The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-06
n KNOW FIELDS
FATE ON MONDAY.
off,cer Under Fire for Using VIC
Ience VIII Not Know His Fate
Until That
Time.
EXAMINATION SATURDAY
Evidence Introduced For Complainant
Tended to Show That Violence
Had Been Used by the
Officer.

The city commissioners will decide
the fate Of officer AL. Fields on Mon
Z dav morning. For three hours Sat
urday afternoon the investigation was
carried on and at it's conclusion much
damaging evidence against Fields had
been introduced through witnesses of
a reliable character. Fields himself
went on the stand and told story
that was corroborated by other Off
cers, while there was plenty of evil
dence for the complainant tending to
substantiate the assertion that undue
violence had been used in dealing
| with Eugene Hannah, by whom the
proceeding for dismissal was institut-
led Hannah was represented by At
storney Frank M. Ballinger and the
Scity by Ed. W. McManus. The hear
l Ing was before Mayor j. F. Elder, and
commissioners Thomas P. Gray and
IF. T. F. Schmidt.
Mrs. Hannah was the first wit
ness to testify for the plaintiff to
this action, and her story was one of
Excessive abuse on the part Of the
officers in handling her husband She
said that both had struck him al
most simultaneously with their clubs
when he turned around to say some
thing to her and that twice he was
Knocked down. She related how she
had implored the officers to desist
from their cruel treatment and pictur-
ed the blood streaming from Ham
malls head down upon his shirt front.
She denied that he was drunk or that
he resisted in any way the officers.
W. j. Cahill, street car conductor,
and the second witness, told the most
revolting story of the day He said
that he was the one who went for
The two officers and requested that
Hammall be sent homeward with his
wife. He was within eight feet of
Them he said, when they escorted him
cross the street to the car barn OF.
fcer Baldwin simply gave him a slight
ap on the head to straighten him up,
laid Cahill, but Fields swung as hard
IS he could and felled him with a
blow on the back OF his head. The
pan climbed to his feet, according to
he witness, offered no resistance
rhatever, and was again struck a
rashing blow by Fields when they
rere in front of the car barn. When
his blow was delivered Cahill says
e stepped up and requested that
Hannah be not struck again This
fingered Fields and he rushed at him
vCahilD saying he would strike him
Twice. At this juncture Officer Park
ttepped in Cahill was firm in his
ssertion that excessive violence had
Peen used and characterized 1t as dir.
work on the part of any officer
Pm cross-examination Cahill said he
lad always liked Fields until he saw
i'm strike HANNAH When Attorney
icManus asked: You don't like Fields
low. do your" the witness answer
d, 'Yes-like l like a snake,
Denied Being Drunk
H. A. HANNAH, the complainant
enied that he was intoxicated as
laimed by the officers who made the
rrest. He said that today tSatur
ay) he had had as many drinks as
e did on the day of his arrest and
nat he was not intoxicated at the
resent time. He said that he did no,
rink over six or seven glasses OF
Fer On the day of the trouble.
Hannah said that the officers grab
ed him and gave him no opportunity
making an explanation and saying
pat he was going back down the
rect for the purpose Of getting his
tile nephew. He further claimed