JOSEPH HORALD QUIGLEY
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JOSEPH HORALD QUIGLEY
June 27, 1900 - July 12, 1935
Hired as a residential patrolman to patrol the southeast end of the city, Joseph Horald Quigley had completed his rounds and was being driven home by two other officers when they came upon three men attempting to steal gasoline from a parked car.
Quigley jumped out of the police car and gave chase, then jumped into the rear seat of a roadster, which had been parked nearby as it sped away. The other officers heard three shots and returned to find Quigley's lifeless body in a pool of blood at 23rd Street and Monroe.
From her home, Edith Quigley heard the shots, which ended her husband's life. At the time of his death, 35-year-old Quigley had been a residential patrolman for four years. His four children ranged in age from 2 to 10, and Edith gave birth to a daughter the month following his death.
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Joseph Horald Quigley
July 12, 1935
Ogden Standard-Examiner
Friday, July 12, 1935
Ogden Policeman Is Shot
Murder Car Discovered Upon 4th St.
Body of Joseph Horald Quigley, Residence Patrolman, Thrown from Car; Three Men Sought
The blood-spattered roadster, in which Residential Patrolman Joseph H. Quigley was murdered early this morning as he attempted to arrest two gasoline thieves, was located at two-thirty o'clock this afternoon on Fourth street just west of Washington avenue by deputy sheriffs.
Quigley's flashlight was in the rumble seat where he was shot down. Four empty shells from a .380 calibre automatic pistol, two blood-soaked gunney sacks and a blanket also were in the car.
The machine, a brown 1928 Oakland roadster, was registered, deputies said, to Jack Ellis, 4257 Los Tinos street, San Diego, California. It bore license plates 6Z-9162 California.
Deputies discovered a bullet hole in the rear of the front seat, indicating that the murderer shot from inside the car. Quigley's gun was not found.
The officers who discovered the car and towed it to the sheriff's office were Deputies Gailord Taylor, Earl Thompson and James A. Larson.
Further search of the murder car revealed a pass book issued to Martha Jewett for installment purchases from the Grand Rapids Furniture company at San Diego. The last payment was made early in June, according to the notations.
Lying in a pool of blood, the lifeless body of Residential Patrolman Joseph Horald Quigley, 35, was found this morning at the corner of Monroe avenue and Twenty-third street. Quigley was shot down at one-thirty o'clock in a single handed attempt to arrest two of three gasoline thieves. He jumped from the police car and into the rumble seat of a roadster, when the culprits were surprised.
One of the trio jumped out and ran and the other two drove away with Quigley in the rear of their car. They shot him down in what police declare was cold blooded murder, and dumped his body into the street two blocks north.
Four children are left fatherless and police here have begun the search for the slayers.
SHOT THREE TIMES
Three shots were fired in Quigley's head and shoulder. Quigley, Sergeant L. M. Hilton and Police Officer W. S. Champneys had come upon three men attempting to steal gasoline from a parked car at the corner of Monroe avenue and Twenty-fifth street.
Mrs. Edith Allred Quigley, the widow, said today that she had heard the shots which ended her husband's life. She was in her home approximately a block and a half away with her four children, waiting his return. Quigley had completed his rounds and was being taken home by the two other officers. The family lives at 753 Twenty-sixth street.
Quigley had been a residential patrolman for the past four years.
Quigley's body was dumped out of the slayer's car two blocks away with two bullets in his head and one in his shoulder. Two fingers on his left hand were almost shot off as he had evidently raised his arm to grasp the slayer's gun.
AT APARTMENT HOUSE
"We were passing the apartment house at the corner of Twenty-fifth street and Monroe avenue," Sergeant Hilton said, "when Quigley called to me to stop, pointing to a man standing at the rear of a parked car with a hose in the tank and a five gallon can standing on the street."
"Quigley jumped out of the rear seat of the police car and I hopped out the front. Champneys remained in the car.
"We were several yards past the car and as we both got out, the man who was standing at the gasoline can ran north. I immediately chased him, turning to see Quigley jump into the rear seat of the roadster which had been parked nearby as it sped away.
"I had just reached the driveway between the two houses north of the apartment house following the one man when I heard three shots, which at first I thought were probably fired by Quigley or Champneys in an attempt to stop the two men in the car.
THROUGH FENCE
"The man I was following ran through a hole in the fence surrounding the Wheelwright Lumber yard, through the yard to the next street and vaulted the high fence and disappeared, so I returned to the police car, being almost certain that the two other officers would have the other men in custody and we would have no trouble in identifying the man who had escaped.
"Champneys had difficulty in starting the police car in which he had attempted to follow Quigley and the other pair in the roadster. We finally got the car started and they were seen to turn west on Twenty-third street. It was at this corner that we came across Quigley's body lying lifeless in a pool of blood.
"Quigley," Sergeant Hilton said, "must have been killed instantly and as the car was turning the corner at top speed, his body was thrown from the machine. His hat, we found later a block and a half away on Madison avenue, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets. This indicates the slayers had turned north.
"In all probability his flashlight and his gun were either dropped in the rumble seat of the slayer's car or were taken from him before his lifeless body was dumped from their car as neither have been found.
SCANT DESCRIPTION
Only a meager description of the three men was obtained, Sergeant Hilton said. "The man whom I chased through the alley and over the fence was about 20 years old, five feet nine inches tall, bareheaded, wore a pair of dark trousers and no coat. I was unable to get a clear look at the pair who escaped in the roadster," he said.
Neither Sergeant Hilton nor police Chauffeur Champneys were able to agree on the description of the slayer's car, the latter reporting it was a "light colored roadster," while Hilton thought it was darker. "It was a big car," however, Hilton said. "I noticed this in particular as I got a look at it broadside, although it was difficult to see in the shade of the trees under which it was parked."
"The back rest section of the rumble seat," Hilton said, "had been removed and there will undoubtedly be blood on the floor of the car.
NOT HIS GUN
Officers began the search for the slayers with the gasoline can, hose and three .38 caliber bullets removed from Quigley's body.
That Quigley was not shot with his own gun seemed certain today when officers examined bullets used by Quigley in his .38 caliber Colt service revolver with one of the bullets removed from Quigley's head.
The possibility of the gasoline can yielding fingerprints was being pursued by police officers today when a print was discovered on the top of the can. Whether or not the print has been made from a knuckle could not be learned until a careful examination has been made.
HOME ROBBED
A possible connection with the slaying was seen by police officers when Mrs. F. J. Drake, 870 Twenty-fourth street, reported that her house had been entered last night by burglars. The Drake residence is about a block and a half from where the three men were surprised by officers.
An investigation this morning revealed that the house had been entered through a basement window. Unable to enter the upstairs part of the house, the burglar had returned and cut a screen on the bedroom window. Burned matches were found in two bedrooms. Preparations to escape had been made by removing the screen from the bathroom window, which was found standing on the floor. The side door screen was found unlatched, which officers said, the burglar had used as a means of exit.
FOOTPRINTS
Four perfect footprints were found in a canvas chair used by the burglar to enter the bedroom window.
A pair of glasses belonging to Mrs. Drake was the only article reported missing. Officers said that these may have been taken by the burglar to effect a disguise.
Mr. Quigley's nine-year-old son, Val was drowned in the El Monte reservoir on May 12, 1934.
The slain officer was born at Swan Lake, Idaho, June 27, 1900 the son of Joseph and Virginia Whitt Quigley.
In addition to the mother who lives at Boise, Idaho, he is survived by his widow and the following relatives: Two sons, Vaun, 10 and Joe two; two daughters, June, seven and Glennagene, five; four brothers, Whitt and Hugh, Boise, Idaho; Edward, Firth, Idaho; Newell, Pocatello and a sister, Mrs. Orville DeVorse, Nampa, Idaho.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Lindquist & Sons.
KILLING OF AN OFFICER
When Patrolman J. H. Quigley was shot to death last night by an offender he was attempting to arrest, not only was an officer killed but the entire community was challenged as to its ability to command respect for the law and constituted authority and that challenge should cause Ogden to bring into action all the power it possesses or can command in the search for the murderer.
The cold-blooded slaying demands that a supreme effort be made to bring the slayer behind the bars and before a court of justice to the end that he may be dealt with in such a manner as to prove the determination with which Ogden proceeds to defend its own.
Crimes of this kind are directed against the whole community.
OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER
Saturday Evening, July 13, 1935
SUSPECTS JAILED HERE
Pair Charged with Murder of Patrolman
Arrested in Brigham City, Two Men Held for Shooting of J. H. Quigley; Posses Work
SUSPECT: Fred J. Lund, one of the two men captured in Brigham City for questioning in connection with the murder of J. H. Quigley, Ogden officer, is a former convict. A note on the back of this picture said, "Write me a line now and then. Address for about two more years, Box 55171, San Quintin, Calif."
Less than 36 hours after Residential Patrolman Joseph H. Quigley was shot down on an Ogden street, two suspects were in jail here, with a first degree murder complaint already filed against them.
The two suspects:
Fred Lund, 24, 4132 Nordic avenue, San Diego, Calif.
John Ellis, 21, 4257 West Pinos street, San Diego, Calif.
The pair, which eluded a posse of more than 200 men which believed it had the men surrounded, was captured at nine-forty o'clock this morning at the mouth of Box Elder creek canyon, two miles east of Brigham City.
Lund was brought to Ogden at one-forty-five o'clock this afternoon by Sheriff Oscar E. Lowder and Deputies Earl Thompson, Gailord Taylor and Arthur Grow, and placed in the county jail.
Ellis was returned by Chief Rial C. Moore and Detective Sergeant C. K. Keeter and placed in the city jail
COMPLAINT FILED
A warrant charging the pair with first degree murder was issued this morning by County Attorney Paul Thatcher. The complaint was signed by Police Sergeant L. M. Hilton who was with Quigley on the call which resulted in the slaying.
Following the discovery of the murder car here Friday afternoon the pair apparently stole another machine west of Ogden. They wrecked this car at Willard late Friday afternoon, striking an automobile and knocking over a small girl, before dashing into the marsh area.
Ogden police this afternoon definitely identified the two prisoners as former San Quentin, California, convicts. The murder car was registered in the name of John Ellis. Sergeant Hilton was in Brigham City with the murder complaint and the two suspects were expected to be brought to Ogden this afternoon.
WOOTTON HERE
R. H. Wootton, superintendent of the state bureau of criminal identification at Salt Lake City spent Saturday morning taking fingerprints from the murder car found yesterday afternoon by deputy sheriffs, to be compared with those of the suspects now under arrest.
Mr. Wootton announced that he was able to obtain several satisfactory prints from the car which may definitely seal the fate of the pair.
PAIR FINGERPRINTED
The two were fingerprinted at Brigham City and signed their names and addresses as follows: Fred John Lund, 4132 Nordic avenue, San Diego and Jack Ellis, 21, 4257 West Pinas street San Diego. Lund was born in Ogden, May 1911. Ellis is married and has a wife living at 2224 California street, San Diego. His mother, he said, is Mrs. Mable Ellis, 1536 F street, San Diego. He was born in Kansas City June 26, 1914. Ellis is the more defiant one of the two officers reported.
Shortly after nine a.m., A.M. Nielsen, who is in charge of the cemetery at the extreme eastern edge of Brigham City, noticed two men dressed in dungarees heading toward the mouth of the canyon.
Nielsen immediately notified Burt and Fife. These two officers rushed to the brushed section of the lowlands immediately west of the mouth of Box Elder canyon. In pushing their way through the brush they accidentally came face to face with the two suspects.
INJURED LEG
The two men, believed to be Jack Ellis, 21, and Fred Lund, 24, were placed under arrest. One of the men was bathing one of his legs in a stream of water. His leg was badly swollen.
Neither of the men arrested was armed. They refused to talk and were taken at once to the office of Sheriff John H. Zundel at Brigham City.
Nielsen explained that the men were sneaking into the brushed area when he noticed them.
When the fugitives were trailed by City Sexton A. M. Nielson and his assistant O. G. Spencer, they carried a bundle which was not found when they were picked up. Officers are now hunting for it near the spot where they were found.
As the two were apprehended one of them attempted to hide in the brush. "Stop or I'll shoot," said Marshal Burt, and the youth came back. No further attempt to flee was made and the two were taken to the sheriff's office where their clothes were searched. The togs tallied with the description of those worn by the two who were wanted.
Apricots were found in the pockets, taken from the fruit trees near Brigham City in their flight. They were issued new clothes and the old ones taken along by the officers.
While the posse had the marsh area surrounded west of Willard, the two Brigham City officers took the two young men into custody east of the city. The officers are John Burt, city marshal and William Tife a deputy marshal.
One of northern Utah's most intensive manhunts was in progress today as peace officers and several hundred citizen possemen beat through the marsh land west of Willard and guarded highways in search of two paroled convicts suspected slayers here early Friday of Joseph H. Quigley, residential patrolman.
Quigley was shot to death as he stepped onto the rear of the automobile of two men who with a companion were surprised while syphoning gasoline from an automobile.
Two members of the trio have been identified, officers say, as Jack Ellis, 21, and Fred J. Lund, 24. They are declared to have stolen an automobile in Slaterville Friday afternoon after abandoning the murder car.
The stolen machine was wrecked at the Woodland service station at Willard shortly before four o'clock. Its two occupants climbed out and ran into the marsh land to the west.
Officers and citizens from the two counties immediately surrounded the area and believed they kept the two men cornered during the night although there were several rumors that the men had slipped through the guard lines and had stolen another automobile or had boarded a freight train.
Two men were reported seen on the highway a short distance out of Brigham City driving toward Collinston at breakneck speed in a black sedan.
The information, telephoned here this morning from Willard by Patrolman E. L. Shaw of the Ogden police was immediately relayed by telephone to peace officers at Downey, Malad, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and other points north of where the car was seen.
HUNDREDS JOIN SEARCH
Sheriff Oscar E. Lowder, meanwhile, with the aid of Trace A. Turner, commander of Herman Baker post No. 9 of the American Legion and W. Rulon White, chef de guerre, voiture 404, Forty and Eight, were completing plans for the organization of a posse of several hundred men who will join other volunteers and officers now at work, to comb the territory near Willard, where yesterday the hunted men abandoned the stolen car and escaped.
Within two hours after the car in which Officer Quigley was slain had been found by Weber county sheriffs yesterday afternoon, at 336 Fourth street, the most effective road blockage in the history of the state had been set up by every available peace officer in Weber, Cache and Box Elder counties.
Six men, working in three shifts all night at the mouth of Ogden and Weber canyons and at the highway junction at Death curve stopped every automobile and viewed its occupants.
All wore deputy sheriff's badges and were equipped with shotguns, rifles and side arms.
Similar blockades were established at the mouth of Brigham canyon after Sheriff Lowder enlisted the aid of Sheriff Jeff Stowell of Cache county, who sent every available man to that point.
Sheriff John H. Zundel of Box Elder county and every officer under his command immediately set up blockades north of Brigham City and aided Weber county sheriff officers, Ogden police and state highway patrolmen in the first hunt through the farm lands, brush and marshes west of Willard after the alleged slayers abandoned the wrecked car.
Men under Sheriff Lowder established another blockade immediately south of Hot Springs and four men patrolled the short road extending west approximately one mile from Hot Springs to the lake.
Cooperation of the railroad company was obtained by Sheriff Lowder. Freight trains were ordered to proceed over the section near Willard with speed and train crews were notified to keep a sharp lookout for any persons boarding or attempting to board the cars.
A detachment of special agents under Walter W. Wilson patrolled the north section of the railroad yard and checked every train entering the yards from the north.
DESCRIPTIONS FURNISHED
The description of Jack Ellis, furnished upon request of Chief of Police Rial C. Moore by San Diego, California authorities where he is wanted for wife desertion is as follows:
Jack Ellis, 21 years old, dark brown hair, blue eyes, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 148 pounds, sunken breast, dagger tattooed on right forearm, part Indian.
Fred J. Lund, 23 years, 128 pounds, 5 feet 7-3/4 inches, brown hair, brown eyes deep set, slender build.
That both men went immediately to the northwest section of the city after abandoning the murder car early yesterday morning after the killing was the opinion of Ogden police and sheriff's officers.
Their identity as the two who abandoned the car following the wreck in Willard was established almost immediately when Sheriff Zundel telephoned to Sheriff Lowder requesting a check on the car, registered to Grant Williams, Farr West.
Deputy Sheriff Gailord Taylor immediately communicated with Williams, an employee of the Weber Central Dairy who advised Taylor that his car was locked in his garage at home.
Instructed to meet Taylor at the dairy, Williams was unable to establish telephone communication with his home. With Taylor and Deputy Sheriff Earl Thompson, Williams returned to the sheriff's office. Box Elder officers who were reached immediately on the phone described the wrecked car and established positive identification through a description furnished of various articles in the car.
Two cars of deputy sheriffs raced to Willard with sirens clearing the way, and in fifteen minutes had joined men under Sheriff Zundel in the search for the two alleged slayers.
Wayne Woodland, proprietor of the Woodland service station at Willard, where the two fugitives wrecked their stolen car Friday afternoon, told how the accident occurred.
"I heard a car coming from the south at high speed and looked out," said Woodland. "It was going about 70 miles an hour. It was trying to pass a truck. It got off the highway, struck gravel and the driver lost control, the car bounding through the station driveway and sideswiping a car of N.A. Hollingsworth, a candy salesman of Provo, whose machine was standing at the gasoline pump.
"The car then barely struck Bonnie Jean Nelson, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Justin Nelson of Willard, knocking her rolling in the gravel. The car skidded crazily, struck a cement floor of an old fruit stand, tipped forward against a peach tree and fell back.
"I ran out and picked up the little girl, who apparently received only minor cuts."
Earl Zundell, attendant at the station, who also witnessed the accident, went to the wrecked car and started to help the two men out.
"One of them told me 'I can make it all right' and climbed out of the car," Zundell recounted. "The first fellow asked the other 'Are you hurt?' and he said 'No.'
"I helped the other fellow out and he said, 'Where'd the other fellow go?' I looked around and sure enough the first fellow was gone."
Mrs. Wayne Woodland, who was in her home a short distance from her husband's station at the time of the accident, saw the two as they left the highway and headed west through the orchard. "I saw the first man plainly," she said. "He was young and was dressed in blue dungarees. At first I thought he was coming after some fruit, but he kept on walking. I saw the second man pass a moment later."
Wayne Woodland said he followed one of the men about a mile west and north of the scene of the accident but lost him when he disappeared into a corn field, apparently heading for the brush in the direction of Great Salt Lake.
While the force of the search was being spent near Willard and Brigham City for Ellis and Lund, officers here are following clues they expect to lead to the arrest of the third person in the attempted gas theft which resulted in the slaying of Officer Quigley.
Information in possession of officers here indicated that the man who escaped between two houses north of the scene where he was surprised in the attempt to syphon gas from a parked car is a local youth.
RETURNS TO OGDEN
Lund, it was learned yesterday, came to Ogden on June 5 in company with George Jenkins, son of Anna Jenkins, 336 Fourth street. In company with Jenkins, now reportedly to be in a veteran's hospital in San Francisco, Lund returned to California on July 7, returning several days ago to Ogden with Ellis and was given shelter in a small shack in the field at the Jenkins residence.
"I saw both of the boys there Thursday night about eight o'clock," Mrs. Jenkins told deputy sheriffs yesterday. "Neither of them had any money and it was when I went out to the house about that time with a cup of coffee for them that I learned they were not there."
"Naturally," Mrs. Jenkins told the officer, "I hadn't the slightest idea that they had been in any kind of trouble."
It was from Mrs. Jenkins that officers learned the names of the pair. Ellis' name checking with the certificate of registration found on the blood spattered car which officers located in the driveway of the Jenkins home yesterday.
Lund is also reported to have been a former member of the Logan CCO camp, having left there about two months ago. This fact, officers reasoned, would mean that he is more or less familiar with the territory in which he is now supposed to be in hiding in the hope of breaking the lines and escaping into the mountains near Logan canyon.
THAT KILLING
Again evidence is presented of the twisted minds of a percentage of the young men who commit crimes which send them to prison. The slaying of Patrolman Quigley is traced to two ex-convicts who are young men of 21 and 24 with prison records.
Furthermore investigation may disclose they are dope fiends. Their cold blooded murder indicates they are of the dope type, most irresponsible and at times wild eyed. If they were not of that kind the mere threat of arrest for a minor offense would not have prompted the killing of the officer. No more dangerous criminals are to be encountered than young men with criminal urge who have become addicts. They are no good to themselves or to the social order and if caught should be dealt with in a manner to forever eliminate them as a festering sore.
Sunday Morning, July 14, 1935
Ogden Standard-Examiner
Officers Delay Questioning of Suspected Pair
Two Facts Said To Definitely Connect Prisoners To Murder Here of Joseph H. Quigley
Two facts connected with the slaying of Residential Patrolman, Joseph H. Quigley, officers said Saturday, were definitely established from casual questions put to Fred J. Lund, 24, and John Ellis, 21, both in jail here charged with murdering the officer.
The blunt admission of Lund that "we had stolen a car and didn't want to get caught," officers said, not only added to further charges which may be filed against him, but also definitely links him with the killing of Quigley.
This statement, Sheriff Oscar E. Lowder said, bears out the early contention of officers that Ellis and Lund had abandoned the blood spattered roadster from which Quigley's body was dumped, stole the Chevrolet sedan in Farr West and in a desperate attempt to escape crashed into another car at Willard yesterday afternoon.
Lund's statement was in reply to Sheriff Lowder's inquiry as to why they had run from the scene of the crash at Woodland service station in Willard.
ELLIS DROVE
Neither Ellis nor Lund, officers said, have been directly questioned in connection with the killing of the officer.
In response to another of several questions which officers put to the murder suspects while being held at Brigham City Saturday morning, Ellis, officers said, named himself as driver of the stolen car which they wrecked at Willard.
"Who was driving the car when you crashed at Willard," officers asked Ellis shortly after their arrest at Brigham City. "I was," Ellis is reported to have replied.
Lund, Sheriff Lowder said, deliberately avoided even a glance in the direction of the spot where deputy sheriffs on Friday found the alleged murder car, as the party passed Fourth street on Washington avenue en route to the county jail where Lund is being held.
BRUISE TREATED
Following his arrest and while pictures and fingerprints were being taken at Brigham City Saturday by Sheriff John H. Zundel, Ellis is reported to have inquired from officers "what's this all about."
Ellis, Chief of Police Rial C. Moore said Saturday, was treated by a physician immediately after he was booked at the city jail, for a sprained right ankle, received officers believe in the collision Friday at Willard which led directly to their capture.
Whether an additional complaint of automobile theft would be filed against the pair could not be learned Saturday night. The first degree murder charge was preferred by Police Sergeant L. M. Hilton who was with Quigley on the call which resulted in the latter's death. County Attorney Paul Thatcher issued the complaint.
FUND IS BEGUN TO AID WIDOW
A contribution of $25 by Mayor Harman W. Peery, $10 by City Commissioner George O'Connor and $15 by Sheriff Oscar E. Lowder and deputy sheriffs, made Saturday together with an assurance of $50 from the city formed the nucleus of a fund which will be raised for Edith Allred Quigley, widow of Joseph H. Quigley, who was murdered Friday.
Desk Sergeant C. H. Taylor, treasurer of the Policeman's Benefit fund, will accept donations of any amount to be turned over to the slain officer's widow. Checks may be mailed to the police station in care of Mr. Taylor.
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF OGDEN CITY, UTAH, MAY 6TH, 1935.
PETITION TO HAVE CITY PAY SPECIAL POLICEMAN $50.00 PER MONTH.
MISCELLANEOUS. Subject: Petition.
Petition with the names of 78 signers residing east of Harrison Avenue and South of 24th Street in Ogden City, requesting that the City make an appropriation to pay J. H. Quigley, the special watchman employed by said residents, to patrol said neighborhood, the sum of $50.00 per month.
On motion of Commissioner Williams, seconded by Commissioner O'Connor and unanimously carried, the petition was referred to the Mayor and the Chief of Police.
MINUTES AUGUST 14TH, 1935
REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO STAGE BENEFIT BOXING BOUT FOR QUIGLEY FAMILY.
MISCELLANEOUS: Request for Permission to Stage Benefit Boxing Bout for Quigley Family.
Bill Glasmann presented himself before the Board and requested permission to stage a boxing bout and fight card for the benefit of the Quigley family, everything to be donated except the fighters' money and they will agree to take 2-1/2 percent less than usual.
On motion of Mayor Peery, seconded by Commissioner O'Connor and unanimously carried, the matter was referred to the Chief of Police.
MINUTES JULY 15TH, 1935
DONATION TO QUIGLEY FAMILY.
MAYOR PEERY. Subject: Donation to Quigley Family.
I would recommend to the City Commission that $50.00 be donated to the widow and the family of J. H. Quigley residential patrolman who was murdered.
(Signed) H. W. Peery
On motion of Commissioner O'Connor and unanimously carried, the recommendation was adopted and warrant ordered drawn therefor.
MINUTES JULY 20TH, 1935
FUNDS FOR THE QUIGLEY FAMILY.
MISCELLANEOUS. Subject: Funds for the Quigley Family.
Report from Mr. Al. Hestmark, Secretary of the Elks Lodge that through the wrestling match sponsored by his organization, $525.00 had been raised for Mrs. Quigley and her family.
On motion of Mayor Peery, seconded by Commissioner O'Connor and unanimously carried, they gave a vote of thanks to Mr. Hestmark and the Elks Lodge.
MINUTES SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1936
RE: AWARD MADE BY INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH TO MRS. EDITH QUIGLEY, et al.
CITY ATTORNEY. Subject: In re: Award made by Industrial Commission of Utah to Mrs. Edith Quigley, et al.
On January 24th, 1936, the Industrial Commission of Utah awarded to Mrs. Edith Quigley, widow of Joseph H. Quigley, deceased, on behalf of herself and five (5) minor children, compensation at the rate of $12.63 per week for a period of 312 weeks, together with the sum of $150.00 which Ogden City was directed to pay to Lindquist & Sons' Funeral Directors.
The commission found that Joseph H. Quigley, on July 12, 1935, was killed by reason of an accident arising out of or in the course of his employment while employed by Ogden City.
I have very carefully gone through the record and read the testimony given at the hearing, and after doing so have come to the conclusion that there is no chance of reversing the award made by the Industrial Commission. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that where the award is supported by any competent evidence, it will not disturb the award made by the Commission. The testimony offered by L. M. Hilton, Sergeant of Police of the Ogden Police Department, as well as the testimony of other police officers who testified, in my opinion, clearly supports the award made by the Commission. I therefore, recommend to the Board of Ogden City Commissioners that the award be paid as it becomes due.
There has already accrued since July 13, 1935, including the month of September, 1936, 63 weeks at $12.63 per week $795.69, which amount, together with interest at the rate of 6 per cent from the time of the award, should be paid.
To take care of all payments from July 13th, 1935, including all of the year 1936, 76 weeks, approximately $959.88 would be required, with accrued interest, and the further sum of $150.00 for the undertaker.
I respectfully call attention to this matter at this time, so that in the matter of the adjustment of the Budget, provision may be made for the payment of this obligation. |