The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-30

The evening repository is laboring
under great excitement these days.
Ever since the business manager of that
paper appropriated a portion of the
news service of the NEws-DEMoCRAT
and refused to give it up until he
learned charge of petit larceny was
about to be filed against him, there has
been an agonized feeling in that quar-
ter, which feeling was greatly intensi-
fed by the public charges of petit lar
ceny made through the columns of this
paper against Mr.. Herb Saxton of the
Evening Boiler Plate. Thinking dis
cretion the better part Of valor that
paper never attempted to refute the
charges, fearing an expose of that and
other shady transactions in which they
had hand. Friends visited that
atfice and urged the prOprietors to com
mence action for libel against the
NEWS DEMOCRAT but they refused,
knowing full well the depth
of villainy in their recent act.
Lacking the nerve for such an or
deal and to hide the agonized state of
its feelings, and attempt by buster to
cloud the vision of the public, that pa
per on Saturday gave to the public a
column of Misrepresentation concern.
ing the arrest of stranger supposed
to be a crook, man of his description
having been seen hanging about pri-
vate residences in the northern part of
the city. The NEws-DEMoCRAT furn-
ished a description of the man, and
upon this description a stranger was
placed under arrest. He was taken to
the residence of Mr.. Conrad SchweitZer,
which place the supposed crook
had visited, but was not
identified and was released by
the officer. A more or less irresponsi-
BILE reporter of the Evening Boiler
Plate, after an interview with the man
and a conference with the prOprietors
of that paper, dished up its usual dose
of Misrepresentation, endeavOring to
reflect upon Mr.. SchweitZer by charg-
| idg that he had ordered the mans ar
rest and that h had later apologized to
him, when in fact nothing of the kind
occurred. If the Evening Boiler Plate
| thinks to avoid the charge of petit lar
ceny made against it by the NEWS
DEMOCRAT by these Misrepresentation
| its managerial intellect must be as
clouded as its dealings are dark.
Being too cowardly to have their own
characters ventilated in the courts, as
would result from the commencement
| nQ n hal laax hn nj 10 ~
| petit larceny stand as a record against
them and then try to prevail on another
party with supposed grievance to dc
what they dare not do themselves We
charge now and here that the manage
ment of the Evening Boiler Plate has
been guilty of far graver offences than
has yet been charged in these columns
evidence of which is now being collected
and will be given the public in the due
course of time.
The following is copy of the card
taken to-day to the Evening Boiler
Plate for publication by officer Charles
Slagle, who made the arrest:
CANTON. Aug. 27, 1883.
ED. REPOSITORY: The arrest of one
White on Saturday as a suspicious
character, was not caused by Mr.
SchweitZer, as stated in your paper.
Mr.. SchweitZer reported to the police
on Friday man who had been to his
house offering silverware, whose actions
he thought Justified police investiga.
tion. After the Spanagle burglary, the
police connected the man described by
Mr.. Schweitzer with that offense, and
White answering in several particulars
description, l took him into custo
| dy. Mr.. Schweitzer was called to the
police headquarters to identify him
lie thought White resembled the fel
low whom he had reported, but not
having seen him closely, suggested that
we take White to his residence where
the servant who had talked to the sill
verware man would identify him il he
were the same. This was done. The
servant thought he was not the man
That was all Mr.. Schweitzer had to dc
with the case. He could not have au
thorized the arrest of White because
the silverware peddler committed nc
otfense at his residence. White stated
to me that he had been arrested not
long since in Chicago in a similar man
ner having been mistaken for a thiei
the police were after.
| CHAs, j. SLAGLE.