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Show ALL NIGHT BARS li SALT LAKE SALT IjAKE. Aug. C Why are the saloons of Salt lake City permitted to remain open until the wee. small hours of the morning, when the city ordinance provides that all saloon doors shall close promptly at midnight, mid-night, and there Is no provision made for two or threo hours' grace in which to clean and sweep' ready for the next dav's business? , . No one, not even the mayor, seems to know. , That the saloons are remaining open and doing business aftr 12 midnight mid-night Is absolutely certain v'rom tho following facts: On tho morning or July 29, Leonard Piro, an Italian bartender, bar-tender, was shot and Instantly killed at 1:30 a. m.. while . tending the bar of James Tedesco's saloon at Fourth West and First South streets; Friday morning of this week Tom Churchill, at 1:43 o'clock, was shot, and killed at the Heidelberg saloon on Third South street, ju8t(icast of Main street, after a row with, gamblers and other disreputable characters who had been drinking with him until the shooting occurred. Patrolman Patterson rushed to the scene of the shooting to capture the murderers, but nothing was said about the ract that the saloon sa-loon was running w Lie open at 1 ' 43 in tho morning. The murderer went to the Bank, saloon, where he purchased pur-chased a bottle or whisky after 2 a. 111. li is rather serlour evidence to require re-quire a murder to prove that a siloon was open, but . jhese cases merely show how general is the wide open policy of the police. News for. the Mayor. When approached upon the subject this morning, Mayor Brans'ord said: "1 cannot say why the saloons are permitted to be open after 12. The matter has not been brought to my attention since more than six months past. I do not know If the police have certain rules regarding the cleaning up of the places or not. I certainly haven't boon In one myself after midnight." |