The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-30
POLICE OFFICER MAKES
MONKEY OF HIMSELF.
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'ul'F' ana 1t Is no easy matter some.
times to repress your feelings in the
presence OF a man who is willfullv tax.
ing the bread out of the mouths of
your wife and children. If they had
lost their temper once in awhile and
took swing at a scab' it would have
been nothing remarkabe-the remarka
pie thing is that they never did that
thing.
Now what follows is taken from the
court records of the trial in Justice
court Tuesday morning and a stenog-
raPmc transcript is available to sub.
stautiate it.
Up to within two weeks ago it had
been the practice of the pickets to 90
INTO the tower on the bridge for drink
OF water or to use the telephone. Very
suddenly the bridge tenders notified
the boys that orders had been received
to allow nobody in the tower that
''iS Iil'lt' saturday alter
noon Plckets johnson and Botting saw
Bridge Tender Peterson on the bridge.
Betting approached him and asked for
a match. Then he asked what was the
matter with the bridge tender that he
didn't seem to want to talk TO the
boys any more and asked why thev
were excluded from longer using the
tower
The answers were not satisfactory
and having his own view as to whv
they were no longer allowed the favors.
Betting said to Peterson:
"Nou sweet guy, a bunch of you
will get it handed to you on election
day"
Crossing the bridge on his wheel at
the time was a special police officer"
one Goodman by name. Peterson said.
"Why don't you talk to him? ?" Botting
replied that Goodman didn't have en-
ough nerve to talk to him. Peterson
Immediately called Goodman over and
repeated what had been said Good
man began Immediately to threaten ar
rest and when Betting questioned his
seized him by the coat and
drawing police club from his coat,
said, Make a move and I'll rap you
over the head with this club"
He told Peterson to call for the po-
lice patrol and placed Betting under ar
rest
The evidence produced gave absolutely
no excuse for arrest. Peterson himself
is Il police officer and could have ar
rested Botting if he had offered to
make trouble There were no loud
words, no threats further than the one
to get Peterson politically no sign
Of violence. Goodman claimed ON the
stand that he thought from the ex-
preston of thrSS' ces of the men that
trouble was i1iif Ih .tlbfng. He stated that
vile names We're called but neither he
nor the other witness for the prose
cution could tell a single vile or oppro-
bious word. you sweet guy" was
the entire sum and substance of the
vile epithets. Goodman said that he
would have taken hand in the game
under any circumstances and was
already coming when Petersen called
him.
Now about this man Goodman. Here
is some more court record sworn to on
the witness stand by Goodman. On the
18th day of September he received a
as deputy sheriff from
Sheriff Hodge of King county On the
18th of September he was sent to Ev
erett. He was appointed a special po-
lice officer by Mayor Hartley and de-
tailed to the Snohomish river bridge
to keep the peace, despite the fact that
both Bridge Tenders Peterson and Ken
nison are police officers. Now it was
held in court that Goodman
was not an officer of the
city of Everett at all at the time he
made the arrest. The city charter pro
vides that the mayor or fire and police
may appoint special police