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Show Officers Mohlman and Kelliher, Also D. A. Smyth Indicted I m i - Chief of Police Thomas E. Browning. Graiai Jery Brings Four Indictments Most Sensation Chief Thos. E. Browning Is Charged With Refusing to Receive Colored Men Charged With Crime Mohlman Accused of Having Information Against Gamblers and Failing to Make Arrest Kelliher Indicted for Making False ImprisonmentConspiracy Impris-onmentConspiracy Is Placed Against D. A. Smyth, in Evading Liquor Laws. Chief of Police Thomas E. Browning was arrested during the noon hour today by Chief Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Pin-cock Pin-cock on a bench warrant issued on the authority on an indictment indict-ment by the grand jury charging that Chief Browning on a specified occasion refused to admit a criminal to jail. The specific charge is that two negro prisoners were arrested in a raid on a negro club last August and that Chief Browning refused to permit them to be put in the lockup. Chief Deputy Pincock, who quietly made the arrest, served as a police officer under Chief Browning through ten years and was dismissed dis-missed from the service by Browning January 7, 1916, no cause being be-ing assigned. Chief Browning went to the court-house immediately to provide his $1,000 bail. EX-SERGEANTS ARRESTED. Prior to Browning's arrest, Sheriff Herbert C. Peterson arrested Policeman J. F. Kelliher and Policeman 0. H. Mohlman on bench warrants war-rants issued on the authority of grand jury indictments, one in each case, charging Mohlman with refusal to inform or arrest a certain person on June 22, 1916, for the crime of playing for money a gambling gamb-ling wheel, and charging Kelliher with assault upon and false imprisonment imprison-ment for one hour on August 30, 1916, of a certain Chinaman. "Denny" Smyth Indicted. Before Sheriff Peterson had time to take Denny A. Smyth. Uie latter's attorney, at-torney, Georgo Halverson, hastened to the sheriff's office and put up for Smyth $1,000 cash bail. Tho sheriff directed Halverson to send his client to report in person, to complete this legal procedure. Smyth is charged with conspiracy. Mohlman and Kelliher held a confer ence with the sheriff in tho latter's of i flee, and he granted them the courN tesy of allowing them at liberty on their own recognizance while they found bondsmen. Only a brief lime was required. Mohlman gave bond for $1,000 and Kelliher gave a $600 bond. specific Smyth Complaint Denny A. Smyth, proprietor of the Diamond saloon and National hotel, over the saloon, on Twenty-fifth Street, is charged with conspiring with other men, named in tho indictment. in the illegal selling of liquors in a cellar under his hotel, the door of which waa fitted with an electric lock, so arranged that the hotel clerk, by pr.-s-mu-. a button in the hotel office, could unlock the door of tho alleged Jolnl to admit the customers. The specific crime is aileged to have been committed on December 25, 1916. Careers of the Accused. Thomas E. Browning served as chief of police ten years prior to his last appointment by Mayor Abbot R Hoy-wood. Hoy-wood. He served as captain two years under Chief of Police Conltsk, who died at Los Angeles. He also served two terms in the city council and was once a state officer, serving in the capacity of deputy for the State Medical board. J. F. Kelliher and O. H. Mohlman both were police sergeants until about three months ago, when they were re- (Continued on Page C) CHIEF OF POLICE IS ARRESTED (Tontinued From Page 1) duced to the rank of policemen. Kel-liher Kel-liher came here from Wyoming. He has served in the police department about ten years. Mohlman was born and reared at Park City. Utah, and has been on the poiice force about ten years. Another Indictment Out. These arrests complete the sheriff's work under the authority of bench |