The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-24
NO FREE SPEECH
FOR FREE THINKERS
So Declared The PriCeburg Populace in a
Very Dsmonstrative Way.
EGGS FOR DR.. JOHN SzLUPAS
One of the Alleged Egg ThrOwers
Was Oh Trial Yesterday Before
Judge Edwaris..TwO Men Charged
with Attempt Criminal Assault De.
ciarcd Not Guilty..A Jury Says Mrs.
Hopper Assaulted Aged Martin
Nculon..OtherC Criminal Cases.

One night last August DIR. John Sz'u-
| pas of Penn avenue, went up to Price
burg to deliver a Speech at Smith :
| hall on Free Thought. The intensely
| religious people of that quiet and or
| derly hamlet didn't take kindly to the
! Doctors irrcligiouS views and evidence
/ ed their disapproval hy hurting eggs at
/ him and by breaking the windows of
! the hall with stones. William Smith,
! the proprietor Of the hail. started an IN
! yestication and two weeks later had
/ T0efield Bendavig arrested for being
| c6ncern rned in the untiSZlupas demon
! stration. Yesterday Bendavig was ON
/ trial for the crime in criminal court.
! All the witnesses agreed that there
! was a great hubub outside the hall and
! that eggs and stones were thrown. TWO
ut the witnesses for the prosecution
! sWorc they saw Bendavig throw IA
/ stone but the others could only testify
/ that he was in the crowd of disturberS
and that he was one of the most dem-
/ onstrative of the crowd. The defense
! had Il large array of witnesses VINO
/ Swore that they We're near BendaNis
| when the missiles were thrown and that
| he did not throw them. The ease was
ON at adjournment. Hon. John i. KEEL
| ly is attorney for the defense.
TWO SERIOUS CHARGES.
| Two men We're tired for attempted
criminal assault. james Sullivan, of
Mayfield, aged about 81 years. was ac-
! CuSed by his sisterin-laW, Mrs. Sarah
Kennedy, aged forty years. Mrs. Ken
| ncdy'S story was to the effect that
while she was sitting by the bedside of
! Sullivan's mother who was i'll. Sullivan
| made indecent proposals to her and
t.,Il. lNE tin,r h.,
| She escaped from him and made her
| way home.
Attorney &. Copegys. who represent
ed the defense. tri-d To make out that
| it was a case uf blackmail. the Keune-
/ dy's being indebted to the Sullivans for
n large rent bill. The jury returned u
! verdict of not guilty and directed tha t
| the costs he equally divided between
| the prosecutriN and defendant.
| In the second case Peter Blasko was
| the defendant and Pearl Woeserstrani
| the accuser. Mrs. Woeserstram alleged
that she was passing through an alley.
which branches off Crown avenue ON
the South Side. at $50 o'clock ona
| night last summer, To call for her little
! daughter " no was ut night school and
that she was set upon by Blasko and
another man. who caught her about the
| waist and tried to assault her.
SCREAMS BROUGHT HELP.
Her screams brought couple of pas
| sershy to her assistance ana Blasl>O
| was captured The defense was Il plain
| denial. The jury after lengthy delib-
Grafton returned verdict of not guilty
| Of attempted criminal assault but guilty
| Of assault and battery. Attorney Geo.
| Il. Davidson appeared for the defense.
| Attorney Nathan Nidaver assisted Dis
| trict Attorney Jones.
Louis Behle and Michael Duffy, Of
| Archibald. were the parties in an as
sault and battery case. Duffy claimed
that Behle assaiIed and battered MIN
| without any provoCatiun. BehiG said
that he only stayed the prosecutors :
| arm. when II was raised to strike Con-
stable Harris. who was escorting Duffy
to the lookup. The jury said not
| guilty and divided the costs. c. A.
Battenberg was attorney for the de-
| fcnse.
Nasta Urban pleaded guilty of assault
and battery on Joseph krietinick. Judge
| Edwards suspended sentence.
Mary A. Hopple. who was tried Tues
| day for assauiting aged Martin Nealon
| with stone. was yesterday morning,
returned gullty with a recommendation
| of mercy,