Omaha daily bee., 1885-10-26

There nave been several rUmors the
past tcw days about some special police
man reckiessy firing revolver, but it
has been difficult to get at the facts as
the chief of police has claimed TO know
nothing about it, and other officials have
been equally rcticent 1t seems, how
ever, that there is considerable to the
affair notwithstanding the reticence, and
it appears TO be sufficiently important
matter TO have been officially and public
ly investigated. The mayor has had q
special policeman named Voight who is
a tailor but who bias been SO annoyed in
his neighborhood, in the southwestern
part OF the city, that he prevailed upon the
mayor to appoint him Us y special, with
the understanding that he could then
easily look after some fellows who were
breaking lamp lights in his vicinity, and
doing other mischief. The pinnng of u
star onto his breast seems TO have putted
him up with great idea OF his authority,
and he has been using it pretty freely.
He has made several arrests, rs appears
from the books and some Of those whom
he has arrested have bad the record of
the arrest scratched off the books, tap
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The arrest. One such was n man for ped
ding without Il license, which is sup
posed to be the duty of the marshal to
look after, rather than n special serving
without pay. 4 short time ago he want
cd to have some help to arrest 4 crowd
of fellows, whom he thought We're suspi-
cious, and We're hanging about III n way
that did not suit him. He Went on to tell
where this one of the crowd worked, and
where another one, etc, and wound up
by wanting them all pulled for vagrancy,
which indicated pretty clearly his ideas
OF vagrancy. He was advised TO let the
fellows alone unless they were commit
ting some otlcnse. 1t appears that he
aroused the ire of some of these parties
by what they deemed his ofliciousness,
and the other night, when there was Il
supposed burglar captured for being
found in Mr.. Kelley's house, this special
policeman was on hand and after the
fellow had been lodged in Jail there was
quite little crowd who had followed the
prisoner up to the Jail, and as
they were going down the street
again, the special policeman felt it
incumbent upon himself to give
them some abrupt orders as TO how they
should move Oh, and insisted on having
them proceed quietly, Some words fol
lowed and an alteration sprung up, and
one of the party struck the special police
man. il is claimed that almost immedi-
ately upon the blow being dealt the spc-
cal pulled his revolver and fired at the
man who struck him The ball entered
the ileshy part of the thigh, and after the
wounded man was taken home ~ doctor
was sent for, who probed 10 depth of
three inches for the bah and was unable
to find it. The wounded man is not con
sidered to be in any danger of losing his
life, and it is said that he wants nothing
made public about the affair on account
of his relatives, and does not want
them to know that he was mixed
up in any such street scene.
The special policeman has made no
publicity to the affair, because he is
doubtless ashamed of it, and does not
care to have the matter aired up. II is
said that the chief on hearing of the af.
fair at once went TO the special police
man and took his star away from him,
and his appointment was revoked. 1t is
not known whether the policeman had
any bonds and it is quite probable that
he had not filed any, for some of the po-
licemen serving regularly have been al
lowed to go for Il long time without filing
aDV bonds