The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-06
GROWING BITTER.
Eaton Schenck Controversy
Takes a New Turn.
Wesley Hale Furnishes Affi-
davft in Controversy.
TELLS OF MONEY PAID
Hints That There Has Been
Graft Somewhere.
Robt. Campbell Who Started
TELLS OF MONEY PAID
Robt. Campbell Who Started
the Trouble Arrested.

| Following directly after charges made
against Police Chief R. w. Eaton in a
sworn deposition signed by Wesley
! Hale, other charges in which the police
department head is accused of exceed
ing his authority will in all probability
be sworn to this afternoon by two
brothers, who were recently fined in
police court because Of liquor sales
Their names are withheld by the au-
thorities as polite in the gathering OF
evidence
While County Attorney John j.
Schenck, in. whose hands the sworn
statement of Wesley Hale is kept. viii
neither affirm or deny the existence of
the paper it is known that such an af-
| fidavit is in his possession. 1t is fur
Their stated that it contains numerous
charges which amount to little else
than graft. Among other startling dis
closures the document refers to the
fact that about the time of Hale's con-
victiOn a certain amount of money was
paid for the purpose of being dis
tributed among the officers wherever e
would do the most good.
1t is further asserted that the chief
of police unlawfully destroyed three
barrels of beer, taken from Wesley
Hale's wagon and not from his house;
that the police chief when asked re-
garding the beer asserted that he did
not know what had become of it, but
that one of the officers might know
something; that the police chief warn
ed Hale to keep his mouth shut or he
would be thrown into jail to serve the
sentence Of eight months, and the fine
of $500 pending against him on account
of the recent conviction, at which tina
Hale was permitted to pay a fine on
the first count in addition to the costs
of the case. a parole being granted on
good behavior
Hale's Sworn Statement.
Hale further makes the sworn state
nent that Eaton had tacitly agreed that
in case the conviction in the police
court was allowed the case would not
be taken any higher, whereas the po-
lice chief has broken the agreement
which he had no authority to enter into
by sending the name of Wesley Hale
to the county attorney suggesting that
proceedings be instituted against him.
Other promises or tacit agreements.
it is said, have been made in reference
to police court cases, and it is relative
to these that an investigation is being
made today. with the result that two
have said that this afternoon they will
make statements which are believed
to be even more sensational III charac-
ter than the affidavit of Wesley Hale.
Attorney Joseph Reed, attorney for
Hale, denies the payment of any money
to Officers where it would do the most
good saying: Wesley Hale gave me
SZlo. ol lHlS dIlOuliI S1OS-0U WENT 10
pay the fine on the first count. and po-
lice court costs. I paid $40 for bonds
for Hale upon which he was a. liberty
pending trial. The balance I kept as
intended to charge 500 for my services
as attorney in the case. and did not
get quite as much as I had expected.
I received $3.50 which I did not pay
out, and have. the amount yet
Campbell Is Arrested.
Robert Campbell at whose place Ea-
ton said he saw violations of the law
which he later denied. was arrested
this morning by Deputy Sheriff Bennett
Judkins on warrant sworn to with
the idea that evidence might be gath
cred which would be sufficient to con-
Wet.
Campbell himself asserts that he ac-
companied the officers back to Tope-
ka and that all of them stopped at
store near the Three Bridges where
Campbell bought cigars for the crowd
Coming on to the city Campbell assert
ed that he accompanied the officers
and was not at his residence on the
Granville road when Eaton reported
the roadhouse affair to the sheriff
office.