Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-21
ALLEN FOUND GUILTY.
Will Be Reprimanded By the Discipline
 Committee and Chief Egan.

| Will Be Repr1manded By the Discipline Committee and Chief Egan.
 The board of police commissioners held an adjourned meeting last evening to further consider the charges made by James J. Hurley against Officer Chester J. Allen. The board was called to order by Acting Mayor Thompson, and there were present Commissioners Cross, Goodrich, Mcdonald and Kelley.
 Commissioner Mcdonald set the bali rolling by inquiring why Officer Allen had absented himself at the meeting of the board last Tuesday evening. The officer answered that he gave notice where his wife was, and that he so in- formed Commissioner Goodrich, who said that as far as he was concerned it would be all right.
 | Attorney Burpee said: "Allen came to me and I understood him to say that he had seen Commissioner Goodrich and that he had told him it was all right. supposed he had seen the other com missioners and that he had fixed the adjourned, and knew nothing more about it until I was informed by MT Holohan that he objected to adjourn ment."
 Commissioner Mcdonald: "It seems to me that man ordered by the police commissioners to appear before the board, when he is under the direction of that board should do so, or notify the board of his inability to do so. We ad- l journed one week to convenience his attorney"
 Commissioner Goodrich: "I don't think I gave him permission to go. As an individual I had no right to do so. I simply stated that as far as I was con- cerned, had no objection"
 Commissioner Cross moved that the board proceed with the hearing, which was the business for which they had come together. The motion was carried. City Clerk Kilduff read the charges pre- ferred by Hurley. Attorney Holohan said that he had some more witnesses if the board wanted to hear them; also, that he had the file of the police court to prove that Hurley was discharged. Attorney Burpee objected to intro ducing the police records, and after much discussion the evidence was with drawn. Attorney Burpee again ob- jected to the introduction in the charges stating that Allen was to be tried, not for making an arrest but for the man. ner in which he made it, to discover whether or not he arrested thls man in a proper and decent manner.
 Amer Bradley was then called to the witness stand and said: ''I was sitting
 
 and saw Allen pass by Hurley, who had turned around sideways to listen to an organ which was playing across the green. Allen turned back and arrested him, and brought him up rather sharp" Witness did not hear what had been said, but thought Hurley used abusive language on account of Aliens zeal in making the arrest.
 Chief Egan stated that Allen had been l f0rnn a that thI0 was the first formal charge against him. About Hurley he said that he found that he had been arrested once in February, '91, for being drunk, and that was all since 'S4.
 E. R. Willard: "I saw the arrest, was in the Scovill house; saw Allen speak to the man, walk away a short distance, turn back and arrest him. The man was making violent gestures, and was sitting sideways on the seat.
 Attorney Holohan asked if witness had received any favors from Allen and he stated that he had.
 Holohan: "Did you not follow the man over to the station when he was arrested and say it was an outrage?"
 Willard: "I did,"
 ''Why did you change your mind since? ?"
 "Mr Allen told me different w. P. Burbank was the next witness. He saw Allen go by some distance; come back and arrest the man; heard theman say: "Then arrest me-"
 Officer Aliens testimony was as fol- lows: "I forgot the date of the arrest. Hurley was sitting on the bench with his feet on the grass. I asked him to move hls feet off the grass and went on some distance. I looked back again and saw that he did not move. I went back and asked him to move around and he said he would not, and commenced abusing me and called me everything he could think off,
 Attorney Burpee: "What did he call you?"
 "He called me a damn fool and said that these were free benches and he was going to sit there. I didn't strike him nor swear at him, nor abuse him, l . simply pushed him off,
 Attorney Holohan: "You are the off cer that shot Cavanaugh?' ?'
 ''Yes, but don't see what that has to do with the case"
 Attorney Burpee objected to such } questions, and Attorney Holohan said that he wanted to test the officers memory.
 Frank Pagan was called and repeated the testimony given last week. F. Il. Lunry also repeated what he had said last week and in addition sad that he had been told that it was not good policy for him to go in and testify and he began to think it was not.
 The city attorney made an urgent plea for the officer and said the charges were trivial and insignificant and should never have been brought before the board.
 } aAttorney Holohan, on the other hand, said that he did not consider the charges trivial or insignificant "Does it not look like tribing to have an officer going around doing;favors for witness, when he knows that he has been subpenaed! don't think because a man wears a blue uniform that he should go around like schoolboy showing his authority. , 2 MT Allen stated that the favors had : been done before the time when Hurley was arrested.
 The board then went into executive session. When the doors were opened ' Al