Show OFFICER HADLOCK HAS SCRAP WITH GANG tap twp of them handcuffed together escape and others are with difficulty arrested j from mondays standard one of the worst fights that has ee been put up by a gang of hobo s occurred about yes au afternoon heads were bata clothes were torn four men e landed at the police station and 0 handcuffed together escaped from hi officers in addition to the po alre and hobles hoboes ho boes several railroad men figured in the mix up and rendered valuable aid to the officers onn hadlock of the police depart benr went to the brush west of the shori dine yard yesterday afternoon for rhe purpose of locating a gang of supposed gratteri grat before entering ajie brush hadlock changed his helmet and uniform coat for those of a civilian after he had gone some distance through the undergrowth he came unexpectedly upon the camp he was seen by the hobles hoboes ho boes before he saw them and they immediately showed fight things happened pretty rapidly after that the officer handcuffed two of the men together and a third one was taken to the railroad ice house and placed in the custody of jack dunham and george moore while hadlock ft as effecting tha capture the other members of the gang set upon the officer one of them used a hickory cane and dealt hadlock some severe blows about the head and face the policeman had given dunham his gun so that aside from bis club ho waa practically unarmed while he was struggling with the gang some one sent in a call for the patrol wagon which carried officer vance to the scene of the disturbance tur bance when the latter officer arrived the fight was at its worst he at once took a hand the first man he tackled grabbed him about the legs and tried robite him while endeavoring deavo ring to tree himself his prisoner attempted to wrench his club from his hand it was then that vance put the quietus to the resisting hobo by delivering a blow upon he head with his club this time hadlock was battling with others of the camp and this fact was taken advantage of by the men upon whom the darbins dar bies had been previously placed they hurried away and were soon lost to sight three others 0 the gang were soon at the points where thoy were willing to call off pia game dunham and moore who were guarding the first prisoner had plenty t do while the officers were having T ir little tustle and it was necessary fo them to beat the fellow with the bi IT end of the pistol to force him into submission the fellows head was deity well battered up but he was B 1 full of fight officer vance took the prisoner in charge together with one of the crowd and they were taken to twenty fourth street where after they were handcuffed together they were turned over to special officer balne and yardmaster W L scott vance then went to look for the two men who escaped hardly had the officer disappeared from sight when the fellow who had mixed it with dunham and moore began 0 o look tor more trouble with one band free ho dealt balne a blow la the face and from the actions of the two prisoners it became evident that they meant to get away they were called upon to halt by mr scott but paid no attention evidently thinking that they had a lot of rubes to deal with in this thought they were sadly mistaken scott has seen enough mix ups in his day to know how to handle the best of them and it was not long before a well directed blow to the face senttie sent the most troublesome cf the two men to the ground the fellow called for a fair fight abid was permitted to rise again he bit the dust as did also his partner seeing that scott was no novice in the als hands they promised to be good later the officers loaded the men into the patrol wagon and they were taken to the station on the way up town one of the most unruly made a pass at officer vance and received a blow on the head from the officers club for his trouble A number of officers were then sent in search of the two men who had escaped after several hours spent in looking through the brush where they had been traced the police were forced to abandon the chase officer hadlock received several bad about the head but his injuries were not of a serious nature ar the station house the men gave the name of finck miller laborer J H boyle switchman thomas shear miner and henry martin barber charges of vagrancy were n jibed against them but they will have to also face a charge of re ing an officer the police think that the men are a most dangerous lot it is claimed their i hey have been working most all liina of graft about the city for the wc k one of their schemes was tia deaf and dumb racket A num t of cards such as used by mutes r n bea ging vere found upon them ft ID I D arrested ia i a T in alie evening officer morrise placed frank griffin a supposed c ali under arrest it is supposed f riff ln was another member of t same gang eczema ebald head hives itchiness of he skin of any sort instantly relieved permanently cured doana ointment at any drug 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