Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-03 | Page 4 | Powers of a Policeman

go 00 POWERS OF A POLICEMAN Osden's police pollee force acting upon the orders of or the United States do- do de department of justice arrested Wil Wil- Wil Wilham William ham liam H Human Hillman cattle buyer burer of Dancroft Bancroft Idaho on OD oi April 2 On Wednesday the attorneys of Hill Hill- nan roan man brought an action for damages against Ogden CIty charging false Imprisonment Orders Ordera for tor the arrest of Human Hillman ere ore made by the federal officials I at Salt Lake according to Chief of Police Allison after alter a request as as made to them by the federal agents in Pocatello This action for tor false Imprison Imprison- Imprisonment Imprisonment ment mont points out how careful the po po- police lice bce must bo be In making arrests Goc ne tep and they became In in- in oh cd In damage suits The ex- ex ex caution with which the they ru must t proceed In making arrests Is Isone Isone laone I one of the handicaps they suffer un- un under un under der in fighting the bootle bootleggers and other offenders who ho pretend to bo be respectable citizens but are aro break breakers ers of the law Two years ago the police were ere charged by a home owner osner with th to energetically respond to his request to arr arrest t a woman who as employed as a nurse in III the home A diamond ring was missing md the husband and aud wife tife were ere the tho nurse Durse had bad taken the ling Finally the nurse voluntarily to an examination by the police matron Later the ring was found in the garbage can at the home llomo where here it had slipped dipped from tile tho wife's finger The nurse sued I the be police who isho were called in and ler Ier accusers and obtained 1500 damages Every Ivery day people with Ith real or fancied grievances appeal to the I he do not Dot want ant to swear out a 0 warrant and they denounce the om officers cars toi fOI not making arrests oil their mere word of complaint or their alleged wrongs Too often oCten in nula- nula nul ances ances and quarrels the police poUce are aI called on to make arrests when hen the lurtis most concerned decline to sweat swem to complaints The have hae e a better understanding of the limitations limitations of the powers of ota n It policeman