The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-17
MORE FRICTION
In POLICE STAFF
Sutton Arrest Shows Up the
Growing Jealousies-Dis-
missaI Probable.

William Sutton, the Owatonna lad
who confessed the murder Of H. H.
Krier, in company with the two young
men Henry and Charles Nelson, will
in all probability be brought into a
controversy that means little to him
but much to the efficiency of the Min
neapolis police department.
Sutton was advised by one of the
detectives at headquarters, after he
had made his confession Of the muir
der by Nelson, to Skin it all back and
stand pat"
In a second confession made before
Judge Lyttleton, county attorney of
Steele county, and Sheriff Misgen,
Sutton yesterday reiterated all that
he had stated previously and added
the information that he had person.
ally robbed the body of the murdered
man.
Sutton added that he would not
have entered a denial of his original
confession had it not been for the adj
vice Of a Minneapolis detective who
called on him in his cell and advised
him to take back everything that he
had said if he wanted to save his
neck.
Every day evidence is piling up that
the older rank and file of the detective
department is dead set against the new
men, and that the detective force is so
busy with its own internal dissensions
that good work by the department as
a whole is entirely out of the ques-
ton.
One of the old men, whose name is
in the possession of the superintendent
of police, is said to have given the ad-
vice to Sutton in order that Detective
Brown, who made the arrest Of the
Owatonna murderers, might be robbed
of the accruing honor. Brown was a
private detective in Minneapolis for
years before he secured a position on
the city force. He and Detective
Grumpy work together. They are as
a team and individually very cordial
~ detested by the older men of the
force.
The detective who is suspected of
having given damaging advice to SUIT
ton is Nick Smith, an old member of
the force and a man who has on oc-
caSion done very good work Smith was
sick in bed today and did not report.
Supt. Conroy declined to affirm the
rumor concerning Smith, but he
declared that the offending officer
would be called on the carpet today and
asked 10 explain What he meant by his
behavior. Moreover, the condition of
affairs on the force has become so Sc
rious that the chief proposes to take
the whole staff down the line with a
lecture this morning. There is evil
IDENTIFY trouble brewing for several
members of the detective force. The
men constituting the disturbing ele-
ment are very likely to be released
Young Sutton was in terrible state
of mind this morning. He passed a
murderer's night. His descriptions of
the dreams he had were sufficiently
horrible to excite sympathy for the
dreamer. The lad had deep black rings
under his eyes and the latter were
sunken deep into their sockets He ut
tered gasping sobs at intervals and
quite evidently has experienced already
considerable extent of the punishment
that conscience metes out to assassins.
1t was considered dangerous to take
the men to Owatonna last night Tele-
phone messages to the sheriff of the
county, who was in Minneapolis made
him understand that there would be a
lynching or a gun fight when the men
were taken into town, and desiring to
obviate either possibility, he kept them
in the Hennepin Jail.