Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-07-03 | Page 3 | Sheriff's Force in Salt Lake after Guns of Aliens

"SHERIFF'S FORCE I SSLT LIE AFTER MS OF IK SALT LAKE, July 3. Approximately Approximate-ly 500 guns were confiscated from tjie homes and abiding places of foreigners foreign-ers living in the county outside the city by a force of 135 deputy sheriffs, regular and special, under the direction direc-tion of Sheriff John S. Corless. Possession of tho guns a weird assortment as-sortment of pistols, rifles, shotguns and firearms of every sort was taken by tho officers under tho now state law forbidding that an foreigner should have any sort of firearm in his keeping. Miscellaneous Collection. After the posses had returned last night the sheriff's office had tho appearance ap-pearance of an armory, tho acquisitions acquisi-tions of which had continued through ancient, medieval and modern times. I Every sort of weapon, firearm and kiiife, was to be found in the collection. collec-tion. There are shotguns, r,ifles, pistols pis-tols and just plain "shooting irons" that defy classification. Tho start from the sheriff's office was made shortly after 9 o'clock. Automobiles Au-tomobiles carried the various posses to all communities having any foreign population. Where tho weapons were not given up willingly, thorough search of every houi?e was made, resulting re-sulting in many Instances in the discovery dis-covery of one or more firearms, carefully care-fully concealed, after all possession of anything of th.e sort had been denied. No instances of viorence Interfered with the progress of the work. The raid was apparently a complete surprise sur-prise to everyone in the towns where posses were sent Bingham, Lark, Coppertown, Garfield, Magna, Arthur, Midvale and Murray. Care was taken that no offense should begiven to citizens. cit-izens. A good American name from a neat housewife, who looked the inquiring in-quiring deputy straight in the eyes and told where her husband was born, was a sufficient guarantee for any household.