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Show POLICE CHAUFFEUR CKEITFR1I' Full Investigation of Department De-partment May Result From Accusations. PROBE IS PROMISED ip(Hi:iI to The Tribune. CtfiDKX, Hfjit. IS Charging that his nummary dismissal had resulted, when thrrn officers "framed" against him, OoM Wheat, a chauffeur in the police department until this evc-nintf, appeared before tho city commissioners at their meeting tonight and demanded a public investigation of charges alleged to have been made against him. Speaking i'of tho board and as commissioner of public pub-lic safety, Mayor A. K. Tlcywood said ho woulu consider the complaint tomorrow. tomor-row. The dismissal of the police chauffeur by Ohiof of tJoiice T. E. Browning and the subsequent appearance of Wheat be-In be-In re t lie oommis.sionera is regarded by tiomo members of the department as having applied tho math to a boinb-Miell boinb-Miell of alleged police scandal -which has been the subject of anonymous letters let-ters and public rumor for the past &ev-cral &ev-cral weeks. If a public investigation is held, as demanded by the discharged chauffeur, it is intimated that other officers in addition to those named by Wheat will bo drawn into the affair. A ppearing at the city building accompanied ac-companied by his wife and young child, Wheat waited until the commissioners had. transacted all of tho routine business busi-ness of tho session beforo making his complaint. "When I reported for -work tonight I -was discharged by the chief," said, the chauffeur, addressing his remarks to Mayor Hoywood. "I have been framed against by three officers in connection with this wineroom scandal you have been hearing Hbout in these letters and J demand a public investigation of the r ffair, " was in substance Wheat 's statement to tho commission. |