The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-29
POLICE IN SCRIMMAGES !
Two of Them Were Pretty Badly Cut
and Beaten.
STANTON AND LEE THE SUFFERERS
A Gang of Poles and Lithuanians Resist
Arrest and Show Fight Policeman
Lees Flight Down a Stairway
Locked with a Prisoner.

fOlCemen JOhn stanton and Thomas Lee
bear evidences Of a hard fight with drunken
Poles and Lithuanians on South Main street
Saturday night and will carry marks of the
atTray for the balance of their days Stanton
is especially marked and his friends are sur
prised that he was not killed. He has a
cash on the back of his head that extends
from the top TO the base of the skull, the
scalp having been laid wide open by a piece
of rock thrown by one of the drunken
crowd His body is also very much bruised
He was attended by DIR. d. J. Langton. Not
withstanding the injuries Stanton reported
for duty last night and patrolled his beat
with his head bandaged. Lee sustained
several cuts and bruises about the eyes, fore
head and temples, a deep cut on one Of his
knees and many bruises on the body, but he
too was on duty last night.
Shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday night
Stanton walked down Main street and found
a crowd of Poles and Lithuanians wrangling
on the sidewalk. He ordered them to dis
perse. All but one seemed inclined to obey
and after fruitless attempts to pacify that one
he placed him under arrest. The others then
crowded about the policeman. Stanton at
tempted to pull his prisoner out of the
crowd, but received a blow ON the back OF
the head from piece of rock. The prisoner
was rescued and Stanton retired to get as.
sistance. He returned accompanied by
Policemen Tosh, Lee, Foltz Goodman, Con-
stable Giblon and Specials Jones and Alex.
The Poles and Lithuanians were traced to a
house on South Pear alley and there Stanton
identified his assailants, but as they were
about to be taken out they resisted
and their friends again attacked the
police. Lee grappled with a brawny
fellow and it was a desperate struggle. Each
had hold of the others throat, Lee trying to
get his prisoner down stairs At this point Il
thrown beer glass struck the officer full in the
face, inhicting cash above his right eye
from which blood actually streamed. Lee
and his prisoner went tumbling down the
| stairway, locked in each others embrace the
policeman landing on top of his man at the
bottom and ultimately forcing him out of the
house and to the lookup. In the meantime
the other officers succeeded in getting their
prisoners out of the place and yesterday
morning George AntonowicZ, Joe ReZlcfski
John Goodleski, Hippolyte Koylessa and
Anthony Kioslli were arraigned before Justice
| Toomey, charged with assault and battery
and interference with officers. Each wa,
| required to furnish $500 bill. Philip Narasa
wicz was charged with Interfering with Chic
Tosh and Joe Donofski, Anthony Goldfish
| Cassmer Shapeins, Frank Rezefski, JOIN
Goleski and Wichek Butkawicz were
! arraigned for disturbing the peace and being
a nuisance on the streets. Each Of the latter
were committed to the lookup for IS hours il
default Of payment of 3 fine and costs. The
man who cut Stanton has disappeared.
After IL o'clock Saturday night the rowdy
element of the Polish, Lithuanian and Hun
garian classes seemed to grow wild anC
Justice Toomey's docket up to last nigh
! showed 22 cases.
One of these cases was that of Charlie
Butskawicz. 1t appears that one Joe Gusti
tbs was passing William Snyder's saloon OF
| East Centre street when three men stopped
and evidently intended to abuse him
| He tried to run into the salOoI
and was stabbed in the back He
turned and kicked Butskawicz unde
the chin, claiming he was the man win
stabbed him. Policemen Tosh, Lee an,
Goodman hurried to the scene and lie
chased one of the crowd into Snyders saloo
and caught him. Louis AIatalawicz, Snyder
bartender, then interfered and succeeded j.
getting the prisoner free. Lee was kuocke
against the bar with such force as to daze hiI
for an instant, but he quickly recovered hin
self and grappled with the bartender AftC
a determined struggle the officer succeede
in getting the bartender before Justc
Toomey and $500 bail was exacted pendin
trial at court. Butskawiez was put unde
$500 bail for stabbing Gustitis and the latte
was put under the same amount of hail OF
Butskawicz's suit for assault and battery
The stabbing was not a serious one, 1t wa
done with a pen-knife and made a woun
about an inch wide under the lower rib o
the right side Of the back.