The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-29

liullltSrfS $ nCat. tue Salu ne lfst SAW Hollnger that night at ll;20 at that corner Che had gone on duty there at 2 o'clock, which was Hollinger's start lng tlme), and did not zee him again until 3;l2 in the morning He swore he had not passed that way but those two times between 9 in the evening and SS0 in the morning.
 The next night he said he took his stand In York street between Chapel and George, and that he failed to pass that way between 9 and l2, and that between 1 and 3:S0 he failed Co show up in York street from Chapel to Grown or Chapel between High and York
 Regarding December l3 he said he watched in George between 9 and 3;30 and did not see him until S.lO Then he saw him In convGsation with stan ford and ho was on stanfords beat His testimony regarding December l5 was that he saw HollnEer and stan ford talk together for q period of IS minutes Sergeant Doherty explained what the beat was which Hollinger had. and also added that during the period In question he had two beats Co | care for, being also assigned Go what is known as the college beat when asked his opinion as 10 how many times he thought a man should cover | his beat he said hc thought al least once on each report which would be about three times When asked by whose orders he had kept watch on
 Hollngcr he said by orders of the chief
 Sergeant Tghe followed Hc testi-
 fled only to the night Of December l5 when he said he was ordered to assist ] Doherty in the work EIc was in plain clothes as was Doherty He took up his station that night about 915 in Grown street near High and was there until 1920 Hollinger came through College street. crossing Grown he said about 10 o'clock and he saw him no more until t.20 in the morning He ! said he had not seen him patrol Col lege or York streets or George street or Chapel and High.
 1 Commissioner Smith 1ueried as 10 thc reason that Chief Cowlcs had as i signed the sergennts to this watch duty The chief explained that he had ! received information that Holinger ] was not properly patrolling his beat and was going on the stage of the Fly l pcrion thcater He assigned Sergeant l Dohcrty to watch and sec if he could 1 find HolinEer going onto the stage but the sergeant after trying several nights reported that he could not sec without 1 being seen but that he had not seen l Hollnger on certain portions of hls ! beat in general Tho chief also ee l rlained that Holincor admitted before 1 the efficiency committee that he had been on the stage of the theater on two occasions SO these had heen included | in the charges No evidence as 10 these occasions was introduced before l tho board
 ratrolman rollinGer was then called | to tho stand in his own defense He 1 admitted at the start that he went onto the stage of tho Hyperion on tho 1 night of December 10 He said he had
 seen crowd of students hanging about the stage entrance, had gone and driven them away and that he then | went in to see what time the play
 would he over lt was the opening
 night of Eddie Foy He admitted he might have been in the theater about ten minutes. He said he stood by the switchboard as the switchboard opera tor was the only person there he knew and he waited for him to ask him the question he wanted to ask. Regarding | December 17 he absolutely denied the charge. stating that the theater had a dark night that night. There was no | play on and the place was locked up.
 He said also that it was that night he
 was before the efficiency committee re- garding the charges.
 He then went on to explain why he had not patrollcd his beat so often aa might he expected on the other nights named Hc said in the first place that he had two beats to cover
 He told of how hc went around in the IffI HI Nl''lfN dl'llN JUG if.d llE llA along and patrollod very carefully on December t2, he said he came i'm to report at t2:30 and went ont on three successive patrol wagon calls SO that 1t was 1:30 before he started out again. Then he had trouble with students in the center. followed them and finally brought two into the sta- ton so that 1t was about 2;3O before he got onto his beat which made it | impossible to cover all of 1t before report time again that night. On the | other days he testified that he covered
 his beat as well AS a number of simi- lar Interruptions gave him time to do so He explained the conversation | with Stanford by declaring that stan | ford had asked him for information and advice regarding a case he had | beford him. Stanford Is a supernum-
 erary and wanted the advice of an
 older man. He did not think, how
 ever, that the talk had been SO long as had been testified to-
 Regarding the testimony of Ser
 geant Tighe Hollinger differed from
 the sergeant. Sergeant Tlghe testified
 to meeting HolljnGer and talking with
 him, but certain questions which Hol-
 finger asked him if he did not say at
 that time which pertalned to ITollin~
 gers work Sergeant TIghe declared
 he had not said to the hest of his rec ollectjou Hollinger also asked the l sergeant if he had not been standin R
 behind tree in citizen clothes in
 Grown street when he came along, | but the sergeant denied that story.