The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-31
THEY TIED HIM UP
WITH CLOTHESLlNE
Then Beat Him Into lnsensibiIity and
Whipped His Wife.
LLOYD STREET SLAVS ON TRIAL
Nine of Them, Joseph Ribisch Says,
Committed an Outrage Oh Himself
And Wifc..It took u Toss From u
Wagon, u Blow From n Ncck.yOke
Aud Whuck Over the Head with the
Butt Of u Gun to Subdue nn Ex.
Prize Fighter.

All of the afternoon of yesterday in
criminal court was taken NJ with the
trial of six assault and battery cases
growing out of a quarrel among the
Slavs of Lloyd street. The defendants
We're Powell Dominsky. Barney RAN
sky, Adam Yonolanis, Joseph Yono-
lonis, Michael Libanot and Powell
Yaleman. Joseph Ribisch and his
wife, Othelia. were the accusers. Mr..
Soper and MIR. Harris represented the
defense.
The trouble occurred between . and
10 o'clock on the evening Of Oct. last.
The Dominsky's tenant one side of
Ribisch's double house. They never
got along well together, and on the
night In question, the prosecution al
leges, some OF the Dominsky's threw
bucket of slops on Mrs. Ribsch
through an opening in the basement
partition. Ribisch went next door to
demand an explanation and was set
upon by Dominsky and badly beaten.
The noise of the alteration attracted
Il crowd of the neighbOrs. who, II ap-
pears, We're all unfriendly to Ribisch.
They secured clothes line and tied
Ribisch hand and foot and after beat
ing him numerically left him bleed
ing and insensible on the ground. Mrs.
Ribisch. who interfered to save her
husband, was also roughly handled.
STORY OF THE, DEFENSE.
The story of the defense was that
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with drawn knife in his hand, de-
mandcd his rent. Dominsky and his
wife were in bed and refused to get up
to give him the money. Thereupon.
RbisCh searched DOminsky's pants
pockets and was in the act of making
off with his pOcketbook when he in
tcrposed an objection and ordered Ri
bsch to leave the house. Ribisch
turned on him, and in defense of him
self and wife he elected the intruder.
The other defendants were inactive ana
disintcrested spectators.
All of the dozen or so witnesses on
either side had to be examined through
an interpreter. This fact, coupled
with the confusion of names and the
conflict of testimony, made 1t virtually
impossible for a jury to arrive at
just conclusion. except by chance or
accident. The likelihood is that mot
guilty, divide the costs will be the
finding returned this morning, when
the jury reports.
William brennan, a prospectOr and
driller of Green Grove, admitted in
court yesterday that he threw AlonHo
Uoylc out of a wagon, hit him in the
neck with IA neck yoke and felled him
by a blow over the head with the butt
end of a musket. laying him up in the
hospital for two. weeks or more, and
yet was acquitted of the charge Of as
sault and battery.
ACCORDING TO HOYLE.
According to Hoyle. all this was done
without provocation, but Brennan's
story convinced the jury otherwise.
Mr. Brennan related that Hoyle was
employed as laborer>un Mrs. Moyle's
farm near Green Grove, over which
Brennan, who is the owners sOn-in-
law, has supervision. July 20 last
Ioyle returned from scranton with
team which had been roughly driven
and attempted to water them while
they were in an Overheated condition.
Brennan demonstrated with him, but
Hoyle, who was intoxicated, told Bren-
nan to mind his own business.
Brennan turned the horses away
from the watering trough. Hoyle
turned them back. Brennan turned
them away again. but Hoyle stubborn
ly headed them towards the trough
again. Then Brennan jumped on the
wagon and threw Hoyle off. Hoyle
seized the whip and was about to be-
labor Brennan with it. when the latter
rushed to the barn for protection.
Before he could close the door Hoyle
reached the barn and again raised the
whip, when Brennan seized a neck
yoke and hit Hoyle in the neck. HOyie,
who was proved by witness to have
been a prize fighter ana all around
good man" in his early days, WIS not
even dazed by the blow and when
Brennan retreated TO the house he gave
chase. carrying the neck-yoke with
which he had been struck.
BRENNAN RAN.
Brennan, in terror, ran through the
lowed by the enraged Hoyle. Finally.
in desperation, Brennan seized gun
and stood his ground. Hoyle came
along like a mad man, the neck-yoke
raised aloft. The men met and Hoyle
went down from a blow on the head
with the butt of the gun. Brennan
picked him up and secured medical at
tendance and had him cared for and
nursed until he was able to leave the
house. The jury, after being out only
q short time, returned a verdict of not
guilty and placed the costs on the
prosecutor.
Andrew Harum was called to answer
the charge of malicious mischief pre-
ferred by John Jezerski. He entered
the plea of. former acquittal and when
it was shown that he was tried and
found not guilty of the same charge
last week, when Michael Olozynski w"s
the prosecutor court directed a verdict
in favor of the defendant The costs.
as in the case last week, were placed
on the prosecutor. His wife, Annie
Harwin. was charged by John Geriska
with being implicated in the same Of
fense. which was breaking windows in
Geriskas house: but she. too. was ac-
quilted and the accuser called upon to
pay the costs. Mr.. Oliver represented
the defense.
The case Of false pretenses preferred
by J. ID. Lloyd against Theodore G.
Burger. was settled upon the defend
ant paying the costs.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
in the case of Michael "Scully" Nc
CURE, charged by Martin 'Boney" Nc
Lean with the theft of a watch.
Patrick Hennigan, charged by Pat
rick j. Kelly with embeZZlement by
constable; John McNicholas and Pat
rick Gallagher. charged with assault
and battery by Stanley Doer and John
Ward. charged by Thomas McCabe
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