Evening journal., 1918-11-11

gun away, that the military authorities
would take care OF the matter. u
In the meantime the guards >camf
from the 18th Battalion BarrackS and
the sergeant in charge was ordered to
4 call out additional guards, which was
done, fifteen soldiers responding. THIS
caused the city patrolman to blow his
whistle for. assistance, and the police
patrol with a number Of officers ar
rived on the scene. 001
The lieutenant had ordered the Bat
talon guards TO arrest the soldier who
had previously been arrested by The
City police officer and to take him tOthe
barracks. The soldiers started with
their prisoner and when about half way
to the barracks, the soldier under arrest
incensed at the treatment he received
from The police, broke away. snd run
ming back 10 where officer Blachstor
was standing struck him in the face
The two guards took charge Of the sol
dier again when two other soldiers
thinking the officer had attacked their
comrade. went to his assistance The
guards thinking they were trying to re
lease their prisoner, used their rifle
butts on them. Goa
The lieutenant who ordered the sol
dlers' arrest accompanied the guard:
to the barracks and gave his name an6
regiment to the sergeant in charge. in
case he should be needed. yif
The quick action on the part OF The
soldiers in quelllng the near riot caused
much comment and some of the city
police spoke disrespectfully OF soldiers
generally This caused the LIEUTENANT
to state that as the officers sppeared to
be husky. they should wear the khaki
OF the soldier instead of the blue OF thd
police. One Of the police officers claimed
the soldier struck him first whereupon
a civilian said that the officer struck the 1,
soldier first. This man was at once
placed in the police patrol
Soldiers who had been in the railroad .
station then complained TO the army
lieutenant that the railroad police vera
ordering those with transportation '
tickets in their pockets to leave the
station wher, they were 6waitlnz v
their trains. He hurried there and in
st-ucted the men to stay there which
they did
IT is claimed by the police that the
soldiers were partly intoxicated and y
hot iltit Hdu bttU more or less trOO-
Die with them in that vicinity all Sat
lrday night
Shortly before midnight, they say.
squad Of soldiers entered the Globe I,
'estauarnt. ic7 French street. and one
lf them, using a marble top from a i.
able as a weapon, struck Samuel 2.
robertson. a p3tron Of the restaurant, d,
'ver the head with H. Robertson, wh9
vas knocked out temporarily and had j..
o be treated at the Delaware Hospital
old the police that the assault was '
made without provocation. Several ,
tiiches had 10 be taken 20 close a
wound in his head
take Prisoners From Sergeant Fox.
About n o'clock Saturday niEht Ser.
cant Fox arrested a soldier at Fourth >
nd King streets for dsorderly conduct
'efore he could get him away, from IS
q IS other soldiers attacked him anc
oOk his prisoner. In the sctEne Ser.
cant Fox was tripped and thrown Il
he pavement, but was not injured. Al
I the soldiers got away.
Last Thursday night Patrolman Gros,
rrested soldier at Fourth and Marke
treets, but before the patrol arrived
omrades Of the soldier took him away
'om the officer.