The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-14
was drunk or not, and witness so told

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house at Mount Pleasant on July q
he asked witness what he thought O.
II and whether he thought it was in
fenced as trap for him Donovan) K
lan into. Witness thought Chief Prat
was here at the time the letter wa:
| Shown to him, but he wasn't sure Of it
Davis Had it in For McDona1d.
Jake Greenewald was at Saltair the
day that Mcdonald was arrested. He
saw Mcdonald during the evening.
Witness thought he was sober. He
| told Donovan so when the latter made
! inquiries about it. McDonald's con-
| duct was good and witness told Don
| oVan SO. The witness saw the arrest
made. There was only very few
/ people at the beach that day and there
! was no row. There was some loud
/ talk between Davis. and Mcdonald
when the former attempted to arrest
/ the latter. Witness remarked at the
! ing wrong and Davis had no bust
ness to arrest him; that he was in
/ very small business
Did you hear Davis say that he had
good mi2d to arrest Mcdonald any
way, because Mcdonald had done him
| up on the police force?" asked Judge
Powers
Yes, he said he had it in for him;
that he was the cause of his being
fired from the police force and that
he had good mind to arrest him any
way.
Captain Donovan Testified.
Captain Donovan then took the
stand in his own defense. He said
he had been on the force since 1890.
He went on as a patrolman, after
wards was promoted TO sergeant and
later to captain.
AS to the charge Of suppressing the
anonymous letter the captain said he
received it. 1t was addressed to Ar
thur Pratt, chief of police. He always
opened the mail when the chief wasn't
in the office and the chief never told
him not to do SO. He gave instruc-
lions to the detectives right along as
to matters which were mentioned in
any letters received, and which re-
quired attention. He usually filed the
letters when attended to. Witness
showed the letter to Adams and told
Adams he thought it was trap to
catch him, as a man would probably
be sent to Nc mt Pleasant to get the
photograph which witness thought
was his and believed had been put
there 50 as 70 get him into trouble.
That was the only reason he did not
SHOW the letter to the chief.
Witness instructions were to open
the mail and put into the hands of
the detectives any matters arising
therefrom and to file the letters after
wards. He had no instructions from
the chief to turn all letters over to
him. The Chief had told him that
anonymous letters were usually o.
account and should be thrown into
the waste paper basket.
Witness had no intention of vioIat-
Ing any rule of the department in
keeping the letter and had no dis
respect or any intention of being IL
subordinate. He had no i'll will against
Ford and proceeded as he did without
any intention of disgracing Ford or
any member of the force
He asked for leave of absence for a
week and received permission to go
away. The chief asked him where he
was going and witness said he wanted
to go south to Bingham, Mercur and
that neighborhood. He went to Mount
Pleasant to see about the photograph.
There was nothing secret about his
visit to Mount Pleasant. 1t was men
toned n the papers. Witness left
Mount Pleasant intending to go 70
Mereur. but at Provo received a tele-
gram that his wife was sick and he
came right home and told the chief
why ne mad come home.
Witness said he tore the heading off
the anonymous letter and sent it with
the envelope to the postmaster at
Mount Pleasant with a request that he
ma out If possible who it was that
sent the letter.
He did not tell the chief he was 60
ing to Mount Pleasant because he
wanted to find out if his photograph
was in the house there or not. He
did nothing while at Mount Pleasant
10 blacken the character of Ford.
In the Afternoon
AT the afternoon. the first witness
called was Colonel Trewick who testi9
fed to the good reputation of Dono-
van.
Captain Donovan then resumed his
place in the witness seat. He ad-
nltted he had directed Mcdonald 10
90 to Mount Pleasant on July 81, and
nad given him a letter of introduction
to Thomas Brady. in which he re-
luested him to aid Mcdonald in OBJ
tanning the photograph The letter
which was introduced in evidence
reads as follows:
Thomas Brady, Mount Pleasant:
Dear Slr-This viii introduce to YOU
Frank P. Mcdonald, a police officer of
his city: Please give him any as
issuance IN your power to secure photo
n hands Of the "Frandzen" woman.
received your letter this morning
ana was sorry you could not get the
etters and picture" yourself. You
nay be surprised if you find my pic
ure there. Mcdonald will explain to
you
j. j. DONOVAN, Acting Chief.
Donovan denied that he had sent
dcDonald to Mount Pleasant to get
evidence to blacken Sergeant Ford's
character, or for any other purpose
han to get the photograph IN the pos +
session of the Frandzen woman. On
'elng questioned as to why he re-
ported to the chief hat Mcdonald was
lck, ne claimed that he was sick the
lay after his return from Mount Pleas
mt. He had dispatched officer Lund
o ind out the cause of his sickness,
md he had reported him as being ex-
remedy i'll.
In regard TO the charge that he told
ne Smith of a contemplated raid on
ne Daft building, where he was living
'lth a Iewd woman, he testified that
e had not told Smith any police Sc
rets or that the police were on the
ookout for him. He had been ac-
osted by Smith in front of Hogle's
aloon. and Smith remarked that he
UNDERSTOOD lie was suspected of keep
1g woman. He had replied: IF
GU are doing that sort of business we
ill have to catch YOU" and had said
othing about the intentions of the
olice.
He further testified that the reason
e did NOT report a case against Nc
Donald for being drunk On August 90,
as that he could ind no one who was
'llling to testify to that effect Davis
laimed that he was drunk, but Jake