Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-08-12
BULLY BILL BEARD
ASSAULTS A unorurn uous.,,mAs,

Oowardiy sud UrJu-,inabis A,,aok
on select Councilman Kidaio.
The topic of conversation everywhere
IN the city last night and this morning was
the brutal and unprovoked assault Of
Common Councilman William X. Beard,
Of tho First ward, on Select Councilman
William Riddle, of the Sixth ward. To
got at tho origin of the dini.
GUILTY II is necessary to refer TO
the council proceedings Of last WedDos.
day evening. Mr.. Riddle, aa chairman Of
the street committee. desired to have e..
500 transferred from tho contingent to the
street fund, and MIR. Beard, as n member
of the water committee, wanted g., 600
transferred from the same fund to the pipo
laying department. Select aud common
councils disagreed, and as q result select
council adjourned before any definite
action was taken.
A special meeting OF common council
was called for Monday evening, aud al
though President Evans was notified to
call his branch together, he refused to do
80. Alter common council adjourned last
evening. several Of the members remained
IN tho vicinity of the City hall, discussing
CITY matters in general and tho refusal OF
select council To meet them, In particular.
The members of common council, particu.
larly those who favored tho building of
severe IN their denunciation of tho mem
bers of the select branch, particularly of
MIR. Riddle, for defeating the obi sct of tho
meeting by staying away.
How tho Row sta,tsd.
While common council members were
discussing their grievances amongst them
selves, u number of gentlemen were seated
on chairs, along the curbstone in front Of
stains fruit stand. Among tho number
were MIR. Riddle aud \. H. Xthm. Mr..
Riddle occupied the end chair. and while
he and Mr.. Ishm were talking of the
| action OF the school board Mt their last
meeting, IN reference To the Butler readers,
Councilman Beard walked from the Gu.
trance to City hall to point along the
curb, about six feet from whore Council.
man Riddle was seated. Suddenly wheel.
ing around and facing Riddle, the following
conversation took place
Beard-Well, Riddle, arc you coming
to the meeting OF councils on Thursday
evening?
Riddle-I will If | receive n notice OF a
meeting from the officers OF select coun-
Gil
Board-We don't want you thero. We
| can get along without you.
Riddle-lt amt for you t. dictate to
me whether shall attend the meeting or
not.
Beard then pitched into Ktidlo for the
| large amount of street work done in tho
Sixth ward, aud concluded by c1mpi,
menting him on his being an excellent
mechanic, and rolcrred to fiuc pieco of
guttering in front of Riddles property,
| done at tho city's expense.
Riddle rotorted by saying that il he was
a mechanic he did learn from him. for if ho
had he would DO mighty poor mechanic.
nFfh hnr Ia al.
gutter in front Of Riddles house, Riddle
said tho street committee had ordered the
work, to which Beard replied that he,
(Kiddle), as chairman of the street com
mittee, directed the work to be done.
Riddle said if the work WAS done ia front
OF his house, he could say he was a tax
payer, paid his taxes, aud that ia more
than he (Beard) had done; FOR on
looking the matter up, he ascert aimed that
ne did not pay any taxes at all
Boards Fierce Assault.
Riddle had scarcely finished the sentence
when Beard made rush for him, struck
| him in the face and on the head four or
| five times, and ~ Riddle fell from his chair
Beard, it is claimed by Riddle, gave him a
parting kick. Riddle was stunned by the
| fall, and as soon as he could get up, no ran
70 the street and picked up couple of
| stones, but did not use them. Friends
took him away, while CityTreasurer Myers,
Select Councilman Philip Zscher and Joe
Huber took Beard away. Before Beard
walked away no remarked TO the crowd
that he had been unfortunate, was COM
PEELED to sell his property-aud did not
want any man to cast it up to him. He
expressed no regret for having committed
the assault.
At the time of the assault Riddle, as
above stated, was seated on n chair in the
gutter. The other parties present who
were near enough TO hear everything and
see all that took place were Samuel III.
Hahm. Select Councilman Philip Zscher,
City Treasurer Myers, Joseph II. Huber,
John L. Stains and a reporter of the
lNTELLIGENCER. The attack was made 80
suddenly that none of the above persons
could interfere to prevent it..
After Riddle was taken away by his
friends he was conducted to uartman's
cigar store, where the wounds on the head
were bathei with water. Alderman A. +.
Donnelly happened TO come to the store
and Riddle at once made complaint against
Beard before the alderman for assault and
battery, and warrant was issued for
Boards arrest.
Tho Attack UowsrdIy ana UDJustlhabIs.
The attack was all the more brutal
when the relative sizes Of the men are
baheu luto COnsluoratiOn. beard IL q Tall,
well proportiohed and powerful man, while
Riddle is small mar, of delicate frame.
la addition Beard had great advantage
in standing when no struck the first blow,
while Riddle WAS on chair and unable to
get up.
News of the attack on Riddle spread
rapidly through the city, and in fow min
utes crowd of several hun lrod persons
had gathered. Witnesses of tho affair
were questioned about the matter by
friends of both parties, and when they had
heard the details there was only one opin.
ion expressed, and that was that tho as
sault was uuprovoked and brutal
Mr. Riddle says he did not bring the
suit for the purpose of Withdrawing it at
a later date, but that he is determined to
lot tho law take it's course.
Chief of Police Haines served the war
rant OF arrest on Councilman Beard late
last night, and no entered bail in tho sum
of $500, with City Treasurer Myers as
security, for hearing on Friday evening
at Z o'clock.
Sale OF Real Estate.
Henry Shubert, auctioneer, sold at pub
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