Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-04-08
THE ASSAULT ON YOUNG GIHON.
His Alleged AssaiIants in the Criminal
Court To-day.

THE ASSAULT ON YOUNG GIHON.
His Alleged AssaiIants in the Criminal
Court To-day.
A little more than usual interest was mani
tested in the proceedings of the Criminal Court
this morning as the charge against VIM. A. L.
Gresham, Hubbard I. Smith and VIM. II. Ruff
OF assault on the I'd of March last upon Albert
D. Gihon came up for trial. The case was ap-
pealed 1rom the Police Court, by which court
MIR. Gresham was sentenced to sixty days in
jail and Messrs.Smith and Ruff were fined 500
each. MIR. Harry Davis, counsel for Mr.. Ores
nam, announced that his client desired to with
draw his plea, not guilty and enter one of guilty,
putting himself upon the mercy of the court as
have time to make application for clemency to
the Executive. Mr.. Gresham having entered q
plea - OF guilty, Judge Macarthur said: 'The
length Of time to allow him to make applica-
ton to the Executive"
GIHoN TEsTIFIES AS TO THE ASSAULT.
Messrs. Smith and Ruff, desiring to stand
trial, jury was sworn. Mr.. Albert d. Gihon,
teen, was called to the stand. He described the
assault which was made on the morning of the
"a inst, near the corner Of Goth and @ streets.
A carriage, he said, drove up. Mr.. Gresham
jumped out and struck witness several blows
with what the witness supposed was cOwhide.
Ihe witness turned TO run, when Mr.. Smith
CainC out VI tuc cdfrlaSc anu SJTuck CQe Witness
with cane. The witness ran and did not stop
until ne reached Hillyer place. Mr.. Gresham
followed him for some distance, raining blows
upon him. Mr.. Smith also followed him for a
time. The witness said he thought Mr.. Ruff
also got out of the carriage, but witness did not
think MIR. Ruff struck him. His injuries were
wounds.
On cross-examination by Mr. Davis, the wit
ness ess denied that he had ever represented him
self as twenty-three or twenty-four years old, or
older than himself
Mr.. Davis was permitted to introduce a news
paper publication, the last four lines of which
the witness said he wrote. The article was
printed IN the Cupitdt of March 1st. The wit
ness said he had written the last four lines and
messenger at Bateman & Co.'S bank, where Mr..
Gihon is employed. The four lines written by
NJ Ghon were as follows The Gapuat is au-
The duel which was to have been fought be-
tween Mr.. Gihon and Mr.. Gresham has fortun-
ateiy been averted by Mr.. Gresham's declining
The witness admitted telling the reporter
that he was willing to fight, but reserved the
privilege OF the challenged party to choose the
Mr. Davis read the Capital article headed, IA
duer declared off-two society youths saved"
gave an account of the hostilities between
Aessrs. Gresham and Gihon, representing that
lasna Gihon /, had A. been highly indignant because
censured Gresham; and that thereupon
olcSudLu udO SeuG u CudlleuRo 10 WOTLal COIu-
bat. The witness said he did not know Mr..
Smith very well. Mr. Smith had come to see
him as Gresham's second. He had met Ruff
not go with the set did" said the witness
rather disdainfully.
scorn.
The witness said that after the publication he
and Mr.. r. F. Foster, the gentleman whom he
had asked to represent him In the pending ne
gotiations, had after the appearance of the arti-
Gle In the Cupitdl, gone to the morning newspa-
per offices and left a statement denying the
article. The articles of denial subsequently
printed were read.
OTHER TESTIMONY.
Medical Director Albert L. Gihon, U. s. N,
father Of the complaining witness, testified to
the condition in which his son came home
after the assault, with his head covered with
blood from many wounds. He was satisfied
that the wounds were made by two instru-
ments-a lash and some stiff, unyielding in
strument. The witness said his son was q
minor.
DIR. Charles Smart, U.s.. A., and DR.. c. g.
Herndon, U. S. n, who dressed young Gihons
wounds, testified to their character.
assault, which he witnessed. He said he did
not see any one strike Gihon except Gresham.
Mrs: E. =. Stevens, who was, as She said, "the
sault. She said that two men got out and began
to assail young Gihon. The third one got out
and M cried: give it to him! give it to him?'
This closed the case for the government.
The first witness for the defense was John
Hockett, a colored man, who drove the hack in
which Messrs. Gresham, Ruff and Smith rode
on the eventful morning. Mr.. Gresham, he
said, got out first and struck Mr. Gihon. The
others did not get out until Messrs. Gihon and
Gresham were thirty or forty feet from the car
riage. He did not see them strike Gihon at all.
While the witness was testifying Mr.. Davis,
rising, called attention to the fact that DR..
Gihop was sitting by the district attorney and,
as Mr.. Davis claimed, "coaching' him. He was
expressing his assent or dissent, approval or
disapproval, of what the witness said. 81 must
protest against it," said Mr.. Davis, "as wholly
unbecoming."
Judge Macarthur said he noticed no such
thing.
The district attorney, turning to the doctor,
said, You will restrain your emotions"
having written the article referred to, upon in
formation furnished chiefly by Mr.. Gihon.
Mr.. w m. H. Ruff, one of the defendants, gave
his version of the assault saying that neither
himself nor Mr.. Smith took part in it.
Mr.. Hubbard T. Smith, the other defendant,
also dlsclafmed any part in the assault other
than that of witness. He had lent Gresham
Waldo Hutchins ON Cleveland's Policy.
Waldo Hutchins was among the callers at the
White House to-day. Mr.. Hutchins says he
got out Of politics for the purpose of resting,
and had not been paying any attention to po-
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ministration was impressing the people of New
York favorably. Among the politicians, merely,
there was, he said, considerable grumbiing, but
that was thing to be expected and would do
no harm. He thought the President was doing
the best he could, and if any mistakes should
be made the people would be generous when q
man was working to do we'll.
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