Republican farmer., 1920-07-30
STANLEY IN ANOTHER.
 DENIAL
Says. He Believes .Suckley Referred to the Whole Board - Reiterates That He Had No Thought of Getting Cronan.

President John c. Stanley of the Board of Police Commissioners em- phatically denied this morning that he ever instructed former Assistant Superintendent of Police Charles H. Suck1ey to get ex-Captain Edward o. Cronan of the detective bureau, was intinrated by the former officer when he recently told Commissioners Primrose, Murphy and Anderson that he did not mean them when he an- nounced that he was instructed by someone to "get'' the detective chief. l Whether Suckley said ''commission- ers'' or "commissioner" in his fare 1 well address to officers of the police department, on July 15, now seems to l be the bone of contention which !. the entire matter is resting. At any rate, Suckley cleared Anderson, Mur- ! phy and Primrose at the meeting which was held Wednesday afternoon 1 at the Elks' club, and Stanley has put forth his own defense in the following statement which he issued today. MT. ] Stanley said:
 'fIt was not my privilege to be pres 1 ent at the meeting July 18th, so that I cannot, of my own knowledge, say just what was said by MT. Suck1ey;
 
 l the men present, and the account of l what he said, as it appeared in the ] press, which was taken by men train 1 ed by long experience to report ac- | curately what speakers say on such occasions, and three gentlemen of the press, all from different papers, re- ported the same words and printed ! same as Police Commissioners and "the board.'
 ! Not | they all could be mistaken in quot ing what was said, and I naturally as- i sumed they were correct. If they l were not correct, as is now claimed, l it is squarely up to the press of this
 city to make a retraction of the pre- | vious statemen
 "I believe the reporters did get it correctly for the reason-If Suckley l said a commissioner the natural thing would be for the reporters and
 others to ask him whom he meant | However, I say again, most en-
 phatically, that there is absolutely no
 truth in the statements that I told
 anybody to "get'' Captain Cronan or
 anybody. else.
 Assistant Superintendent Suck1ey
 was present at the meeting of the
 full board of commissioners and the
 mayor, and then made his verbal !
 made to me, and was told by me to
 present them to the board Tn verbal
 charges were heard by the board and the mayor, and after a lengthy dis cussion, lasting several hours, the
 board decided they would not enter
 tain verbal charges, that if written | charges were preferred they would
 entertain them. As president of the '. board, I notified Suck1ey, who imme- } 1, diately presented written charges and
 the board voted to suspend Captain Cronan and ordered him on trial"
 ''The board did not summon sin gle witness nor did they know who . the witnesses would be until they en i, tered the court room- All. of the / evidence was prepared at the time s Of the trial by Suckley, and all wit
 nesses were under oath. The Boare
 refused to consider some evidence presented previous to trial by Suck
 ley ,tellintg him to present it in opeI
 court.'
 T, personally, had no knowledge
 whatever of the Ella Miller afadavi ' presented by Suckley. which he hae
 in his coat pocket, and was as sur r. prised and astonished as was every f body else at it's presentation.
 1T was not present at, nor have I any knowledge of, a meeting such a. d Captain Cronan quotes Suckley al
 stating I was present at with tn : mayor MT. Meyers and Suckley." , 'I do not believe that my stand e ing in the community requires verff y cation of this statement. However if it does, I feel sure it will be read |. fly sustained by Mayor Wilson ant ' MT. Meyers"