The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
CHIEF IS WRATHY.
Head of Police Department Loses
His Temper.
Puts a Reporter Out of His
Office.
STORIES NOT ALIKE.
Newspaper Man Says Officer Hit
Him First.
Trouble Occasioned by Usual
STORIES NOT ALIKE.
Trouble OccasiOned by Usual
State Journal Scoop.

As the result OF an alleged assault
committed in the police station
Wednesday night upon c. A. Sloan, a
reporter on a morning paper County
Attorney Schenck will this afternoon
be asked to issue. a warrant for the ar
rest of CHIEF OF Police Eaton. The al
tercation grew out of the accusation
that the officers were suppressing the
news. This statement was made in
connection with the discussion of an
account of the attempted holdup of D.
K Grimes. published in the State
Journal Tuesday afternoon.
Two different stories are told of the
trouble at the police station. Sloan
says that when he told Chief Eaton
that he was going to have the news,
and that he, the chief, was going to
give it to him, Eaton rose from his
chair. his face white as a sheet, walked
up to him and struck him in the face
Later Eaton kicked him and called him
q number of names and warned Sloan
that he would get llis'' If he tarried
long about the police station, accord
ing to Sloan's presentation of the facts.
The chief of police and the officers
who witnessed the assault say that
Sloan referred to an attack which he
had made on Eaton about a month ago
and intimated that it would be repeated
or renewed. They say that Eaton the
seized Sloan by the shoulders and
showed MIN out OIL the inner Off1Ce.
They deny that any blows were struck
Back of this affair is the story of the
attempted holdup of D. K. Grimes. This
occurred Monday night. It is GUS
ers who call OF such occurrences No
mention was made to the police
reporters of the occurrence. Wednes-
day afternoon, securing the news from
an entirely outside source, the State
Journal published the story of the at
tempted holdup. This explanation is
made in order that the statements of
those persons interested in last nights
mixup may be better understood.
SIoan's Story of the Trouble.
when I went to the police station
was sore because the news had not
been given to me-" said Sloan today.
Carl Lawson started to tell me of the |
assault and was scolding because the |
Journal had printed the story in the
afternoon. He told me that they had
been working all afternoon on the case !
and had made an arrest but it proved |
to be the wrong man.
Eaton was standing there and soon
he said, Yes, and they say I'm sup
pressing news.'
81 told him it looked to me like the |
news was being suppressed, that had |
been in there several times each day |
since Monday night and the news had |
not been given to me. He denied that |
he was suppressing. news. 1 told him |
that was going to get the news, that |
IL Il Q1O not get IL from MIN would.
from some one else. At last said: /
You are going to give 1t to me-
He rose from the chair on which he |
sat and came over to me. For a frac- |
ton of minute he looked me square
ly in the eye and his face was white as
any sheet you ever saw. The next I
thing I knew I was staggering back
wards from the impact of a blow
which Chief Eaton struck me. He also
kicked me. My hat fell off inside the
inner. office. Hopkins. stepped in then
and it was all over. was called few
names and warned that I would Get
mine if 1 continued to tarry at the
station. 1 went to the county JAIL
called up the office and returned to the
police station and the chief had gone.
IF can secure a. warrant for
arrest will prosecute him and
think 1 can. OF course 1 have not
seen the county attorney yet, but I
shall try to bring about the arrest of
Baton. My eye is black and 1 am
little sore as the result of the rough
treatment 1 received, but 1 am not
hurt |