Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-07
Filtration is Perilous.

Filtration is Perilous.
One of the perils that attend scraping
acquaiutanceship with pretty girls in
the street after dark is shown by the
experience of Alexander Semelis, pay
ing teller of the Chatham National
Bank, at Broadway and John street,
who was prisoner yesterday morning
/ in the Yorkvlle Police Court.
The complainant against Mr.. SemeliS
was Miss Kate Redick, very pretty
young woman, who lives with her par
ents at No. Ills First avenue.
Policeman Macaulay, Of the East
Fnty-second street station, who arrest
ed Mr.. Semelis, told Justice Ryan that
he was on post in Third avenue, hA-
tween Fifty-seventh and Fiity-eighth
streets, when Miss Redick, VITO was
weeping and apparently in an agony Of
terror, rushed up to him and told him
that man had been following ber and
had grossly insuted her. Just then
Mr.. Semells came walking slowly down
the avenue, and the girl pointed 10
him, eXclaiming. There he is That's
the man -
Macauay seized Mr.. Semelis by the
arm and led him up to where the girl
was standing. Again she exclaimed,
Yes, that's the mani and then turn
ed very white and fell to the ground in
tit. She struggled so violently that
it required several men to hold her,
but at last she became quiet and lay as
if dead
Among the crowd which gathered
was DR.. Pincus, of No. $40 Third
avenue, who applied restoratives, but
fully fifteen minutes elapsed before she
recovered consciousnc 5, when she was
taken home by friends.
Semelis, who prot ted vehemently
against his arrest, was taken to the
station house and locked up. A few
minutes afterward he was released on
bail furnished by Joseph J. Cohn, of
No. 1G4 East SiXty-third street,
Maiden lane ieweler, a friend Of Semelis,
to whom words of his arrest had been
sent.
Miss Redcl, who is a most modest
ana refined looking girl, told a very
straightward story to the judge.
81 was on my way home" she said,
from the home of family in East
Sixty-third street, where was employ
ed, when this man accosted me at
Sixty-third street and Third avenue.
He said, Say, darling, won't you come
along with me?o
Il was greatly frightened and hur-
ried along, but he followed me, max
ing insulting remarks. At last l saw
the policeman and ran up and told him
what had happened, and then | was SO
terrified that | tainted"
Miss Redick said she had never seen
Semelis before, but was quite certain
that he was the man.
Semelis absolutely denied the girls
story, and swore that be had never
seen her until she pointed him out at
his arrest. He is a tall, rather fine
looking man, about forty-tive years
old. He described himself as the pay
ing teller of the Chatham National
Bank, and gave his address as No. 511
Madison street. Brooklyn.
According to his version of the affair
he had been with his friend, Mr.. Cohn,
at the Polo Ground, and returning had
left the latter at nth street and had
stroled down the avenue, hoping to
find book store open, as he wished TO
purchase some German novels for his
wife, who was going into the country.
He had walked a mile and was still
looking for the book store, when he
suddenly found himself seized by a po
liceman, and confronted with young
woman whom he had never seen before,
who charged him with having insulted
her.
81 was never so astonished in all my
life, exclaimed Mr. Semelis, with vir-
tuous Indignation.
The prisoners friend Cohn corrobo-
rated his story so far as the visit to the
Polo Ground went, but could throw
no light on the subsequent proceedings.
A we'll dressed man, who did not
give his name, but said that he had
friends who were acquainted with Sem
ellis, volunteered the opinion that the
latter could not possibly have been
guilty of the conduct charged against
him. Hes not that kind of man at
all, said he.
Policeman Macaulay said Mr.. SSeme-
lis had apparently been drinking, and
that when arrested he had made no at
tempt to deny that he had spoken TO
the girl.
Justice Ryan was strongly disposed
to hold the prisoner, but as there was
no testimony to corroborate that OF
Miss Redck he decided to give him the
benefit of the doubt. and discharged
him.-Ne,c York Herald
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