Telegram-herald., 1891-04-28

ofieer Fancy called 80 this ofties East
ssenlng and asked to have a. article
appearing n yesterdays Issae under
the head Assaulted sunday Morning
corrected. TIE officer says that At $50
Sunday morning be sas tscnIy-on
men coming cut OF tive saloons on
North Asterloo-st. tie knows there
were tysDty-one because he counted
them. They were under the influence
OF North Waterioo-st. wniskey, but the
othcer DID not say whether they 90
tanned u AZ the saloons from shleh they
emerged At $50, four hours and twenty
minutes after the law requires them
~ Dc closed, aad hence it q 20 be pre-
sumed that the saloons we're kept open
Just 70 give the t.enty-oue men whom
the oficer counted 80 carefully, a
place % visit with one another. The
officer upon finishing his count OF tue
naeu, IN the name Of the State Of Mich
igzn and Incider tally the city OF Grand
Rapids, commanded the crowd 10 dis
perse--ln other words "a sneak. This
they assumed % DO. and the minlon Of
the law then pursued rs course up the
street, aud on the opposite side until he
reached a point Just beyond the Eagle
Hotel. Tneu ne heard noise behind
him, and turning. saw a nlan fall 10 the
walk. He Immediately started for the
scene, but before he reached 1t The Inen
had led.
Where the Difference Existed
Up 10 this point the policeman
and the reporter agree. The only
a -. -. Of E.
IL that the officer asserts that be did
not arrest the man. ana the reporter
did not say that he did. The police
man says that one Of the fighters was
q fellow named Mctilynn. who was
subsequently, arrested on South Divis-
ion-st., and that instead OF the officer
"colliarlng" Mctslynn. Il was NcGlynn
who ''collared'' the officer, and the two
started up the street together, the otti-
Ger finally telling Mc0lynn ITO go
home, !" because he did "not want TO be
seen on the street with him." This is
the officers version of the affair, and 1t
is presumably correct from MS stand
point. On the other hand, the re-
'porter who saw the fracas re-as-
erts that his report was true m every
detail. and the TELEGRtA-HEaALD IS
free 10 confess that az between police
man and reporter it Will believe the re-
porter. 30 much space IA gwen this
matter because ID frequently occurs
that the unbiased aud unprejudiced
statements OF reporters are challenged,
when IN fact they stand Tor the exact
truth. The reporter who wrote the
article complained of did so with no
other object than 10 state exactly what
occurred. Ten thousand policemen,
al Il them interested IN the subject
matte As Officer Fahey IS IN this case,
c0uia rot create the slightest suspicion
that the reporter had erred. The fight
occurred. and u occurred Just as the
reporter said it did, and just as the
policeman admitted 1t occurred. The
only difference in the two stories is as
TO whether the man took hold OF the
policeman. or the policeman took hold
of the man. The greatest question in
yolved Is the safety and assurance of
protection one has in going along the
public streets at any time OF night. and
the next question is, What Will tire
police do with the two saloOnists who
kept their places open until $50 In the
morning, Sunday at that, where twen-
ty-One drunken men could carouse? IL
Mr.. Fahey has been done an injustice
il is 10 be hoped that this explanation
will correct and repair 1t.