Show A HAS 1118 llin ilic nead HEAD D GASHED ke ile claims th ghe ehe e protection or of tiie tike police at a late hour on saturday night a soldier ran into the tile city hall building and called upon the police for protection ho he presented a fearful spectacle his clothing being covered with blood which was gushing from a deep wound in his head from which the blood fairly spouted from the gash ho he stated that he be received the cut in dietzs saloon and char charged ed the proprietors metz scott with inflicting it besides giving him an unmerciful beating dr thompson was callea called inand in and dressed the wound an officer from camp douglas was also called in and the injured soldier whose name is stated as being G gelger geiger eger egen was taken to the post by some of his companions meantime Aress rs metz scott had been promptly arrested by the police and the trial of the case was vt tet t set et for two today to day with the understanding that the soldier would bein be in courtat court at that timeto time to testify the accused tell a very different story to that given by the soldier they state that geiger gelger 0 was in their saloon and being very quarrelsome and noisy they were under the necessity of putting him out that he afterwards returned and went into one of the small drinking rooms in the establishment where he quarrelled quarrel led with another party receiving a blow on the head from a tumbler in the hands of his antagonist which they say inflicted the severe cut already mentioned it is to be hoped that the truth will be clearly shown at the trial and if the parties charged did unwarrantably and unmercifully maltreat the soldier they deserve to be severely punished I 1 for in all cases we suppose the c civil lv it authorities purpose to vindicate the majesty of the elvil law not only for the protection tec tion of citizens from abuse maltreatment and injury that may be inflicted upon them by the soldiery but also to protect the soldiers from any abuse and ill treatment from the hands of citizens there is no difference between the two classes in the eyes of the civil law which is the supreme law of the land both are alike amenable to it and both have an equal right to claim its protection private geiger was perfectly right t to claim the protection of the city police 11 le which no he promptly received itt tut but what wat a terribly foolishly ridiculously one sided state of affairs it would be could a citizen not claim the same protection were he attacked by a soldier such a position bears the tiie mark of absurdity on its face yet that is the position assumed by the opinion of judge advocate holt and those who sustain it |