| Show EXCESS OF OFFICIAL DUTY THE raid on the seventieth Seven teeth ward meeting house on tuesday night affords the tribune much room lor for mirth it chuckles over the s statement tat ement that one hundred or more gentlemen who attended the meeting were met atthe at the fostof foot of the stairs by marshal ireland who permitted them to pass out sing sagy v gloats over the actions of a fellow by the name of mix who was stationed at the rear with orders to stop and detain every man who came from the rear arid and gleefully relates how mix stopped and cohered bishop mcrae an old gentlemen of eighty years saying I 1 held hed find out where he came fro from i ll 11 and how the bishop was released eased when it was explained cl that he be had left the building by the front door now will anybody pretend that all this was not an excess excelsa of duty we have given wert the particulars as detailed by i the marshals organ and apologist which are not as bad by any means as the facts but glossed over as they are they not manifest maui feet clear infringement gement upon personal rights cannot a peaceable assembly pass out of a building except I 1 singly and by bahe the 46 permission of his hia mightiness mr ireland Is isit it a crime to leave a building by any exit but bat the front door must mast respectable persons be stopped and coll cohered ered by understrappers trappers appers who have no warrant to arrest or detain them these incidents only a part of the raid were all in the nature of lawlessness they are likely to provoke trouble and induce a conflict zeal determination and vigilance are al alt right in an officer of the law but citizens have ri rights ats that must be respected spec ted and jacks it ic office had better see to it that they they do not overstep legal bounds or as are sure as shooting ting they will run against snags it they refuse to take our timely caution they can take what follows I 1 |
