AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
POLICE BATTLE. NEAV YORK, Aug. 16. The troubles that ensue when thieves fall out have much in common with those resulting from a dispute among thief-catchers—at least, those of AA rilliaiiison, AA’cst Virginia.
For two months that town of 6,800 population lias been in turmoil over a quarrel within the police force. / It has already resulted in shooting in which one policeman was wounded, hut this morning it reached a climax in a pitched baffle in which two policeman were killed by two others charged with preserving the peace. The trouble started when the City Council appointed policemen, and Mayor Hal field named other men for the same posts. The dispute lias since been before State courts, while the rival policemen have clashed frequent-
This morning two members of the council’s police force saw a milk van without lights and decided to summons the driver for violation of a traffic rule. Two of the Mayor’s police questioned their authority and the main street of the town became a battlefield. One of the victims was killed by a bullet through his head, hut the other returned the attacker’s fire until his body was riddled with bullets.
r Phe two policemen appointed by the council surrendered and were placed in gaol.
A week ago the feud in the city politics caused the firemen to go on strike when their salaries were unpaid. The city clerk refused to countersign their pay cheques in retatialion for the mayor’s refusal to sign a pay cheque for the clerk’s typist.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1927, Page 2
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