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Show Oren Hadlock and Bert Vance, Two Experienced Officers to Retire Layne, Mohlman and Brown to Be Sergeants Fred Meissner Is the Fifth Detective NayJin and Blackburn for Patrolmen Effective at Once. ooooooooooo oooooo ,oJo o c o a c SERGEANTS' X o o C. C. BROWN, 0. II. MOIILLAJsT, C. E.' LAYNE o c a DETECTIVE c; , FRED .MEISSNER. , a o - 0 PATROLMEN -' t PETE NAYLIN AND T. II. BLACKBURN". o a o oooooobooooo ooooooooooo Tho official ax fell yesterday afternoon after-noon in the police department and tho heads of Oren Hadlock and A. B Vance, two old and tried officers, fell into the basket. This action of the commissioners and the subsequent appointments in. the same department were not made public un,tll a late hour last night, when in tracing down rumors of polico changes the commissioners commis-sioners wore seei .personally by representatives rep-resentatives of the newspapers and asked to deny or' affirm tho stories which had leaked out through unofficial unoffi-cial sources. The fifth man to be added to the detective force s Fred Meissnor, who was at one time a patrolman in the local police department Later he went to Logan, where he resided about two years. On his return to this city he established a bakery, which he afterwards sold out. C. C. Brown, who has been acting as captain of police, and C. E. Layne and O. H Mohlman, who have been on the polico force for several years, have been appointed as sergeants. I Special Officers Pete Naylln and Thomas H. Blackburn were appointed as patrolmen to succeed Vance and Hadlock. Naylln has been a deputy sheriff, acting in this capacity under ex-Sheriff Barlow Wilson, and has been employed as a special on the police force. Blackburn has also been emplojed by the city as a special officer offi-cer for several months. The appointments ap-pointments will be effective today. Hadlock, tho retiring officer, has been connected with the police force for several years, and prior to his , appointment In the city's police service serv-ice he had done duty with the county as a deputy sheriff, and before which time ho was a patrolman. Vance, who also retires, has been In the police service for the past nine years Both men havo during their terms of duty been efficient officers. nature when matters concerning his own achievements have been broached and many of his personal friends know but llttlo of the work which he has actually done In bringing criminals to jiiBtlce, |
