Show TW truth of the matter saturday nights row it is M akoni abing obing how bow dif different forent x iol coloring ering a little light thrown on a subject will give it the unfortunate occurrence near the theater jast saturday night which resulted in the wounding of young Vander vanderhoof has been fully by the proper authorities ad d evory every witness that could be reached both I 1 I 1 olvil and military examined the witnesses were mainly citizens together with the civic cine police although the military patrol testified in the case came the evidence is too voluminous to publish entire but from the mass maas we extract the following as the most probable version during the afternoon and evening a par party ty of drunken citizens were about the streets and several times took occasion to tauntingly refer to the patrol as they passed so evident war wag their purpose of breeding a disturbance that policeman heath reproved them F several everal times and threatened to put thorn them in a the lockup eventually one of them was waa arrested anil sent city prison as a brec precautionary autio nary boure at the cloe of the first play on n saturday sight as ae the crowd came out one joseph eldridge came out in company with M mr r knowlton and afterwards wounded dedi arm in um sum As he reached ked the sidewalk several soldiers not of the patrol being present eldridge left his companions proclaimed himself a I JC jeff ff davis da via man all the time and as if to clinch the matter jumped into the crowd and lustily burral hurrahed hur led for avis the solders not being on duty concluded that thai forbearance with Ids brawl ing rebil rebel had ceased c d to be a virtue tiie and one or two 1 struck him over the head with pistols they finally succeeded in arresting him and ti lined him over to the single member of the patrol who had bad come up the balance being 0 on duty in the theater As the patrol bore him up the street the crowd gathered around their progress and as they were pushing and nd hauling eldridge broke loose and ran back k towards the theater tho the patrol following him bim As lie he rushed up the street eldridge ran against theodore calkins and both rolled iver ever both were dressed alike to wit with ft a liht light linen coat and as a slouch lutich hat bat the patrol coming up seized tile the prostrate man sup bup him to be the escaped prisoner but he be 1 I afterward aft orward proved to be calkins calkin s another anzilie r t baldier rushed up as ag calkins was rising to hia ma f feet fee t and ana struck the latter blow blaw over the ifie head evidently taking inking him for eldridge the te patrol interfere explained the mistake an aarl I 1 a ia more blows were struck thua far the evidence evi deace of mr knowlton calkins and the patrol but now comes the unsolved ed mystery just M the be rebel fell closely purs pursued tied by the N k patrol murphy M of go co L ad caa a shot ws was ared from behind the general and natural impression or of witnesses was that it was wag fired by a soldier at the escaped prisoner murphy says eldridge was running towards the theater in a northeast di f the het came from behind him bim murphy and from the te ION left whizzed by and in front of him and struck who was in the center 0 of f the street in front and to the right of murphy apparently traveling a southeast Sout luat course it wa vms and still is his impression that the ball I 1 WM r aimed at him bin and not net at eldridge some or of the witnesses say MY that it was a soldier who fired dred but they are unable to identify him two of the witnesses one an erod grut positively that they saw the man who arod and that he was dressed ip in citizens the authorities ha weve have not yet br ben able to identify the wan man mid therefore p ahn enigk A kint him as he be aby for birag rook lessly in a browd ethor at the patrol or coping it wail wa a wanton wit nam with life and ue the proves how uger u a and inexcusable Is such atrin twing the t always and adom seldom 64 mily tilley such are the mair aftin facto elicit elicited in preliminary investigation we lve leave them for the judgment of sensible men M a a sul suitable table antidote to t the bane or of the exaggerated i Philli piea pies abut about 11 brutal gusting Us ng and unjustifiable outrages and aad sickening yick Imick ening d disgusting gusting la spectacles which some folle of excitable depositions so BO freely indulged in ia we simply add that while we do not commend tint but on the contrary reprobate soldiers policemen or others taking the law into own hands and admiria administering 9 punishment where they think and where probably it is deserved it is not strange if brawling jeff davis davia bowlers get a knock over the head bead when they their treason treaso nr in m the ears of joy loyal men we prefer however that they aronld be dealt with by the proper authorities and trust we shall never hear of any isol ebl dier raising his weapon except in the necessary performance of duty ditty the evidence jn in the case has been transmitted to the general commanding the district for examination and further orders |