Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-02
kRENCEL'S TESTIMONY
GOES UNQUEsT|0NED
Chief Werner Unable to Give Any
Instance of Misleading
Information.
ADMITS TWO JEwELRY SALES
Board Defers Final Action Until To-
Night to Hear From Hiram NJ.
Smith ms to Further Alleged Traf-
fic in Jewelry.

After an executive session OF two
hours. the Board OF Police Commissions
| erS, hearing charges of Conduct unbc-
| coming an officer against Detective
| Sergeant Fred l.. Ercnrel, Last night
! postponed final decision in the case un
I'll tonight. The continuance was
decided upon when 1t was said by ono
! of those attending the meeting that
| the statement had been made that
Assistant District Attorney Hiram NJ.
Smith had personal knowledge of al
legged traficking in merchandise by
krenEcl y telegram was sent the at
torney ut Norfolk. asking Tim To in
form the board to-day If such was the
case. and signifyins that the further
hearing OF the charges would he post
poned again if he had evidence which
should hc introduced.
No witnesses were heard by the
board at the hearing last night. The
! com sSioners decided that some of tho
witnesses against krcnGcl. in the cases
in which he denied any participation,
were of such 4 character that they
could not be believed on oath. and that
their testimony would Ice valueieSS. In
two cases the detective sergeant adj
mittcd selling merchandise, and. this
being true ii was deemed unnecessary
to hear the testimony of the witnesses
who had been summoned.
! WERNER FORMILATES
CHARGES AGAINST t<RENGfI.
Charges against lNrensel were
brought by Chief OF Police Werner
after he had been instructed by the
Board OF Police Commissioners. at a
former meeting, to take such action
should he deem Ii wise after invcsti-
eating the evidence adduccd before the
Council Investigating Committee. AZ
ter several weeks of dcliberotion. the
Chief of Police filed the following
charges:
,nr a,,f 70 inc I'm hn
Board Of Police Commissioners to for
mulate such charges against detective
Sergeant Fred l.. krcngel as the evil
dcnCc adduced before the Council In
vcstigatinE Committee might warrant,
| hereby prefer the following charges
against the officer:
Conduct unbecominE an officer
Specifications: Trading AMI dealing
/ in merchandise OF various kinds with
| persons suspected of crimes and mis-
! lance To his own personal advantage.
Giving exaggerated and misleading
testimony before the Council lnvesti-
, eating Committee
/ Witnesses named by Major Werner
Were: Louis Biagi. Annie Clayton. jim
/ Davis, Lucinda Davis. NJ. Golden, NJ.
Ridley and l.. Wildhorn.
+ DROP SPECIFICATIONS
/ AS TO MISLEADING TESTIMONY
Detective Sergeant Krcngcl will not
/ be tried ON the charge OF giving mis-
! leading information before the Coun-
3 ell committee II was said after the
/ meeting last night that Major Werner
VAS not in a position TO prove that any
/ of the testimony given by the officer
/ before the committee WAS false,
and his testimony is therefore accept
/ eel as true in every instance
This matter was only slightly
/ touched upon at the meeting last night.
I Major Werner, as soon as Captain Pol
/ lock had read the charges against
/ krcnCcl. made Il point of his inability
/ to prove untrue any Of KrenGers tes-
/ timonY. and the board accepted the
I statement as Nnal.
As soon as this matter had been dis
posed of the board went into the char
actcr Of the witnesses who had been
! summoned against Krcngcl. During the
/ discussion Murray NJ Mcclure. repre-
/ scntins the officer, noted the fact that
krenge! would admit selling u shotgun
{ 10 Louis Biagi, and pair 0t earrings
I 10 smut" Stewart. Both We're his per-
! L. in an effort to secure information
needed in his police investigations. il
I was stated With these two specific
/ cases admitted. the board decided that
I the character OF the witnesses in other
cases was such as to warrant unbclicf
on oath and decided to take no coguiZ-
{ ance OF them.
HIRAM VI. SMITH INVITED TO
GIVE FIRST-HAND IMPORTATION
At this point mention was made OF
I know!cdEc said TO be possessed by At
torn"y Smith. who prosecuted Krcngcl
before the Council Investigating Com