The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-28
PALMER IS TRIED
IN POLICE COURT
Special Officer Is Charged
With Beating Charles Nc
ellis of Telegram.
CASE is TAKEN UNDER
AMUSEMENT BY COURT
Proof Is Abundant That Palmer
Is Guilty of a Brutal As ~
sauIt.

Upon the conclusion OF the hearing In
the case OF Ed W. Palmer. special
deputy employed by the Saltair Beach
company charged with battery on
Charles McGius street circulator Tor Tho
Telegram Judge Whitaker OF the police
court announced Wednesday forenoon
that he would take the matter under ad-
vIscmenI. Two questions arc involved:
First whether Palmer had the right 10
eject the newsboy from tho grounds Of
the Salt0ir company; and, second,
whether he used more force than was
necessary. The young man was engaged
in selling the Telegram at the time he
was elected.
There was testimony TO the effect that
Palmer struck, choked and otherwise
beat the newsboy without revealing the
fact that he was an officer with power TO
eject the newsboy from the grounds:
There were other witnesses who testified
that Palmer did not use more than Sutn-
Client force TO eject the newsboy Tho
majority OF these witnesses were en-
ployees OF the Saltair Beach company.
and testified that they did not see all OF
the scufne.
There to Investigate.
For the purpose Of selling his papers,
McGillis went TO the Saltair depot on the
| afternoon OF July and refused TO quiz
the grounds until Palmer had demon
strated that he was an officer with power
to eject. Palmer then took McGillis 10
| the county Jail. where Palmer was reprl-
manded for ejecting the newsboy by
he was not under arrest,
When McGillis took the stand In his
own behalf. he testified that he had been
told by tho ncwsboys that they were
prevented from selling the Telegram at
| the depot and that he had gone TO the
depot 10 ascertain the facts for himself.
Deseret News and the Telegram under
his arm and was in the act OF selling tho
| papers when he was attacked by Palmer
and choked. He testified that he had
" rnI n he IN
officer and that Palmer refused to an
swer and took him to the county jail.
McGilis testified that he had been chokcd
and beaten by Palmer.
Palmer Enters Denial.
| Palmer. when called to the stand. de-
| MED that he had struck choked Nc
| ellis. and said that he had merely ejectI
cd him from the grounds. and when hl.
| resisted had taken him to the county
jail. Carl Strauss. a travelling salesman.
who was returning from the beach. testi-
fed that he had seen Palmer beating
the newsooy. and that he told the news
had better go along with him, but that
the officer had no right to beat him up.
j; w Musgrave circulation manager
culation manager of the Telegram, testi-
fed that they had seen the trouble as
they were about TO board the train for
the beach, Both witnesses swore posi-
lively that Palmer had attacked the
young man without a word OF warning or
explanation. Upon the Introduction of
the testimony for the prosecution, the
attorney asked that the case be dis
missed. but Judge Whitaker denied the
motion.
Palmer was followed on the witness
stand by a.. M. Swan. fireman on the
Saltair train; Ernest Nelson, ticket
agent of the Saltair company; j. c. Wat
son, employed at Saltair; 3. NJ. Sherman,
train. and Miss Mae Joyce. the young
woman employed at the candy stand at
the depot. None of them saw the
whole OF the scuflie and some of them
only saw part OF it. they testified. Miss
Mae Joyce admitted that she wished 10
see Palmer acquitted.