Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-13
.BURL Policeman
Proud o. CRUELTY 4 |:
.Patrolman Tyler Says Easiest
Way is 10 Drag Women
BY Their Hair.
FALLS INTO A NEAT TRAP I
Tells What n Man Did WHO Was Not
There AT the tTimcN Blue
coat With u Record.

coat. with u Record.
1.-THE easiest way to handle women
is by the hair, If you don't want to
get scratched. Its soft, too, and II
doesn't hurt the hands know be-
cause I've had experience. - lXccrpt
from Patrolman j. n Tyler's forth
coming book on Helpful Hints to Pos
tsliecmen and Husbands, and Police Eth
| les in the Handling, of Women, and
repeated by the authorfrom the witness
| stand this morning in Judge BoWman's
l5court.
Because big, burly policeman, with
| former experience in insane asyluns.
I&1ails, etc, and who$is serving a second
term as patrohnan. deems, from his eS-
l6perience, that the most humane way
Ito handle an intoxicated woman is by
| the hair, Is that sufficient justification
| for men to Interfere and suggest35to
1.-the experienced officer that that is
lEno good way to do? This is the ques-'
| ton being presented to Judge Bowman
today in tire cases of George Ottewill.
lfJ.sC. Miller, j. r, Waters, Harry A us
IStin, w. S.. Terry and III. "A u. Silver,
49, ~
Patrolman j II. Tyler, with having in
lterfered With an officer in the discharge D
of his duty.
The; Rearing of the case is an all-dayl
affair, beginning at 10&so'clock tiiss
morning and is still IN progress this
afternoon.
The forenoon session was taken up
almost entirely with tile direct testi-5
|3mony8 and cross examination OF Patrol
ma, l,np M
central figure in the escapade occurring
on July 5, which resulted in the arrest
of the defendants, as through Tyler
the stories Of the two sides We're fairly
We'll developed. at the same time, .un-
der a srilling ross-eSamination, many
unique exposures of a policeman's = uty.s
as conceived by the witness, were
given 5ssSg5
TOOK WOMAN BY HER HAIR. t5
On his direct story Officer Tyler told
how he had encountered a woman
named Mary Jones in West Temple
street in an intoxicated condition and
making a nuisance of herself He had,
arrested heer and tried to talks her to
police headquarters when she began
scufflng. In her resistance she had
thrown her arm around an iron post
and then, in some unaccountable way,
1.-The club in the officers hand flew UP
and struck her on the jaw and mouth
causing, the blood to now. freely. Pa
trolman Tyler thenrem mbered his for
iler experiences and the efficiency of
hair grabbing He grabbed the wom-
an by the hair--to find that she Wore
Il wig Nothing daunted. however he
made another grab and caught the real
hair, Just at the nape OF the neck where,
although ut hurts a little 1T doesn't do
any harm and was starting oft for the
police station with his dragging load
when George Ottewill stepped UP and
in a gentle remonstrative way 5silg-f
gested that he be given the woman to
take care Of, From then on the story
was pretty much of Il tumble, there
were so many mixed up In It., but the
patroman was sure that he had ler
the woman go, had thrown Ottewill to
the sidewalk and was choking him into
submission when the other bYstand-
ers, i didn't have time to count them
but + think there was about %, be-
gan kicking him until he lined some
of the - UP against
the fence, : with. his gun, \
T YLBR TALKS ABOUT DUMMY.
Under ross-examination officer Iy
Ter was psibly ratified at times, butt
chung to his story. His positiveness5 of
hot being excited at the time of tho
occurrence, however, led him into a.
neat trap when the counsel for the dee
PENDANTS. after placing a dummy.
/ or witness, at the end of tlleSrow of de-
Pendants asked the complaining Wit
ness: II. VII.
4" Now. just what did that man do2?'
pointing to the dummy.
"IIe was in the thickest Of the fray
He Kicked fine twice and struck me, &
too,,' was the prompt answer.
'.And you arrested HING"
Yes. .
You're sure OF that, are You p
absolutely positive
a s it happened tfls. man WAS not mt
dor arrest at ali, but when the matter
was explained to Mr.Tyler he thought
they meant the man next to him..
Mr. Tyler confessed that he had for
iIerly been a member of the police de-
ipartmsnt, that he had been charged
with being drunk while on duty, but
stated athatino formal charge had been
made against him and he had voitii-9
tarily, resigned because he knew te$wils;
unsatisfactory to the then chief of paei
lice. When Chief Barlow Was appni1lt1
ed he had put in an application and
was stelsetedn patrolnlan agalr,, This
statement was preliminary to the lead
ing question of the defendants counsel
rs to what Mr.. Tyler had drank In a
saloon ON the day of the troube.
TO the more pointed question as 10
whether or not he had drank two glass
JOS of beer and taken a gar III a GER
tain saloon on that day, while on duty
Mr. Tyler replied with positlveness that
he had not touched Intoxicating liquors
for Is months. and at that time, the in-
eieient referred to. had only taken n
glass of ice water.
y The ease VIII occupy he courts att
tention this afternoon and Will per-
haps go over until tomorrow.
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