IT WANTS TO KNOW
JURY CALLS MAYOR BEARDSLEY
TO CARPET AGAIN.
INDICTMENT MAY FOLLOW
YEAR IN JAIL OR A $500 FINE
THE PENALTY.
It Is Thought Police Board Has Been
Given One More Chance to Order
Police to Make View Arrests
of Sunday Violators.
Mayor Beardsley was called before the grand jury yesterday afternoon, as was Chief of Police Daniel Ahern. They were asked why the police had failed to make "on view" arrests of sellers of wares which the grand jury had placed under the ban on Sundays. The police commissioner, A. E. Gallagher, who was before the jury Saturday, was not summoned yesterday. County Prosecutor I. B. Kimbrell was before the jury half a dozen times.
All during the day, T. T. Willis, the foreman, kept running out of the jury room to hold whispered conversations with Judge Wallace. Several times Prosecutor Kimbrell was called in to make the conference three-cornered. When Kimbrell was not in the jury room, he was pacing up and down the corridor outside the grand jury door.
Just before Mayor Beardsley left the criminal court building, he was surrounded by a group of reporters.
"Were you summoned for a conference, as a witness or for what?" he was asked.
"Just for what. That is it, exactly -- for what?" he replied.
That the question of indicting the mayor and the police commissioners for their neglect to obey the mandate of the grand jury and order the patrolmen to make "on view" arrests Sunday was the matter under discussion, there is no doubt. All that happened inside the jury room, of course, is not known, but it is certain that Mr. Kimbrell was asked again, as on Saturday, to inform the mayor of the law which requires the police board to order view arrests made, and the law which lays members of the board liable to pay a fine of $500 or to serve one year in jail for failure to make such order. Nothing was done yesterday so far as could be learned, except the expenditure of much breath, but things are in a very pretty tangle.
