The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-22

VIOLENT JACK GRAHAM
Dr.. Scudder's Goddess Of
Liberty as a Reglmental
Scrapper.
POUNDED CORPORAL BROWN.
Disgraceful Scene On Marion Range
Court Martial Now In
Order.
POUNDED CORPORAL BROWN.

Jack" Graham, the scaler OF Welgn8
and measures, conducted himself in char.
acteristically Doisterous fashion at the
Fourth Regimental range at Marion. on
Saturday, and as result he may lose his
commission as Captain of Company g.
Charges will be preferred against him.
and as he has been in trouble several
times before, it is almost certain that
resignation blank will be forwarded him
by Colonel Abernethy.
The charge that he will have TO answer.
to, is that of assaulting and beating ans
other member OF his corps. His victim is
Corporal A. P. Brown. of the Gun De-
tachment, who is known to every mill
tary man in Jersey City as the best snos
IN the regiment.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
The Corporal is u member Of the Range
Committee and Is one of the most popu-
Ian corporals in the regiment. During
the six years that he has been In the regi-
ment he has never had any charge pre-
ferred against him, aud until Saturday.
he never figured in any trouble. On Sat
urday the attendance at the range was
the largest SO far this season, aud the
targets were seldom given rest.
At q quarter TO six O'Clock, how
ever, most of the members had
left No one had been shooting on G
target for over five minutes. when Ssr-
geant PringIe of the Gun Detachmeu5
asked Corporal Brown il there was any
one on the target" The Corporal replied
In the negative and told Pringle TO fire
away. As the range closes promptly ar
six O'Clock, the Corporal told Pringle to
hurry up. Pringle went ahead and when
he had fred his fifth shot Jack"
Graham. who had gone outside the room,
rushed in and seeing Pringle at The
target yelled, what do you mean by
giving this man my target. I've had
man here waiting an hour to get at the
target and you knew 1t and gave my
place to another man."
ssYou didn't say word to me about the
| target" replied Corporal Brown, and /
| didn't know you wanted 1t"
s.You lie," shouted Graham, land ii
you give me any more OF your -
CUFF I'll throw you out of the window"
A BRUTAL ASSAULT.
The Corporal, although a much smaller
| man in statue than Graham, was not to
be bluffed. Knowing that he was IN the
right be warned Graham not TO call
him liar again. This aroused
| Graham's fighting instincts beyond
control, and with one jump he landed
inside the railing where Brown was
standing. He grasp6d the Corporal oy
the collar. and with his slspnanLlue fist
rained blow after blow upon the CORPORAL
who, although by no means match for
his burly antagonist, manfnlly stayed in
the fight and made q weak attempt to
hold his own. Before Sergeant
Pringle could separate the combatants.
Graham landed terrific olow on
Browns eye, which swelled that organ
f,;- .f,,ll in
When the TWO were separated Graham
again started to abuse Brown by calling
MIN liar and several other vile names.
Butthe Corporal was game and did not
allow"Jack" walk over him in talking
match. Thew would have come 10 blows
again had not Pringle interfered. Granam
finally left the range gloating over tue
way in which he had done up Corporal
Brown.
BUTT OR MUzZLE.
at was a LUCKY thing for Jack Graham
that my rifs was not nearby when he as
saultad me-" said Corporal Brown after
the fray, and not a few of those present
wished that he had secured grip on ths
weapon.
The Corporal, however, will select q
more advisable way of punishing Gra-
ham. He will prefer charges to Colonel
Abernethy, and the other members OF the
Range Committee will back him up.
The Colonel can request Graham to re"
sign or place him under arrest, which IS
virtually suspen sion, until ne Is triea Dy
court martial. The court can give him q
dishonorabIe discharge il the charges are
substantiated.
One non-commissioned officer who
witnessed the row on Saturday sald:-
'Graham's action was entirely uncalled
for AS q captain he should have set
better example to the members of his
company who were present This action
would not have been countenanced had
private been the assailant, and believe
that the punishm ent should be douolv
severe as Graham is commander, aud
should know better than to ASSAULT any
member of the regiment"
Every officer that L interviewed said
that Graham should be shown no mercy.