The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-10
POLICEMEN ON TRIAL
Virtually Exonerated by the Com
mittee.
THE CASES INVESTIGATED
Reprimand for Officer McGlynn.
Shea's Suspension Was Uphsld.
Officer Murphy Also Gets Off
With Reprimand.

AS usual the police committee of the
council. which held a meeting last even
ing to investigate the charges filed
against Police officers Shea, McGlynn and
James j. Murphy virtually exonerated the
Officers thereby proving the uselessness
eof citizen filing charges against police
man.
The charges against Officers Shea and
sMcGlynn, which have been previously
published. were that they were in the
habit of sleeping in hacks while on duty,
ard that they interfered with the business
of Charles Murphy and Thomas Little,
the compliments, who conduct the Walk
'er house saloon, by preventing women
from going into their saloon to buy
bucket of beer and by unnecessarily ar
resting respectable women for entering
their wine rooms. The charges against
Officer Murphy were preferred by r. s.
SFeurtado, manager of the gas company,
and were the outgrowth of last Fridays
explosion at the Butte reduction works.
Officers Murphy and Balduc heard the
explosion, and being told it was at the
gas works, went to investigate it. They
did not like Manager Feurtado's manner
and thought he was lying to them when
the works. Trouble followed. In his
charges Manager Feurtado alleged that
Officer Murphy asked him if there had
been an explosion at the works He re-
piled that there was not Officer Murphy
said he knew there had been. and when
Manager Feurtado insisted there had not
gbeen. Murphy called him liar. Feurtado
grew indignant. and threatened to bring
charges against the officer; he also order
him from Ia
1guage Feurtado attributed to Murphy in
his reply would not bear publication.
There was absolutely no proof of the
charges against officer McGlynn. 1t was
mot shown that he had slept in hacks or
ssdone anything not in the line of his duty
Except to release a man and woman he
had taken out of the Walker house sa-
loon without taking them to the station
and preferring charge, against them. 1t
was proved that Officer Shea had once
slept in a hack, but the other charges
against him We're not sustained. The
: charges against Officer Murphy were
proved by his own main witness, as well
as by the witness for the complainant.
aS After hearing the evidence, the commit
tee decided to report, recommending that
athe chief of police be instructed to repri-
amand Officer McGlynn for having re-
leased the man and woman without hav-
ling taken them to jail; that Chief Null
S hollands action in SuSpending Officer
Shea for 10 days be upheld and that no
further action in Sheas case be taken,
he having been punished enough. and that
THE chief be instructed to reprimand OFF,
{ Ger Murphy for his conduct toward Feur-
tado.
The members of the committee present
& at the investigation were Mayor Harring-
ton, Aldermen Ferns, Rowan, Britt Kelly
Noyes, Knowlton and Siebenaler. At the
opening of the meeting Assistant City
& Clerk Sullivan read the charges against
Officers Shea and McGlynn first and then
followed with the reading of the charges
preferred by Manager Feurtado against
5 Officer James J. Murphy.
{ The charges against Officers Shea and
= McGlynn were taken up first and Chief
- of Police Mulholland was called. He said
he knew nothing of the charges against
: Officer McGlynn, but he had received a
report from Captain Dawson that Shea
had been caught asleep in a hack in
g Reeds livery stable by him and the wit
ness had suspended him for 10 days. Off
Ger McGlynn had never been caught asleep
in hack to witness knowledge. This
S was Officer Shea's first offense, and he had
previously had a good record. Officer Nc
Glynn, who was working partner with
Shea, had told witness Shea was sick and
had told him he was going to lie down.
With regard to the charges that the Off
GERS would not let women come to the
place of complaintants to get a drink, the
chief said there was an ordnance against
women entering saloons.
Captain Dawson was next called and
said that on one certain occasion he got
telephone to come to Alurphy's saloon,
and on going there Murphy took him to