Show 11 1080 prosecution lose I 1 I 1 cution threw up U p the th sponge TESTIMONY WAS TOO WEAK accused of buying ecer for a aro woman and trying to mako 1 n I date walli VT lill her defense produced evl evi dance to show conspiracy think the pelican point team Is round this board finds that the charben preferred against police sergeant harry ford are not lot sustained by the evidence and we therefore order ills his stat statement ment tills this in brief was tile the finding ot of the me board of fire and police COM mission ers last evening everil ng in the case 0 of sergeant ford who i wag ai recently suspended by chief pratt on en the broad charge of conduct unbecoming an officer it was shortly atter after 8 0 c lock when sergeant ford accompanied accompany e d by ills his attorney judge howat entered the boards rooms and time was called ca Is d by chairman jennings 0 of the Commission who naked mr air ford it he was ready for trial 1 I am was the reply judge ilow biow a at t appears tor for me judge hohlt then stated that he desired to have a plea 0 of not guilty entered on behalf 0 of ills his client and asked that all witnesses be elc excluded eluded from the room CHIEF PRATTS STATEMENT an order to that effect was entered and chief pratt was asked to make 9 a statement of the charges against sergeant g cant ford foid which he did personally tile the chief said in substance 1 1 I know nothing about the matter the charges were made to me and I 1 directed captain donovan and sergeant to investigate them the charges in oriel brief are tc to the effect that sergeant ford met IL a woman on the th street on oil the night of may with two men and that after driving the men away lie he walked around with the woman tried to make a a date with lier liar offered to get hor her a room and bought a bottle of beer for or her judge howit who told you all this chief pratt captain donovan told me and he be stated that sergeant ealing er told him that certain persons had made the charges I 1 then told them to lo anve al ate tile the matter which they did and all d I 1 suspended bus sergeant ford TUG WOMAN IN THE CASE these preliminaries liaina been disposed of the witnesses wre sworn and mrs polly folly bayliss the woman in tho the ca case cage ge was called to the stand she testified that she was prosecuting a search for or a wayward sister bister on the tha torl night 0 of slay may 2 when she met m t sergeant ford and another policeman in a state street saloon she left the saloon with the officers and wa walked down w to naylors taylors Nay lors place on oil tile the same street where re tile the patrolman left them sh she arid and ford then walked around to the grand opera house she told ford that she e used to be a sporting ting woman and he asked her if she ehe was still following the tha same business but she told him the that t she was avas not after reaching tho the grand opera house she told ford that one of the boys who hid had been escorting her had bad her bar umbrella arid and that she go home in th the rain and ford tug gg ested that site keta room up town tor for the ilia night she went across aaros a tho the street to the singer block and engaged a room after which she returned to the opera house and ford wanted to make a date with her for the saturday night following lie he also stated that lie he would send rend her a bottle of beer and shortly after leaving tier her olaff ono one of her earlier companions put in an appearance pe arance with the beer stating to her that ford had sent it mrs mra bayliss further testified that the proprietor of 0 the saloon was the man who had aspli spirited liar her sister away and that she made some threats against him to ford on cross examination mrs bayliss testified that ford did not make any indecent proposals to her for or that night but that she knew what she would have gotten had she met him on saturday night WANTED TO SHOW MALICE judge howat then asked her it sho she tell gerald G jackson that a policeman had offered her money to prosecute the case find and that she wanted w A anted ford I to come and square it but A she he denied ever having spoken to jackson ackson in ht her life when N hen y you 0 if tad bad engaged the room an and c came A me back and told ford A bout about it judge howat asked I 1 did he ask permission to go 0 to your you r room with you on no copl replied led the witness but ho he said lie he would mould see me in halt half an hour did you see sec him again ag 1 ill I did not judge iloe who appeared tor for tho the city then irked ankud mrs bayless a few questions and olaff Nor atrom one of her companions on the night in question was called testified that he and a young man named lalin had been w alth mr L bayless on the night in question qu es tio and when she entered the saloon they aen went t across the street when they is ie t turned orned they met r ford ord who asked them what they were doing they rel replied ill led that they were not doing anything arid and ford told them to skip or he would throw them in lall jail later the witness stated he be met ford in front of the mint baloon find and tho the officer told him that ai mra IS B bayless a aless was down at the grand opera house hong and that she wanted some beer walh he the witness bought boucht and took to her at the same time returning her umbrella ailts lilts was wag between 3 and 4 in the morning judge howat then subjected to a very searching cross elamin aaion n during which he asked him it if lie tell dr beer on oil sunday that he intended leaving town IS as soon 93 as s the hearing was waa over and that he would get even with the big duffer ford before he went Noral rom denied saying tills and at tile the same name time captain donovan interrupted th the proceedings by stating that he desired to show that dr beer was va s an intimate friend of fords and that he was v as sent to rn to te ft things for tho the officer sergeant ford then asked ached that donovan donavan and Efi linger be b sworn and they were callad to the land their evidence however was principally hear na bay y and to the same came effect as that outlined by chief pratt prosecution 11 GAVE IT UP at this time city attorney rags announced that he would rest and wit for the defenso defense wre were called their teE showed that mrs bayless had told gerald jaclson jackson that an cincer hall promised to pay her tor for making the charges against agalli t ford that Nort Norl livid had stated to ur dr beer be er that lie would get bet ev even en with for ford and that every charac r made ade against ford was riot not only false but ind had no lie foundation whatever befaro the defense had rest rested judge cloge threw up the sponge by stat stating ing that he saw raw no use in prolonging t the he hearing na as lie ha had seen nathl nothing ang nought out that required a cont contradiction radle and I 1 want to SAYI say I 1 in interposed 11 chief pratt pi alt ith that t I 1 concur it M ith judge IIO biose 0 iran ac an officer could be deposed on such inch evidence as this there aman on t the h e force orce from the chief down that could hold ilk his position for a week the board apparently took a view of the matter but as sergeant ford insisted on oil being allowed to tes A afy he was permission to do BO 0 and added ills il testimony to that riven given by ills his witnesses by denying the charges in toto tota when he had concluded the cloard eted tou to cether ether tor for a few moments moats and unanimously ordered his reinstatement |