The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-17
The Eaker-GrOgan Case Was
Finished in Police Court.
Judge Evans Still Holding Federal
Court-Little Doing in Cir
cult Court.
FROM THE OTHER TRIBUNALS
POLICE COURT


with maliciously assaulting Engineer
Pat Grogan at Third ana Broadway
with a "slung shot" on the night Of
the eth was the principal one in po-
lioe court this morning, and was left
open for argument this afternoon.
He was held in the sum Of $3.50 for
assault and battery.
There was considerable testimony
introduced. Ii was shown that Eaker
walked up to Engineer Grogan and
without warning began striking him
with the weapon. 1t was a flexible
billy" the end OF it apparently be-
ing filled with lead or shot IL seems
from the testimony that Eaker simply
said "old fellow" as he began using
the weapon.
Eaker himself in his testimony said
that the reason he made the assault
was that he was told that Grogan had
said things about him on a street car
| in the presence OF his wife, and when
she got up and told him she was the
wife Of the man he was talking about,
he said "he didn't give d. IL she
was" Ii seems he got all his infor-
nation from hearsay, until he asked
his wife and she said Grogsn used the
language. He said Joe Purchase also
told HIM that he was on the car and
heard il, but Purchase, when intro
duced, said he never heard anyone say
I'd" on the car, and didn't tell Ea-
ker that he did
A number OF witnesses were then
introduc and Of all those on the car
only one said she heard the word
ID"
Eaker claimed he walked mp to En-.
gineer Grogsn with the "slung shot"
and did not strike him until Grogan
had struck at him. Esker said he got
the weapon in a closet at Sherman
Phillips saloon. He didn't know
where it came from or to whom il be-
longed, and when he found il there he
took IL because he needed il in his
business. - The commonwealth was
unable to ascertain who owned it or
how IL came to be there.
Engineer Grogsn when placed on
the stand to rebut the testimony about
what happened on the street car, said
that the boarded the car, dropped IN
his fare. and when he said something
TO Mr.. O. w. Morrison about Father
Coffee coming, remarked that he had
always voted for Mayor Yeiser, but
couldn't do it again. He said he
thought the people needed change,
and they couldn't get 1t under Mayor
Yeiser. as he had himself gone to the
mayor about an alleged dive Ed Eaker
had been running on Tenth street and
the mayor wouldn't do anything.
That the Eakers and Singletons were
running tho town, he guessed. and
were pretty hard to beat. but he was
going to vote for the independent tick
ct. Mrs. FAX er, whom he had not
seen, then got mp, he said, and said
that he was tall ing about her husband
and he told her that he was not talk
ing to her, and paid no further ntten.
ton to her, until rs she started to get
Off she remarked that when he was
talking about Mayor Yeiser he was
not talking about a hog, or words to
that effect. He denied that he used
the word damn" at any time.
Mr.. O. W. Morrison, to whom he
was talking, corroborated him, and
said that he knew the word damn"
was not used unless it was as the Ia
dies got of the car.
| Mrs. James Eaker. sister-in. law Of
the defendant, was present on the car,
but did not hear the language used.
An effort was made to introduce Mrs.
Esker, wife of the defendant. but OBJ
| jeotion was raised as wife cannot
testify for OF against her husband
There were half dozen or more
witnesses, and none of those on the
car heard the word damn" unless it
was Mrs. Eaker, who could not testify,
and another lady who understood Mr..