Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Start Impeachment Proceedings Against the Mayor of Gary. [ARTICLE]

Start Impeachment Proceedings Against the Mayor of Gary.

The machinery was set in motion Thursday night by the Gary ..city council to impeach Mayor R. O. Johnson and .the members of the board of public safety on serious charges. A. motion was unanimously passed directing a.committee to furnish information and file the charges against the mayor and safety commissioners K. M. Burr and Alfred Carlson, at an adjourned meeting of the council to be held next Monday night. The Charges to be filed against the Gary executive are: Misconduct, refusing and neglecting to do his duty, and interfering with an officer in the performance of his duty; drunkenness, conduct unbecoming a mayor of Gary. The charges filed against the safety commission were: Neglect, inefficiency and -failure to perform their duty.