Show FOUGHT HOODOO BILL Superintendent Effinger Effin er Sings a ft Rack Haek Driver I THEN R APPEARS WITH WITE A OiB OiBA A short but hut fight in which s a aI prominent I mIning sane man and aad s a ha Ita I driver r to annihilate each oth othu was w pulled oft elf e on the Kenyon corner j jearly I early this morning Both men n went j I Ito to the ground under the tierce lierre exchange j I of blows and some blood od was drawn on I both sides sl les but the tIte mining man de declared t elated Isis his kl was wan spilled by a Mow blow over the head from front Pol POliceman iceman Smiths Smith s billy 1 which he declares the o icer used I without any provocation The mining I man gave his name as M L the superintendent of the O mine I and the hack back driver was Will West Westcott Westcott 1 cott common commonly known as Hoodoo I Bill The trouble It is alleged started over the hack haek which the driver claims the mining man nina wanted him bilk to take takeoff takeoff off oft the street According to the story of the driver Eger and several other mining men melt were standing on the corner when he drove up and asked them If they were waiting for a car volunteering ring the in information Information formation that the last la t car had bad good goodHe He alleges that retorted that they knew that without having to be told by a hack driver and wanted t know if he h was wag trying to get a Job Bill gili says soya m r calling I Isbn m a name said ne lie wouldn t ride 11 in his h i I hack and ana ordered him to get his hie hi rig ria off the street The driver drivel refused and sad I J he alleges all that Etlinger raIling calling him a avile avile vile name jerked off his coat cot and aad dashed hed at It him striking him a blow In iii the head and sent ent him spinning to the Use ground round under his horses fett let ett t The next blow was from the dr d r s IOn sad n t robs min lag ing man went to the sidewalk but was wasu ui Uit u again and the two emceed ana anti were trying to pulverize pulverise each othe other when oc Ut fleer Smith appeared on the scene and Effinger Etlinger The Tbt latter Jatter and his friends declare I that Smith brought his club down on the head of the mining man with a thud that sent hint him to the sidewalk an J ended the light fight Effinger Etlinger was wa then con conducted conducted ducted to the police station He de do declared dared cl that Smith had struck him pur purpose pose po ely v and without any cause whatever and they were emphatic in their denunciation den elation of o what they the called brutality on the part of or the officer Smith stated that he did not strike I Ithe the man to knock him down but that in Ing him his club swung over his I hand haDd and struck Effinger a light blow The officer declared that the mining man resisted him and several others I who witnessed the affair said the officer I was Justified in all he did Neither of the men wan was hurt burt beyond I a few slight ht scratches that started the blood and as the evidence seemed to show that Effinger er started the light fight he I was WB booked on a charge charre of fighting which it is said will be changed to as an assault assault sault and battery and Hoodoo Bill Bm Bmw was w allowed to KO JO put up 10 for his appear appearance appearance appearance ance in police court As he left he de declared dared that he be would see that Smith got his deserts for rounding him on the bead with his club Effacer said that the trouble was 8 started by bv the th hack driver who wise he be I says l began to squabble w with ith him about the hack back and became overbearing in his manner He declared that Bill had I forced the trouble over nothing at all alland alland i and struck truck him first and he was forced to do what he did simply to protect I himself His friends all aU declared that I the driver started the th trouble and that I Em cel was wan forced f into it in self de defense delease I lease I |