The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-29
WILLIAMS WAS DISCIPLINED.
At a Special Meeting of the Board O.
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At Special Meeting of the Board or
 Police Commissioners.
 Patrolman William Williams was fined S6 last evening by the board of police commissioners at special meet ing for neglect of duty, Williams was arraigned on two counts, The first wasfor being away from his beat twen- ty minutes on the morning of August 10, during which interval he was charg- ed with being in the Exchange building at the corner of Church and Chapel streets.
 The second count was for lettering while patroling his beat and talking to a citizen. On this charge Williams was reported to have taken fifty min utes to patrol from Court and Orange streets to Church and Chapel streets.
 Sergeant Cook, who reported the neg ligence complained of in the first count, testified that on the morning of August 12, about 3.10 o'clock, he saw Patrol- man Williams come out of the hallway of the Exchange building on Chapel and Church streets. At this time of the morning it was the duty of Will Hams to be on the street as the beat was left uncovered in the absence or the patrolman, whose duty it is to so through the buildings and back yards. The sergeant stated that he moved short distance down the street and took position in full view of five pa- trolmen. He had not been long in his hiding place before he saw Williams enter the Exchange building, from which he did not emerge until about 3:30 o'clock.
 To this charge Patrolman Williams said that he did go, on the night in question, into the Exchange building, and that he went in because he heard a noise, which he thought came from some one who was breaking into the stores from the rear. The patrolman said that he went to the back part of the building and looked out, but saw 1 nothing. He heard a noise on the floor above and went up the stairs. Here he l found Private Detective Springer,who ! convinced him that he had right to be in the building. In order that there should be no mistake in the matter Springer took the patrolman to his office and produced evidence to show l that he was the person he claimed to 1 be.
 The patrolman said that on the day following he learned that cat which had been left in Judson's fruit store on Chapel street, had during the night knocked down large bird cage and | had broken a number of things Will 1 Hams thought that this was the noise | he heard.
 l Both Springer and Judson were sum- moned to appear and they were pres l ent, but were not called upon 1 Sergeant Crocker, in support of the second charge, testified that Williams had consumed fifty minutes patroling his beat from Court and Orange streets l to Chapel and Church streets; that on I the night in question Williams stood l for five minutes on the corner of Court and Orange strets talking with citi- zen.
 I On the same evening Williams left l the corner of Court and Orange streets l at S:10 o'clock. It was 9 o'clock when I he arrived at the corner of Church and ' Chapel streets. The sergeant stated that he saw Williams standing on the corner of Court and Church streets for twenty minutes of this time. The ser- geant could not tell who the citizen ] was.
 Officer Williams said in defence that < he was patroling his beat along Court
 street when Manager Eldridge of Heu-
 blein's cafe made complaint to him
 about tramps sleeping on the stairs o1
 the building. Williams told MT Ell
 dridge that his building was not on his
 beat. Then MT. Eldridge began telling
 him about the Greens Farm robbery
 The patrolman said that he left MT
 Eldridge as soon as he could. He then
 went through the rear yard of the Free
 Library building and thence to the cor
 ner of Church and Chapel streets.
 The board in executive session voted
 to fine Williams $6 President Moran
 gave the officer some advice as to how
 he should conduct himself in the flu
 ture.
 P. McQueeney was raised to grade A
 on the recommendation of the super
 intendent. The promotion will date tfrom September 4.