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V T T I emen einen Held on Murder Charges S e MIAMI CHIEF AND ANDI I H 6 OTHERS HELD S fUR FOR 5 KILLiNGS Underworld Protected byS by y S Officers Grand Jury JuryS S Alleges f MORE CHARGES LOOM Three Negroes 2 White WhiteS S Men Slain I MIAMI Fla March 24 AP AP- AP The chief of tl this thia l' l city's p police lice department department de de- de and six lix of f his subordinates r nates nates' were in the county stockade today charged with murder while ringing in m the ears ears ears' of the entire f force was was was' 8 gra grand gand d j jury's jurys rys ry's vitriolic d denunciation nu i tion of f brutal inhuman and arid asto astounding conduct duct of law en enforcement enforcement en en- forc ment affairs throughout Miami Announcing that it will reconvene April 10 the grand jury indicated sensational fur further furher her deye developments to come declaring ring there were other crimes disclosed to It which will but shock the public conscience for which indictments have haye not been returned because of o r inability to fix individual responsibility S Chief of of Police Pollee II L Leslie Quigg I now suspended was indicted yes jes es for murder as was Detective R R. L L. L Wood These officers were I added to the police colony at t the e county stockade which already Consisted con consisted of Lieutenant M M. cA A Tibbetts Detectives John Claudell Caudell and Tom Nazworth and Patrolmen Nelson Neson Ward and R R. L Glisson All Indictments indictments indictments Indict indict- ments were concerned with the deaths of pers persons ns with whom those Indicted had contact in an official capacity S FRIENDS OFFER AID MD Friends of the officers flocked to their aid when they were taken ake to court to offer pleas in abatement of ot otI the charges I Not being g guilty of an any i crime I II I absolutely refuse to resign Quigg said kald as he started to court I ni I am going goong to fight this thing think through and I am not quitting anything He that hat he had tad been jed Continued on page 6 6 MIAMI MIAMI CHIEF AND 6 OTHERS HELD FOR 5 S KILLINGS i Continued from page 1 warned by prominent citizens of Miami that he would be Indicted unless ho he resigned lie refused to u name them Jailers Janers said the visitors around the stockade stockade- where the officers were confined last night were 50 so J numerous umero that they finally had to toI tobar tobar I b bar ll them to give gl the prisoners an opportunity to get et some 11 rest NAME ACTING CHIEF Guy C. C Reeve head of or the detective detec tive department was last night made mado acting chief and II IL II ArI Arnold Arnold Ar Ar- I nold nod was named director of ot public safety Arnolds Arnold's first act was wag to order reinforcement of or patrols Inthe inthe In Inthe the negro districts resentment resentment resent resent- ment mont a against recent police activities lUcs is said to be bo high I The Tho grand Jury report on Its Us 1 po police poL po 0 l lice Uce department Investigation which I is called incomplete said in part In the taking of or testimony re regarding regarding re- re garding the department It has been disclosed that ti this previously re referred re re- to lac kot kf morale in the tho po police pollee po- po lice force contributed In no no small I degree to the amazing growth of unlawful practices In the territory served by them and while our ctr cf- cf r forts have been directed primarily to an Inquiry regarding the handling han han- dUng of human beings we have ha been subjected to much to-much information In- In vIn and connecting some J ranches branches oC orthe thc police department with Miami's 1 underworld We Ve have become thoroughly convinced that the open violations of or law on the part of gamblers bootleggers gers and houses of ot ill fame rame are permitted be because ause of ot an unquestionable alliance alli nIH- ance with many law enforcement officers METHODS ATTACKED methods methods' of or handling prisoners pris pris- ners drew chief attention In the tho report and was described by the tho jurors' jurors pronouncement as terrifying terrifyIng terrify ing and damnable Chief hier Quigg yesterday joined Lieutenant and the two detectives detectives de de- Claudell and Nazworth be behind behind behind hind the bars because of their al all alleged al- al l d connection with the death of H H. Kler ICier a negro bellboy in a local hotel Ills His death occurred two and anda a 3 a. a h half lt years years ago after his arrest on charges of attempting unsolicited ed and Improper liaison between the thed d daughter of a hotel guest and another another another an an- other patron whom the young oung lady did not know When Klers Kler's body was was found police pollee declared they knew nothing of ot how he was slain Quigg is charged with complicity In covering o up UI the manner of the slaying which witnesses told the grand jury j came at the hands of Nazworth on on ona a deserted country road where the th three ee officers had taken the negro to work worle on him said to have been wounded wound wound- ed when Nazworth's first shot at atthe atthe atthe the n negro gro went wild Caudell Was vas named as a member of the party CONSPIRACY CHARGED The chief was said to have or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered Kler Kier held without entry on the police blotter when he was ar arrested arrested or- or rested and later to have conspired with his three subordinates in keepIng keeping keep keep- ing ng the circumstances a secret Wood Indicted for second degree m murder is s said ld to have shot Victor W. W P Parnell rnell a white carpenter to death in November 1926 Parnell according to States State's Attorney N. N Ver Vernon o Hawthorne who ho made the tM details of the indictment public was walking along a road with a companion when a police automobile automo bile sped by barely missing the pe pe- pe e The car stopped according accord ing to jug to the quoted records and Wood Jumped out firing four shots shot killIng killing kill kill- ing log jarnell parnell At the time Ume Wood ex explained explained explained ex- ex the Incident by sa saying ing he stopped to question tho the carpenter and flied fired Jn self defense when Parnell Parnell Par Par- nell gest gestured red toward his pistol Patrolmen Ward ald and Glisson are arc charged with the murder of ot John Joh Mabry a negro prisoner and have b been In jail a week The circum circumstances stances of ot s Mabry-s death have not been divulged DIES OF INJURIES Th The grand jury further charged charge that an aged white man whose name was not given had bad died within with with- in the the past week from Injuries re received received re- re at the police station A negro reported to have hanged himself in jail it was contended onte ded did not take his own life lire but came cameto cameto to death as a a. result of police cruelty The grand jury was hopeful when its investigation o of police affairs started the report said that such suca pra practices tices were unusual and n not t sponsored by anyone In authority But to our amazement it went wenton on it developed dc beyond all aU doubt trl that t the persons In charge of this department not only condoned and ratified such sueh on the part of or their subordinates but in a a. number number num num- ber of of instances have themselves led the assaults and become the chief ex executioners |