05/22/1933 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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41 R I EC-ULAR MEETING MkY 22nd., 1933. Regular meetinp, held: by the Board of Public Safety 1 ray 22nd., 1933. lvleetinp c a Ile d t o order by 1 C. A. Budd , Pre sioe.ri t ., at 9-15 A. 1 All members present. POLICE DEPARTT NT CITY OF SOUTH LEND COUNTY OF ST. JOSEPH) SS STATE OF INDIANA.) The board of Public Safety of the City of South bend, Indiana, being in regular session at the hour of 9-30 A.Y., , y 22, 1933., the time set for the hearing of charges preferred against Officer Chester Wilmont by Chief of Chester r 4 Police John B. Kuespert, I'l 15, 1933, to the effect that said V�,rilmont was guilty of "Conduct unbecoming en officer and violation of the rules of the Police Department of the City of Sout h Ben d whi ch ch arge s a re in wor d s and f i p"Lire s as f o 1 lows , (HI) and said Officer Wilmont having been duly notified of said charges and the hop-ring of said charges having been set for 9-30 A. 1 lvi 22 1933, in presence of Officer Chester Wilmont and his attcrney, and said setting of hearing having been agreed to by said Officer V�ilmont and his attorney, and now sai Officer Wilmont fails to epperr before the Board. of Safety et the appointed hour either in person or by his attor- ney, and the Clerk of the Board having been ordered to call Officer Wilmont, and having called Officer Wilmont three times and Officer l'ilmont responding not either in p erson or by attorney and t he Board having heard the testimony - g p of C ,ptain Edward V. Horris after he had been duly sworn, and finding that the charges preferred against said Of fi cer , - 1ilmont here supported by the evidence' adduced the Board, by unanimous vote dismisses said Officer Wilmont from the Police. Dbpartment of the City of South Bend and discharges-him from its service effective at once which discharge and dismissal are for the reason that . s said Office Chester Wilmont was guilty of "Conduct unbecoming an officer and violation of rules of the Police Department of South Bend,, Indiana, in that on the 26th. 2 day of April, 1933, said patrolman Wilmont was detailed at Epworth Hospital in company with of Bend Roberts, to guard tinTo prisoners, to-wit, the Rajski brothers who had been wounded in an attempt to commit robery and house-breaking in the city of South B and were confined. in said hospital and that while on guard and. on duty, said officer left his post of duty partially disrobed and laid down on a davenport in said hospital and went to sleep and that he was so discovered by C 1 of said Police Department at 2:15 A. hl., on the morning of April 26, 1933, and it is so ordered, that said officer Chester Wilmont be dismissed and discharged from the Police Department of the City of South Bend, Indiana. Subscribed and sworn trn before me tti_- 22nd day of 1 1933. t 0 5 _Vl Public C- 7�� Y'y Uommission e�xpires b 193