11/25/1929 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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Regular meeting of the Beard of Safety Monday November 25,1929. Meeting held in the Board of Safety office at 4 p.m. all members present except Mr. Engeldrum. Minutes of last meeting .approved following their reading and signed by Mr. Reeder. Motion prevailed that a special meeting be held at 10 a.m., November 27 to open bids for Fire Hose. Clerk instructed to issue the call. Requisitions for Fire Department were approved and payroll bill signed. Electrical Department, Requisitions Nos. 001558 —9 and 60 were approved Report received. Payroll affidavits signed. Weights and Measures.. Bills for payroll and use of car signed. Report placed on filed Police Department. Requisitions signed and payroll bills approved. Applications of L. R. Richardson and Joseph Miler approved and ordered placed on file. Letters ordered sent to Taxi Companies that petitions for stands will be considered at next regular meeting. B lanks ordered prepared to complt with new Taxi ordinance. Mrs. Evans report ordered placed on file. Patrolman Carl Wesolek sent the following communication to Chief Hatt and members of the board. " I hereby resign as -a member of the South Bend Police Department to become effective this date." The note signed by Carl Wesolek was dated Nove 23, 1929. Charges were filed by Chief ofmPolice James J. Hatt as of November 21, 1929 charging Officer Wesolek with intoxication. Charges a copy of which were delivered to Pffieer Wesolek were ordered placed on file. On motion of Dr. Johnston the resignition of Officer Wesolek was gdaegted and ordered placed on file. The following charges against Sergt. Lewis Mielke were then read by Mr. Reeder and the trial ordered to proceed. South Bend, Ind. November 15th., 1929 To t'e Honorable Board of Public Safety: Gentlemen: I herewith submitt t,'e following charges against Louis H. 1!�eilke, Sergt. of Police. That said Officer 11..eilke on the 6th. day of November,1929 was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer in that on the riorning of said date, he while under the influence of intoxicating liquor improperly interfered with the duties of L.B.Stacy a special Officer dup�y a >pointed, and acting for the Robertson Bros. Company of this - City; that said Officer L-- eilke; in the vicinity of the Robertson :giros ;tore accosted said Special Officer Stacy, and without provocatiol accused hit of impersonating an officer, indulged in uncalled for and abusei.ve language, tore his badge from his person, and took him i i to Po'_ice Hleadquarters w rere t =_e said Stacy was released by the officer in charge. I