The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-26
-FOUR ARB ARRESTED
ASSAILANTS OF SER
GEANT ROSE
OFFICER IS BADLY BRUISED
Is Permanently Injured, and He
WIZ BE OF Duty for Some Time,
Anyway-POIice blame Judges
. for Their Recent Leniency With
AssaiIants of Officers.

AssatIants OF officers.
Sergeant Andrew ]. Rose, of the Rondo
street police station, is lying in u pre-
carious condition at his home, 1893 Mar
Tin street, as a result of the savage at
tack made upon him by a gang of toughs
at Rice and Lafond streets, early yester-
day morning. He was brutally beaten and
kicked about the head and face by his
assaiants, as stated in the G. l o be of
yesterday and even If he RECEIVERS with
out permanent effects from his injuries.
it will be several weeks before he can re-
turn to police duty. Shortly after the
fight Lieut.. Hanft rounded up the men
who are said to have assaulted Sergt.
Rose and they will be arraigned in the
municipal court today on the charge of
assault in the second degree. Their
names are Robert Purvis, James Purvis,
Clarence Bitner and Edward Mccain. ;
Throughout yesterday Sergt. Rose suf-
fered a great deal of pain. His face Is
so bruised and cut as to render him
scarcely recognizable. Both eyes are
swollen shut and it Is feared that the
sight of one of them may be permanently
impaired. Across Sergt. Roses chin and
cheek is a long cut, reaching to the bone,
while his right ear is swollen to twice the
natural size and badly discolored from
vicious blow of some kind. The sergeant
also has several painful scalp wounds
and is bruised about the body. He is
under the care of DR.. Leavitt.
The fight took place shortly after mid
night. Sergt. Rose encountered a crowd
Of 7 OF
and ordered them to dispense. AS he
turned away one of the crowd struck him
from behind. knocking him senseless to
the walk Then, it is alleged, the whole
crowd jumped upon the unconscious Of
ficer, kicking and beating him savagely.
Patrolman Lindgren heard the sounds Of
the fight and hurried TO his sureIior's as
sistance. Some of the crowd ran when
he came up, but two of them turned on
him and gave battle. Patrolman Lind
gren was roughly handled for few mo-
ments, but with the aid of his club finally
succeeded in besting his assailants, who
took to their heels Sergt. Rose was still
unconscious when picked up and bled
freely from his wounds. He was taken
to the station and attended by d physi-
clan, after which he was removed to his
home.
The police department is highly in
censed over the attack upon Sergt. Rose
and it is claimed by some of the superior
officers that the frequent attacks which
have of late been made upon police Off
GERS is directly due to the judges of the
municipal court, who, it is alleged, deal
too leniently with prisoners charged with
assaulting policemen. -
'tWhy, it is an outrage Indignantly ex-
claimed member of the department yes
terday. There have been more policemen
beaten and pounded UP by toughs within
the last year and half than /. can re-
member of in my entire eighteen years
service on the force. -. w her4the& court
dealt with men who boast of licking po-
icemen as such an Offense as perpetrated
upon Sergt!l Rose 'denfaldedY9 an soff1cer
had some protection, but now first. one
judge decides that a person has a right
to- resist arrest and another. lets a ~pris-
onei' go on his own recogniZance, after a
gang, in which the fellow was at the
time, nearly killed Officer Hughes. -....
There have been six police officers half
killed by toughs recently, Officers
Mantaufel, Hughes, Houska, Hoefer, -Ur-
barski, Frazer. and now Sergt. Rose,
have been 9pounded and cut up; while: in
each case the offenders have either been
discharged or let off with a less fine than
an iroffensiye but friendless plain drunk
gets. Only last week four men set upon
Officer Frazer and after pounding him
over the head with an iron whip handle,
ran over him with a heavy sand wagon.
1t is not their fault that the officer was
not crippled for life. What punishment
did the judge who tried the case inflict?
Why. he fined one man $40 and let the
other off with IS fine. At this rate the
judges of this august court must reckon
a pOliceman's life worth about $50 1t Is
coming to a point where policemen will
have to defend themselves or run chances
of being killed. They can't get protec-
ton from the court 50 they will be forced
to take the matter into their own hands,
and the next mob that jumps on police
man may mourn the loss of one or two Of
its numbers"