Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-11
W0ooBUaY FINED.
Pleads Guilty Of Assault On Corporal Polk al
Brunswick Depot Restaurant.

The Portland Press priLts the follow
ing dispatch from Brunswick:
The trial Of the case of Corporal Pol,
against Caterer Woodbury. OF the Rruns
wick station, far aggravated assault
came Off, this morning The uuthoritie,
OF the National Guard of this State. ma .
result CT the investigation they have mad,
anu OF the testimony at the trial of th.
case of Woodbury. against Polk, which tnos
place in Brunswick, last week. have be
come convinced that the officers and men
OF the Lewiston companies w.r, justified
In what THY did on the day OF the FIGHT.
and even that they acted with discretion
and self control, and they are therefore
determined to support their subordinates
The testimony at the two trials was sub.
s1antlaliy the same and was in substance
as follows:
Corporal Polk entered tho restaurant
and ate, as no claims. piece of pie and
one sausage. The waiter claimed that he
are two sausages. Polk rendered so cents
in payment and the waiter took out pay
for two sausages. Polk then remarked
that he would have another pieca Of pie
and they would be square. Proprietor
woodbury. then came up and after some
controversy, grabbed the corpora! by the
throat ard pushed him into back room.
where he Knocked him down and iumped
on him. Woodbury. had mean while or
dered two of his subordlnates to stand
guard at the door, one with an axe and the
other with a butcher knife.
Sergeant Bailey now appeared and
started to the rescue OF iscorporaI. Bailey
was thcreupon assaulted by Reynolds, one
Of Manager Woo lbury's forces. a gentle
man who is estimated to tip the scales at
something like $40 pounds. In return the
heavyweight received glass tumbler on
the side of his head, from the hand of
Sergeant Bailey
"The commissioned officers Of the com
paoy then put in an appearance and re-
fused to give up Polk 20 Sheriff Despeaux,
who was requested by Woodbury.
to arrest him. Despeaux concluded that
discretion was the better part of valor and
allowed the man to depart with his com
rades. What looked like a much more
serious affair thus ended there. for the
soldier boys were getting ready for u re scue
should Polk be detained. The authorities
believe that MIR. Woodbury's recollection
of the wreoking of his establishment by
the Montgomery Guards, during similar
controversy, some years ago, together with
his confidence In his pugilistic abilities, in
which he is said to take much pride, has
led him to put himself entirely In the
wrong in the matter.
At all events the restaurant man plead
guilty to the charge of assault this morn
Ing and was fined So by the court. Hon
Frank L. Noble appeared for Polk and
Weston Thompson for Woodbury. 1t is
understood that the end Ia not yet, for
Polk is to bring a civil suit ag.nst Wood
bury for damages in the sum of $1,000.
1.-The State lays special stress on the fact
that the testimony on both sides show S
that there was no drunkenness to which
to attribute the difficulty. The case Of
Woodbury. against Sergeant Bailey occurs,
next Saturday before the superior court
Mt Portland On that occasion Adjutant
General Conner, Gen. Choatc. Col. Phil
brook and other officers will b. present ;"