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Show A CASE INVESTIGATED. On Thursday night O. P. Eockwood was drinkrog in Lollin's saloon and making considerable noise, when some of the officers entered and endeavored to quiet and remove him. While so engaged Mr. A- S. Gould entered and told the officers if Rockwell were a Gentile they would have dragged him to the lock-np by the hair of the head. The assertion was indignantly repudiated, repudi-ated, and some sharp words followed, during which Gould, it is alleged, says he was told by one of the officers that he (the policeman) would cut his (Gould's) heart ont. The matter was investigated by Mayor Wells yesterday yester-day evening, when it was proved beyond be-yond question that no such language was used by any of the officers; and it further appeared very clear that the object of Mr. Gould was to make trouble trou-ble of some kind. With regard to the charge that had Rockwell been a Gentile he would have been dragged to the lock-up by the hair, we have a word or two to say. We hold that Mr. Rockwell Rock-well should have been arrested, i and that several Gentiles who acted in a similarly disgraceful manner within a period not very remote, should also have been arrested at the time they were disturbing the public peace. One or two federal officials some time ago, with others, made midnight similarly hideous on East Temple street, shouting shout-ing lustily of their intention to go "down to Kanab" for a certain purpose. pur-pose. None of thcniwere arrested. Subsequently a judicial functionary, also, so disturbed the public peace on a certain Saturday night that the matter was a town scandal. He was not arrested, and the facts were suppressed by the papers pa-pers from very . shame. About the tame time the rooms of another official were tenanted by a bacchanalian crowd which disturbed the neighborhood adjoining ad-joining so that sleep was impossible within a limited radius. None of them were arrested; none of them were Mormons; Mor-mons; all were Gentiles, nor was aoy ono of them dragged anywhere by the hair of the head. We can tell a few moro things if compelled to do so, but these facts will show how truthfully correct Mr. Gould's statement was. We wish to say to tho public that! there are a few men in this city who are prophesying trouble, and are evidently evi-dently striving to make it. Do not gratify them. You have been patient under long continued abuse; bo patient still. If they are insulting, pass them quietly. Remember the law and that alone should hold them responsible if they infringe its provisions. |