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Show POLICEMEN WITH FOPS. J Two omt-ers A reined or Shootlug at a Helmed He-lmed CitUeu. An inquiry is on foot this afternoon into an alleged outrage for which Ol)i-eers Ol)i-eers Poole hud Kiley are named as the responsible parties. A man named Gillespie, employed with the Sierra Nevada Lumber" company, is the man with tho club. Gillespie asserts that while going home a few miuutes after miduight he met two young men who said they had been heid up a lew minutes before. Gillespie had a few words of commiseration commiser-ation for them and continued about his business. He had gone but a short distance dis-tance when he saw ahead of him two men who later proved to be tho policemen police-men mentioned. Gillespie asserts that these officers, without warning him, began tiring toward to-ward him. They rushed "in upon him and demanded to know whore ho was doing at 8 o'clock iu tho morning. The lumberman replied that it was not 8 o'clock, and to prove it drew his watch, which indicated the hour asLHa. After some parleying Gillespie was permitted to proceed. This is his story, and the one ho told at the city hall this morning. Tho officers offi-cers were off duty and could not be found to give their version of the affair. |