charge against him By pleading not guilty Sheets has indicated indi that the former action should I have bave been taken This has also been established There was NO conspiracy There was wasa r a robbery robbery and and even that was denied for a year after the fact The Tho state and county took up the case only after the police had scandalously refused to move in it il And tho the community b believes leves Just as it did from the begin begin- ning However out of it all comes a better bet ter safety for visitors and for citizens as well protected Police bunco games even with the help of the Tribune I are not so safe as they were The Tho good name of the city is In less peril because of the revelations In this case Crooks in and and out of office understand un un- better better- than they did before that they cannot make pilferers pilferers' paradise paradise para para- dise disc of Salt Lake City I And so the formal part of tho the case is is' ended |