Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-29
MUNICIPAL BOARDS HAD A BUSY NIGHT.
 Be

romptly at 8 clock last evening
 board of public safety got down to
 siness in the charges against Super
 nerary Policeman Michael Mans
 d, preferred by Benjamin SedgWlck
 the Citizens alliance. The com
 inant was represented by Attorneys
 asley and Hunt and the accused by
 e O'NeilIs and Guilfoile. Consider
 g the novelty of the matter the at
 ndance was very small, not as large
 rhe ordinary audience at the city
 urt, in which room the meeting was
 Id. Last week the defense lied
 Otfon that the charges be made more
 eGitic. and this matter was taken up
 sk. Commissioner Lahey was in the
 air and 1uil board was present. hd charges were halk dozen Ill nuln-
 r Sof too general nature to De satls-
 ctaory to tue detense, who claimed
 a4 this was an unfair and an unjust aIhnRr to treat the accused. MT
 Nell claimed that in any kind of at fdecent proceeding the accused was sNeays told what he was charged with. W was not said against him that ne
 lledy a man last year. The day and
 te.fas we'll as the circumstances were bt given in the complaint against him.
 oW, if Mansfield was negligent or
 relict in his duty 1t was only fair to
 when and how Such course
 As always safe and better to give all bncerned an opportunity to know
 hat was going on and the defense hance to meet the charges squafely. & MT sO'Neill was not mistaken the
 Constitution provided such protection
 Dr every accused. If man asks for
 divorce he must state the reasons for b asking in his complaint. He must all therein what cause he has against is wife. what she did and the day ana ate}of it. And if there is a co-respon- ent} in the case he must tell his name nds give the name of the place of al- kged linfidelity, the date and all the
 rcurhstances, and if he is not able to o th3at he must give the best descrlp-
 on he is able. else his complaint VIII lot be listened to in court Ihe saIhe FaT with a fireman or an engineer on hel raiIroad; a person must know what !e fis accused of. His accuser should SoA be allowed to go all over the lots, ahing or looking for needle 1n nay Now. It is right that Mansfield should Know precisely what he is charged 3vith. It is not fair that the accuser houId rush into the newspapers with &yiId tales and then not give the ac- Aused a. fair chance to defend himself, Because he does not know what he E Enlarged with. The other side should be made to say what they charge Mans ieId with. what particular things they have an mind. Let item make their statenent in full and Mansfield will proceed to defend himself. Then, and
 3en only. can the public know both kides of this matter. The idea or chargfng him with neglect of duty in February or January and then to go around the lots fishing for evidence, lsing dra, net 1t was ridiculous. z T Hunt replied that this was the most 2 {, portant of all the cases to be brought &before the board Everybody is famil- iar with the circumstances and the Hines that have prevailed here for some months. There have been breaches of khe peace. riotous gatherings and prop zerfy has been destroyed. The result of all this was the voluntary organiza- tion springing into existence called the Cittzens' alliance. This organization zhas for it's object. the prevention Sof ScriRne. Every good citizen ought to : ynpathize with ii, and he could not zsea why every good citizen should not ,. mpathize with it. It was in no way sconsnected with the trolley company .noI was 1t antagonistic to the trolley Sstr4ikers. Judge PeasIey and himself 3wehe retained by this organization tc Ibrfhg these charges. Last Friday he saw one of Ar 0'NeilPs partners about sthik matter and the latter told him tha1 lhe{had it fixed with the board Of safetS |thyat the board would grant th1s mo |tipn.
 lMr O'Neill arose at this point and stated that hitherto he had good fa1tf Land confidence in MT Hunt. but thii faith was now destroyed. He was cer ! tain that no such statement had eve been made to Mir Hunt.
 The board allowed MT Hunt to pro ceed, and he resumed, saying that h was hampered by MT O'Neilps inter ruption. This proceeding, he said, diff fe5red greatly from either criminal Q al civil proceeding in court. He thel went into the etiquette of courts Fl said he would agree that the defens be given week to prepare their sid fter they had put theirs in. He hal nlo feeling against Mansfield. If tn
 faotion is granted it will not affect tn
 cilarges. He intended showing tha Eday after day in the period named il I fhe charges Mansfield stopped cars that he did not hear hootfng and shout ing at cars, did not scatter jeerin crowds. and that he was guilty of good deal of such conduct. This wa the kind of matter he had to prove and MT Hunt claimed 1t was impossibI tb tell who threw stones in crowd 0 Y,000.
 MT O'Neili asked him if he meant [ hnsinuate that Mansfield or his friend e2hrew the stones. Mr O'Neil1 was tol tHhat Mir Hunt had the floor.
 Mir Hunt resuming said that M O&'Neill was not afraid of not being abl