The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-07

didn't want that joint there at all. They
were in the park, and I went myself to
Mr.. Paramore and told him / wanted
them out of there. Then they moved
the fixtures out of the park and Mr..
Paramore nailed five palings on the
fence. Late in the afternoon they got
a tent and started inside the park. I
did not have any jurisdiction in Garfield
park, as it is out of the city limits. L
saw the tent fall and after awhile Lari-
mer came running to me and said he
demanded that go down there. said:
w nat do you expect? Do you think
am going down there with the only
other policeman in the park and get
killed? You have melted a riot there
and L won't go down there. 1t is none
of my business l told him he had
sneaked around there all day, and when
had my special officers there, who were
hired by the assembly, he had not asked
me to help him. 1 didn't say that l
wished they would kill them all, but l
did use some profanity
Frank H Foster, who was one of the
central figures in the riot at Garfield
park, is busy today trying to secure the
names of those who participated in the
affair. He has met with but poor sue
cess. He secured a warrant for one
of the leaders in the assault on Harry
Head. He is a well known gambler
and will be arrested as soon as he can
be found. He is one of the men who
kicked Head after he had fallen.
Mr.. Foster said today to Journal re-
porter, in speaking of the trouble: ''Peo-
pie say that we should have taken a
larger force. We did not expect any
trouble. We took the advice of James
Hickey, who has probably raided more
Joints than any man in Topeka. He
thought that not more than two men
would be needed.
when the men started to escape
with the express wagon full of beer
drove in front of it and ordered the
driver to stop. He did so, and Heald
and Carruth then came up and took
hold of the horses brides. Some Of
the men commanded the driver to go
on, at the same time pulling Carruth
and Heald away, but the driver re-
fused to go. Head kept coming back
and then the men began to pound him.
He was knocked down repeatedly, but
he got up every time and came back.
Finally, when he was down, dozen
men jumped onto him. Some of them
began to kick him about the head and
body, and that is when 1 jumped out
of my buggy. / took the butt end of
my whip and started into the crowd
They opened up before me and 1 got
Heald out.
after Head was safe away I got into
my buggy and started off. The crowd
began to throw stones and glasses after
me- Some of them went through the
back curtain of my buggy, but 1 was
not hurt and got safely away.
"Carruth got charge of the wagon and
started. He had got past the park when
a cOlOred man and a white man caught
the wagon and, climbing on, they took
Carruth by theneck and heels and pitch
IL.
came up soon afterward and found
Carruth disabled in the road. I put him
in my buggy and took him home"
The committee in charge of the Labor
day celebration diSclaim any response
bility for the trouble at Garfield park.
A e. Thorsen, chairman of the COM
mittee, said to a Journal reporter: 'EIt
was an outrage that liquor was taken
on the grounds. AS member of the
committee I did all 1 could to keep liq-
uOr off the grounds. even went to the
trouble of mailing up the fence to pre-
vent anyone bringing any liquor into
the grounds. We succeeded in keeping
it off during the early part of the day.
I'VE had no right to the privileges
and no liquor privilege was sold by u.s.
Our contract with Paramore gave him
the privileges. I am extremely sorry
that any trouble should have occurred
and we did all we could to prevent it, -
The condition of Harry L. Hea1d, who
was injured in the Garfield park riot
last evening, is better today and is not
as badly hurt as was at first supposed.
He has a deep cut on his lip and a scalp
wound on the back part of his head.
His body is very much bruised, but no
bones were broken. 1t is not thought
that his injuries will result seriously.