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Show Salt Lake City Council Will Probe $4,000 Robbery Salt Lake, July 2. It Is probable that a lesotutlon will be I nt -oil need in the city council tonight demanding a thoiough official Investigation of the police department In connection with the charges made by J. J, Mor-lis, Mor-lis, convicted slave of J. W. Axtell, in his affidavit swearing that mote than $1,000 worth of diamonds and Jewelry, not stolen In tho robbery of the Uncle Sam Loan office on the evening ev-ening of May 9, mysteriously iliuip-pcared iliuip-pcared fiom his clothing after he hud been stripped of his clothes nt the city Jail. In view of the sweeping charge niiido by Morris, which tlurows the en-tlio en-tlio police department and ovuij mtin ber of It under a cloud because of i Ihe fact that no specific person or i Miersons nre -charged wltn-gettlng tne Myel, thj necessity for- mrelnvcstlsn-j.lonyo mrelnvcstlsn-j.lonyo determine tho truth .of-Morris' X'hargei'iind emova suspicion 'from thdse whose kkVfts are clear,.has been discussed by meirfbdrs of th'o council, to clear the Innocent and fasten the ''tyame on the 'culpable, V One councilman haB announced , his' "lnte"htlon'of reading'; the affidavit which Morris made, and the evidence which has later developed, In open session tonight, and demanding that the council take Immedlato steps to have the charges .Investigated: Last night Mayoa' John S. Jjrnns-ford Jjrnns-ford and Chief Barlow .held ' brief 'conference at the police station, but as to what the nature of the conference' confer-ence' was, neither the mayor nor the chief would say. Mayor Ilransford declared de-clared he had no statement to make In the matter at all. |