Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-16 | Page 7 | Brown Swears to a Complaint

BM SWEARS TO A COMPLAINT Salt Lake, Sept 1(1. "I am going home to prav to God that a big wind be sent to Salt Lake to blow the Socialists So-cialists and the ' police department into the auditorium, where they will be given an opportunity to light out their differences by themselves, and I will pray that the wind blow so hard that the walls fall in and forever bury all this foolishness." So spoke Assistant City Attorney W. S. Ialton upon leaving his otflce at the city court yesterday afternoon, after he had been showered with criticism for the release of, the six Socialist whom Chief of Police S. M. Harlow ordered arrested for obstructing obstruct-ing streets and sidewnll's at Second South and State st. 3 Tuesday night. Dalton. though hi present affiliated af-filiated with the American party, Is a Socialist. When the six offenders of Tue3day night were arraigned In police court before Judge J. J. Wh. taker, possibilities possibili-ties of prosecuting them were narrowed nar-rowed down to the possibility of finding find-ing the man who put the soap box on the corner on which the speakers stood. No one knew, and the cases were dismissed. After they had been arraigned In court. Rev. William Thurston Brown, who was arrested Wednesday night for speaking at Second South and State streets, went to the office of Mr. Dalion aud had a complaint issued for thi arrest of Patrolman C. W. Pitts, who. he claims, Ftruck him while bo-Ing bo-Ing toted to police headquarters. Pitts was served with the warrant last night. He will be arraigned before .fudge Whltaker today to answer to a charge of battery. Imined.atelv after the hearing today, to-day, Patrolman Pitts intends to Issue a complaint against Rev. William Thurston Drown on a charge of resisting re-sisting arrest.