The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-17
CHIEF HUTS0N IS
DENOUNCED BY A
MEMBER OFFORCE
PatrOlman Whitener Tells
Superior He is Making A
Baby of Beeve.
BEEVE. SNOOZING IN
CLUB, is LOCKED UP
Whitener Tells HutsOn Cop Earns
His Salary Tickling The
Pool Balls.

A feud that has been brewing in the
city police force for the last three
months, reached u crisis Tuesday
night when Patrolman Arthur White
ner denounced on a public street cor
ner Chief of Police jeff HutsOn and
accused him. of showing partiality to
| Patrolman Edward Beeve.
At the same time, in Beeve's pres
cnce, Whitener made the open charge
that several days ago, he had found
Beeve asleep in the Elks Club after
his beat on Main and Water streets
had been neglected for several hours.
He likewise charged that on several
occasions he had found Beeve at the
EIks Club, in the evenings when on
duty, playing pool on the second floor
of the club.
No denial was made to these
charges by Becve as Whitener spoke
them on the street corner to the Chief.
The Chief importuned Whitener not to
raise a fuss" and wanted to know
why Whitener did not "work with"
Beevc.
In the course of the fcud that has
been growing in the police department,
Whitener, who is night watchman
downtown and draws but half his sal
airy from the City and the other half
from merchants who pay him a month
ly fee for his protection and Patrol
man George TalIey, of the Broadway
beat, have been singled out by the
chief and virtually placed in coventry
by the other men in the department.
Information concerning violations of
the law in their own districts has been
withheld from these two men. Rob-
berries have occurred and were reported
to the police station and these two pat
rolmen not told until they learned
from outside sources several hours
afterward.
The night that DR.. Lehr's residence
on North Fountain street was ran
sacked and robbed, neither Talley nor
Whitener was flashed a tip from
headquarters. Both learned of the
"iob" three hours later from an out
side source.
They were in ignorance of any facts
and necessarily unable to perform ade-
quate police duty, had an opportunity,
which they would have recognized
with their knowledge of the facts,
presented itself.
These were charges that Whitener
made to HutsOn, and moreover, he
declared that other officers have been
sent to their own beats to make ar
rests without even telling them that
men We're wanted.
Almost simultaneous with the begin
ming of the coventry in which the two
patrOlmen were placed, they heard re-
ports from Lutesvile that a cousin OF
jeff HutsOn's was coming to the Cape
at the Chiefs insistence, to be put on
the police force.
A cousin Of the chief moved to the
Cape several weeks ago from Lutes-
vile.
Subsequently, Whitener said he had
met many friends from Lutesville
who have braced him with the query:
as Hutson's cousin on the force yet?
He said he was going over to the Cape
and get put on the force"
Hutson has also attempted to lay
the responsibility for the mysterious
dismissal of case in Police Court
against prominent Cape attorney
whom Whitener arrested for disorder
ly conduct on the streets, upon White
ner.
The case, as a matter of fact was
nolle pressed over Whitener's protest,
by City Attorney Whitelaw.
Hutson the other afternoon said the
arresting officer had Withdrawn the
charge" Whitener denied this and
declared that he had required White
law to obtain a release from the at
torney insuring both the city and the
patrolman from a damage suit after
the dismissal of the case.
This release is in Hutson's desk at
police headquarters. When question
ed about it some time ago, Hutson
first said he didn't have any such re-
lease.
He later said he had a piece of