The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-29
COPS AFTER PRESIDENTS son.
YOUNG NAN POSING As TEDDY
JR., IN A ROW IN BOSTON.

r NO skyIarkIng Harvard students Get into
trouble Through Tripping Up . RuV-
nln Policeman After 1rhey Had Las.
seed o Young Ma on . Park Bench.
BOSTON, Sept. 3s.-Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr., the Presidents son, q Harvard scpho-
more, viii probably be arrested tomorrow,
charged with d~isorderIy conduct and with
assault on an unknown man The police
are hunting another young man, who 10
charged with d~isorderly conduct, assault
on the same unknown man q assault on
Policeman FRAZIER.
The policeman 10 at the Relief Hospital
with a broken nose, q lacerated wound on
the left arm and a lacerated wound on the
head.
The affair In which young Roosevelt is
suspected Of having participated occurred
on Boston Common last midnight In
company with three companions, all said
to be Harvard students, the young man
supposed to be Roosevelt hssoed Q man
from one Of the benches on the Common
and sfterwaNd tripped up onicer FRAZIER
when the latter pursued the quartet.
He and one Of his companions were cap
tured and taken TO the police station. where.
after satisfying the lieutenant that ne
was the President's son, both were allowed
The police OF the division whore the
trouble&occurred took Q defensive attitude
when Questioned about the matter to-day
seeming to fear public censure because
they had presumed to take to the station
the son Of the President.
Police Commissioner o'Meara was busy
all day investigating the affair.. He gave
out a statement tonight In which be said
that application would be made To-
morrow for warrant for Hoosevelts
Il am determined that any man or boy
who causes injury TO o Boston policeman
who Is doing his duty shal be punished II
he can be caught and convicted.
The arrival In Boston Of thousands OF
students makes It necessary that Che small
percentage who choose to act as hoodlums
viii be treated as hoodlums.'
"A stenographer was sent to the Relief
Hospital and the following statement was
given by the injured policeman:
Reserve 0fficer Grace and l were on duty
on Boston Common. We saw four young
men coming toward US, shouting and raising
a disturbance. There were two and then
two more. The second two had q rope tr
their hands. On the other side OF the walk
on a bench, sat one young man. The two
il a pull and dragged him into the walk
Then they got him by the arm and were
dragging him along the walk.
Il said to Of1cer Grace, They have gone
about far enough Officer Grace and
approached and when we got within a few
yards Of them they ran. ! went afterth Z
smaller Of the two. The other man jumped
against me, put out his foot and trippec
me, throwing me againet one OF the seats
by the walk. Officer Grace followed the
mln who tripped me. He did not get hin
but he got the first man..
When Grace brought this young man
back to where I was, he said: I am Presi'
dept Roosevelt's son."
Commissioner O'Hara said tonight:
1T appears that the man who was pulled
from a bench afterward said he was q
friend OF the arrested man and accompanied
him to the police station. 1t also appeared
that the arrested man refused repeatedly
to give the name of his companion who
had assaulted FRAZIER"
An effort was made TO make sure that
the young man who claimed to be Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Jr., was really the Presi-
dents s)n. Offioer Grace was sent to Cam
bridge, but he was refused admtttance &c
the building In who h Theodore Roosevelt
Jr., lives, and though he tried in Many ways
to see hin for the purpose OF hentihca-
ton he was unsuccessful. The man who
committed the assault n the ma who
said he was Roosevelt can be identified
by the policemen. As they have failed afteI
twenty-four hours to come forward they
will be sought 10y the usual police methods
The police will apply tomorrow morn.
ing for warrants for their arrest. The
charges against the man who calls himself
Roosevelt will be disorderly conduct and
assault on an unknown man. The charges
against his companion will be the sam
and also assault upon Ohicer FRAZIER.