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SUES COVINGTON OFFICIALS FOR DAMAGES. Operator Kelly Wants 5,000 Because of His Arrest in a Raid on Alleged Poolroom. Covington, Ky., November 24. Mayor George T. Beach, Chief of Police Henry Schiller and eleven police officers of Covington have lieen made defendants In a suit for 5,000 damages, instituted in the Federal Court here by John Kelly, a telegraph operator of Cincinnati. Kelly alleges that he was engaged in his usual vocation as a telegraph operator and not in the commission of any offense or any violation of the law or ordinance and that the defendants, lie alleges, combined and conspired together for the purpose of arresting, harassing and humiliating him, without affidavit, warrant or charge of any kind, and In a public and notorious way with miich acclaim arrested and deprived him of his liberty and conveyed him through the public streets to police headquarters and there held him in durance until he could furnish bond. Kelly is one of three arrested in the old Mark Simonton building on a charge of operating a poolroom, the charge later being changed to an unlawful assembly.
