Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-10
TEAPOT TEMPEST
Police Ommitte Meet and
Investigate Charges.
SHEA SLEPT IN A HACK
But Was Sick McGlynn Did His Duty
.-Tr0uble Between Murphy
and FeurtadO.

The police committee of the city council
held an interesting meeting last night.
At least it was interesting to Officers Nc
Glynn, Murphy and Shea, against whom
charges are pending, and which was the
occasion of the assembling of the COM
mittee.
Shea and McGlynn are charged with
sleeping in hacks when on duty and in
terfering with the saloon business of
Charles Murphy and Thomas Little, pro-
p~rietors of the Walker house saloon.
Murphy and Little claim that the officers
prevent women from going into their sa-
loon. and also interfere with their wine
room trade.
r. S. Feurtado. manager of the gas
company, is the complainant in the
charges against officer Murphy. On the
occasion of the explosion of Stag at the
Butte Reduction works, Murphy and
Balduc We're detailed to ascertain the
cause of the explosion. 1t was thought
at first that something had exploded at
the gas works. Murphy and Baldu went
to the works to investigate it. The Off
GERS insisted that an explosion had oc-
Cured. Finally Officer Murphy called the
gas manager a liar and used language
unfit for publication, according to the
complainant s version.
At the meeting of the committee last
night there We're present Mayor Harring-
ton, Aldermen Rowan, Ferns, Kelly,
Britt, knowlton, Noyes and S~eibnaler.
The cases of Shea and McGlynn were
taken up first. Chief Mulholland's tes-
timony was to the effect that he knew
nothing concerning the charges against
McGlynn. He had received a report from
Captain Dawson to the effect that Shea
had been found sleeping in a hack when
he should have been on duty, in conse-
quence of which he suspended him for
10 days. Officer McGlynn had not been
caught asleep, to the chiefs knowledge.
Shea's record, the chief said, was a good
one, and this was his first offense. The
chief said he had been told by McGlynn
that Shea was sick when he was found
in the hack. The chief also said there
was an ordinance preventing women
from entering saloons, and the officers
simply did their duty when they stopped
them.
Captain Dawson, the next witness, said
he was recently called to Murphy's sa-
loon, and on going there was taken by
Murphy to Reeds stable and shown Shea,
asleep in a hack. Shea told the witness
he was sick. Witness had seen Shea
about an hour previous when nothing
was said about his illness.
The ago said he had talked with the
chief concerning the suspension of Shea.
The chief told the mayor of Shea's good
record. and considered the punishment
sufficient. The mayor had been told by
Shea that he was sick when he was in
the hack. The mayor informed Shea that
when he was sick it was his duty to re-
port at police headquarters and be re-
lieved from duty.
Shea vas then called. He said he was
sick with cramps, and that he asked Nc
Glynn to look after his beat while he
rested for a few minutes. He did not
feel well enough to go to police head
quarters, but went Into the stable and
sat down in a hack.
Murphy, the complainant, asked Shea
if he could not have telephoned to head
quarters, and Shea replied that he could
nave done SO.
Alderman Ferns moved that the charge
of sleeping in a hack be dismissed. TIL
motion prevailed.
The other counts We're then taken up
Murphy, one of the compliments, wa:
called.
In opening, he endeavored to CRITICS,
the action of the committee, but wa,
called down by the mayor with the state
mnet that he was before the committe,
in the capacity of a witness. Murph,
said on one occasion a woman came t.
his saloon to get a hot drink for a sicl
man. Officer Shea arrested her. On an
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