Bygones: Superior officer suspended in 1983 after controversial investigation

21 October 2023

News Tribune, Oct. 21, 1983
Sgt. William S. Braman, a Superior vice officer who directed a controversial drug and prostitution investigation, has been suspended for three days without pay. Mayor Bruce Hagen said Braman withheld a statement of a 13-year-old girl confirming the existence of a second citizen involved in the case. UWS campus police will be allowed to carry handguns only when transporting money to a bank, officials decided. The decision ends several weeks of controversy that started when four officers requested permission to carry handguns.

News Tribune, Oct. 21, 1953

Duluth voters decisively defeated both tax proposals in a special municipal election. Voters turned down a proposed 1% income tax by more than four to one, and a proposal to keep rather than lower a per capita limit on real estate tax by more than two to one. A warrant for the arrest of William B. Bauer, of Ladysmith, chairman of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress trout committee, for fishing without a license. It is the second recent charge for Bauer, who pleaded guilty to resisting arrest last month in an incident that saw both Bauer and a conservation officer fall into the Brule River.]]>

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