'No Malice,'Krasny Says

Pólice Chief Walter E. Krasny said today there was "no malice" intended in a statement he made I at a meeting held Wednesday night at St. Thomas I School. The statement involved Raymond Chauncy, a I Human Relations Commission investigator, who last I May charged that City Patrolman Wade Wagner struck him after he had been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. Chief Krasny noted today that he answered a question at the Wednesday meeting concerning the Chauncy-Wagner incident and in the answer I tempted to leave the impression that if either man I involved deserved to be discharged, both should I have been fired. (Wagner resigned f rom the I partment and was hired as a deputy with the Sheriff's Department by Sheriff Douglas J. Harvey. I Chauncy is still working for the HRC.) "Both men are apparently performing their I present duties to the satisfaction of their employers " Krasny said today. "The case has been closed I for months and was at Wednesday's meeting as far as I was concerned but a question was raised about the incident and I feit a responsibility as a public official to answer it. If the wrong impression was left it was my error." Krasny and Harvey were peppered with questions from White Panther members during the program.