Show VINDICATE TE TEACHER OF ASSAULT CHARGE Professor John C. C Neal Meal AcI Accused Accused Ac Ac- AcI I I of Striking Pupil DisI Dismissed Dis Dis- Dismissed Dis- Dis I missed by Police Judge I I Special to o The Herald R Herald Ogden Nov 01 23 Prof John C. C Neal eal th the lIte Hunts school principal who ho was sa charged with chastising IrvIn 1 Wang Wang- paard gaard In a manner and to an extent al alleged alleged al- al to be unwarranted b by the circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances was discharged In police court this morning Judge J J. D. D Murphy deciding In ing that the testimony Introduced d at the trial trIa was Tras not sufficient to convict con the thed d defendant of or assault and battery o The he charge was brought a against N Neal al alby by Christian I t. h h father rather of h the He au occasion si to chastise any anyone one of his five 1 children at home and that h he deemed It Improper and brutal for u u. teacher to lay Jay layso a so much as a finger on one of th them at school Schoolboy witnesses 8 stated that Neal eal struck the bo boy with his clenched fist and that his car and face faco were bruised b by the blow The teacher stated that he hc had re repeatedly repeatedly repeat repeat- at- at ed edly warned the pupils about certain conduct and when young oung ang had b been on again reprimanded and re replied replied re- re plied h by h leering insultingly at the In Instructor In- In ho struck him with his open hand across the thc side of or the face Neal cal has but one arm and one of or the fingers ers of ot his hand Is crippled In such a a. manner as to make maleo It practically ImpossIble Impossible Im mm- possible for for- him to clench his fist Superintendent W W. N. N Petterson t testified that he had Investigated th the case and did not deem It serious enough to require the attention o of the criminal courts Neal was then discharged |