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tnaioveU.W. PolSHit In Courtlt;»ByProftaj muInCOUchithiupinmlt;uponinsaMembers of the University sec Police Department were raked ha\ over-the coals again today, this the lime by a University associate pro- hn fessor who accused two officers of res 'jump-judgment” and no willing- pU’ ness to right their mistakes, ]0v»The latest blast against the department came from Prof. Ellsworth A, Fisher, 4313 Baglcy Parkway, who appeared before Superior Judge Hoy Proctor on a charge of going through a stopsign.Most of Fisher’s wrath was directed at Officer Gerald Reis, who has arrested Fisher three times since 1949, twice for parking violations and once for the arterial violation.Fisher presented to the court a copy of a letter he wrote to F. B. Wilcox, supervisor of buildings and grounds at the University, “questioning the judgment exercised by Police Officer Reis” He said Reis had called at his home while he was away and “scared my wife” into paying for one of theparking tickets.Fisher, an extension specialist in entomology, wrote that Reis “gets so 6010110081“ while talking to an “assumed violator0* andchallenged his fitness for police work, 'The professor also charged that Investigator Joseph Hammersley gave him no consideration when he wrote to protest one of the park-ing tickets. . bHammersley’s reply certainly U displayed nothing but Gestapo-like tactics,” Fisher wrote.liemthsilt;ccmcati:ccthCcialt;n:€
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Madison Capital Times
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Wed, May 21, 1952
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