Show THE SCIPIO RAID A few days ago we had information obtained through the medium of a correspondent of a raid made by deputy united states marshals Marsha Js upon the quiet little village of scipio millard county according to the statement of facts presented to us the anair occurred in the night while the in habitants of the town were peacefully slumbering the officers located at the house of one friendly to them and their cause and an announcement no ement was sent out to the effect that they were presbyterian priests it seems that ministers minister of that denomination were in the habit of paying visits to the village from this it would appear appeal that these minions of the law made their defit in scipio on the occasion in question as in sheep clothing as the hour selected was midnight while the moon shone gloriously over the silent seene scene the appearance of which was the opposite of the mission of the raiders people who are not familiar with such circumstances by actual contact can form but a faint conception of the consternation created among women and children little communities muni ties are thus thrown into conditions of intense excitement in not a few instances to the permanent detriment and injury of many innocent people some of them never survive the nervous shocks to which they are thus subjected it transpired that one young man friendly to the parties of whom it was presumed the officers were iu in pursuit aroused the wrath of the latter by undertaking to warn some of the proposed victims of their approach another man who was suspected without proof of being engaged in the same thing was shot at by the deputies that Tha action on their part was a breach of the law being an assault upon a citizen it has been largely the ease case however in reference to the officers of the class in question that they have been in the position ascribed to the king conc concerning eming whom it was said he can do no wrong P this is all wrong the offense of the officer who fired the shot being in the nature of an assa alt with a deadly weapon another act of the raiders of the same complexion was the arrest of a peaceable citizen on the street and his detention in order that he might act as the officers guide in ferreld ferreting ng out the parties wanted we presume on a charge of unlawful tion this manis mane man Is heart was e eilie dently not in the business and did not come up to the doares of his bis captors in the capacity of a coerced 4 informer this was te twined during the whole of the night such a proceeding is 19 lawless 4 those who perpetrated this infraction of the right of the citizen are guilty if the case is as represented of false imprisonment for which they should be properly punished lf if it is the intention to repeat 1 such bloody outrages as the dalton affair in which the victim of a deputy was shot down in cold blood the actor may not get off with as great facility VA as he did there being now a better prospect of obtaining justice than formerly the conditions since that tragic and lamentable event haw have somewhat changed for the better every peace lovi loveng ng citizen will bop that the condition in that regard will continue to improve it is the duty of marshal dyer to investigate this matter impartially not by an examination of one clate of witnesses but by taking statements from both sides if the facts facto are as they now appear he should act in relation to those who represent him in the district or county where these incidents occurred according to their deserts no one can find fault with for properly and humanely enforcing the laws but in that enforcement they are not justified in breaking the law and where they do they should be as amenable to it as those of whom they are in pursuit |