The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-17
MORE CHARGES MADE
COL. MEssMoRE AFTER POLICE
NAN CoNLEY's SCALP
BUSY POLICE COMMISSIONERS
All Kinds Of Complaints to Listen to
This Morning-The Dog Catcher
Ready for the Fray

At the meeting of the police commission
this morning. II full board is present
which is probable. there will very likel,
be a lively time. All kinds of charge!
against officers, dog catchers and Others
are to come UP for hearing. besides new
set Of allegations against one of the patrol
men, which will probably be referred to the
chief for Investigation. The latest ''vic'
tim of the police force is Col. ]. E. Mess.
more, who was arrested last week while
in front of The Herald bulletins. Colonc
Messmore makes his complaint in the fol.
lowing affidavit:
LOS ANGELES, CAL, May 16, 1885,
To the Honorable. the Board Of Police
| Commissioners of the City of Los An.
| geles, California:
sGentlemen-Your petitioner would repre-.
sent that on Tuesday. the 10th day Of May
on Broadway, in said city, your petitioner
was assaulted. beaten, bruised and NAL
treated by one of the city police officers,
named Jay j. Conley, who. in arresting
your petitioner, who is seventy years OF
age and for the evident purpose of ag-
gravating the arrest and adding to the NOR
tifcatlon and humiliation of your petition
err, called to his assistance two other police
officers, to-wit: w. l.. Hubbard and F. M.
Fowler, and summoned the patrol wagon
to convey your petitioner to the city
prison. while petitioner was willing and
anxious to accompany officer on foot, the
distance being less than one block and a
half, and thereby avoid the humiliation
Of being carried through the streets in the
patrol wagon; and it is here represented
that at the time and place named the said
Conley made an unwarranted and unpro-
voked assault upon your petitioner, bruis-
ing him and manning him in most serious
manner. causing thereby great physical
pain and mental suffering, together with
the loss of his left hand and arm from the
time of said assault until the present time;
that said outrage and assault was perpe-
trated in the presence of hundreds of peo-
pie, on public street. where your petit
toner had a right to be, and who had in
no manner disturbed the peace of the
neighborhood, or in any manner violated
the laws or the ordinances of this city, but
was at the time in the peaceful and quiet
pursuance Of his private affairs
Your petitioner states, and so believes,
that the assault was a, matter of personal
spite on the part Of the officer, Conley, and
personal spleen and hate. and In arresting
your petitioner was simply gratifying his
own personal dislike.
Wherefore, your petitioner, as citizen
and q taxpayer, would most respectfully
ask that the facts, as hereinbefore stated.
be investigated, that the officer, Conley,
and thoseSassociated with him In this out
rage, be suspended, pending investigation,
and II found guilty. be dismissed from the
police force of the city.
In support of the foregoing. your petit
toner appends the names of the following
witnesses, with their addresses.
j. E. MEssMORE.
Petitioner.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of May, 1885, c. H. HANCE,
City Clerk.
Witnesses: c. Sumner, Broadway, be-
tween First and Second; D. Ellsworth, 629
South Flower; G. c. Bruce, Vernon ave-
nue.. near Station K; John Fletcher. 400
South Los Angeles street; ]. w. Seifert.
Herald office.
The charges made by Eugene Bassett of
South Figueroa street against Dog Catcher
Walters will also come in for ventilation,
and the dog catcher promises his opponents
both off and on the board surprise. He
has fortified himself with the city ordi-
nances, an opinion by the city attorney,
and numerous witnesses and affidavits
and promises to make hot fight.
1t is probable that just as warm time
will develop in the case Of Officer Fifield
charged with having collected 50 fine from
the son Of R. w. Smith under commit
ment for one c. Smith, threatening to ar
est the boy unless money was paid. There
will be a string of witnesses on both sides