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against one of the officers selected to
serve on the new police trial board.
Belief was expressed in police circles
that the complaint likely came from
Representative Blanton of Texas, who
made a sensational charge against Capt.
Guy E. Burlingame of the second pre-
cinct in his appeal brief in the case OF
former Policeman Orville Staples. Capt.
Burlingame is one of the members of
the new trial board.
Three New Trials.
Coupled with these developments was
an announcement by Maj. Hesse that
three more policemen would be ordered
before the trial board and the indict-
ment by the grand jury today OF Ed
ward NJ Taylor, suspended Traffic Bu-
reau officer, on charges of assault to
kill with dangerous weapon. Taylor
is in Jail awaiting trial on another in
dictment returned against him last
Spring in which he is alleged to have
hi-jacked vanload of liquor at Four
teenth street and Maryland avenue
northeast. Taylor. according to the
new indictment, shot William S. Nc
Breen, an employe of gasoline filling
station on Benning road northeast.
August 80. 1927.
The three other policemen slated to
go before the trial board are Claude
A.. Ezell of the third precinct and Lester
Parks and j. L. Taylor of the second
precinct. Ezell was suspended Satur-
day night when Night Inspector James
D. McQuade and Hugh Groves reported
that they found him in an intoxicated
condition IN his home on Morton street
in Lyon Village. Va. Maj. HeSSe said
he intended to send Parks and j. L.
Taylor before the trial board to
"straighten eut" conflicting stories sur
rounding the shooting of colored man
last week in the vicinity of Sixteenth
and r streets. The officers said they
shot at the man in elf-defense. but
when a search failed to produce the
weapon the victim was reported to have
thrown it away, an investigation was
ordered.
Cab Driver Complains.
According to the report of the inquiry
submitted by Inspector Albert j. Head
ley. Mai Hesse said residents in the
vicinity of the shooting heard from
three to ten shots fired The police
at the fleeing man.
A taXicab driver to whom Ezell is
alleged to have refused to pay his fare
after being taken to his home led to
the suspension of this officer. The cab
driver appeared at the third precinct
station about 9 o'clock Saturday night
and reported that he had taken Ezell
to Lyon Village and the officer had
declined to pay the fare. The cab
driver displayed at the time revolver
that had been found in his cab by
woman passenger. The pistol is said
to have been identified as EZellS.
Night Inspectors McQuade and Groves
then went to Ezells home and reported
to Lieut. w. E. Holmes that they had
found him in state of intoXicatiOn.
Ezell was fined $75 by the trial board
July 10 on a charge of ihtOXication.
Two other charges placed against him
at that time were dismissed.
Conditions in the Metropolitan Police
Department will be discussed by men,
bers of the public order committee of
the Washington Board of Trade Mon
day evening. at dinner meeting at $50
o'clock at the Raleigh Hotel. The meet
ing will be the first regular Fall ses-
sion of the committee which last Spring
studied proposed changes in the organi-
| zation and policies of the Police Trial
Board.