Bregel v. City of Newport

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

Frank Bregel was a member of tbe Newport police department for twenty-five years and for eight years of this term was chief of.the police department. On February 8,1924, charges were preferred against him before the board of city commissioners, and on the 11th of February a hearing was had upon which he was adjudged guilty of the charges and demoted to the rank of patrolman. The charges preferred against him before the board were: (1) that he was guilty of influencing votes at the 1923 election and, (2) inefficiency and neglect in the…