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Show ' busy and retrace his steps to tell' tho9e ho misinformed that he had labored under, an hallucination. REFLECTION ON POLICE DENIED Cbas Smurlhwaile. Dave Mattson and the Reverend Neble Strong Eld-erkin Eld-erkin were making Ihe rounds of lower low-er Twenty-fifth street la&t evening, Mr. Eldcrkin said It looked to him as though gambling was coing on behind dosed doors aud Is being protected by ihe police. The Chief was seen thla mornlug and said that the last of Mr. Elderkin's statement Is not true; that neither he nor any of his men are protecting or giving any encouragement en-couragement to any gambling and If the reverend gentleman will produce pro-duce any witness who will make a complaint that there Is gambling auy-where auy-where In the cliy that the Chief will promptly secure, w arrants for arrest A Salt Lake paper has stated that the gambling paraphernalia, taken from th Elephant house In the raid of last week, and left In the care of the police had been given back. When the report was trace-d down it wai found that Rev. Elderkln was Its author au-thor Why the minister made the statement without direct proof Is difficult dif-ficult to fathom. Chief of Police Browning saya all the gambllug outfit out-fit captured In the raid Is where tho police placed it. namely In two lockers lock-ers at the police Btation, and Rev. Elderkln himself in Invited to see it la the Uonc that hereafter he will gel |