The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-03
DEPUTY SHERIFF
AND THE POLICE
WaIdrop Had Row in Second
Avenue Saloon
TOOK THREE COPS TO STOP IT
Drew His Gun and Had People Run
ming in Every Direction-Knocked
Police Mcknight and Veins
srwurst Man Down.
TOOK THREE COPS TO STOP IT

Pedestrians coming down Twentieth street
towards Second avenue about $3.50 yester..s
day afternoon would have seen people rum
ming in every direction from the Dude"
saloon. Some had their hands up as though
suddenly paralyzedsby fright. Others were
not thinking as much of their hands as
their pedal extremities which were being
used to good advantage.
In the background was seen the huge
form of a man fiourishing a A Colts re-
yover He was feet tall and weighed geo
pounds or more 1t was Deputy Sheriff
Wadrop. The more he fiourished the gun,
the faster people ran.
At this moment there was but one man in
the barroom who really comprehended what
was going on. He, stood with a hastily pro-
cured Ratchet in hand
Pretty soon squad of bluecoats arrived
and after a vigorous scuffie, in which
'billies" were used freely, the deputy sher-
if was landed a prisoner in the city jail.
How Trouble Started
The man with the Ratchet was the first
to know that the big deputy sheriff wanted
trouble His name was given as Volmers,
or some such sounding cognomen. Before
he secured the Ratchet he was standing in
the front door of the Dude"
Along came Deputy Waldrop The deputy
went at the man in the door way. They
raced around the enclosure between the
entrance and the partition which cuts Oft
view of the bar. The burly deputy floun-
dered about in the air, his right and then
his left shooting out like hammer. The
i,tO i'm
promptu "mill'' with the deputy. There
upon the deputy evidenced that duel
would be just as funny to him and he drew
a a Colts revolver. At this iuncture it
was that the man ran back through the
bar and secured a Ratchet The pistol
pulling episode was the cue for spectators
to make sudden exits.
Knocked Pat Gown
pat" the weinerwurst vendor who sells
"hot stuff daily from the edge of the side
walk was Just opening to the evening trade.
Hot VEIN -"
If the sentence was finished Pat had his
lips to the ground and no one could hear,
for he had Just caught one of the deputy's
mild blows which had the immediate eff
feet of topping him over.
Police Officer Mcknight ran up and asked
the deputy to keep quiet. Blue clothes were
not to Wadrop's liking and Mcknight Jared
as the vendor of "hot weinnies." The po-
liceman was up in a moment and was rein
forced by Policemen Hamilton, Reese and
Patton. The trio went against the 200
pound deputy. First it was a blue form
on top and then a portion of the deputy
sheriffs form was visible. Then Reese
bobbed up, Hamilton went down in
the mud and Mcknight was lost sight of.
Helmits and "billies" were flying in the
air.
The Big Man Conquered
When the curious crowd was routed, there
lay a burly form in the mud with three
mud despatched and painting policemen
standing above. One or two well-directed
blows from a billy across the head had
laid the furious deputy low. He was then
carried to the police station and locked up
without further trouble
There was no serious damage done. Po-
lceman Mcknight received a few scratches
about the throat and had bloody collar.
At the police station Waldrop called
the chief all kinds of vile names.
"He's the one / want to get at" he said
with an oath.
The friends of tho deputy thought 1t best
not to make bond for him until he had
become sober and he was locked up
Later in the night bond was made and he
was turned loose, very much chagrinned
over his actions.
Three charges were docketed against him.
One for assault with a weapon on Police
man Rees and two for plain assault and
battery. One of these was for knocking
down Pat Murphy, the winnie" vendor and
| the other for assaulting the unknown man
| at the entrance way of the Dude"
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