Hush-Up Policy on Floggings, Cops Reveal at Barton Trial
Hush-Up Policy on Floggings, Cops Reveal at Barton Trial testimony of Police Officials Implicates Defendants in Kidnapping of Poulnot — City Watchman Identifies Cop Who Pushed Victim Into...
...The police are never supposed to know anything about these floggings...
...police station at the time of the kidnapping...
...The revelations- were made by Police Lieut...
...Protecting Gamblers The Hillsborough County gs'mnd jury has recommended to Governor Sholtz the immediate xiuvmsusion of County Solicitor C. Jay Hardee for "incompetency, malfeasance and misfeasance in office and neglect of duty...
...The grand jury report, containing 17 specific I accusations, confirms the- general impression that Hardee has been using his-office to protect the million-dollar-a-month gambling rack* at here, Hardee was one of Farrior'a assistants until the trial was moved to Polk County, but his real interests were never supposed to be with the prosecution...
...Hush-Up Policy on Floggings, Cops Reveal at Barton Trial testimony of Police Officials Implicates Defendants in Kidnapping of Poulnot — City Watchman Identifies Cop Who Pushed Victim Into Car and Another Who Brutally, Muffled His Cry for Help —Trial Enter* Fourth Week...
...Two minor state witnesses testified they heard cries for help coming from the front of the...
...Eddings declared, "every affair of this kind ends up against a wall...
...BARTOW, Fla.—The general understanding among Tampa police and city employees that nobody is supposed to know anything about police participation in kidnapings and floggings was laid bare here last week by two police officials testifying as state witnesses in the trial of seven ex-cops for the false arrest and kidnaping of Eugene F. Poulnot, Chairman of the Florida Workers' Alliance...
...He vehemently denied Whitaker's insinuations that somebody had given the police permission to enter his home...
...The state, however, still has mote evidence to bring forward...
...The grand jury's report includes the statement that "ha is guilty of shirking his duty" in the flogging aaaQSj John Riegel, former city watchman, testified that, he recognised Poulnot as he was being forced into the kidnap car by policemen, Riegel described in detail how Carlisle pushed FesjfrjDeadnto the car and how Bridges tried to muffle his cries for help...
...I'm scared of that whole underworld bunch around Tampa —¦ you know who they are...
...i Howard E. McBride, police reporter of the Tampa Morning Tribune, was another state witness...
...Bush, who saw defendants Brown and Carlisle slam the...
...He identified C*Bafay in the kidnap car...
...of ii j right there...
...Sam J. Rogers and Joseph A. Shoemaker were kidnaped by police in front of the police station and subjected to floggings from which Shoemaker died...
...He bio wed ti«r"'t up, told me not to let it get to the Mayor and that was th«- en...
...door of an auto as he walked to the front of the police station to investigate "loud hollering," testified that he had told everything he knew to R. G. Tittsworth, former chief of police now on trial as accessory after the fact...
...A. M. Herald, in whose home the bylaws committee of the Modem Democrats, was mselhig when it was broken into by the polios, also testified last week...
...Riegel, too, had withheld the truth from the police committee: A Second Witness "I didn't tell the police commit* tee what I knew because I wag afraid them baggers would kill me...
...ha said looking straight at W hi taker...
...The trial goes into its fourth week with all the defendants implicated by many witnesses in both the falsa arrest and the kidnaping...
...I told him to get out warrants for their arrest, but he refured," Bush skid...
...J. L. Eddings and W. D. Bush, who was chief of detectives last November 30 when Poulnot, Dr...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 19
