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THE ' BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1919.
DENIES AdREST
1 BY EXONERATED
k- POLIGEOFFIGER
' Indignant Nebraska Citizen
Declares Officer Held
Blameless by Chief Was -
- Not Present. '
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'Officer Robert Samardick has
been held blameless by Police Chief
" Eberstein in the matter of the un
lawful and disgraceful arrest last
week of C. W. Clark, business man
and respected citizen of Union, Neb.
Detective L. H. Stolley and Pa
trolman Ailo Barnes, whom the
records at the police station showed
until Monday made the arrest,
iWere hot mentioned in the an
Jiiouiicement of the chief of police.
When Mr. Clark was booked at
i tthe station, more than a week ago,
' Stolley and Barnes were credited
with the arrest. Samardick's name
; later appealed on the record as one
" of the -arresting officers. '
Mr. Clark, who has leen coming
to Omaha to buy goods for 'the past
.'quarter of a century, had been wait
i.iiST 1,1 the hall way of the Douglas
block. Sixteenth and Dodge streets,
J 'for his doctor to arrive at his office
':, ' in 'the building, when he was picked
vp by only two officers, h$ declared.
"'.' " But. Two Officers.
" i. "I am certain of this, he told a
Bee reporter yesterday mornings "I
- do not care what the records at the
. station show," he continued, "there
t - were but two officers there."
Z ' The statement of the chief of pc-
lice to the effect that Mr.-Clark was
Z talking to several dope fiends at the
time he was arrested was branded
as "absolutely" false. ;
. Z ' "Not a word of it is true," de-
2 clared Mr. Clark. , "I had been
C standing in the hall about two min
2 utes after coming out of the physi-
cian's office. I was told the physi
V Z c'an was expected to arrive at any
moment and just had stepped into
Z the building when two men arrested
J rnc. I nerer saw the other men be
Z fore in my life. I Jid not speak
Z a word to them nor did they speak
to me. The statement published in
i another Omaha daily newspaper
J crediting me with saying I oniy
used narcotics when "ordered to do
2 so by my physician is also false. I
n made no such statement. I never
. Z took a dose of morphine or any
jj other kind oftiarcotic in my life.'
Asked Insinuating Question.
j Mr.i Clark declared a reporter
callcd him on the telephone Mon
:i J day and asked him if he was a "dope
, ..' head." "I did not know what he
m meant by such -an expression," he
, 3 continued. "I dp not think I ever
m heard the term before."
Z- Paul Topping, 730 World-Herald
U building, attorney employed by Mr.
Clark to bring suit against the po
:. 3 licemen who made the false and ille-
. i Z gal arrest, declared he had known his
2 client for the last 10 years.
Z , "Mr. Clark always has enjoyed a
; Z splendid reputation," declared Mr.
Topping. "He is a responsible bits-
Z iness man and is highly respected in
J his community, where he has lived
' for 25 years." '
2 Mr. Clark declared he: had in-
; structed his attorney to file the
2 proper suits and that'he would be in
Z Omaha today or next day to
discuss-the matter further with his
-Jawyer.
: ; : . . Friends Are Indignant.'
'.J' Friends of Mr. Clark are in
s clignant at Chief Eberstein for what
.: Z they style "his flimsy excuse" for
keeping Mr. Clark in jail for three
3 (lays without trial and refusing him
m opportunity to furnish bonds '
The police chief declared Mr.
Clark was being held as a dope fiend
"J;for investigation by his son, Russell
Eberstein, a federal agent,' but that
an examination of the prisoner by a
physician developed he was not a
drug addict. It was then, declared
the chief, decided to place a charge
of vagrancy against Mr. Clark.
, - After being held in jail for three
""days; .refused an opportunity to es
tablish his identity, communicate
with friends or relatives And denied
- he privilege of buying decent food,
Mr. -Clark, who is in ill health, was
.iji serious physical condition when
-s. he was released.
Sentence Later Suspended. ,
He. was taken before Police Judge
Foster with three other prisoners
charged with vagrancy and ; sen
tenced to30 days in the county jail
without, being allowed to take the
witness stand in his own defense or
employing a lawyer to represent
him. The sentence was suspended
v following the prisoner's indignant
protest against the high-handed tac
tics. . ' ' ;.
. Mr. Clark declared he made re
peated attempts to get in touch with
an attorney while he was in jail. He
.. ' was not allowed to do o. He was
in jail two days when a negro" pris
" oner was released. "I gave the negro
$3 to communicate - with the Mer
chants hotel for me, declared Mr.
s Clark. "The man kept the $3. I
believe he was intimidated by the
police.
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Bnej City News
Have Koot innt It Beacon Press
Vaeama CI m Burgsss-Orandon Co
Plan Dinner Dance The Univer
sity club will hold a dinner dance
at their club house Saturday eve
ning. Two Couples Married Miss Pearl
Cook and Alfred Brott and MyraH.
Jackson and Gustave E. Olson were
married by. .Rev. Charles W. Sav
idge. To Elect Officers Omaha Lodge
No. 14, Degree of Honor, will elect
officers for the ensuing . year at a
special meeting to be held Friday
evening In Crounse hall, opposite
the postomce. . '
HesDerlan Eiicamnmcnt to Meet
Hesperian -encampment. No. 2, I.
O. O. F., will hold its last meeting
for 1919 Thursday. The royal pur
ple degree will be conferred upon
a large class of candidates.
Annual Church Bazar The wom
en of the Reorganized Latter Day
Saints church will hold their annual
Christmas bazar in the court house
Friday and Saturday. The bazar was
to have begun Thursday; but the
opening was postponed.
Aunolntment Is "' Approved The
city council approved the appoint
ment of J. H. Dumont to take tne
place of John L. McCague as mem
ber of the board of appraisers in
connection with the proposed widen
ing of Twenty-fourth street, Pacific
to Cuming streets.
Personal Injury Suit James E.
Gill, a switchman for the Union
Stock Yards company, filed suit in
district court against the Cudahy
Packing company for $15,000 dam
ages, alleging that he fell into . a
hole In the yards December 3 and
was badly injured.
Omaha Men rn Charge Big busi
ness in Omaha is In charge of Oma
ha men. This is the assertion of
the publicity bureau of the, Cham
ber of Commerce, which canvassed
the larger industries of the city and
found that of 60 of the largest in
dustries 36 were running with an
Omaha man as the head officer.
Omaha Sailor Promoted Word
has been received at the Navy re
cruiting station here that James R.
Kennedy, 5228 North Thirteenth
street, has been advanced in rating
rrom seaman to store keeper, third
class. Kennedy is now serving on
the United States submarine C-5.
FarnSersY Congress PostDoned
The Nebraska Farmers' congress,
which was postponed with a number
of other conventions scheduled to
be held here before the first of the
year, will bo held here on January
6, 7 and 8, according to an an
nouncement by John B. Grinnell,
secretary of the organization. The
meeting was scheduled to begin here
yesterday.
Get Increased Pay Three hun
dred members of the Are depart
ment, firemen and junior and senior
captains, received their first in
creased pay of. $15 per month, which
was added to their half-month's pay
from December 1 and began Novem
ber 15. Employes of the city clerk s
and city comptroller's offices also re
ceived increases of .$10 and $15 per
month. -
Aged Woman Dies Mrs. F. A.
Eaton, 83 years old, mother of for
mer State Land Commissioner H..
M. Eaton, of Omaha, died at Irer
nome in unapman, jNen., jvionaay.
She Jiad been a widow for about 18
years. She is survived by four sons,
II. M. and R. W. Eaton of Omaha,
O. D. Eaton of Lincoln and Guy W.
Eaton of Cozad. and two daughters.
Mrs Minnie L. Duncan of Lafayette,
Ind., and Mrs. F. B. Thomas of
Chapman. Neb. Burial will be at
Davenport, Neb.
My Heart and My Husband
ADELE GARRISON'S New Phase of
" Revelations of a Wife'
In a recently invented device to
enable golfers to practice hangs a
strip, of paper that serves as a tar
get and is punctured by an accurate
ly driven ball.
The Strange Question Lillian
Asked About Jim.
I felt a weight roll from my spirits
at Lillian's words, mystified even
though I was by the tangle of cir
cumstances , surrounding M i 1 ' y
Stockbridge's death, in which I felt
myself involved. But Lillian's
briskness and enthusiasm in tackling
the affair electrified me. Her man
ner made me think involuntarily of
Dicky's comment upon her long ago.
"Give pld Lil 'some mystery to
solve," he said, "and she . puts her
nose in the air like a bird dog, and
the devil help the person 'she goes
after."
That Lillian had evolved some
definite theory from my account of
Mr. Walters and from reading the
letter Kenneth Stockbridge hid
written me I was certain. And, cu
riously enough considering the al
most conviction I had of Kenneth
Stockbridge's i goilt. something in
her manner made me wonder if I
had not been mistaken, if he might
not be innocent after all.
Needless to say, I uttered no word
of this mental comment aloud. Lil
lian, usually the most easy-going of
women, can turn a most disquieting
frown upon anyone who has the te
merity to interrupt' her train of
thought when she is busy upon some
important problem.' I have, as have
most of her friends, a wholesome
awe of her displeasure, because of
the very rarity of the occasions
when she displays it. r
Lillian Decides..
She did not speak for several min
utes following her exclamation con
cerning "the trafl through that crazy
woman's teapot." When she did, to
my surprise,- there was no reference
to the tea in her words, but to the
other subject of our conversatipn.
"There is no other way out of it.
We've simply got to get that desk
in this house and keep it here. And
we mustn't lose a single minute do
ing it We must get it tomorrow
morning, if possible."
I gazed at her in astonishment.
The desk was the property of Ken
neth Stockbridge, but it still, stood
in the school office., To my mir.tl
the moving of it from there to our
house would only invite the ma'i
cious gossip which the imprisoned
principal had striven so hard to
avert from Alice Holcombe and me
Lillian glanced at me, frowned
perceptibly, then broke into one of
her irresistible laughs.
"Don't look so horrified, child,''
she said. "You and I won't drivt
up to school in the car and ask the
janitor-for the desk. Haven't you
summered and wintered me. long
enough to know that, when I get
through with this, thing here'll be
a red herring across the trail that
will lead that dead woman's family
who, incidentally, I'll wager, "arc
pretty nearly as batty as she was
clear to Timbuctoo. Nay, nay, my
love, trust your Lillian." -,
Jim is Needed.
I laughed. I would have defied the
most confirmed misanthrope on the
planet to have done otherwise at her
impudent, flamboyant conceit, which,
of course, I knew to be assumed
only for the express purpose of put
ting me in good humor. ,
But-I also knew that beneath the
words lay a very real truth. If Lil
lian were confident that she could
get that desk into the house without
comment it behooved me to 'sit
tight," as Dicky would say, and
watch her do it.
"How dependable is Jim?" she
asked next.
"There's no limit to his absolute
loyalty," I replied, thinking of the
many times Jim had shown his grati
tude 'fpr the care we had taken of
Katie in his absence "at the front."
"I don't mean that. Has he the
brains to lie discreetly and to keep
his eyes and ears open for some
thing he has beeji told to watch r
My thoughts flashed back to a
long-ago time before I knew my fa
ther's identity, when faithful Jim,
doubting the motives of the "Ques-
ter Jrom Broadway, had done some
sleuthing on his own account, had
thrown the searcher for me off the
track, and had come to me with his
knowledge afterward.
"I am sure he is equal to any
task you wish to set him," I said
with conviction in my voice.
"Do you imagine he will think it
necessary to tell Katie nis errands r
Her voice expressed the recognition
of Katie's volatile garrulity, which
is so characteristic of my little maid.
"Not if you tell him the necessity
for not doing so," I returned.
"Is he where you can lay your
hands on him now?"
"Yes, I think so." ;
"Do you mind calling him in here
right iway?" , 1
'Not in the least." I answered,
but as I rang the bell for Katie I
permitted . myself a wondering
speculation at to the nature of the
errand for which Lillian wanted
Jim.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Roughs Attack Yanks
Brest, Dec. 16. Roughs attacked
three American officers last night as
they were leaving a concert and
Lieut. John Campbell Clove was se
riously wounded. Lieut. Charles
Nevin received a bullet in the leg.
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