The record-union., 1893-01-23
TEE 'THIRD-OTREEH GANG"
They Manage to Escape Conviction in
the Police Court.
The Carmen Relate the Particulars OF
the Assault Made on Them One
Night Last Week.


Railway with battery, were called in the
Police Court on Saturday. The charge
against Johnson had been reduced from
assault with a deadly weapon to battery,
and the defendants were all tried to-
gether on a joint complaint.
w. Z. Hazeltine, the complaining
witness, was the motorman on the car
when the trouble occurred. 1t was about
IL o'clock at night. Some men standing
on Third street said something to him,
and he told them to mind their own
business. He started for the sidewalk,
and as he was stepping up to the walk
he was knocked down. Somebody
picked him up, and he was knocked
down again, two of the defendants strik-
ing him. He was almost positive that
one of them had a knife in his hand.
Witness said he then went back to the
car and pulled Bogart off Woods, the
conductor, and held HIM till an officer
came. When he started for the side
walk it was because he thought that the
parties there were three brothers, one Of
whom he had put on the car drunk lew
nights before and taken home. When he
was called he thought that they called
him to help carry someone to the car.
When he found
He got Woods pistol, and johnson ran
away. Witness had several cuts on his
head which he thinks were made by
Johnson's knife. He saw something like
q knife in Johnson's hand, and felt the
cuts while he was struggling.
Witness said he continually had trouble
with boys along the line. Their orders
are to stop at any place to take up pas
sengers on the Third-street line. lie re-
iterated that two of them struck him as
he came up to the walk. He saw Smith
and the other two assaulting Woods
when he came back to the car, and
helped him out. He saw Johnson's face
distinctly.
CONDUCTOR WOODS STORY.
Thomas Woods testified that he was
conductor on the car, and was on duty
that night. His attention was drawn by
hearing some one call, and he rang the
bell to stop. He heard some one call to
the motorman to come over and he went.
Witness thought nothing of it at first,
and went on collecting fares, but being
called by Hazeltine he went over to the
walk, where he was attacked by Bogart
and Smith, who struck him. Hazeltine
asked for his pistol, as johnson had
stabbed him. They took Bogart in the
car, and the rest ran away. After they
took Bogart into the car, the crowd
came IN and said they were going to take
him away from them.
Witness corroborated HaZeltine's testi-
mony with regard to taking drunken
man on the car few nights before. He
went for an officer, who took Bogart
away. Personally, he had had very lit
tie annoyance from boys, but they had
bothered car employees considerable. He
thought when Hazeltine called him that
the latter was having trouble in getting
drunken man aboard, and went to help
him. He saw Johnson run away, and
Hazeltine followed him short distance.
He heard Johnson say,
''I'LL STICK YoU!"
And in a short time Hazeltine said he
was stabbed. Smith and Bogart both of
them struck him. 1t was not so dark
there but that he was able to pick up
some money on the next trip which he
had dropped during the scuff1e.
Woods was cross-examined with re-
gard to a conversation with man named
Boyle, and denied that he stated that
Smith did not strike him, but ran away
when the trouble commenced. He in
sisted that the lady who came on the car
did not come up until some time after
the row occurred.
WHAT A PASSENGER SAW.
Daniel A. Meyer, who was on the front
part of the car, said some one whistled
or called, and the bell was rung to stop
the car. Hazeltine said he guessed it was
the sidewalk. Witness saw some one
strike him, and then went over and
helped him up. He could see the de-
PENDANTS, and could identify Bogart, but
did not see who first struck Hazeltine
There was no lady on the car at the time.
He corroborated the language used from
the sidewalk, and said they called to
6azeltine to come over. There was no
one but the three defendants on the side
walk. A lady got in just as the police
came.
TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENSE.
Charles Boyle testified, for the defense,
that he had a conversation with Woods a
day or two after the trouble, and Woods
stated that he struck at Smith and Smith
ran away. Woods showed the scar over
his eye and on his hand. He was not
very friendly with Woods.
ONLY HAVING "FUN."
Charles johnson testified he was on
Third street on Monday night with the
other defendants. The car was standing
at Third and X streets, and he gave cat
call. A man and woman whistled for
the car and he whistled, also. He
went on with the others, and soon the
car stopped and the motorman jumped
OFF and asked him if he said something,
and struck him, and he struck back. He
heard Hazeltine say to Woods that here
was some of the Pstreet gang, and he
would do them up They did not inter-
fere or say a word before the car stopped,
He had his hands in his pockets when
Hazeltine struck him, and had no
weapons. Nobody in the crowd used
any offensive language, and they were
not looking for any row. HaZeltine threw
club at him while he was running and
struck him in the back. After being
struck by the stick he stopped running.
BE had not had even pocket-k knife for a
year, and never carried one. Neither of
the other boys struck Hazeltine when the
fight first commenced.
SMITH SAYS HE WASN'T IN IT.
George Smith, one OF the defendants,
testified that he was with the others on
Monday night; that when the car stopped
Hazeltine jumped off and struck John
son, who stood with his hands in his
pockets. johnson struck back, and Ha-
zeltine fell backward. Witness did not
strike Woods, but walked away and told
Jchnson's brother Charley was in trouble
He had nothing to do with the fight. He
came back and found Hazeltine holding
Bogart down in the car. There was no
insulting language used. He could not
tell whether Bogart or Woods struck the
other first. He heard someone ask Woods
for his pistol. He did not tell officer
Warner that the boys whistled for the car.
de left as soon as the row commenced
and went away around on the other side
of the street.
CARMAN DID IT ALL.
Frank Bogart told the same story as
the other two, up to the beginning of the
row. He SAID that Hazeltine jumped off
and struck Johnson. Hazeltine called to
Woods and the latter jumped off and
struck at him, but did not hit him. He
struck back and they chnched. Hazel
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