Salt Lake Tribune | 1899-07-09 | Page 5 | Status of NightWatchmen

STATUS OF NIGHT WATCHMEN THEY HAVE NO AUTHORITY Y noki NOW TO MAKE ARRESTS tins this is embarrassing to them frequently quent ly find and chief nilton hilton will endeavor to restore their authora authority ty fire no longer special P u ilce and have no more slower power to arrests than the average crizell Ct Izell no less IPPS they have lave more muscle heretofore they haw have been clothed with tins the B same am 0 powers as the regular police but when the organization of ilia police force took place on april oth they went oil out t of office and if they desire to act as aa IalA without pay they must be re appointed by chief and c confirmed by tile the city council this Is important in view of the fact that they are frequently called into places to make arrests and their right to do SO r in some cases Is being questioned not kot being of tile the city they have no right to serve nerve wouT warrants ants ot of ari nr iest if a man AN horn they seek to detain makos makes an objection resists antl and pounds the head oft off the man the person so BO doing cannot be charged with resisting an officer and the only recourse the night watchman would have as a salve to its his wounded feelings would bo be a civil suit for dealt dain ages aga or a criminal charge charee of assault and battery then again the citizen whom it Is sought to arrest has the same earne recourse so when a man interferes antei feres in a row in a saloon or a bawdy house or on oil the air street lie he does not do so eo as an officer abut but merely becomes a participant in the riot chief hilton will probably remedy this hoon IV 0 n however by sending into the co council u n e it the names flames of 0 those whom he de desires re s to act as specials without pay