1914 May 27 Atlanta Constitution 16 Pages Georgia
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- 1914 May 27 Atlanta Constitution 16 Pages Georgia
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- Judge Nash Broyles
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- 1914
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1914 May 27 Atlanta Constitution 16 Pages Georgia
Author: Atlanta Constitution
Year: 1914
PDF PAGE 1, COLUMN 1 LEHON IS FINED $100 AND COSTS AND BOUND OVER Burns Detective Will Take Case to Higher Courts to Test the Constitutionality of the City Ordinance. CONTEMPT CASES ARE DISMISSED BY HILL Motion to Upset the Frank Verdict Will, in All Proba- bility, Be Again Postponed When Case Comes Up. Dan S. Lehon, southern manager of the Burns International Detective Agency, was fined $100 or thirty days in the City stockade by Judge Nash Broyles, Tuesday afternoon, for violating sections 2025, 2026, and 2027 of the City code, prohibiting the operating of private detectives in the City without first securing the consent of the board of Police commissioners and the approval of the Chief of Police. In addition to the nominal fine, which was imposed after a speech on the part of counsel for the Defendant, Judge Arthur G. Powell, requesting the Court to impose a small fine, rather than dismiss the Case, so that the Constitutionality of the City Ordinances could be thrashed out in the Higher Courts. Judge Broyles bound over Lehon under Bond of $500 for violation of a State Law, an act of the general assembly of 1892, prohibiting persons from operating as private detectives without fi