Show POLICE CE CHIEF CU F FON ON SKEEN SHEER LIST Attorney Files s Charges Asking Court to Remove Brown Browning Browning Browning ing From Office J D Skeen through his attorney J 3 J N Kimball yesterday filed an accusation against ag Chief of Police Folice Thomas E Brown Browning BrownIng ing asking tha he be deprived of his of ot office ice flee for alleged neglecting and refusing to perform the duties of oi his office There Thel lire are two causes of action in the complaint The rhe first sets seta forth that he permitted certain persons to engage in the business of If maintaining ing and ng gambling he uses The second Is neglect of ot duty In tailing fulling to take persons arrested arrest cd for gamb gambling gambling ling hug and running slot machines before a magistrate the tho bail and fines so o fixed fired by him being forfeited and notwithstanding such uch procedure he knowingly permitted to continue to keep koep and operate the machines Failure to take persons charged with vagrancy and prostitution before a magistrate is also charged Attorney Skeen who Is the accuser of or orthe the chief of police has beEn ben rather suc sue successful In removing officials from office since he took up the fight about a year Jear ago His first efforts were directed against certain members of the city coun council cil In this he succeeded in each case pressed to a final issue He then went after several of ot the county ounh officers In Inline one line of ot these the defendant was as acquitted and und In another the accused tendered his resignation rather than stand trial Mr Skeen now has an organization or known as a the till Law and Order League behind him which places him In a better position to prosecute the work he has undertaken The complaint filed In open court yes Jes yesterday yesterday against chief of police did not come wholly as a surprise as Mr Skeen Sheen Intimated some time ago ao a O that he intended going after the police depart department department ment At the time Chief Browning stated he would not be bluffed All AU of at the accusations contained in the paper Japer filed yesterday are alleged to have been committed during the present pre ent year ear The accuser takes tale exception e to three things supposed to have been in operation in Jr Ogden for years They are Gambling slot lot machines and maintaining houses of or II ip repute The fact that prisoners are arp released after their arrest by b posting bail bailand bailand and amI without going before a magistrate i h also alleged to be In direct violation of the th duties of or the office of lice |