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Show GOLDEN RULE CHIEF OF POLICE SUSPENDED CI.EJVKIaAKD. Fab. M At his own requeat, re-queat, to ava tha mayor embaxraae-ment, embaxraae-ment, Cleveland's "golden rale" chief of police, Fred Kohl or. waa suspended yesterday yes-terday by Mayor Newton D. Baker. It Is understood that he was first given an opportunity to resign. The specific charges against him by the cMl Service Ser-vice commission are that he was guilt v of conduct unbecoming an officer and of gross Immorality. Kohler denied eJl the allegations against him. Ref erring to one sJlejratlon of the charges, that connects him with a divorce di-vorce decree recently granted a man here. Kohlsr aasared the msyor that hs would prove hla Innocence, saying: "When the good name of a woman Is attacked, there Is only one thing a man can do, and that Is to fight.' Preliminary hearing1 was get for March 1. |