New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1929, Page 3

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929. Mount Dropped From Police Force For Unbecoming Conduct, Echo of Attitude Toward Mayor at Polls| Supernumerary For 29 Years Refused to Apologize For Ordering Paonessa Away From Voting Place, and Declaring He Had Been Trapped. he was polling last November ward Found guilty of the charge of con- |clection day duct unbecoming an officer, Super- |assigned to the sixtl numerary Officer Harry Mount, 67. |place at the Elihu Bur of 63 Hart street was dismissed from | North, Clark and T.ce stre the police department by unanimous |orders from Chief Hart 1 vote of the board of police commis- |anyone to loiter within sioners after a hearing lasting more |school. » than two hours last night. The board | He estimated t 1d he held the hearing in public in the po- duty election days for v lice court room and retired to the [more and had never allowed a judges' chamber for a brief execu- |to loiter. On the day in tive session. Male members of Of- | had occasion to req icer Mount's family were among the [Grath, a former supernumerary po- spectators, of whom there were sev- |liceman, and two companions, to eral. |move and they obeyed. He remind- The charge resulted from state- |ed McGrath that he should know ments made by Officer Mount at a |better than to loiter inside meeting of the committee on rules |fcot district because of his former and discipline August 12 when he |connection with the police depart- was given a hearing relative to hisment, and Mc rcfusal to “make his poace” with | Shortly before noon cr A. M. Paonessa, he and the|onessa and Park mayor having had a verbal tilt on | Clyde Ellingwood were clection day in Novembe 1628, | stricted area. Officer while the officer was on duty at the (Know them but when he sixth ward polling place at Elihu [them to move one of them Burritt scchool. around and said he the That ho had been discriminated | “He started to bulldoze me and he against since 1922 in the matter of |SWOTe at met” the officer declared. police assignments and that detailing |ASK by Attorney Appell if he him to the sixth ward polling place | recull the language the mayor used, was a trap deliberately set to Officer Mount said h “catch” him were the statements on | Know “Who the hell are which the charge was based, Last|Mavor” and he also threatened to night, Officer Mount sought to ex- |have the officer removed from plain to the board that the intent of |dsSiEnment. Finally the his statements was different from | 00K the mayor by the that which the commissioners placed |StoPped further tulk. on them. He was represented by | Mayor “Up In (he Air” Attorney Leonard S. Appell | A short time after fhis incident. Poliis e To sy yatks Officer Mount was ordered to re At trioWarening ot thok hearing. (L oXt atipolicaeadnlaricrs yhiero Chairman Bannan had Clerk M- | nct ¢hied Harl. who told him to go Grail read the charge and asked Of- |'0M® and “tak aRINNaS er Mount if he was ready to sub- | 1 oyor oS up in Lo antiate his statements. HalEE Ol DAIDS The officer replied affirmatively “,“”"1 Forork canz hollon and Attorney Appell sad he was de- | 1 o0 e sirous of bringing out all the oL 8! in the case. il L UOS fore the commit- Mount s(\]}i e discipline .ll\ the little later Captain supernumerary fo vears and couid not havc for six years prior to his appoint- ment he was a fire policeman under an arrangement which was done away with years ago. He had never broken any rules of the department, to his knowledge, and had never been Lefore the discipline committee | prior to the present difficulty. to allow on he s Me- Mayor Pa. Mount did not | turned arm the cor facts ) as brought e tee on rules 1 sieantime and ielly told him any more police wor gized to May huttle Meadow club and he worked there watzhman without police ba uniform’ from > 8 to July 22. Motoreyele Officer David Doty On | called at his home on a Saturday in attorney, Officer a member of the onessa. The sent for him week-onds as itt school on | ets with | street duty 75 feet of the | n on | the 75| ath agreed with him. | Superintendent | reply to Attorn inside the re- |believed the commissioners we ordered | iice forc mayor. | could | my mouth shut demanded to | you? I'm the the | moderator | and the | con- | until he apoio- | July and notified him not to work ut| Superintendent Ellingwood testi- | the club any more on orders fron:|fied that he was looking for Chief Hart. Later he met the chief | Paonessa to sign the parl |on Main strect and the latter (old |ment payroll on election day and him he would Le brought before the | met him in front of the polling plac: | board of police commissioners u | After the mayor had signed the p: he apologiz ayor. H 1/ roll he and the superintendent dis- | | tho chi a ng to apolo- |cussed the planting of gize for. {about ‘the World war m | On August 12, Walnut Hill park. Officer _\laum1 fore the four commissioners, thclcame along and ordered them chief anc the clerk in the chief'|move and Ellingwood at first \|vou[:)\! office. “They put so much onto me, | he was joking, but he went and did | the four of them, I did fot know |not know what became of the what I wus saying, to tell the truth,” |mayor. He was quite certain the Cfficer Mount asserted. When heimavor said something to Officer made the assertion at that meefting | \fount hefore leaving but he could | that he had bcen given hardly any |not recall what it was. { city work since 1922 he meant that | = Questioned by Chairman Bannan, he had seldom been called on o do {officer Mount said he could not re- for which he would be |ca)l having told Lieutenant Rival he (L did not care to do street duty. Tt was ry for the chairr n to insist direct answers to his questions Attorhey Appell advised the of- to say he did not remember if he icould not be positive in his re- plies. Attorney Appell questioned Chief Hart, who recalled that he sent Of- Mount home after the tilt with the mayor. In July the chief receiv- | ed information that a son of Office Mount told someone in a factory that his father was “putting some- thing over” by working at the Shut- chased |tle Meadow club, so the chief sent o | Officer Doty to Officer Mount's home to warn him not to do police work Attorney Appel asked the board {o disregard anything Officer Mount'. sons might have said. “They are of age and if they don't know any bet- ter than to say those things, do not hold it against him.” he and Commissioner Tomikowski reminded him that the board was guided by the charter requirements as to the hearing and nothing would be con- | sidered except what was included in | the charges against the officer. | Mount's Earnings Tn reply, to Chairman norial on | he was brought he- | vaid by Asked to Explain “Trap” Asked by Attorney Appell to vx- on plain what he meant when he de- and | clared at that ting that there was | ficer ot -up”, Commissionsr Tomi- | Kowski d ving the officer | had declared a trap had been set for him. Aftorney Appell assured the commissioners he warted everything | brought’out and he had no objection to using the word “trap.” “I was all riled up did not know what I was sayi the offi- cer said. “I meavt it looked like a trap because I was being |around like a spider's web Appell, he the neces: ing for a way to get Lim off the po- ce November did you tell a one you yut something over on the | board 2" the atto | the officer replir sked w he had put anything newspapers abeut te case, he tive! | not info the veplied Asked if he had any il feeling towards the mayor, any com- missioner or any member of the po- | lice force, Ofticer Movnt replicd that he had none. ief Hart said it was the didn’t you apologize?” the understanding about police heatl- gL v |quarters that Ofticer Mount pre- | use I was sent there o 40 | forrtd not to work all night on street | my duty and T ¢d my duty as T Was duty, so he was given hall work and ordered to," the offcer answered. other private work, so-called.,. For | Did Not Care for Night Street Duty apont 1 the chief said. Offi- | Licutenant Matthias Rival was ' cor Mount summoned from desk duty and ask- trol work because it would interfere ed by Chairman Bannan it Officer | with his day work in the factory. | | Mount had ever asked not to be|Pprior to 1922, Officer Mount was a | given strect duty and the licutenant | theater o veplied that he recalled that the of- |yeq ficer had told him within the last regular patrolmen were two years that he did not care for all | the theaters, the chief said. The de- night work beeause of his position in | partment records showed that in ctory. In reply to Chairman | . Officer Mount earned § n, the lieutenant said nobody [on private work; $424.95 in had ever instructed him not to give $423.40 in 19 Officer Mount street work nor had 8 in | anyone ever ordered him to discrim- | ) in 1920, inate against the officer or any other | polling p\ ce duty officer. To Attorney Appell, the licu- |in tenant said he had never had any 1 to find fault with Officer work. 3annan | | | vears, | was made whereby gned to | change 596.30 in d tor street and he carned Mount's e YOUR NEW BRITAIN As alocal resident you are one of 80,000 “stockhold Be loyal to it. Patronize its merchants and indust: RESERVOIRS— Waiting to be Tapped The capacity of New Britain’s water system is 1,604,467,719 gallons, from which the public consumed 2,123,281,- 203 gallons in 1928. You turn the faucet and the water’s there. You open an account here, maintain a good balance, build up your credit, and a financial reservoir is yours to drawon for all your sound, legitimate banking needs. Like the city’s water system, ““ The Anvil Bank” plays a big part daily in New Britain life with its vital supplies of money and credit. Open Saturday Evenings 7-9 DS Build And Help Build ers” in the civic enterprise known as the City of New Britain. ries, Questioned by Mayor | chief s depart- | Officer had he | work on | have been glad to assign him because there shrubbery [ when the night manned. Asked by knew {the watchman's job at the club, the | chief replied that he | | hea not done all-night pa- | N r but in August of that | | ¥lood, Meado rember of a s his infl Mount with the watchman was under- |less he I lofticer would he |ground that 1 for which he s Attorney Ap Officer Aftorney Appell, the | Val 1 he had no complaint about Mount policeman and known the officer wanted to |to beats all night he would str been numerous occasions force have wou ttorney Appell if the reason Officer Mount lost knew only from We don't want any hea had enough already,” of th irman Bannan interjected. |w n had b putting ighten mayor d police authority, he had Mount's sons be report. had gained credence professional at the |working at the w club, testified that |Parker, objected, committee asked him | ground that uence to have Officer | board out his difficulty as his services 1ld be negligible was conc proving or T R but the |¢p, apologize on the done nothing hould do so. pell vidence Mount plac wrrest for refi work would not suggested at heard that one oasted that his father something over” by as the club. however, on the disproving of the charges “Most Convenient Memory” Dannan, said that 1 Mayor Paonessa undcr | the to move, officer Commissioner matter the | tell, he was the | chairman Shuttl alled - on him ¢ chairman lall that was mecessary officer *make ‘mayor and the conveniently forgot, serted. 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