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HEARING HELD FOR SUSPENDED COP
MEN BEING SWORN
In Dallas, a three-man Civil Service board is sworn in to hear the appeal of one of seven Dallas police officers suspended during the recent probe of an alleged theft ring. The men are Civil Service Board chairman Ben Mitchell and City councilmen 0 90. 1. Vickery and J. R. Terry.
IVIEN SEATED
The officer is Detective J. W. Fuller, on the right, who seeks re-instatement from the suspension given him by Chief of Police Hannson. Fuller has been charged with theft in connection with the scandal which broke last June. Chief Hannson accused the suspended officers of operating a theft ring, saying that they looted merchandise from business houses after answering fake burglar alarm calls. Two of the suspended officers already have their jobs back, one re-instated by a civil service board, the other by City Manager Elgin Crull. Fuller has repeatedly