Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-22
What He Has To Say About
 Charges Against Policemen.
IF BOARD ACQUITS MANSFIELD.

The Alliance Will Not Be Discouraged
 But Continue to the End He Says
 Six Men at Least are on the List. and
 They are Not All Privates or Regu,
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 Judge Peasley was asked this morns ing how he was getting along with the cases against a certain unknown mum Der of policemen against whom Citizens alliance intends preferring charges ok neglect and oppressive and tyrannlcal conduct, and he said, he was getting along very well considering the dlffi- culties that are in the way aud thg amount of publicity that has been given the matter The judge then as- sumed the position of q man on the witness stand and stated substantially as follows: If you mean he said. ilk response to the first question, if all the policemen who will be called an before the board of safety are regular policemen or specials, I will say tIlaE some or them are above that grade. So Tar, as you are aware, charges have been brought against only one police man, Mansfield. Now l understand that the board of safety intends ob- Jecting to the manner in which the complaint in that matter has been framed. That, as we say in courf. motion will be made to have the charges against him made more spe- clIic, that day and date for everything charged against this policeman will be asked. Of course we can do that. but It will take some time and be a lof of what I should say unnecessary trouble It would greatly enlarge the bulk of the complaint to give day and date for every specific act alleged against this policeman, and for that reason alona hope no such motion will be made ! may say that the charges preferred against this policeman make one con tinuance performance from the irst date to the last.
 We are going ahead very quietly, for the instructions from the comnittee of the Citizens alliance who have this matter in hand, are to say as little as possible, for it might hamper their an- tions in gathering evidence. We wani as little publicity as possible. there fore
 The information we have gathered so far has not been put into shape. Az it is gathered we put it into separafa envelopes. and so far only charges against one man have been cDmpletesl. He is Mansfield. It takes some time fo do work of this kind, to put together the various threads Of evidence, slft; the cllaff from the wheat and then but it in shape for the board Of safety. In- formation against six men has been obtained l am not aware that any more men will be charged, for am not handling that end of the move ment, and as I have said they are not all nriyates or regulars
 Are the complaints in all the cases the same2 No; some are not as seri- ous as others. The complaints against some are not as many as against ofhs ers But they are all serious enou0k and we are certain we can prove them all. Of course we would not formuIate them were we not sure of that
 As the eases are different we could not let all of them go on the decision of the first one that is tried. Furtherz more If the board of safety decides fo whitewash the first man put on trial. it may not decide to wflitewash the second man; so how could we, tllere- fore, let all of them rest on the decis< ion of the first? If the first man ia whitewashed. we will not feel discollrz aged. and do not want to be under stood as saying that he will be white washed. Remember that. The only thing we have heard intimafed regarf1z ing the boards contemplated action is that the charges against Mansfield shall be made more specific. Now. do not know whether this is so orsnof: but hope no such motion will be made because it would take a good deal of time and trouble to give the day and date for every specific act Mansfield ie charged with.
 .sThe committee obtaining the infoF amtion is not yet through. but we wiIs be able to go ahead with the casa against Mansfield whenever the board is ready"