The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-15
Police Captains Fitchette and Krum-
weide in Head-End Collision.
FORMER PLACED UNDER ARREST
Assault and Battery Charge
May Be Preferred.

IN the Columbia theater last evening, ne
will be tried for assault and battery
| He says he did no more than reach for
the man who had said: "Who cares for
Coffee John?' but Police Captain Krum-
weide promises to have the old soldier,
| one Hampton Logue, swear out COM
plant charging Fitchette with assault.
| Many witnesses are available.
In the police court this morning Captain
Fitchette pleaded not guilty to charge
! of creating disturbance in q public place.
His trial was set for tomorrow. Krum-
weide was the complaining: witness In
| the meantime Coffee John promises to
turn the charge right back on Krum-
\ weide. He says Krumweide interfered
with him while he was carrying out the
mayors orders and melted the disturb
ance a. - X
Fitchette will also formally charge
Krumweide with arresting a prisoner
(himselD and releasing him without due
| authority. .. Il .-....
| Whatever the original cause of the diff
hculty may have been, it is now a quarrei
of captains and the clash Of brass buttons
threatens to be something. terrific. y
-. '"The, Mayors Orders.''
The whole thing started last night in a
visitation by Captain Fitchette to vari-
Gus wine rooms. He said he had been
ordered by the mayor to see that women
were kept out of these places. The rooms
must close else. At headquarters, where
Coffee John is not in high favor when
the mayor is away, they say they know
nothing of any such orders to Fltchette.
There is no chief of police; there is no
mayor. In. the absence Of both, the af-
fair of last night became possible. Fitch
cite said this morning that on Saturday
the mayor called him in and said: Cap
tain, I'm going away Monday and 1 want
you to look after the wine rooms I've
issued several orders to have women kept
| out of those places but they haven't been
enforced Now you take hold of this
while I'm away and see that the order is
enforced
1t is fact that there have been orders
against women in wine rooms and against
the illegal wine rooms themselves
but they have been respected about as
much as certain "big mitt" orders. How
bethought him of these instructions on
his way to the Milwaukee station last
evening and proceeded to see how things
| were running. Along First avenue :
| there are numerous wine room ad1uncts
to saloons. Coffee John took look IN
at several places and left broad streak
of CONSERVATION in his wake. Wherever
he found women he assumed his blandest
most child-like expression and, hat II
hand, proceeded to order them out. Al
one or two places the women or propr1'
etors demurred. Very we'll, Coffee I'M
mediately alluded incidentally to thu
patrol wagon and said the places coulc
eject the ladies' or be closed up. 49,,
Krumweide Appended To.
This was something new. Operators Oh
winerooms were. not used to such sum
mary treatment from usually com.
placent administration. They complied
LIi+ ohoft DIOR nd then
of the saloon men made hot telephone in
quiries at. police headquarters. Krum'
weide' was in charge =, there. He
; called Detectives j.. C. Williams
and Patrolman. james Flood ane
started in search of Coffee John. He
followed him from Watson's place on First
avenue S, along Third street to Second
avenue S. and then to the Columbia
theater, where he found Fitchette sur
rounded by crowd to whom he was de-
livering himself of his important orders
and telling the bystanders that he ha6
been a fgurehead for eighteen months
but that he now proposed to show then
that he was captain in the Minneapolis
police department and that he was going
to perform his sworn duty, --.- Z ,.>...,
AS soon as Captain Krumweide ap-
peared, Coffee John opened the conversa-
tion by saying that he understood thai
Captain Krumweide was looking for him
TO arrest nlm IoT idlSiuS uleIuA oc1llIe
He said: -. 5.-',
II have been visiting the dives and
have ordered the women out; 1 have tolt
the propretors to close up or get rid o.
that class of women. And what do find
Why, r am told that must see Captain
Krumweide, that he is protecting them
and that they are taking their orders
from him: 1ewant to tell you that an
taking orders from no one but the mayor
| 7 am chewing his ORDERS" 4:
>"Whor Cares for Coffee Johns''
In the course of the discussion Hamp
ton Logue, an undersized veteran from
the Soldiers home, called out: -. =.
,"Who cares for Coffee John? p"
Fitchette looked around and as soon a!
he found who had made the remark, re
piled by making a dash at the old maj
through the crowd. It is charged that h
knocked Logue down but Fitchette says h
simply started for the old man to arres
him. He will have a chance to prov
this in court. John was then taken to tn
Central police station, followed by i,
\ crowd of several hundred men AM
boys. zu.4.- Z .-7.<> ~, .-s:.-<
At the station the two police cap
tains had. another clash but, Coffe'
| John saw that he was playing with th'
short hand, for the may yors recent orde
placed Captain Krumweide in commant
= OF the night detail in the central precinc
and in the absence of Captain Hill mad
him sole commander. Fitchette was the;
ready to make terms with the victorious
captain and was released on condition
that he go home and remain orderly.
$50 Days to Get Out"
Every shirt Hoffman's Toggery Shop