The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-04-20
POLICE ARRESTED Scores.
The List of Lookup Guests Aggregated
Thirty-One.
1T WAS A BIG PAY DAY HARVEST
Two Prisoners Force the Staples of Their
Cell Door and Escaped-one Was
Arrested for Attempting to
Shoot Policeman Lee.

Saturday was pay day at all the L. ~ X. Z.
& |. Co. collieres in this district and it
brought bountiful harvest for the police,
constables, Justices and Chief Burgess. The
arrests for Saturday night and Sunday
aggregated thirty-one. There were several
fights of desperate character, but reports
thus far received do not show that anybody
was seriously injured.
1t is evident that the disposition on the
part of some of the Lithuanian and Polish
people to show fight when the police want to
arrest them is becoming more pronounced
each day and the officers prepare for a scufile
each time they are called TO a place. Satur-
day night Policemen Tosh and Lee and
Chief Burgess Burns were called to ''the
rocks by people who complained that
the windows of their houses had been
smashed with stones by some men who
were singing and dancing in a
boarding house kept by Frank Con
askawcz. The officers visited the latter
place and found the men engaged in drinking
beer and making the night pass as Mostly as
possible. AS the police entered the men
jumped from their seats and picked up
chairs, glasses and other handy implements
and prepared for fight They were not
quick enough, however, and the officers
the chairs or throw the glasses but they
fought for several minutes before the police
succeeded in getting them out of the house.
Seven men were taken into custody. Upon
arrival at the lookup Chief Tosh discovered
that he had lost his watch in the scutile at
the boarding house An exhaustive search
of the premises failed to reveal it, A search
was then made of the men arrested and Tosh
found the watch in the pocket of Frank
| Gonaskawicz, the boarding boss, after the
latter had discaimed all knowledge of it,
When before Justice Williams this morning
Gonaskawicz claimed that Chief Tosh put the
watch in his pocket. Gonaskawicz was held
under $500 bail on a charge of larceny.
Most of the men arrested by the police
paid fines and costs and were discharged
Those who did not do so are serving five
days in the lookup. The repairs to this
place cannot be hurried too rapidly Last
night two prisoners escaped by pulling out
the staples securing the cell door. One of
the men was held for firing a shot at Police
man Lee during the raid ON West Lloyd
street Friday night. The other was held on
a charge of nuisance. Neither has been re-
captured.
Stiney MarkOfski was arrested yesterday
afternoon charged with being the man who
knocked Policeman Lee senseless with a
glass pitcher during the West Lloyd street
raid. Markofski was traced to a saloon but
the proprietor denied knowledge of the man.
After an extended search the police found
Markofski hiding in a coal bin in the cellar
under the saloon. He was put under $500
bail for trial at court.
Out of the thirty-one cases Justice Will
Jams heard IL, Chief Burgess Burns 10 and
Justice Toomey 10. 1t is safe to say the fines
and costs aggregated close upon $3.50.
The most serious case Justice Toomey had
was one in which Constable Giblon and
Special Officer Alex became involved. They
went to a house to arrest some men who were
charged with committing nuisance and as
they got into the place the occupants locked
the doors. Alex jumped out Of window
and kicked open one of the doors from the
outside, after which the men sought were
arrested and taken from the place. Mike
Bolonis and Joe Belts were committed to Jail
in default of bail on a charge of assault and
battery made by Frank Rakis.
William Clemmens and Timothy Ryan met
yesterday and in discussing a quarrel on
West Coal street in which they took par
about two weeks ago decided to go on the
mountain and settle the dispute. They fought
four rounds before Policeman Goodman and
Abe Green arrested them, but they were toe
drunk to inhict more injury upon each other
Chief Burgess Burns fined them.