Show BRANSFORD II T I VET BEEN ADVISED to Mayor Returns I from Coast But Bui Refuses to Discuss Police Matters ACTION EXPECTED TONIGHT r. r Council May With May With Executive Consent Shake Down Pitt and Burbidge St S Although h Mayor John Jhn S. S Bransford Brans- Brans i 1 J I ford forel e. e to discuss what course J h he will take tak In the proposed removal t of oC Chief Pill Pitt and I 1 and the reinstatement of or of George I Sheets Sheet and George Raleigh Jh in their t old Jobs joh it Il Is believed Nl that ho lie will r f v join In this pro program ram arran arranged ed by th the American party's paros Inner circle E- E At the meeting of oC the city council tonight it Is expected that some SOmO ac- ac b lion tion will be taken re regarding the tilt police po po- lice department and while the opening opening open- open In ing ing- w wedge may be Burbidge e the thc ac act r will ill not be he finally consummated lint Sheets replaces s Pitt Pitt AS ns chief of or pon po po police pot po t n lice i iI I Mayor a or Bransford returned from Crom th the f coa coast t yesterday and in answer to Th The Z 1 l republicans republican's Inquiry about his action actio In the tho matter he said he lie hadn hadn't talk d tho the matter over with an any ty on one yet et He said Mid he lie did not know just jus what he would do In the matter c Wouldn't BUlI i Tho The mayor some sonic weeks o ago so o had a little to heart talk tall with Captain Burbidge and advised him to resign because of the the fight that was being t ir made upon him The captain refused to resign and tho the program had no not 1 progressed far enough then to ascertain ascer- ascer k- k tain what tho the next step would be i The he fight was as opened upon Chief Chiel r Pitt because of his stolid refu refusal al to bow to the will of ot the tho Inner circle Pitt has hai had hard sledding ever since ho refused to ask ak for or the removal I of oC Burbidge Instead of or doing this lIll thing he made malic Burbidge the tho acting chief of ol police This move Incensed the American par party leaders arid add tho they waited for a agoo good goo opportunity to bump Pitt and 1 bump hump him hard The turning down downor of or his choice for police matron was only an Incident nt but but it shows which a way the wind Is blowing Movement O for Reinstatement The time seemed ripe for action when Sheets was wa-s acquitted of bribery er cry ery in the criminal court Just as soon oon as the t e jury verdict w wits was s in in a movement was started to put him back where he was before and in the last J week or two this movement has crystallized crystallized crys crys- into an open demand upon I the t e mayor and city council that Sheet be given the he place now held b by Tom I 4 r 4 All of Pitts Pitt's friends and relatives and rose en en masse to protest against the warfare that was being waged upon him but tho the city council had its orders orders orders or or- ders from the inner circle and proceeded proceeded proceeded pro pro- to get bus busy f Last Monday fonday night would have seen the sounding of Burbidge's knell as a n nv v captain of police had Mayor Mavor Bransford Bransford Brans- Brans i ford been in th the city As Asit it was action ac ac- ac t F tion was deferred although the deS demand demand de de- de- de S- S S S mand for his scalp was so ro stron strong that J- J JS S some of the politicians wanted Acting S 1 1 f Mayor I perry crry to turn the trick l Ferry k- k ta was primed for tOl action but the AmerItt American Ameri Amen tt can members of the council finally decided d to wait walt until Mayor Bransford's Bransford's Brans- Brans L I fords ford's return I Tonight therefore It Is expected that s something ing in the wa way of or decapitation decap decap- I S s Station Hallon will take talce place I |