Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-08
GOODE NO LONGER
ON POLICE BOARD
Yields to Overwhelming Public
Sentiment at Direct Request
of Mayor Ainslie.
WILL CREATE NO VACANCY
Pitcher Resolution Looking to
Removal From Office Will
Now Be Withdrawn.
WILL CREATE NO VACANCY

Police Commissioner r. n. Goode
handed to Mayor Ainslic yesterday his
resignation as member Of the Police
board. and asked that 1t be forwarded
TO the Council. The Mayor lost no time
N sending IL to City Clerk August. and
the latter Will present IL to the Joint
session Of the City Council. which
meets at 7:30 O'Clock tonight 1t goes
without saying that II Will be accepted
The resignation was yesterdays
startling contribution to the clearing
up process which followed fast on the
heels of the storm that was brewed on
the night Of September 30. when the
Police Board. In special session re-
moved Sergeant Krcngcl and denoted
Sergeant Shoemaker
Indignation at what was popularlv
looked upon as fragrant act OF ven
geance found expression in wide
spread movement for mass-mcetinE
OF protest 20 be held last night Then
came the epoch making ruling OF
Mayor Ainslie sustaining Commissioner
Gordon's point that the demotions and
disinissals OF the special meeting were
null and void. On tho very eve OF the
mas ass-meeting followed yesterday the
resignation of Mr. Goode.
MAYOR TAKES STEPS TO
SECURE RESIGNATION
"On arriving at my Office this morn
ing" said the Mayor. Il called up my
friend, Hiram NJ. Smith, who acted as
Hr Goodies counsel during the council
manic investigation. and ask ed him as
favor 10 me. to use his good offices
In getting Mr.. Goode 10 resign his Of
fec as Police Commissioner, and to let
me have it as soon as il could be had
MIR. Smith agreed TO do so, ana in
a few hours Mr. Goode called me up
on the telephone and told me that e
had signed his resignation and would
bring ii up, or send it up. in little
while. Shortly after my return from
dinner Mr Goode came TO my Office and
handed me his resignation. addressed
TO the City Council
Il Immediately turned it over 10 the
city clerk, with the request that IL be
brought 10 the Councils attention at
/ the earliest proper time"
GOODIES RESIGNATION
CREATES NO VACANCY
Mr.. Goode was elected In 1910 to rep
resent old Marshall Ward His name
was presented TO the Council by a di-
v!ded ward delegation. the opposition
favoring the recollection OF Joseph e
Welsh. The Council. however. elected
Goode. His term would have cxpircd
on juno 80 1916. The resignation Of
Mr.. Goode leaves no vacancy on the
Police Board. since the ward from
which he was elected has been abol-
ished.
There is pending before the Common
council a resolution introduced by
Councilman Pitcher providing for the
removal Of Mr.. Goode from Office The
mn &c an hA y ~.
OF an opinion by the City Attorney as
TO ITS legality. With Mr. Goodies resig-
nation already in the hands of the
Council. the resolution introduced by
Councilman Pitcher will no longer be
necessary. and the paper will be with
drawn.
Besides accepting the resignation of
Mr.. Goode, the joint session will to-
night elect w. Greed Davis as a mem
ber OF the Police Board from Lee Ward
10 succeed Colonel II. NJ. BoykIn, re-
signed. 1t will also elect Ernest NJ.
Long as member OF the School Board
from the Third District. to succeed the
late w. J. Kimbrough.
TEXT OF GOODIES LETTER
RESIGSING HIS POSITION
The text OF Mr. Goodies notice OF
resignation follows:
Richmond Va, October I, 1915.
To the Honorable Council of the CITY
of Richmond
Gentlemen.-I hereby tender YOU my
resignation a member of the Board
of Police Commissioners OF the city of
Richmond, TO become effective imme-
diately.
| desire to state to your honorable
body that it was never my intention TO
n r1 hn oh
expressed in the resolution concurred
in by your body on September q. A
certified copy OF that resolution was
officially served upon me on the 3oth
of September, less than one week ago.
i felt that it was my right TO take a
few days to consider what my course
of action should be, and how the same
should be executed, and had il not
been for the gratuitous and, in my
opinion, unwarranted, criticism of mo
by certain elements In this city, you
should have had this communication
before now. Public opinion, however,
has been aroused against me to such
an extent that 1 fear my friends who
stood by me during the investigation
and even those members of the Coun-
Gil, who, in the conscientious exercise
Of their rights, cast their votes in nv
behalf, are becoming subjects of crit
icism and will suffer thereby am
unwilling that such a condition should
exist
am asking the Hon. George Ainslie.
Mayor of the city of Richmond, to
present this to you at your next meet
ing. Respectfully,
(Signed) r. ~ GOODE