Show Ma ns S n With Wit n Sm S Club Police court wag waa as the arena of a bat battle battle bate tle ti tim e royal yesterday ye in which mining men m en and policemen crossed words swords s in a wordy fray The fun all grew g rew out of the trial of 01 M 11 1 L inger ingerI E the he I he superintendent of the Ophir mine on o n a it charge charae of ot assaulting and batter battering ing in int ini g Hoodoo Bill the but butt inS it i t developed into a trial of Policeman mith S for fur allowing his bis hi club to become too t oo familiar M with ith the mining mans manshew hew heid h ead William Westcott We or Hoodoo Bill Hill the t he rela related his story of the tight fight fi fili as given riven in Sundays Herald Officer Smith testified that Ettinger Effinger was w as playing plan a with his i fists li on the when he col eel collared collared lil lared aced l him and that the mining man resisted r arrest He Re declared that D L S a mining man Dlan who was with Effinger E also interfered As for striking ing l ug Elfinger be he had hal not done it with the he t intention of hitting him but in grabbing g for his hta collar cona r the club which he h gh e had in his hand na had swung over I and a nd struck r a s light Mow blow blo At Attorney i torney orney t Lindsay ay Rogers who represent represented i ed ad the defendant wanted to be shown how h hb ow the officer hail had grabbed gr r but b ut when the Ute officer took tok k a club to show j how h ow it Jt was 5 dose done the ti attorneys curios turbo curiosity curiosity ity I ty t st for r f it Smith de tle declared dared d ared that Granger EM r deserved deser a club clubbing clubbing bing b ing but that be he did not get it er took the stand and said the hackman ackman h had called him an 11 offspring of o f an animal and admitted that he ire knocked k the driver aown but declared that he had not called the driver any an names He declared the officer who had come up behind him without in inquiring quiring the cause ause had struck him over the head so hard that he was knocked i down and dazed by b the blow He e ei ex j i j I a bruise on the head which he i said hart had 3 been made by y the club c He admitted 1 that he lie had a been drinking and also admitted that alter after his release he went back to finish the affair with the i Mr Seoville stated that Smith sprung upon the scene like a u and seized Effinger with Uh one hand and arid struck him over the head with his hili club The blow he said could be heard half halfa a block away awayA A H Shorten the secretary of the Galena mine was vas of the opinion that the officer had brandished his club In his right hand and plied piled it with force to the head of ot the mining man At least h he ht said it sounded like Uke he be hit bit an empty tin can Colonel was put on the stand but he could only testify as to the sober character of Effinger Ellinger The judge jUdAe after listening to the ar argument argument of the case SKid said he thought it had been more mor a trial of Officer Smith than Etlinger but that there was o 2 doubt as to the guilt of ot the latter He thought that Effinger had had bad enough punishment and discharged charged dl him bbs with the advice that he Ie get the last car hereafter The judge took occasion ion to toy say y that he knew Officer Smith to be a avery aery avery very ery careful person in the use of his club and he think that he would use ube it when he did not ot have to |