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Show JUDGE PRATT CRITICISES POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEN ROY WOODARD PLEADS GUILTY That lark of firmness and the ap- parent (allure tO enforce (he law was an encouragement to Woodanl and his eompanions in their acts ot lolence on August 28 last, was the view expressed ex-pressed in 'he district court today by Judge K. E. Pratt In criticising mem- i). i s of the police department for their j failure to disperse the mobs at two or three places of business. This dra matic incident in the court came today when Woodard entered a plea of guilty to the charge of assault upon David J White at the Scofield barber rhop In entering a plea of guilty, Roy Woodard announced to the court that he had resigned as business agent ot the Teamsters' union and that the men who were formerly back of him and urged him to commit the various of-fenses of-fenses and urged him to fight the cases, now have forsaken him and made him "the coat." The men, he said, who had promised to assist him I financially had refused to do ?o and j that it wns necessary to defend him-selt him-selt out of his own pocket. He said I:.- had a wife and two children de-I de-I pendent on him and the hardships 'would fall upon them more so than I upon him He threw himself upon the mercy ot the eouri The sentence will I be parsed at 4:30 o'clock this after-- after-- nnon in commenting upon tne case, judge j Pratt said that it appeared to the court that the members of the police depart-j depart-j men present at the tlm of the uproai had failed to enforce the law and this seemed to serve as an encouragement to Woodard and his companions The court said it appeared that the officers of-ficers present only made a request In a feeble tone to the mob to disperse and did not show any disposition to enforce the law No( withstanding the feeble protest Of the police, the court said, David J. While was dragged from a chair in the Scofield barber shop and Indignities Indig-nities heaped upon him. Two case still remain against Woodard, Wood-ard, one of trespass and one of dis turning the peaee. |
