The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27
JUDGE BUDY OF THE MIDWAY
HAD BEEN PUNISHED AND
LET HIM GO
He Hasn't Furnished Chief Goss
With the Statement Called for,
but Makes 1t to Reporter for
the Globe.

The recent unpleasant notoriety of Of
Ger Thomas Towey,. of the Ducas street
suhstation, regarding whom Minneapo-
lis paper published sensational article
Monday, is still Officially in the air. The
patrolman was given credit for unneces-
sary roughness and brutality in the ar
rest OF J. s. Ranger, Of Minneapolis,
manager of the Town Market Furniture
house, for fast driving on University
avenue Sunday afternoon.
The published accounts and discussion
Of the arrest prompted Chief Goss. of
the police department to request a COM
pletesAstatement of facts y from Lieut..
William Budy, In charge Of the Ducas
street station. Lieut.. Budy has not vet
furnished Chief Goss with the statement,
but will do so when he gets good and
ready. The lieutenant was seen by a re-
porter for the Gl o b e and made the fol-
lowing statement
n This man. lJs5S. Ranger Is not the man
who is responsible for the reflections on
our police department published by the
Minneapolis papers. He was arrested
Sunday afternoon for fast driving by OF
flcer Towey while returning home from
the ball game at Athletic Park. He him.
self admits that the arrest. was justi-
fable sf0sA
-, He. WAS driving with a friendln and was
arrested after passing thessv transfer
bridge ensIuniversity avenue. When the
officer requested him to accompany him
to the station, he became abusive An
argument followed and Ranger resisted
and was hit on the head with an officers
club by the policeman. I was in the
station when he was brought In, and at
his request sent for friend of his. M.
Inn, nryyro yhn hnro tv,
Park. Just after Mr.. Zimmerman came
a man by the name of Messing appeared
and demanded Rangers release. He was
very noisy and obstreperous and / finally
had to expel him from the station.
'Mr. Zimmerman stated that Ranger
was friend of his and requested that
he be released. : ], of course, could not
assent, as the knowledge Of the arrest
was public property and the man had
been taken in custody by an officer, and
accordingly demanded bail.
Mr.. Ranger then stated that he admit
ted the justice 1of the arrest and said
that, taking into consideration the fact
that he had suffered injury, he thought he
had received enough punishment. After
considerable discussion, and on the rep
resentation that to be detained would
be positive injury to his business. I
allowed Mr.. Ranger to go back to Mime
apolis. Messing then made a statement
to Chief Gross, and 1 saw him yesterday
He had no complaint to make regarding
my action.
"Since the arrest Mr.. Ranger has said
that If the fact that he was allowed to
go is liable to react unfavorably upon
US. he is willing and anxious to appear be-
fore Mayor Kiefer, and make a state
ment of fact, which will place our conduct
in it's proper light. Officer Towey is re-
garded as a careful and conservative Of
flcer, and would not have made the ar
rest, had he not thought it necessary I
have carefully investigated the facts, and
am confident that the officer used no un-
necessary force, and did his duty to the
best of his ability. Even Mr.. Ranger has
no criticism on his conduct. The COM
ment of the Minneapolis papers was based
on false information, and was not only
untrue but uncalled for.''
Chief -Goss was seen last night. and
made the following statement:
Lieut.. Budy has made a verbal report
to me, and / have found 1t satisfactory
In my opinion the reports Of the Incl
dent published in Minneapolis were In
spired more by desire to- take rap at
the st. Paul police force, than by an ef-
fort to give an impartial statement of
fact"
All Of which may clear Mr.. Towey, but
it doesn't explain where Lieut.. Budy or
any other lieutenant finds his authority
for releasing any man who has been
placed under arrest by an officer If
there Is an excusezfor an arrest the muni-
cipal court judgessare paid to do the rest