Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-12
HEARING BEFORE GOVERNOR
Omaha Mayor and Officials Appear at
State House.
DIRECTORS SLOW TO PROS . UTE
Showing They Were Asked TO Fur
nish Proof, but Seldom Came to
FrOnt-MOre Evidence
Put In.
(From a staff Correspondent)

LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. n.-(Special Tele-
gram )-Just before the conclusion Of the
hearing on the charges against Mayor
Dahlman, the police board and Chief of
Police Donahue of Omaha before Governor
shallenberger, late today, w. r. Patrick
made some remarks about the chief not en-
forcing the law,
when did you REFORM" asked Chief
Donahue. You'd better keep still"
you've been picked out of the gutter
many a time" chimed in Fred Hoye, men,
Der of the police board.
you are a liar, hotly replied Partcik.
You're another" just as hotly returned
Hoye and both men began to look be-
ligerent when Governor Shallenberger
sharply called them to order.
The hearing was on an application of the
anti-saloon league and Elmer Thomas for
an order directing the attorney general u
bring quo warranto proceedings to GUST the
mayor, members of the police board and
Chief of Police Donahue of Omaha from
office.
Attorney James Raft appeared for the
officials and Elmer Thomas w. r. Patricl
and L. d. Holmes for the complainants
with Harry Stone, Fred Kavan and Franz
Erdman as witnesses for the complainant
SIX violations Claimed.
1t was brought out in the testimony tina
in six places in Omaha the o'clock clos
ing law had been violated; that in Omaha
there are 240 saloons and 10 drug stores
that the anti-saloon league, which had di
rected its efforts to secure evidence Of vi
olations Of the o'clock law and tn
gambling laws of the state, had worked
six months to secure the above results. 1
was also brought out that most of the evi
dence secured to show the police were no
active was on the night of the Ak-Sar-B Be
parade and of the big military parade dur
ing the fall festivities 1t was on these oc
casions, the witnesses testified, that the
tried to get Captain Mostyn to have
policeman leave his beat and make arrest
at the Lentz & williams saloon CAPITAL
Mostyn was quoted as saying it would b
necessarw for the complainants to file
complaint before the arrests would b
made.
Frank Erdman Testifies.
Frank Erdman said he had been
gambler and had lost $500 In varlou
gambling rooms in Omaha, particularly 1
the Windsor hotel, the Murray hotel an
over the Budweiser saloon. After he ha
lost his money, he said, he complained
the Anti-Saloon league officers and had II
formed them where the gambling was bein
done. He did not inform the police, he sail
Erdman had taken Harry Stone an
Kavan, who is a clerk in the office of II
= Union Pacific, through the gambling hous'
J and they had seen men playing Becau.
he was a gambler, he said, 1t was an eas
matter for him to get into the houses ar
others could get in on his recommendatio
. Harry Stone and Fred Kavan testified
: having bought beer at the Henshaw, Il
Rome and other places after o'cloc
They bought 1t and drank 1t at the bar ar
carried away bottles of 1t. Stone testifi'
that he had also bought twenty-five
thirty cases of beer from the breweries al
had IL delivered, which sale, he said, Wi
in violation Of the Gibson law He now h5
several cases in his own cellar, he said.
= The three testified they had called Il
: attention Of the police to these violation
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