The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-06
SOLDIERS CREATE
AN|C IN STREET
Fire Muskets From Cars, but
Policemen Were Not Al
lowed to Arrest Them.
MILITIA OFFICERS STOP 1T
They Claim That Civil Authori-
ties Cannot Arrest Soldiers
While on Duty.

Whine returning from the sham bat
| tie at the State Fair Grounds on board
I, street car last night about $3.50
o'clock, members of Company f, First
Regiment. Virginia Volunteers, almost
created a panic along Broad Street by
! firing fifty or sixty shots with their
| muskets. All along Broad to Seventh
| the soldiers fired from the windows OF
| the car. Exactly how many discharg-
| ed their weapons is not known.
| From Belvidere and Broad to First
| Street at least twenty or thirty SHOTS
were fred. The telephone bells jim
\ gled in the police stations, and Major
| Werner was appealed TO to put stop
! 70 the rowdyism Few people under
| stood the cause CT the rapid firing,
but they were very much inocnsed tnat
soldiers or anybody else should pc per-
mitted to shoot indiscriminately INTO
the street, whether the cartridges
/ we're blank or not.
saw One Man Shoot.
Al First and Broad Streets Officer
.rhnrman boarded the car bearing the
| soldiers. Between First and Seventh
me member of the campany fired
rom the car. When the soldiers alight-
ed ~ Seventh and Broad Streets. Po-
,iceman Thurman requested the offic-
ave IN command of Company f to
.ro1 him to. arrest the man who
ga ,be shooting, but this was re-
fused s;ytb
on1 Marshall, Officer Thurman was
tained by Detective Sergeant Whey ana
Officer ] Duffy. They We're walking py
tha side of the man who did the shoot-
Ing. intending to arrest MN @hen =.
was dismissed from duty. seVeIal M o.
the soldiers were heard to say; ~ me.
take him from the policemen iney
made no demonstratloh' Hon a,s ~
Atstle armory the police ohcers m
-,..ad ~, arresting the soldier who was
saan - fire by Policeman thurman.
9ee, ran,ain stack, Of Company B. and
y;amtsnant Kindervater. of Company =.
ratnssd 10 allow the policemen to take
~ wan into custody. CAPTAIN Stack
ond lieutenant underwater inf orHeu
tha nnI,cemen that the law forbade INC
arrost of a soldier while on duty unless
aitaiony had been committed. Ihey
to,d the policemen that they could NOT
orrast the man who fired the shots
while on the way from the ar1norS ~
/ his home, either.
Tried to Hush 1t up.
While officer Thurman was arguing 9
with the captain and the lleute1lan'
somebody tried to prevail upon tne
nolicemen to hush the matter up. ltiur- i' :
man Informed them that ne eouio not
do a. as he would be reported to the
pn,ice board and fined. According to
i 1,s,ectiye- Sergeant Wiley, when ohcef
4 Ttmrman refused to pass the matter
Nv rantain Stack said that II Thurman
80. anad nv the Police Board In con-
aa,;nn with the case he Captain
stnorn au. would have Major Werner fined
ssn no+ arrestng the man who did
\ the shooting, ,.a
a,sd nv the treatment which Cap
tain stack and Lieutenant Underwater
accorded the police officers, II must
sav That Captain Stack and Lieutenant
L;ndaryater acted very queerly about
ths whole matter" he said, They re-
fused to let us arrest the soldier -a1nd 9
ware very d!scovrteous. Captain Stack
informed me thnt-he had something
an some OF us and would do some re-
!, nortinp himself, or words to that ef-
:, feet.
! ~ asked Captain Stack II ne hau
anything on me, Thurman or DUTY, s
which he replied no He said. now.
ever. that some Of the policemen hhe
been eating pies at bakery ana y.
knew they did not pay for them ! tols
him TO report those he had somethlhR
4 on, but not to insinuate that he has
something on which he could roper
Thurman. Duffy and myself.
. There Is no question about the rae
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