Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-29
FOR ROYCOTTING.
sSWalkinG Del0gate'' Arrested and Locked Up-Released on ROnds-The Case Continued Frfday-Charged With Attempt to Boycott the "COur-
 

A ssWalking Del0gate'' Arrested and
 Locked Up-Released on ROnds-The
 Case Continued to Frfday-Charged
 With Attempt to Boycott the ''COur-
 fer.,,
 Yesterday morning "Walking Delegate" Benjamin F. Glidden, printer, was arrested by Officer Bicey Began upon warrant. He was found at his abode, 348 Grown street, and escorted by the officer to police head quarters, where, after his measure and de- seription had been duly taken, he was lock ed up. His arrest is the first criminal ar rest made in New England for boyeotting, although many such arrests have been made of late in New York and the offenders found guilty and fined. A batch of such arrests and fines was published yesterday in the daily papers throughout the country. This being the first arrest of the kind in the New England States considerable public interest prevails in regard to the case, and the mem bers of the legal profession and of the Yale Law school are taking special interest in the case. Also much interest is evinced by the public at large. The specific charge in | the complaint, which is printed be- | low, was an attempt to prevent | by intimidation Messrs. Adolph Mendel
  about to open a gents furnishing goods store on Chapel street, from advertising in the COURIER. The section of the statute on which the complaint is based is as follows: Every person who shall threaten or use any
 son against his will to do or abstain from doing any act which such person has legal right to do, or
 shall consistently follow such person in disorder
 Iy manner or injure or threaten to njure his prop erty with intent to intimidate him. shall oonvfc: \ tion be liable to fine exceeding one hundred dollars, imprisonment in the County jail for six \ months
 Glidden was arraigned in the dock with \ the rest of the prisoners. Prof. Johnson T. \ Platt of the Yale Law school, appeared as his counsel, and Ex-Judge Blydenburgh ap- peared to assist MT. Cable in the prosecu- | tion. MT. Platt is also counsel for the ot- | lending printers in the case of the COURIER
 brought to obtain an injunction, which case is pending in the Superior court and will be heard next week After the disposal of the
 other cases on the docket the case against l Glidden was taken up. Judge Pickett was | presiding. Nothing was done except as- ! signment of the case, after some talking on ! the matter among the counsel, for Friday | next at 10 a. m. Professor Platt asked that | the prisoner be set at liberty, guaranteeing | that he would appear for trial This Judge
 .Blydenburgh opposed. The court fixed the bond at $10O, Judge Pickett saying he could \ do no less. Louis Steinert, of State | street. furnished the required bond. The | complaint is as follows:
 TEXT OF THE COMPLAINT.
 | To the honorable City court of New Haven holden within and for the city and town of New Haven, in New Haven county, comes Julius c. Ca be. city attorney of the city of New Haven and on
 his oath of office complaint and information makes ! that the 27th day of April, A. D. 1sS6 at said ! den, of said city and town of New Haven, with
 force of did then and there unlawfulfy threat | en Adolph Medel and Isadore Freedman \ both of the town of New Haven partners in bus \ mess therein, under the firm name of Mendel & Freedman, and carrying on business as merchants | Freedman against their will to abstain from adver
 Using their said business in the JOURNAL AND CoU ! RIER, a daily newspaper published in said city which advertising the said Mendel & Freedman then and there had legal | right to do, which said threats fol ! lows: If you advertise in the JOURNAL CoU l RiER we will boycott you,' meaning that the said | Glidden and many others, his associates. to the
 city attorney unknown, would refuse to trade with the said Mendel & Freedman if the said Mendel & ! Freedman advertised their business in said news
 paper, the JOURNAL & COURIER aforesaid, and would | Mendel & Freedman, and also consisted of other ! threatening words and statements of like meaning
 and signifcation against the peace of the State o | evil example and contrary to the statute in sucf
 case made and provided, and the said city attorney | on his oath of office further complaints and in
 formation makes that at said city on the 27th day | of April. 1886, said Benjamin F. Glidden witt
 force and arms did then and there" unlawfully pre- | sent to Adolph Mendel and Isadore Freed ! man. both of said city of New Ha | ven, co-partners in business and doing business
 under the name of Mendel & Freedman in sai6 | This is a Frae Country