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Show 111 SUSPENDED PENDING TRIAL Purity Squad Man to Have Hearing in City Court Thursday Morning. I -S p-ca of no guilty to a. charge of iersona'ung a deputy sheriff for the i purpose of confiscating intoxicating' t Uouor without making proper return was j entered yesterday by Policeman Arthur E. Ijund, formerly of the purity squad, i nofore City Judge Henry C. Lund.. Hear-! Hear-! lug was set for 10 o'clock next Thursday r.-.ornu:g. lJoiiceir.an Lund, is alleged 0 have represented himself cs Deputy Sheriff Y . K. Sehoppe in conf iscvuir.g four cases of whls Uy from the residence of A. W. Singleton, -46 "West Th.rteenlii South atreet. The clerk of the court was provided pro-vided with the names of the following persons to be called as witnesses for the po.lce; H. . C. Tag.art, captain of police: O. C. Beebe, V,". C. Beebe, Isabeil Borell, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hansen, Antone Got-berg Got-berg and Christian Hensen. Written notification that he had suspended sus-pended Policeman Lund, pending the outcome out-come of the charge preferred against Mr. , Lund, of having impersonated Chief Deo- and confiscated Intoxicating liquor without making a proper return upon It, was given the city commission last night by J. Parley "White, chief of police. Commissioner Karl A. Sehe'.d, head of t'.e department of public safety, expressed unwillingness to credit the accuracy of the charge againet Mr. lyund. He said that he could not believe the man guilty. He also said that circumstances seem at present to point to Impossibility of Mr. Lund's being at the residence of A. V. Singleton, 246 West Thirteenth ' South street, at the time of the alleged import sonation of Deputy Sehoppe. The public safety commissioner said that he felt that Deputy Sehoppe had just cause for indignation, but that with regard re-gard to Mr. Lund's alleged participation in the matter, he felt sure he was the victim of mistaken identity. "I am so loath to believe the man capable capa-ble of such that I could not cast a vote against him at this time." said Mr. Scheid; "if he la found guilty- at the conclusion of a hearing in court, I will be for his immediate discharge, and I expect to be in court to hear the evidence." evi-dence." City Attorney W. H. Folland Informed the commission that the action of Chief White in suspending- Mr. Lund is effective effec-tive for fifteen das s without confirmation confirma-tion by the commission, notice to the commission only being required of him. A paragraph in Chief White's letter to the "effect that he- had promised Mr. Lund his pay for the fifteen days if he was found not guilty and reinstated "was declared de-clared by tile city attorney to be of-no force... The city attorney said, the ordinance ordi-nance provides for sacrifice of pay during dur-ing suspension. It was the discussion of the commission's authority to approve this promise that resulted in development develop-ment of the fact that confirmation of the suspension was not required of the commission com-mission to make it effective, the agreement agree-ment being that the commission had no authority to confirm the promise extendod by Chief White, since it would not be in accord with the ordinance governing suspensions. sus-pensions. Chief White's letter was finally final-ly accepted as due notice, and the suspension suspen-sion of Mr. Lund became effective without with-out other action of the commission. |