The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-27
CUT AND DRY ACTION.

peeIl hotlueu Dy chairman Happy to
be present. More room for an cXplana-
tion.
CUT AND DRY ACTION.
Last night Chairman Happy called
the committee to order just as if the
majority had not already settled the
matter, without an inquiry. Hc stated
the object OF the meeting. lS
Mr.. Ukane stated the case us to
Stanley, as he understood it. He read
tho rule applying from the new police
regulations. This is it,: $500
The city sergeant shall have tho right to sus.
pend ut pleasure .Hny OF his deputies or patrol.
police committee, and the Council, upon tho
recommendation OF the committee OF tho police
department, mas remove any OF sliddeputies or
patrolmcn for neglect OF duty or tncompe.ency
or for any violation OF nny OF the provisions OF
this ordinance or rules aud regulations adopted
herewith or which may hereafter be adopted.
Mr.. Okane read one. or two other
rules, but this ono really covered tho
case. Then there was n little discus
sion. Mr.. Jefferson said his recollec-
tion was that in the first place there
had been a clause giving tho chief OF
police the right TO discharge an officer
permanently, but it was amended when
the ordinance was under consideration,
and was finally omitted Under the
existing rules the suspended officer GER
tainly had the right to an appeal. After
some more desutory conversation he
suggested that the chief OF police be
called in, and Mr.. Myers went down
stairs and called Capt, McNichol.
Chief McNichol appeared and Chair
man Happy asked him what tho cir.
cumstauces were as to tho removal of
Officer Stanley.
The chief said that ever since ho had
been chief OF police Stanley had been
in the habit of becoming intoxicated;
he had scarcely drawn sober breath,
but was steaming with whisky almost
all the time.
Specific charges were made. Tho
chief said that OH one occasion Mr.. Hott.
mann, who runs restaurant on Mar.
ket street, had been summoned by tel
cphone to bring meal to prisoner.
When he came in Stanley ran out Of
the room, but he soon returned, and
Hoffman was still there. When the lat.
ter asked for the ticket on which to col
lect the pay ior the meal, somebody
jestingly said, "Oh, Tom Stanley will
pay you"
Hoffman, remarked to Shanlcy that
he ought to pay the So so he already
owed him. ~ 9,ElT
Stanley caught hold OF hoffman,.
mado avery gar and indecent remark:
and threatened to lock him up, asking
roughly what business he had thcre
anyhow. The chief demonstrated with
him, and told him if he owed hoffman,
money he ought to pay him, and that at
any rate that was no way to act. A few
days after, he understood, Stanley had
paid the bill. :.
THE DIXON CASE.
Captain McNichol also related tho
facts in the Dixon case, as they had
been told him. This case is familiar TO
the public. Stanley is accused by
Dixon with having used proiane and
abusive language and being drunk. a
request that Shanlcy made that the
chief would become his security ior $50
he desired to borrow from City Clerk
Thoner was also mentioned, tho chiefs
idea being that Stanley wanted to have
it to his interest to keep him on tho
force. lie refused.to become his surety,
The captain also said that Stanley
had told Officers O Bricn and Fitzgerald,
new men on the force, that they were
d. fools for attending SO strictly to
their duties. "Whcn you are as old on
the force as l am he was quoted as
saying, you will take it easy
* A Appointment man witllarge interests
on the South Side had told him that lie
would furnish n hundred witnesses that
Shanley spent hours at time in John
Shorts's saloon.
In conclusion tho chief said that he
had served on tho force with Stanley.
man. Hc would lie SO that his best
friend could not take his word for apy.
thing. He could never be found when
ne was wanted and oughtto be on duty.
Nj. Beans, OF the Register, mad found