The age-herald., 1900-06-15
ST. LOUIS IS ONCE
 MORE PEACBABLE Policemen Have Returned to
 Their Regular Beats. CONTINUES
Sensational Feature ot the Day Was the Conf .cting Statement ofWitnesses as to Lieutenant Stacks
 Order to Fire

today of the city police from all the cars and power houses of the St. Louis Transit Company and their return to their regular beats, there was little evidence today of a street strike. No disturbance of any kind was reported
 The sensational feature of today's inves- tigation was the conflicting statements made by witnesses as to Police Lieutenant Stack who ordered the deputy sheriffs to fire on the crowd. Several of the deputies testified that he ordered the posse guard to shoot, while Stack declared he did all in his power to prevent the deputies from firing.
 The disappearance of Deputy Sheriff Marsh was another development at the inquest. It is believed that Marsh has left the city
 All the policemen who have been on duty guarding the power house, car sheds and cars of the St. Louis Transit Company since the strike began, went back to their regular beats today. All of the 300 emer- gency policemen, sworn in for strike duty, were also divided among the various sta- tons and will do patrol duty. The power houses and sheds will, until the strike is over, be guarded by the posse comtatus.
 Since the strike began a large part of the city has practically been without police protection, most of the officers being cen tered around the power houses and on cars There have been numerous holdups and many complaints have come from citizens who declared they had been uable to find policemen when they wanted them.
 Todays order applies to both day and night service and today for the first time since May all the lines are being operated without police protection.
 Ihe hoehne Inquest
 The inquest over the remains of Fred erick Boehne, a widower aged 65 years. who was shot and killed Sunday by d deputy sheriff, was begun today by Coron- CT Lloyd.
 The inquiry co-menced yesterday to determine the responsibility for the shoot ing in front of posse barracks on Wa. h. ington avenue has been laid over until Friday.
 The autopsy showed that Boehne had received four bullet wounds in the head. Philip Bauer, the first witness and one of the dead mans neghbors, said
 Il saw crowd jeering at a car and number Of deputies trying to disperse it. One deputy stood out on the pavement and said if any one dared to come out he
 
 the crowd what the deputies were there for"
 He said there were four deputies stand ing in front of the gate through which Boehne was pushed. One fired at the gate Witness did not see any weapon protrud- ing from inside the gate as had been ported.
 Adolph Claussen told how the old man had been pushed through the gate by a deputy with a gun. Boehne, he said, was stopping down in the act of locking the gate when shot fired through it killed him. Boehne, witness said, could neither speak nor understand English. He had thrown no rocks nor tried to make any demonstrations
 Michael Stack, police lieutenant, said the deputies appeared excited. One of them shot through a door at 1724 North Tenth street and then ran and jumped on a car Witness examined Boehnes body but found no weapon on it and could see no weapon protruding from the door.
 Fired at the Door
 Mrs. Susie Buschert neighbor, said she saw deputy push Boehne through the gate. Afterwards she heard some one cry Don't shoot" and a minute later a man whom she could not identify fired at the door. Witness did not see any revolver pushed through the door.
 George Norman, a special deputy sheriff, said:
 "A woman alghted at Howard street, and a crowd followed her. With Deputy l pursued the crowd, but the woman escaped, and we returned. When walking up Tenth street saw two deputies with two mer. near a gate. The men rushed in and closed the gate. I saw the barrel of nickel-plated revolver stick ing through the opening of the gate from the inside A shot was fired from the street. I do not know who fred" George c. Strathorne,. posse man, said: "When we walked back up Tenth street we found three men dressed as bakers in front of store. One of them fourished a revolver and said:
 |" I'll shoot the first - that comes near me-
 "Who was that man?" asked the coroner. Hes in the witness room,' replied 
 A Flat Contradiction
 Strathborne was taken to the witness room and identified Henry Strechert a son. in-law of Bohne as the man who fourished the revolver.
 A. F. Kersten, posse man, gave testi- mony which was 1atly contradicted by Police Lieutenant Stack. After corroborat- ing Strathborne's testimony as to the men in Bakers clothes who was fourishing a revolver, he said:
 "While we were facing the man with the
 
 mand to fre."
 Stack was asked as to the accuracy of the witness statement
 Tt is not SOL he said. 'I gave no com- mand to fire. What I said was, don't shoot These deputies were all acting like a lot of Comanche Indians"
 After several other witnesses had been heard, including Bohne's daughter, Mrs. Martha Strechert, the case was given to the jury at l o'clock and at 1:30 o'clock the verdict was returned as follows:
 'The deceased came to his death on the 10th of June, 1900, from a gunshot wound in the head. Said wound was causoS by bullets fired from a gun in the hands of Robert E. Marsh at the time above men, toned
 'We further find that Henry Strechert the shooting by having in his possession and fiourishing revolver. Yer 
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