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Show COMMISSION VOTES TO REMOVE HEMPEL Salt Lake, Feb. 28. Concurring in the recommendation of the chief of : police, the city commissioners voted unanimously yesterday morning to remove John Hempel. senior captain of the police department. The action of the oramisElon was exclusively phophesied in The Tribune yesterday morning. The vote to dismiss the veteran officer was taken following a recess session held in the office oi Mayor Park, at which B. F. Grant, chlel of police, laid before the commissioners com-missioners his reasons for deslriuc the removal. Reconvening a moment ! r. the commissioners- received the I written recommendation of the chlel and voted without comment to concur con-cur in it. ('plain Hempel was present at the ! time Before the vote was taken he asked Mayor Park to defer final action ac-tion one dav. but the mayor declined Hempel walked from the room without with-out waiting to hear the result of the vole. He was Joined a moment later in the elevator bv Chief Grant, who informed him that his services for the Salt Lake police department had 'been termintcd. effective at on'o "Very well, sir." was Hempel's onU comment The two walked front the building together "This action was inspired by nothing noth-ing personal against Captain Hempel," Hem-pel," said the mayor "No 'bar...- oi any sort reflecting on the Integrity or ability or the man have been preferred. pre-ferred. Chief Grant bas -iinpl In- formed the commission that he. desires de-sires another man in the position. "Captain Hempel was not iu sympathy sym-pathy with the policy of the police department There was a lack of the essential harmony. It was just such a ca6e as existed a year ago on a larger scale and because of which ir became necessary to dismiss a good many members of the old police force I am exceedingly sorrv that the necessity ne-cessity has risen again In this case.'' |