St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-10

was at tne lookup"
Chase?" ~
II never did anything to the man."
Are your relations unfriendIy?o
HE has been unfriendly to me.o
Have you been friendly to hm?"
HE never gave me chance"
HAS he ever given orders to have Won
Kept out OF the lookup and headquarters?"
''Yes, sir''
Officer Reese testified as follows:
Capt. Chase has been on duty the same
time as myself"
Have you ever seen Capt Chase drink"
mo. sir: not according to my nterpreta-
ton of the word"
How long have you been in the depart
ment?"
''Over year."
Have you ever seen Capt. Chase in that
time under the influence of liquor?"
Il have seen him WI hen | thought he had
peen drinking. When | have been on duty
all night have drank with the captain
when were going home in the morning"
DO you remember of bottle of whisky
oeihg brought to the police headquarters on
Christmas EVENING""
Yes, Kirkham brought it there
bottle?"
Yes, sir. Kirkham gave me the bottle
and said: Do you want a drink of good
whisky?'"
''Who drank?"
Capt. Chase, myself, Truworgy and
klrkham drank the whisky. He said L
have never drank any whisky and I'm go
ing to see how it tastes.'"
Kirkham suddenly turned and glowered
saVagely at the witness and Aid. Lawrence
looked up in utter CONSERVATION.
Aid. Lawrence-Are you positive that
Klrkham drank from the bottle?
Eyes, positive. | remember because,
perhaps, of his remark about IT,"
Kirkham-Was Officer Leonard there at
the time?
Il remember that Leonard was there,
but cannot say whether or not he was
there when you drank"
Wouldn't he have seen me had I
drank?"
That [ cannot say"
Ofhcer French being sworn, deposed:
DO not know of my personal knowledge
OF any officer ever being intoxicated"
Have you ever seen Capt Chase uni der
the influence of liquor?"
mo. have not been under Capt Chase
the present year."
AID. LAWRENCE FoRMULGATEs A KICK.
Aid. Lawrence-I don't approve of the
way the questions are put to witnesses.
Have you ever seen Capt. Chase when
| you thought he was under the influence of
liquor?"
ION the Fourth of July Capt. Chase
came up to North Minneapolis and thought
he acted little queer. L don't know that
he was under the influence of liquor. I
only noticed that he acted queer"
Mr.. French you arrested some tramps
at that time; were they brutally treated?"
THAT is what l say. 1 thought the
| captain acted little queer. One of the
tramps was saucy and the captain knocked
him down."
Officer Myers testified that he had seen
officers under the influence of liquor.
''Who?"
''Capt. Chase. On the evening of the
Fourth of July, Officer French and
l arrested some tramps and we tele-
phoned for the patrol wagon, and Capt
| Chase came up. Capt. Chase knocked one
| of the prisoners down, and we had to pick
him up and carry him to the wagon; he
struck two of the trampS who were hand
cuffed."
''What did the prisoners say?"
''Nothing then, but they had talked
pretty rough before that to Officer French
and l."
Have you heard of any officer being
drunk? Have you heard it pretty generally
talked about the streetS?"
Yes l have often heard that Capt.
| Chase was drunk. and also an officer on
| the east side of the river
''Is it true that Capt Chase was so
drunk on the Fourth of July that he had to
| be helped into the patrol wagon?"
Eyes. Someone took hold of him and
helped him into the wagon, and l asked
French if Capt. Chase drank. He replied
no, not drop"
Jailer Needham of the city lookup testi-
fed:
ut has been the custom at the lookup to
accept bail from parties who were arrested
for misdemeanors.
ITO who is the money delivered?"
''When have been on nights / take it.
In the morning | turn it over to the day
jailer. [ remember Officer Kirkham ar
| rested man one night and S25 was given
to me for bail. The money was given ia
me and turned it over to the day jailer.'
''Have you known of any instances in
which prisoners were abused by officer
after they have been arrested?"
II know of some fracases in which pris
oners refused to go in and it took two OF
three officers to put them in.''
''Have you ever seen Sergt. Kirkhau
strike prisoner under arTest?"
Il can't say that have ever seen him do
more than some of the other officers.'
do you know of any officer being intox-
icated at your placer"
''No, sir"
Officer Curtiss, driver of the patrol wagon,
testified:
KIRKHAM KNOCKED A WOMAN DOWN.
'Have never seen any excessive brutality,
hr,t 7 fhnr, r
thought necessary. A year and half ago
Sergt Kirkham arrested a woman, and she
talked saucily to him and Sergt. Kirkham
knocked her down."
'How hard did he hit her?"
Hard enough to knock her down upon
the floor"
Have you seen other instances?"
Eyes; | saw some choking DONE"
''Teil us about it."
"a man had been arrested and Kirkham
took him out of the cell to question him,
and the sergeant choked him severely"
Kirkham-I want to ask if the woman 1
struck did not first throw pair Of shoes in
my face.
mo, sir; remember of nothing of the
kind"
Kirkhanl-Well. she did, and that is what
| struck her for.
Adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning.
Chicago's Live Stock show.
Special to the Globe
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-The fat stock show
in the Chicago Exposition building is in an
advanced stage of preparation to-day, and
Will be opened tomorrow morning at 9
| o'clock. The formal opening exercises will
take place tomorrow evening. The stalls
already contain 500 fat cattle, 100 fine