South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-22
FAVORS
KLINE'S SPLEEN
AGAINST men
PatrOlmen Baxter and McCOr.
mick Fined When Detec-
tives Fail to Recognize
Their Uniforms.

Chief of Police Kline succeeded
Friday night in having Patrolmen
Emmet L. Baxter and Edward L.
Mccormick punished. following the
failure of the chiefs two proteges,
Detectives Aszklar and Mcintyre. to
recognize the two patrolmen during
the latter part of April, although
the two patrolmen were in full uni
form.
The board OF public safety ruled
Friday night that PatrOlmen Baxter
and Mccormick must forfeit 10
DAYS pay each. The charges against
the two patrolmen were filed by
Chief Kline, and they were suspend
ed from the department when the
chiefs proteges became confused in
their evidenee in city court in
liquor case against Joseph Lewis, W.
Washington av., charged with the
unlawful sale of liquor.
Detectives Are Mixed.
The two proteges said that they
had bought liquor in the Lewis place
but they each gave different dates
and addresses, although they were
both supposed To have bought the
liquor at the same place and at the
same time.
Then the two proteges began to
pave the way for the punishment of
Patrolmen Baxter and Mccormick.
Chief Kline's special detectives said
that there were two strangers in the
place at the time they bought the
LIQUOR. They said they did not know
the two strangers. 1t then developed
that the two strangers were Patrol
men Baxter and Mccormick and that
both Of them had on the full police
uniform.
Made Chief Uncomfortable
PatrOlman Mccormick is the
member of the department who
caused much discomfOrture 20 Chief
Kline and city officials generally sew
aral months ago when he testified
IN the circuit court that certain
whisky taken by the police was real
whisky when it left the possession
of John G.. Tony" Barrett in spite
of the subsequent discovery by Chief
Kline that the same whisky had
been transformed into sugar and
water having a dark brown color.
The board members listened to
the charges against the two patrol
men Friday night and then they
voted TO punish them. The charges
formally read that the two patrol
men had violated the law by being
I'm a saloon in spite Of the legal
abolition of the saloon both by state
and federal enactment Patrolman
Mccormick is said TO have aggra-
waited his case in the mind of the
police chief by saying: Il can only
tell the truth, no matter if it costs
me my lob" He made that state
ment following the city court hear
ing in which the two proteges of the
police chief had so confused their
evidence that the court was unable
TO tell when and where the Offense
with which Lewis was charged had
been committed.
Get Pay Petition.
After the board members had dis
posed of the charges againss the two
patrolmen. they took up a petition
signed by large number of citizens
asking tnat the pay of mem bers of
the police department be increased.
The petition was given the endorse
ment Of the Chamber OF Commerce
at a recent meeting of the members
of that body. and il was signed by
the heads of a number of the in
dustrial institutions of the city
The petition does not specify the
amount of the proposed increase. 1t
leaves that 10 the board and city
council The petition will be turned
over 10 the council by the board
and a meeting between members Of
both bodies Will be held 10 work out
a new schedule OF pay for the mem
berS OF the police department.