OCR Text |
Show ALL IN A NUT SHELL. erio. of Attack, on the Police Iepart-ii Iepart-ii - lit and True Inviardne.. Thereof. A morning paper has again appealed to a "back number" with whie:i to assail as-sail the police department and by insinuation insin-uation undertakes to make it appear that on the occasion of the Forrest Dale hold-up the head of the force was iu collusion with the arch conspirator. Admitting that Hyde had "peached" and that the officers had been guided by the strength of that information they did no more than that which is of almost hourly occurrence iu the leading lead-ing cities of the east. Hyde swears that he tipped the bond of tin- highwaymen highway-men by w hom hu had been approached in good faith and the chief accepted it in good faith, if he was tho victim of a deception whereby Hyde proposed to solidify himself with the authorities ho is not alone in the class. Similar experiences ex-periences have occurred wherever wher-ever a police force has existed. ex-isted. It looks now, however, as if there was collusion in some other fonts whereby the conspirators were determined, by fair means or foul, to have the marshal's scalp. A chapter of "scoops" for which the representatives of a "certain organ" have sought to make Marshal Young responsible has intensified this opposition to him, and that the rcpor-torial rcpor-torial mouth may be cleared the light from t hat source is waged. The howl about Hyde is part of the ammunition it is not difficult to analyze the balance bal-ance of tiic harmless compound. On tho Knmpaue. Officer Wire whose beat is on thoroughfares thor-oughfares leading from South Alain made a capture last night that promises to furnish material for another hideous example to festive (luduK-raey which imagines that the progeny of "tall oaks" must be clothed iu more or less license and immunity. It was Billy Trehern w ho was riding his horse furiously furi-ously down the sidewalk and terrorizing terroriz-ing tho pedestrians when the attention of the officer was called to him. Tie-hern Tie-hern was incorrigible, however, aud continued to mak-i the walk ring with the clatter of horse's hoofs until two shots were tired over his head, the horse plunged, the girth broke and the rider fell with a ker plunk to the ground. Trehern was promptly pocketed and taken down to police headquarters where ho was fined for fast riding. Police Picking. Charles Miller and Peter Nelson are the latest acquisitions at the county jail, tho former going up for three mouths and the latter for six mouths for petty larceny. .1. L. Bonesteelo who was arrested for disturbing the peace was discharged upon the payment of costs, the complaining com-plaining witness failing to urge the prosecution. Bab Howard, Nellie Green and Birdie Dawson w ere each fined , yesterday afternoon for an assault upon a wayfarer way-farer named Tomlinson. Charles Aliller and Peter Nelson for stealing a quantity of old iron were convicted of petty larceny and sentenced sen-tenced today. Three drunks pleaded before Judge Lancy this morning aud were lined $3 aud costs each. , |