Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-02-10 | Page 2 | Chief of Police Scores His Men

I if OF POLICE SCORES HIS MEN SN- FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.- As a re- r '""'t of tbe charges filed by Chief of f j Police,; Seymour against more than a iJ dozen members of tho pollco dopart- f, inent, growing out of tlio death of i , Gustav Postler, a contractor, in the Hm 'Saratoga Gambling club, -who was I shot and killed -while attempting to I recover his losses at tho point of a revolver, Sergeant of Police James 1 TJoooran -was dismissed from USo de- J pBHmjnt today by the poMce commission. commis-sion. Donovan was tried on charge of negloct of duty and conduot unbecoming unbe-coming an officer for having loaned hft revolver to Edward Ivrfpp, one of 1 tho keepers of tho club, when Krlpp informc the ofIcer that "thero was i some trouble In the club" Donovan, It was charged, did not Investigate, j but gave his revolver to Krfpp. if I he latter Is at liberty under bond i pfnfllng his preliminary hearing on a j 1 charge of murder, It being alleged ' vthat he shot Postlcr with the pistol j loaned hlni by Sergeant Donovan.