The Nome nugget., 1902-01-01
.lnxestiaati0n into Chief ol
 Police J0I!ey's Conduct.
CHARGES FALL FLAT
J. F. Warren, Who Preferred Charges of Misconduct Against the Chief of Police, Unable to Produce COrr0bo.
 rative Proof Unwilling Witnesses.

The investigation by the city council into the charges filed by J. F. Warren, late captain of police. against Chief of tPolice JOlley promises to end next Fri day night. The charges will not be sustained, and Chief Jolley will be ex- onerated beyond doubt, although his defense!has hardly begun.
 As told in the last issue of the NUG- GET, the investigation, which was begun Dec. A. was continued until Sat urday evening last at the court house. The charges against Chief Jolley.were the same as those hitherto published with the exception that they had been greatly amplified, and included ninel teen specifications, each charging the chiet of police with malfeasance and mi,feasance in office, with acting c.f- ruptly in the discharge of the duties of | his office. The last specification de II anded his removal from office on the ground .of public policy.
 The same ground, was gone over as at the first session of the council, and little new matter was introduced.
 George D. Schofeld, of Bard & Scho- field, represented Capt. Warren, while J. F. Fenton appeared for Chief Jolley.
 The.greatest latitude wasallowed in the examination of witnesses, yet mo evidence was adduced to directly4 con. meet rne chler of police with any official misconduct. The star witness for the prosecution was T. J. Head, one of the victims of Carrie Welshess, a notorious pick pocket who piled her trade last summer in the tenderlon precinct. According to the testimony of Capt. Warren, the Welshens woman and others piled a brisk business. How many 'suckers" she and others found will never be known. Perhaps only few of the vic. tims squealed. Head lost $llO. and he mad Welshens arrested. He went into court next day. and he swore that the prosecuting attorney told him that all identify ,Welshens. He had gotten his money back, he said, and that was all he wanted. He admitted that he knew the woman, but claimed that he was not sworn in the commissioners cOurt. A. K. Wheeler was one of the double barreled commissioners at the time and he was on the bench that day. He didn't know the name of the prescott ing attorney, he said; he stated, how ever, that Chief Jolley and Wheeler held conference; then he failed to identify the woman, @ho paid the costs, and Nome business man gave him his $ll0, reserving $2O for his trouble. Head said that it was not the first time that he had been ''touched' in the tenderlOin. but he did not lose much and made no roar.
 This was fair sample of the rest of the cases. There was another in which Chief .Jolley was charged with beating man cruelty and inhumanly, but lbe testimony of Former Jailer Mather failed to show that the prisoner had been dealt with in an unnecessarily harsh manner.
 Police Officer Tom Finnegan was called to prove the arrest and release of a female ,pickpocket on the order of the chief of police. Warren said Fin fhegan was present when the arrest and release were made, hut Finnegan de- pied all personal knowledge of the affair.
 The examination on Monday night adduced no additional evidence in any case. l. was all along the same line. Warren adhered to the truth of his charges but could produce DO confirm atory t. stImony. Geo. Lowe, who was cited to appear and testify decl ned, and Ida Lewis, who claimed, it is al- legged, that she had paid money to some one tosecure her release, was sent for, but Police Officer James said that she was sick in bed and she denied that she had ever made any statements tend- ing to duplicate nybody in wrongdoing or words to that effect. | The ''investigation" throughout was fiat, stale and uninteresting for the most part, the only witnesses who re- lieved the monotony being ex-Jailer Matber and T. J. Head. Counci,nen Harris and Stevens were on the stand, and other witnesses were J. J. Under-