The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-27
POLICE RAIDERS LOSE THEIR JOBS
 ASRESULT TRIAL
Taylor And Wellborn Are Removed But Pritchett
 Charges Are Dropped

Sam (Shot Gun) Taylor and W. W. Wellborn were ordered dismissed from the police force by the civil service board Tuesday night following compile tion of their trial on charges of conduct unbecoming of officers. The accusation against WA. Pritchett, third patrol man who had been charged with raiding home at Gate City February l and confiscating liquor to his own use, was dropped by the board,
 !. Conviction of Taylor and Wellborn followed the second evening of the trial of the trio, q session in which sensa- tional developments rapidly followed one another.
 Among these developments and what is believed to have resulted in the strongest bit of evidence against Taylor was the calling of Clyde Vaughn to the witness stand. Vaughn, it was said, was not expected to be used during the case, but with the reference of Taylor that he had been approached by him (vaughn) and offered clemency, subpoena was hurriedly issued to the patrolman who was at that time on his beat.
 Vaughn's testimony was to the effect that Taylor had admitted the raid to hir, during conversation shortly after it occurred. He said Taylor told him that he would never have touched the liquor had he known to whom it be- longed. At this time, Vaughn declared, he advised Taylor to make clean breast of it'' to the chief.
 Cross-examination of Vaughn by tho defense fniled to, shake his story. It. Afs& Montgomery, atterney. reprcsenti1iE Taylor, attempted to bring out that Vaughn had designs upon Tayiof's job on the motorcycle force and had "framed' the story to get him out of the way. Statements Denied
 Taylor, who took the stand immedi. ately after Vaughn, denied that he had ever made such statement. He said that Vaughn had asked him about the raid but he had told him he knew nothing of it.
 A second incident in the trial was a word battle between Montgomery and H. N. Byers, .'star" witness for the state. Called to the stand by Chief McDuff during rebuttal, he accused Montgomery of sending a man to him earlier in the afternoon to get him ''to reconsider his statements of the night before" This remark brought a denial from the attorney and started heated dispute between the pair.
 The defense sprang surprise early in the evening when it called Mrs. Sam Hamburger, at whose property the raid was supposed to have taken place, tC the stand. Mrs. Hamburger said she had seen no such raid, although she had been at home on the afternoon in ques tion. Her statements were corroborated by her daughter, Rosa.
 The remainder of the trial was large ly taken up by the testimony of We'll born and Taylor, who denied seizins the liquor, and the establishing of the formers alibi. In attempting to do this the defense called four men, E. NJ. Mo Carson, Harry Paley, Clyde Thomas and Fad Henderson, negro, to the stand all of whom testified to seeing Wellborr between 4 and 5 o'clock February l. At the close of the hearing, Clarenc, Mullins, attorney for Pitchett, made { motion to exclude the evidence so fai as his client was concerned, which wa. unanimously agreed to by the board K. NJ. Montgomery and Reese Murray counsel for Taylor and Wellborn, theI addressed the board for 10 minutes ii summing up the evidence.