Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-08-02
POLICE COMMITTEE TEN KILLED WHEN
TO INVESTIGATE At. TUG BOAT BLOWS
A MEETING TODAY Up IN NEW YORK
Mayor Calls Attention to
Conditions in Depart
nent
NEW TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
Prohibits Angle Parking
on the Principal
Streets

A special meeting OF the police
committee of council was called i'm
lmediately after the meeting OF coun-
Gil last night for 3 o'clock this aft
ernoon when charged made by Mayor
Steen will be investigated. Alderman
Crane made the motion that the po-
| lice committee make the investiga-
tion and refer their findings back to
council for final action.
In making his charges Mayor
Steen said that he had made super
ficial examination to see that he was
justified in calling the matter to the
attention of council. One of the
cases was that of Officer Ferrell,
who accidentally shot a negro named
Maude Lee on the night of July 28.
Officer Ferrell was charged by the
mayor in his formal notification of
suspension with the careless handling
of firearms and with being intoxicat-
ed while on duty. Friends of the Of
ficer state that he was not intOxicat-
ed; that he is not a drinking man,
but that he had taken three small
glasses of sweet wine, following a
visit to a physicians office, and that
the accident, while deplorable, was
one that might have happened to
anyone handling firearms.
! To Probe Another Case.
Il Mayor Steen also said that his at
tentiOn had been called to another
matter that might be Investigated
that of the return of bond posted
|! BY a local ciizen who had been ar
rested in a local hotel in company
with a married woman. The arrest
ing officer, the mayor said took a
cash bond, but that later the bono
was returned to the person arrested
supposedly by order Of the police
cher, and no case was ever made.
The session Of council last night
was otherwise devoid of special inter
est, with the possible exception of the
| new traffic ordinance, making Ger
| tain additions to the present ordi
nance. The ordinance was placed OF
its first reading, and then referred
back to the ordinance committee, il
connection with the mayor and stree
] committee
! Noteworthy provisions in the ordi
nance are that instead of parking
cars along paved streets at an angle
as now is done, making Lemon stree
on a crowded day a dangerous place
all cars will be parked parallel wit
the curb, the two right wheels beinj
not over six inches from the curb
] Another provision is that no moto
vehicle driver shall make U turI
on Lemon street at Second, ThirC
Fourth, Fifth or Sixth streets.
A petition signed by practically al
Of the business firms on South Sec
Iond street was presented asking tha
no ordinance be passed prohibitin
the parking of cars on both sides o
South Second street. There was n
such provision in the ordinance plac
ed on its first reading.
The ordinance further provide
that there shall be no parking o.
n Lemon street between First an
n Twelfth between the hours of 6 p. N
: and a. m. for a period of longe
e than forty minutes unless the car b
d attended by someone, and that no au
V tomobile be parked on any pave
I street between l a. m. and a. m.
d There was considerable argumen
: over some of the provisions, and fo
: this reason it was decided to send tn
e ordinance back to the committees.
: On petition of DIR. E. W. Warner
= chairman of the school trustee:
who explained the financial difficul
ties of the schools, all charges to
water against the schools in futur
will be cancelled.
! On a resolution offered by the leg;
! department an additional 81, 1000 bon
n was authorized to protect the city
: interests in the pending. suit againI
the Southern Utilities company in Il
: electric light case. The finance con
v mittee also recommended the emplo,
ID ment of Hilburn & Merryday to CO.
tinue the prosecution of the gas i