| Show OFFICERS INDIFFERENT Not Concerned About Drunken Drunk-en Actions of Soldiers PASS THEM UP TO POLICE Disorderly Conduct of Fort Douglas Soldiers In the City and Constant Broili With the Police Gives No Concern to Post Commander Who Declares Ho Is Unaware of Any Disorderly SoldiersSays tho Police Po-lice Must Look After Army Men l They Aro End 1 Donplto the fact hot disorderly conduct on the pnru of Intoxicated holdlcrs Is causing no end of complaint and that from four lo six of Undo Sams fen arc kept In the city Jail nearly every night the officers nl Fort Douglas seem lo hrvo no knowledge or concern of that condl llon of nfftilrrf Cal Uubb the comrnnnd II lon olTlcer at Fort UoughiK says If I tho 8dldkr < are disorderly It Is 1 the duly m Limo police to eupcwllli them The mlll mrv auihorltUa lie said have not yet lln 1llhorlll made any effort to remedy 1 hI ovll Wln11 50511 hint evening In regard to the mailer Col Bnbh had Just nturned from the golf links glowing with jmllMlactlon over n ITiysird drive from the third lee What action IH to be taken by the officer lo Induce more orderly conduct on tlu part of soldiers who visit the clly t ho was nuked c Dionu1cnly 1 soldiers Inquired the post commander with a look of mid astonishment astonish-ment 1 havent heard anything about disorderly soldlen 8011len The conduct of several cqunds of sol I dlcnt about the city and on ear within the TKIMI ton days waa described to him First 1 hivo heard of It said the Colonel t havent seen the papers for several days und am not very well informed in-formed on Juot what Is going on DURD1CX OX THE POLICE In any action In the matter likely 1 to al tclon b taken by the authorities here at Iho post h = was tin asked We expect the police to look after disorderly dis-orderly soldiers while they are In the city replied the Colonel If I the soldiers 1 sol-diers do anything such as raid the Jail anthlnh and the police let me know 1 will let In thin matter If 1 they dont let me know of course I cant do anything Do the soldiers arrested for disturbing the pence In the city got courtmartialed when they return to the pout That depends entirely upon circumstances circum-stances W o I expect the soldiers to bc havo themselves when they go to the city and If they dont tIm police should look after them SOLDIERS AGAINST POLICE Thero Is much bitterness of feeling between be-tween sOle of tho soldiers and the local police officers Tho soldiers think that certain members of the 1ollce department depart-ment ojc too harsh In their treatment o soldiers Tho wearers of the army blue contend limit It IH wrong that they should ho arrested for getting drunk all allowing allow-ing the exhilarating Inlluenco of the IntoxIcants In-toxIcants to effervesce In the form of Fllplno yells and oilier vocal disturb anccB There aro those ninon the soldiers Idlers I-dlers who say they tire only awaiting a good opportunity to exterminate a few of the police officers while the policemen apparently arc losing no opportunity of I Jailing disorderly soldiers Six of the latter were before Judge Diehl yesterday on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct All were severely punished being be-ing lined rn apiece nearly two mouth army pay They ate Privates Bert Grlcs Wilds Mulligan Peters Quinn and Dickey In pasiln sentence on the squad Judge I Diehl said hedidnt want to be too harsh on them but that wearers of Hie army blue muat abandon the Idea that they can como down to the city and run things to suit themselves TRIED TO KSCAPI3 Wllliim Wilds one Qf the soldiers arrested ar-rested Wednesday night on the charge of abunlve language made a very bold attempt at-tempt t to scape during the confusion In the police station yesterday atlondant upon the dismissal of prisoners found not guilty and thow who vera being returned to the Jail to serve their sentences The watchfulness of Officer Joe Burl pre mor the man from carrying out his in tenuous When the liberated prisoners walked Into headquarters for the return of their bolon inga Wilds who had len lined 4 1 S necomi unled them amid after paying SS was receiving his personal property whon HID policeman dropped In and law tfie fellow coolly lucking hul4 things out of slgjil Not being sure of his man Burt hurried back to the courtroom and discovered dis-covered that he had made no mhilakc Much to his chagrin Ullds Will again naked to deliver up his goods which he did with the flume reluctant spirit of the I night before when It was norcbsary to use force to put tho man behind the bars |
