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Show CHIEF OF OGDEilS T. E. Browning, Patrolmen Patrol-men O. H. Mohlman and J. F. Kelliher and D. A. Smyth, Hotel-man, Hotel-man, and Sam Dixon, Bartender, Are Placed Under Arrest. ACCUSED GIVE BONDS; RELEASED Grand Jury Charges Misdemeanors, Punish--Xable by Fines, County Jail Sentences, or Both, Event of Convictions; Convic-tions; More Warrants to Be Issued. INDICTED BY THE GEAND JXTET. T. E. BROWNING, chief of police, po-lice, charged with a misdemeanor for refusing to receive a criminal. Arrested. Furnished bond for $1000. O. H. MOHLMAN, patrolman and former police sergeant, charged with a misdemeanor for refusing to inform against a gambler. Ar- j rested. Furnished borid for $1000. ' J. F. KELLIHER, patrolman and former sergeant, charged with a misdemeanor for false imprisonment imprison-ment of a Chinaman. Arrested. Furnished bond for $500. D. A. SMYTH, proprietor of the National hotel, charged with a misdemeanor mis-demeanor for conspiracy to sell liquor illegally. Arrested. Furnished Fur-nished bond for $1000. SAM DIXON, indicted as Richard Rich-ard Roe Dixon, bartender at the National hotel, charged with misdemeanor misde-meanor for conspiring to ell liquor Illegally. Arrested. Furnished bond for $1000. Two other persons whose names are withheld pending arrests. rr3)al to Tha Tribune. WIDEN, March 24. Chief of Police T. E. Browning, two of his officers, Patrolmen O. H. Mohlman and J. F. Kelliher; D. A. Smyth, proprietor of the National hotel, and Sam Dixon, a bartonder, were arrested today on indictments in-dictments returned last night by the grand jury. There are two additional indictments on which arrests will be made later. Bench warrants based on charges contained in the several true bills were turned over to Sheriff II. C. Peterson .' this morning and as fast as the arrests I were made the defendants reported at i the county building and furnished bond, i Upon learning of the arrest of the three I police officers, Smyth rushed his at- torney to the sheriff's office and $1000 ! in cash was deposited as bond before j a deputy shoriff served tho warrant upon the hotel proprietor. Later Smyth himself called at the county building, but allowed the cash bond to stand. j Gambling Is Charged. j Tha charges contained in all of the indictments constitute misdemeanors, t punishablo by fines, county jail sen- I tences or both in the event of convic- ) tion. In the case of Chief of Police Browning the department head is accused ac-cused of refusing to receive a criminal f o-v-'ommitment in the city jail. It ""alleged in tho indictment that on or ; y. (Continued on Pago Thirteen.) ( i sJjHIEF OF POLO I Iffl IS IICIED Four Other Men Also Are Placed Under Arrest (Continued from Page One.) about August 20, 1916, he refused to receive and place in the city iaii John Dor Williams and Richard Koe, said to be negroes, who had been arrested bv H. C. Peterson, then a police officer. of-ficer. These men were accused by the arresting officer with having committed com-mitted the crime of gambling. Patrolman Accused. The indictment on which Patrolman Mohlman waft arretted charges that on June 22, 19 Hi, the officer had. reasonable reason-able cause to Relieve that J. H. I. Ma-eon Ma-eon was carrying on a game, in the nature na-ture of a wheel, for money and other articles of value and that the officer unlawfully refused and neglected to inform in-form against the man. Although not alleged in the indictment, it is said that Mison was- connected with a car-nivXompany car-nivXompany and was engaged in -Tating one of the concessions. The officer was a police sergeant at that time, he having since been reduced to the rank of patrolman "for the good of the service." It is alleged that evidence evi-dence will he introduced showing that he gave Mason permission to operate an alleged al-leged gambling game. Patrolman Kelliher is charged in the indictment against him with having falsely false-ly imprisoned Wong Kec, a Chinaman. In the citv jail for one hour on August 30, 1916. this officer was also a police sergeant ser-geant at the time of the alleged offense, but was reduced, along with Mohlman, to the rank of patrolman. It is also charged that the officer committed an assault upon the Chinaman by seizing him violently and confining him in jail without authority or lawful excuse. Although Al-though not contained in the indictment, it Is alleged that the case of the Chinamen i has to do with numerous arrests which ' were made for gambling among the Ori- entals. i Conspiracy Alleged. Setting forth in detail the alleged secret se-cret arrangement by which liquor was sold illegally in the basement of Smyth's hotel at 2-tS Twenty-fifth street, the indictment in-dictment against the hotel proprietor is the longest bill of the entire list and involves Dixon, the bartender, and one other person who has not been arrested. The charge is a misdemeanor in both instances, in-stances, it being alleged that Smyth entered en-tered into a conspiracy with the others .to opera :e the basement bar. It is charged that on or about Jani-ary Jani-ary 1, If 15, Smyth leased the basement room of his hotel to Dixon and the other man for the purpose of selling liquor at unlawful hours and without a license. To provide a guard against detection by the officers, ii is alleged that a door leading lead-ing from the ground floor lobby of the hotel to the basement room was equipped . with a lock so connected with an electric elec-tric button that the clerk qn duty in the hotel could unlock the door. Expect More Arrests. This jrangement was provided, accord -ingfue indictment, so that the clerk "unlock the door and permit such Ti son or persons as said clerk should think fitting to gain entrance to the said 3 cellar and storeroom wherein the said fcAjjisiness of carrying on the sale of liquor 'bout a license so to do was to be and "wVcarrled on. " It is also added thain December 2o, 1916, Fred P. Hol-lingsVth Hol-lingsVth gained entrance to the basement base-ment room by means of the electrical lock system and, purchased beer. , The charge against Dixon Is of necessity neces-sity the same as that against Smyth, inasmuch in-asmuch as the bartender and the third person, whose name is withheld, axe alleged al-leged lo have been parties to the same conspiracy. In the case of the seventh person for whom a bench warrant has been Usued. the charge is also a misdemeanor. misde-meanor. It Is probable that the two additional ad-ditional arrests will not be made for several sev-eral days. Browning Arrested. The first arrests were made just before 12 o'clock noon. Sheriff Peterson serving warrants on Patrolmen Mqhlman and Kelliher. It fell to the lot of Charles E. Pfncock, chief deputy in the sheriff's office of-fice and former detective in the police department, to serve the warrant of arrest ar-rest upon Chief Browning. Deputy Pin-cock, Pin-cock, who was dismissed from the police tervice by Browning on January 7. 1916, served the warrant on the police chief in his private office during the noon hour. After arresting Mohlman and Kelliher, Sheriff Peterson went direct to the National Na-tional hotel on Twenty-fifth street and served the bench warrants on Smyth and Dixon. Before he returned to his office George Halverson, attorney for Smyth, had appeared and deposited $1000 in $20 bills as bond for the saloon and hotel proprietor. Shortly afterward the police officers went to the county build- DA. SMYTH, hotel pro- prietor (above), and J. F. Kelliher, patrolman, indicted in-dicted by Ogden grand jury. '! ') . ' i - " I ' i , ? i t x m4 4 I f' k'i - I L-1 6" 5 v a ' I "a ' if. ft ! . v j r Jigp i - -tl ' i , y ing to read the indictments against them and frepare to furnish bail. The bond in the sura of $1000 for Chief Browning is signed hy A. L. Giasmann, one of the owners of the Standardi and L. Dow Browning, son of the police chief. Dixon deposited a certified check for $1000 issued by Smyth. Local business men are on the bonds of Mohlman in the sum of $1000 and Kelliher in the sum of $500. Based on the filing numbers of the Indictments, the cases of Browning, Smyth and Dixon have been assigned to Judge A. W. Agee's department of the Second district court and those of Mohlman Mohl-man and Kelliher to Judge A. E. Pratt's department. According to Judge Agee, all of the defendants will be arraigned within with-in the next few days. 1 When questioned shortly after the warrants war-rants had been served. Mayor A. R. Heywood, superintendent of the department depart-ment of public safety and the commission head of the police department, said that no suspensions would be made as a result re-sult of the charges. After newspaper men had informed him In detail of the nature of the various charges against Chief Browning and the two patrolmen, the mayor said he had no statement to make and would let matters take their course. Browning Makes Denial. In an authorized statement for publication, publi-cation, Chief Browning has denied knowledge knowl-edge of having refused to hold two men arrested for gambling, as charged in the indictment against him. He also charges that Patrolman Kelliher was advised through a member of the police department depart-ment to go before the grand Jury and tell everything in order to save himself. The officer is alleged by the police chief to have replied that he would tell the truth. Chief Browning said; If I allowed these men to go, which -I have no remembrance of doing, it was a matter of judgment. I am sure if the officer had told me he found the men gambling I would have advised him to lock them up or have them placed under bonds. Says He Was Warned. I have no fear as to the outcome of this indictment against me, as I had warning several days before the indictment was out that three members mem-bers of the department myself. Officers Of-ficers Mohlman and Kelliher would be indicted. In fact, a member of the police force called upon a local business busi-ness man to go before. the grand Jury and tell all he knew about the circumstances cir-cumstances on which the indictments were to be based and he could save himself by telling the truth. Officer Kelliher replied that he would tell the truth If called before the grand Jury and would not fear the result. Says Officers Are Loyal. For many months there have been rumors of wrongdoing by Officers Kelliher and Mohlman, who have been loyal and efficient officers of the department de-partment for nearly ten months. These officers and myself have always been open to Investigation. I will also stLte that 1 was not asked to appear before the grand jury, but the priv ilege was gianieu me at my own request. re-quest. It seema to me that there are a thousand weightier subjects on which a reformation might be started or a greater sensation based than a question ques-tion involving my personal judgment I as chief of police. |
