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Show "ilS" POLICE j F0RCEQU1TS JOB Salt Lake, Aug. 10. A feature that has a peculiar twlsl In the warfare jlelwecn the ofTlces 0r the chief of police nnd Ihe chief of detective", Is that Chief t,f police Rarlow haa no Jurisdiction In Ihe matter of the res-kiiatlon res-kiiatlon of Mr. Sheets On July It. I!'"8, tin- mayor approved an ordi-nr.t-ce cieating the office of chief of detectives -and Geo. A. Sheots was appointed by the mayor to Ihe office, Under Uw created office Sheets and Parlow stand on the same footing both appointees of the mayor, and it 1. to the mayor that Mr. Shceis sioiild present his resignation from the olllce which he hs held. In one or two quarters of Ihe police ib parlinent It was whispered today I hat It would be no surprise to see George Sheets soon back In the har-i har-i ess aa chief of police Instead of cimply chief detective Chief of Detectives Gryuge A. f-hcets, the accredited "brains" of the police department, resigned from his office yesterday afternoon. Chief of Police Harlow promptly present It to the council at Its meeting meet-ing tonight, "l have ahnolutely nothing to say. Mr. Sheets handed me his resignation and I took it. Thnt's all there is to It." Chief of Police S. M. Harlow. "I resigned." Former Chief of Detectives De-tectives George A Sheets. With the tilartllng surprise of the urn xpected bnrsllng of a bomb shell I h rupture within the ranks of the "American" party, as confined within the police end of the city administration, administra-tion, came to the open climax yesterday yester-day afternoon, when In the passion of a heated Interview Chief of Detectives Detect-ives George A Sheets threw his rcs-Irnatlon rcs-Irnatlon at Chief of Police S. M. Rarlow, Rar-low, Tho resignation read; Salt Lake Cltv, Utah. S. M. Rarlow. Chief of Police; "I hereby respectfully band you my resignation to take effect Immediately. Immediate-ly. Aug. 14. 1fin. "GEORGE A SHEETS. "Chief of Detectives." Aside from th cl lodgement of the resignation anl is acceptance, the affair Is shroudeii In the air of reticence. Former Chief sheeK admits ad-mits only that he resigned; Chief of Police Harlow In candid manner admits to the extent of receiving the resignation and of hi. purpose of presenting It to the city council to-right, to-right, 'but Is unceiinln lo future a.-tlon. saying that th'-re Is no hurry about considering a successor to tho trice of the chief of detectives. Detectives, De-tectives, officer and patrolmen ar? loath to talk, an I prefer to be slnip-l slnip-l spectators In the "showdown" hat-lie hat-lie hetween the two chiefs. Sheets i'nd Rarlow. The fpv who venture to express their opinion, however, say that Ihe rupture was Inevitable, and the culmination cul-mination of an internielne fight thai began with the appointment of Chief Rarlow to his position. The culmina-ilrn, culmina-ilrn, it Is said, came through the al-lempt al-lempt of the city administration an ivpropented hy Chlpf of Police Rarlow Rar-low to drive the scarlel women Into the walled city controlled by Relle London, and to close the up-town houses. In this endeavor. Chief of Detective Sheets balked, and when bis plain clothes men wer ordered to watch and patrol the uptown houses, hous-es, It Is said, he countermanded the orders of the chief of police. Warm Debate. The situation reached Its climax -terday afternoon, when. In the private office of the chief of police, Sheets and Harlow threw down their can's. Sheets was called Into the private room of Chief Harlow shortly there is not divulged, except that after af-ter an hour's argument in which the vices were raised to a pitch. Sheets went Into his own oiTice and a few r-Mnutes afterwards handed the chief of police his resignation. When interviewed this morning Chief of Police Harlow was non-com-luunicative. In answer to a question as to what statement ho wished to make, he said: "There a nothing lo say whatever. Mr. Sheets gave me his resignation, end I will present it to the council tonight. 1 don't care to discuss the matter, and have nothing to say about it" When asked if he would appoint a successor to fill Mr Sheet's position, Chief Harlow replied: "I haven't, given that part of it any thought, and, anyway, there'R no hurry. hur-ry. Mr. Sheets was equally non-com-le'.ttal, answering only, and with hi sn.lle, "I resigned. That's all there i:; to It." The Career of Sheets. George Sheets, known after the Me-Whirter Me-Whirter scandal as "Honest George" Sheets, has been Identllb-d with the police department for 20 years with but slight Interruption. During the time he was not engaged in this department de-partment he has been connected with mercantile, establishments as houFo cVtocUve. . He does not deny that ho has received many Haltering offers to Join the forces of Urge detective, con-terns con-terns in the east and with the railroad rail-road detective force in the west. The name of Sheets has beeu coupled cou-pled with the arrest of some of the worst crlmluala the west has kuown in the last 20 years. To the criminal fraternity he has been known as "Ixmg George " Ry his enemies It is admitted . that if he wants to get a criminal, he can get him, but his enemies and many others flay that it la not always the case that he wants lo get all of tho criminals, and when nany deal.? have been made between tbe detective, snd the criminal. Answering Ans-wering this his friends will point cut that he has never been convicted of any unlawful deals with the unjer-w.Trld. unjer-w.Trld. Even at that, however, the evidence In the infamous McWhlrter poker robbery Is still fresh iu the memory of many. |