Show disgraceful ROW FIVE MEX dies ARRESTED eor FOR ABUSING AND RESISTING THE rolice POLICE the malicious efforts of the local anti antl mormon press in inciting and pa palliating pallia etl eti lating ting hostility and resistance to th the city police a line of procedure which has already resulted in the death of one brave officer and the abuse and mistreatment of many others lias has again borne its legitimate fruit last night between 9 and 10 a most disgraceful row took place just opposite the tribune office a neighborhood where such things would na naturally occur in which Night watchman andrew rew burt was cruelly mistreated knocked down and thomas atso also roughly handled by a gang of rowdies at the tha head nead of which was one CS cunningham ning hain harn whom the tiie police were trying to arrest and finally succeeded in taking to jail with another man named bodfish who assisted cunningham kan eln resisting and abusing the officers the a affair afar as told by the police and other L eyewitnesses eye ye witnesses v tn es happened as follows cunningham a and his friends were talking and singing loudly and boisterously on the street when they were approached by air burt and requested to desist cunningham and the others told him to mind his business or they would make it warm for him besides giving vent to profanity and obscene language too filthy to repeat officer thomas who was attracted to the scene arrived just in time to prevent or defer i an as assault s ault auit on mr burt b but ut on askill asking g what was the matter he too was insulted and threatened in ill like manner now attempted to arrest cunningham the ringleader ring leader eneri a general scuffle ensued in which mr burt was knocked down a and nd dra dragged ged I 1 nto into an adjoining alley w where h ere he fa tay lay y in an unconscious state w while it ile lle the row f further urther proceeded officer I 1 11 thomas still clung to his man though shoved knocked and kicked kickel about by the cowardly brutes who were determined not to be taken A large crowd gathered but were evidently tribune sympathizers and converts for not one of them though repeatedly solicited had the manhood to help the brave officer who was being tossed about like a shipwrecked ship wrecked mariner on a plank in the midst of a stormy sea but lie he clung like a mastiff to his man determined to tile die tather rather than let go and in due thilo tinita officer clayton and afterwards 0 officer and Coun councilor ellor elior geo stringfellow arrived on the scene and the tumult bean bewan to subside cunn in liam llam who is young and powerful had a thomas down but from striking him which 19 r to his cre credit dit 1 Cunning cunningham hiam fiam and were tak taken enato enIto to t lali taul followed d by the athe surins rix crowd and were successfully deposited behind the iron bars witti one 1 D 0 loftus who had refused when called on to help the officers and another mail man named clark mark who had incited resistance to them mr nir thomas had been struck on the back of the head with a rock and was just lust about exhausted when lie he reached the hall ilan but lie he was not seriously hurt aich was a wonder from the thoi rough way in which he was handled mr air burt did not escape so fortunately A 1 deep gash was cut over his right g ear car his face was badly bruised as if it had hal been kicked and he was battered about the boda with kicks received f from rom the craven hearted rum ruf ruffians flans who it had ad pounced upon them he was lifted up and taken into Ord ners saloon after the row was over where restoratives restora tives soon did their work in lii bringing him back to consciousness and his wounds were dressed badr by dr bowers mr nir burt is accused by the tribune of being beins intoxicated but this his fellow officers deny delty and the same p paper aper calls cushingham and bodfish peaceful gentlemen highly spoken of by all who know them the trial of cunningham bodfish pd the others mentioned and another man named john ryan arrested this morning for being implicated in the matter was set f for or 2 p in today to day before justice spiers but the cases were continued until monday at 10 a in and the defendants gave bonds for their reappearance it is said anat pistols gleamed in all directions during the melee and threats to shoot were freely made for a time bloodshed seemed imminent as it invariably must on such occasions as long as there is no law against the cowardly aud auld dangerous practice of carrying concealed weapons so country the otlie ers though sorely aggravated maintained their self seif pos session and acted with great moderation but they must not expect that this will shield them thein from the reproaches preaches pro aches and spiteful spit elui elul flings of those who have systematically opposed them in every way possible and striven by every means to blacken their reputations and render them odious in the eyes of an element which when aroused is morally less responsible for is Is overt acts against peace and 1 order than the contemptible scoundrels who stir it up by conme tongue and pen to the commission of uni unlawful a awful d deeds e eds the only recourse left the police is to pay no attention to the malicious libels of these poli pen I 1 but it continue to do their duty fearlessly manfully and with coolness and moderation and they can rest assured that there is a preponderating sentiment of fairness anc and ide de bency in this community that will sustain them in so doing |