The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-22
Louis al
GUIDO. &c YEARS
VAS. sPYBRER. YOUR OWN WORDS.

At the bottom OF both signs was scrswleI!
Herr Most Painter"
To the villagers who plodded about In the
mud viewing the figures with admiration the
Interpretation VI the sentence on the efflgy Of
the woman was plain. The story 10 that when
Bpyerer was sentenced to the county jail for
ten days for Hssaulting his wife, she Is said 10
have wished that tho sentence was twenty-five
While the prominent residents OF the village
a RSr had me sr.nt tmS
they hung around the swaying figures pelting
them with mud nnd missiles They cheered at
every passinR train and snowballed everybody.
But the delegation OF citizens who went TO
Neytown brought the sport to an end Late
stables and deputy sherif1s drove into the vii
LACE; Constable OSCAR Wermlsch had an order
volunteer to climb tho POLES and cut the wire
Constable Wernisch produced q boy. who
started to shin up the. pole. When half way h Q
slirped and camo sliding down. Then the
within q block or two OF the poles were desert
ed, while their occupants hurried through the
mud 70 see the boy fall from tho pole and
The boy began climbing a second time. As
he dug his spurs into tho soft wood everybody
When he was few feet from the ground
women i,eRan screaming and young men. Of
takers. The lad pulled and blew and swung
HIS legs in mid-aii. The crowd continued TO
!. hut the. hoy continued to kick and saulrm.
He assembled the pole an inch at q time, slip
ping back a few feet occasionally. After a
Then began spasm odlc search for the pliers
he carried TO cut the wire. and the crowd held
ne soss q the p. n9 o eGy
HE hin pocket. and after another struggle the
", T,. . MAS cut. Down into tRS mud Dropped
man still chung to tho wire. and went swinging
through the air with the severed wire and
side Of tho street. The small boys poSnced
on the figure 10 the muddy roadway, and were
ssoi Dell BY he Constable Wso S" ,nTy yhS w eb
ject IT was thrown into u wagon.
In the mean time tho hoy was forgotten. He
the sroun and didn't ind% how 70 get GET d SS%Te
Grent odds were, again offered that he would
both arms. he twirsd lis legs In the o Msn
space in vain eiiert to get a ioSthoid In the
turned G to hepas the SSy an s
yl:sd him T. }iams, Iat tie SSy didn't; lie
legs. came sailing down ike an acrobat not
withdrawing the occasional hindrancs Of big
the pos When he strssx the sronna Ss w Ss
somewhat the worse for his trip. Both hands
were bleeding and his shirt was torn into
On the other side o. the street a CON stable
second pole. lie complied with some re-
lucianee and cut tho figure loose about six
feet from the ground. This efiigy was also put
into the wagon. and the constables with the
iva figures drove OH TO Newtown.
The whole trouble has been caused by Guido
Spyerer nuaIreling with his wife about his
nephew. Louis Sryerer: The villagers are in
clined TO take tina elder Spyerer'r part He
has been n resident OF that village for years.
while the nephew left Germany only In De-
eember last. To-day spverer will no released
from the Queens county Jail In Long Island
"a n val
time in the spyerer household when he gets
home