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Show S L. OFFICER IS DISMISSED SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 24 (t'.R) -Formal charges of drunkenness and trespass were preferred today against James H Warden, traffic sergeant and a veteran of the police department for 15 years. Warden was summarily dismissed from the police force when Chief of Police Joseph Burbidge was informed in-formed of Warden's alleged condition con-dition last Sunday. Two companions of Warden, Mrs. Mary Sowe and a man named Burchell, were also charged. The trio, according to the police report, forced their way into an untenanted room in an apartmet house and proceeded to drink. The proprietor of the apartment 11 1 1: 1 i.wuoc ..mien punue anu iiiitjsLs resulted. re-sulted. According to arresting officers offi-cers Warden was scantily clad. Warden contends he was drugged and "framed" by underworld elements ele-ments anxious to get rid of him. |