The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-19
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE.
1t Cost Teacher Heis1ey $500
and a Bride to Have
a Window Shut.
WHEN MISS PAULINE SCREAMED
The Vim Family Started to Do
Up the Teacher Who Spanked
Them With a Poker.
Special TO the Jersey City Neus.

TOMS RIVER, Dec. 10, 1S94.-The cur
tain was rung down yesterday upon
the Heisley-Winn drama, which came
so near being a tragedy, when Prof.
Charles C. Heisley was sentenced to
pay a fine of $500 and costs of prosecu-
tion-about $3.50 in alias an outgrowth
of, the fight at the New Egypt Public
School, on Wednesday,, November 20,
1895. The case, which was well exploit
ed at the time. aroused the most bitter
feeling, and the excitement kept up till
the very last.
Heisley was first indicted at the April
term of court, but on various pretexts
the case was postponed until the pres
ent term. He was represented by his
brothers, ex-Mhyor Wilbur A. Heisley
of Long Branch, a leading New York
lawyer, and Augustus Heisley of At
lantic Highlands, assisted by l. w.
Carmichael of Toms River. The States
Attorney. Captain Thomas w. Middle
ton, was assisted by Lawyer Charles
F. Hendrickson of Mt. Holly, for many
years Prosecutor of Burlington county.
The defendants gray-haired and gray
bearded father, the Rev. Charles M.
Heisley, of the New Jersey Methodist
Conference, was an interested specta-
tor all through the trial, appeared with
his son yesterday, and settled the fines
that allowed his son to step forth a free
mar again.
STORY OF THE OFFENSE.
The story of Heisley's offense is this:
On the day before Thanksgiving Day of
last year he was the Principal of the
New Egypt School, and also taught the
higher department. He requested Miss
Ida VIM, a comeiy girl of fourteen, TO
shut a window. which had been raiseo
for ventilation. This she refused to do.
remarking that her father said@4he did
not send his children to school to work.
Heisley took the girl by the shoulder,
marched her to the window and compel
led her to shut it down. Jacob Winn,s
home is just across the school mouse
yard and the girl began to scream. Her
father was away, but her mother. Sarah
VIM, came running over and ~belaperec
the teacher in broken English. He put
school. Soon she returned with her two
sons, Reuben and Abraham, and her
daughter Pauline, forced open the door
and demanded her daughter Ida Ida
was sent out, and the teacher, seizing a
heavy iron poker, himself followed her
out into the hallway, and ordered them
A BATTLE ROYAL.
"A battle royal followed, preceded only
by a wordy dispute. Who struck the
first blow will never be known; prop
ably. Heisley claimed that Pauline
VIM, a handsome and bouXom young
woman of about tw~enty-four years, lung
ed at him with a sharp instrument,
which looked to him like a er6cnet nee needis
paper of red pepper in one hand and an
open knife in the other, and that Mrs.
Winn sailed into MIN with Doth nnger
hand, characterize hin as the assail-
ant.
At any rate Heisley, who is over sig
around him with his poker until he was
the undisputed master Of the field, till
Pauline was unconscious with a blow on
ing her death; till Mrs. VIM was
stretched PROSTATE on the floor n her
two sons, big, lusty young fellows, SUNK
out of the school house doors, yelling
for assistance.
For some days 1t was doubtful whether
either Pauline or her mother would re-
cover, but both long since regained their
wonted health.
Heisley's defense is that the VIM
amily had given him a great deal OF
trouble, that he had expelled one of their
boys from the school; that consequently
the Wins sought to get even with him.
and tina Ida's screams were part of a
prearranged plan to bring the family over
to lick the teacher.
Heisley is of ar excellent family. He
was appointed as a cadet at West Point
by President Grant, during his second
term, but did not complete the course,
although he is a man of natural brillian-
CIV. His part in the affair has cost him
a bride in addition to the fine, as he was
to have been married to an estimable
young woman in Monmouth County. 9
the notoriety he gained caused her peo-
pie to break off the engagement.