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Show In th first orro piMhforkraaia''srtj1 shooter were appeated W slid that soma ono was not killed, is -tie fluty to the in. terterMe f bystanders -mho . seized and disarmed them. The examination1 was set for 4 o'clock this afternoon. J ; . . "On In the Attic." The officers brought in a colored woman this morning whom they found wandering -aimlessly through the streets, and filed a charge of vagrancy against her. This was to hold her for safe keeping. All efforts to induce her to divulge her name were answered with a derisive laugh and she was locked as "W itch of En-dor." En-dor." Locked iu jail she settled in a corner, rejected all food and again laughed a hollow, howling laugh when questioned. The attention of the city physician has been called to the mystery. For Vagrancy. Lottie Perkins and Frankie Smith were run in during the night for vagrancy vag-rancy and are held to await examination examina-tion before Judge Laney. Frankie is said to have been mixed up with some tough customers in her lifetime. She is the reputed wife of Walter Hell, who was recently taken back to Pueblo on a charge of murder, after his arrest in La Grande, Oregon, by Sheriff Burt J - - over the ' i-1 I A. . Vjfntg'HWomRn FroirCamp Douglas ..'Explodes a Shell in Officer -,., - Ssigfus Moorings. ATTACKED - WITH A EIFLE. A Mysterious Inhabitant of Ethiopia! ' Row Gets in the Toils Pickings From the Police. Information concerning alleged mal-iestsimce mal-iestsimce on the part of certain mem. liers of the police force was filed before ' the department from a fresh source, and now it is Olliccr Seigfus' scalp for which the avenging spirit is looking. The complaint com-plaint comes from the very seat of war ('amp Douglas and is preferred by ; Idiss Louise Coleman whose name is ttlsrf' to be seen on the calendar in police court. In her filling tho prosecutrix prose-cutrix recites rather a sensational experience in M-hicli the statuesque , llieer is made to play a rather odorous part. Miss Coleman states that she is a resident of Camp Douglas, where t, she is employed as domestic in the residence of Captain Morris-f.y. Morris-f.y. She came to tho city last evening ' and attended the plumbers' reception . and ball, and at its conclusion sought the Raymond house, from which place , she intended to take the first car. She states that she was met at t this ' point by the officer. who rnado an insulting proposition I to her Which she indignantly repelled I whereupon she was informed that she I ; was arrested. Taken to the city jail, 1 a charge of vagrancy was en- Itered against her and frrftn 5 .' o'clock to 9:30 she was in- carcerated. At the last named hour ; her case had been enquired into, i and she was discharged, almost i. brokenhearted. These facts were subsequently reported through a com-j com-j tnunicatinn to Marshal Young and i Jmve been referred to tho police com- inittee now conducting their inquisition ? in the Cantlan cjvso. :t, A gentleman from the Fort called at y ' Tiik Times office this afternoon aud vouched for the good character of the young woman whom he has ! known for ten years, and although hardworking and industrious this is the first time that an indignity has lieeu thrust at her. Ho also reports considerable indignation among her acquaintances ac-quaintances at the camp who declare tliey will push the investigation. (j Hicer Seigfus. when interviewed, staled that ho bail made no proposals to the young woman, but regarding it f a-i most unseemly hour for her to bo ' on the streets without an escort thought ' he was acting iu conformity wi'.li tho - ordinances. ' He w;i8, to say the least, hasty. F'rom ; persons who saw tho complainant it was ascertained that she hastened through the thoroughfare without au-,iying au-,iying any ono I ted Btfte. ' r ' Tracy Eagan was arrested by the po-; po-; lice shortly after midnight for assault-lag assault-lag a man with a rille that now leans in ,t corner of the marshal's olliee. The al-' al-' tercation is a sequel to an ld one ' und occurred at the I. X. L. stables. i) . - i i |