Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
0DlOUS METHODS
Practiced by Policemen Toward
Wesphalia Miners.
HOMES VISITED AT NIGHT.
An ofcer Severely Thrashed and Made
to Apologise-Every German Tour
list in France Looked
Upon rs = Spy.
fcOpyrigh,ed BY ,heunited Press

LONDON, May 9.-The governments
treatment of the Westphalia miners was
not generally approved BY moderate Social
lists, but The methods taken TO suodue the
strike are obnoxious 10 all the friends OF
the working man, whether moderate or ex-
IRENE.
The arrest and maltreatment Of the lead
ers of the movement, for no other reason
than their leadership, was the first out
rage, then began the persecution OF
all miners who did not go 10 work, the
police making visits TO their homes on any
pretext and questioning them harshly as TO
their intentions. IL has been common
thing al Dartmund for body of policemen
10 break into the house CT
miner at or after midnight and pretend
that they were in search OF some
fugitive charged with trivial ofense.
After ransacking the house and disturbing
everybody they would depart
Strikers have been arrested as vagabonds
and committed to hard LABOR, and in sew
eral instances the police have actually been
quartered upon the houses under the pre-
text that an outbreak was feared.
II is not strange that under the circum-
stances there have been occasional acts Of
violence on the part of the miners, and in
one instance the police officer who took ad-
vantage of his office to grossly insult the
daughter OF 4 man named Casteel, was set
upon and
BEVERLEY THRAsHED,
and compelled 10 kneel down and beg the
pardon of the insu!ted girl. 1t IS signih-
cant that none or the parties to this out
rage were molested, the police apparently
wishing to avoid a scandalous trial that
would bring their conduct to public at
tention.
In another case the policeman who pushed
his way into house at midnight was taken
and bound by the inmates and carried be-
fore his own commanding officer on 3 charge
of unlawful entry. Officers made an eX-
cuse that was accepted by the chief, and
those who had taken him captive were
severely rebuked, but not punished
FRONTIER TOWNS
of Germany and France are said to be
swalmiDg with spies. Three were arrested
IN Metz on Tuesday last, but proof could
not be obtained against them They were
escorted across the frontier.
France has the advantage as to espion-
age. Every German tourist in France is
looked lpon and watched as possible spy,
and the language leaves no doubt as to his
nationality, and on the other hand Germans
cannot tell whether traveller who
appears to be French is a French
man proper or a native Of annexed
provinces. They tried to meet the difficulty
by compelling every suspicious person to
give an account of himself or herself. This
Is very NCAdlIUuS. sillu OuiS duuS W Gue US-
testation with which Alsatians and LOrain-
erS regard the German dominion.
1t is said that the French resort to all
sorts of devices TO keep themselves in
formed as TO Germany's military plans, and
the story is told that much CONSERVATION
was recently caused among the Of
ficers OF the garrison at Metz by a
notice from the war Office at
Berlin that lady named Dufauer, be-
longing 10 leading family in Metz, must
be closely watched. The young woman,
who is noted for her wit and beauty, was
known to be a favurite with a leading
officer Of the garrison, and had been guest
a, several balls given last winter by the
officers. II seems TO have been the very
fact of her cordially toward Germans that
excited the suspicious of somebody. The
matter WAS reported to Berlin and an in
vestigation followed, leaving little doubt
that she was spy, and the young woman
has been removed from that locality.