The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-14
BUT HE WOULD TAKE NO ACTION.

The action of Lieut.. Babe in arrest
ing c. F. Loftu; ard j. u. Kane. Fri
day night, on the charge CT pocket
picking mas resulted in a movement to
secure the Iieu tenants removal from
the police force, and yesterday dele
ga ton of railroad officials called uron
Mayor Doran with demand that he
order Lieut.. Babes dismissal. The COM
mittee was composed Of g. y. Whit
taker, of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
road; W. NJ Burke, OF the st. Paul e
Duluth; Ralph Slocum, of the Great
Northern; E. w. Johnson, of the Mer-
chants Dispatch; Assistant Manager
Clarkson, Of the Lehigh Coal company,
and Messrs. LOTUS and Kane. Mayor
Doran heard he complaints Of the citi
Zens, but informed them that he would
not take the desired action giving as
/ his reasons the fact that Lieut.. l5ahe
| had been member of the police force
| for eighteen years. The mayor admit
ted that the officers had made an IN
fortunate and stupid hlunler in the
LOTUS Kane arrest but declared that
! he did not consider this SUI Icient cause
| for removal
In the hearing before the mayor a
new abuse Of authority was charged
to Lieut.. Bahe, which had not before
become known. According to the stocy
related to Mayor Do"an, Raipa Slocum,
who was present, Aad approached his
friends, Lotus and Kane, at the patrol
box and inquired of the former the
cause of their arrest. Without a word
! it was claimed that Lieut.. Rahe turned
upon the speaker and dealt him a blow
across the face with heavy cane, cut
ting and badly bruising the flesh. Mr.
Slocum corroborated the story of the
| assault and showed the mark of the
officers stick. 1t was urged by the COM
mittee that an officer who would so far
! lose his temper as to thus strike an in
! nocent citizen was unfit for police duty
| and Furthermore it was urged that if
! the arrest Of LOTUS and Kane was
simply stupidity as admitted, a man
! of so little judgment should not be al
! lowed to wear a star. 1t was pointed
! out that Lieut.. Babe had been frequent
| ly criticised for the way in which he
| has made arrests in the past. Several
! of the delegation addressed Mayor
! Doran in support of the demand for
Lieut. Babes removal upon the conduct
shown. Mr.. Kane will bring an action
for DANCES against the lieutenant and
his bondsmen. The following statement
by MeSSrs. LOTUS and Kane which is
substantially that which appeared in
the G | o b e Of Saturday was made last
evening:
! Referring to the facts of our arrest and
| reports of same which have appeared, we
| wish to submit the following statement of
facts facts, which 4S have not as yet been given
the street from Sixth and Robert, where the
Omaha ticket office is located, to the middle
| OF the street on the opposite side between
the Boston and Hotel Ryan, where we met
| Lieut.. Babe and asked him what time the
parade was to start. He said. in a very in
solent way, The parade is all over; did you
see those fellows with the black faces 60
| ing up and down the street; that's all the
! parade there is. We then asked him when
the rest of the parade would be. Mr.. Kane
asked him if there to be another pa
rade tomorrow Saturday night; he replied
No; and l am damn glad Of it." He then
| passed US, and we stood where we had ad-
| dressed him. He was gone not to exceed
two minutes when he returned with an
| other officer and placed US under arrest.
Lieut.. Babe had charge of Kane, who
asked him wheat was the cause of the ar
rest, to which he replied, Il will show you, +"
hitting him twice in the face with his fist.
We. were then taken by Lieut. Babe and
| the other officer to the corner of Seventh
and Minnesota, where we were detained
about fifteen minutes waiting for the patrol
wagon, during which time a number of our
friends came up to identify US and give us
any assistance which We might need. This
! they were not allowed to do, and Babe in
one case hit Mr. Slocum and cut his nose
and face in two places.
While on the corner we offered to identify
| ourselves and prove that he was mistaken,
| but he declined to give this opportunity,
and when we asked to walk to the station
| he insisted upon our going in the patrol
wagon. He said. You will go just as
| want you to- While standing on the cor
ner the officer having LOTUS in charge ad-
vised him that we had been arrested on &C
count of some lady reporting that she was
robbed by a tall man with a straw hat
| and short man with a brown hat, we I'M
| fortunately taliying to that description. At
the station we offered to identify ourselves
| and friends offered to show that we were
not what the police had suspected. but we
were not given an opportunity to do this,
| and were obliged to put up cash for bail be-
| fore we were released
| Certainly the treatment Mr.. Kane received
at the hands of the burly lieutenant was
| shameful.
moonlight excursion on the
steamer Henrietta to Hastings
and return will be given to-
| night under the auspices of
the building fund club of st. Vim
cents parish. Boat leaves Jackson
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