The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-30
INTEREST OF CERTAIN REPUBLI-
CANS IN THE ARREST OF c. w.
SMITH.
HE SAID TO ATTORNEY PINCH
sTHE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
HAS MADE A BOTCH OF THE
WHOLE THING"
BLAME FOR HIS ARBITRARY ACT
An officer Arrives With the Neces
sary Papers to Take Him Back
to Illinois.

Chief Goss talked too much, in addi-
@on to any arbitrary exercise of power
he may have been guilty of in prevent.
ing any one except few prominent
Republicans from visiting c. w. Smith
during his confinement in the central
police station this week. If the chief
had been more diplomatic. and had
kept his temper, the interest Of GER
tain persons in the arrest of Smith
might not have been so easily traced.
If it was traced at ALL But the chief
of police, when accused of exceeding
his authority in holding Smith under
arrest without a warrant. told how one
man had rushed into his office Mon
day to inquire if Smith was under ar
rest, and later Goss also said that
the - - state central committee
has made a botch of the whole thing"
At least Attorney ]. W. Pinch will
testify that Goss SO expressed himself.
Then it was that Smiths attorney
conceived the idea that certain Repub-
licans were much interested in Smiths
movements, if indeed they were not
directly responsible for digging up the
charges against the man in order to
get him out of the state.
The evening Republican organ last
night tried to make 1T appear, through
an interview with Warner, that the
G. / b e's expose of yesterday was in
correct. Mr. Warner is quoted as hav-
ing said:
There is absolutely not word of truth in
the article, so far as l am personally con-
quarters to see Smith, neither have I sent
any one to see him. l did not employ de-
tective to track him, nor was l in any way
responsible for his arrest The fact is that
l did not know of his arrest until 1 saw it
in the Dispatch. 1t therein stated that the
arrest was the result of telegram received
from Illinois, and that was all | knew con-
corning it. The Republican party had nothing
to do with it in any shape.
More than one man who was at the
police station Monday says Warner did
call, but there was one error in the
G o e's story of yesterday. 1t was
stated that Eli Warner, F. G. Schiff-
man and lone other had called at the
police station on Monday shortly af-
ter Smiths arrest, and that Warner
was clOseted with the prisoner while
the others were in an adjoining cell.
That should be slightly amended. 1t
was the other" whose name is T. D.
Sheehan, who Smith says had the talk
with him. Reports slightly differ as
to the Whereabouts CT Warner while
Sheenan was trying to get Smith to
surrender certain papers or information.
Schiffman declares he wasn't there at
all. which lets him out of it. One man
who was in the station, says Warner
was in the station and went upstairs
where Smith was confined. He told
this story to three persons within
few hours after Sheenan left Smith.
Eli Warner declars he did not know
Of Smiths arrest until after he saw a
report of the same in an afternoon
paper But the man, who rushed into
Chief Goss's office Monday SO soon af-
ter the arrest, is an acquaintance of
Warmers. He asked:
Have you got Smith under arrest?
We have had detectives watching him
for almost two weeks"
Smith declares, and his attorney saws
he believes him, that the persons who
are now prosecuting Smith were not
anxious to do so two weeks ago. Some
bCdy'S paid agents sought to induce
Smith to leave the city. An offer of
800 was made several times, to accom-
plish this result. An offer of 5000.
Smith says, was made, if Smith would
give up certain information, and leave
the city. Smiths only friend, and at
whose home he was stopping was de-
coyed out of the city by a telegram
that the arrest might be made without
interference. This friend returning to
the city three hours after Smith was
taken to the central station on Monday.
said he saw Eli Warner, T. D. Sheenan
and another man within a short dis
tance Of the central station on Market
street. They were coming from the
direction Of the station Half an hour
later an employe of the city left the
station and went to the home of
Smiths friend and told two persons
there, that Warner and Sheenan had
been at the station and went upstairs
where Smith was confined.
Just to show that he was not re-
sponsible for all the illegality that had
been practiced in the detention of
Smith without warrant, and without
being allowed to see his friends. Chief
Goss said to two persons that the
state central committee had made
botch of the whole thing"
1t was the Republican organ that
first stated that Smith had as an OBJ
Ject in coming to st. Paul a scheme to
dispose of certain information Smith
was alleged to have, concerning the
Republicans that would be of value to
the Democratic state central COM
mittee. Smith had been in the employ
of the Republican state central com
mittee as a confidential agent of Tams
Bixby. Whatever his shortcomings in
the past it is certain that certain Re-
publicans high in the councils of the
OartV had assist cd Smith to ovo;d ,,ros