The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-17
WINS TO DEMAND REDRESS.
NE VIII THE BROADWAY CA
ME PEOPLE ron DAMAGES.

n warm FOR tho Company. for the Con-
suc,or who Elected HIN from . Car, and
IA, the Policeman who Arrested Him.
III. broadway cable road will bo asked to pay
A.avv damages for tho assault on William NJ.
tvns. former City Chamberlain. which was told
.nout in TIL Sun yesterday. and q howl Of glee
w,nt ND from tho slammed, banged. mangled, |
,.nmed public, which force Of circumstances
compels TO patronizo tho cars, when they heard
A n. Mr.. Wins has q reputation AZ u fighter,
and most people. while not glad OF his misfor-
,upe. rejoiced that this time the assault had
ran committed on somebody who had the grit
.,d the means TO fight Mr.. WINS was put OF
aeur at Sixty.sixth street because ho refused to
lam himself inside, whore the seats and the
,I.,e were both full. Then he was damned by a
sripman. pulled about by Ave conductors, and
snally was arrested by n policeman who didn't
tnov his business. He was detained at the DO
Nice station In West Sixty.eighth street ON hour.
Then he was released because there was no
oomplaint against him. The conductor who is
r,sponsible for the whole trouble came TO tho
nation house after he had finished his days
work, expecting that tho police had hold his
victim. as is the custom. He was disappointed,
and didn't think the police had done their duty
when he found that Mr.. Wins had been released.
Mr.. Wins was seen at his Office In Lords Court
buIldinS yesterday by q reporter for THE Sun.
Hs talked about tho beauties of q ride on tho
cable cars and made the following statement
for publication:
"The questions between the Traction Com.
psny and myself are simply as to whether I lose
NY personal liberty and waive all of my in
tividual rights when I enter one of their cars,
and whether its officers may at their D easure
violently assault me for not doing their bidding.
Ishall test these questions before the proper
tribunals. 1t is disagreeable, but 1t is healthy.
II o,hers who suffer in tho same way would do
as propose to do the Traction Company nuis-
nnce would soon abate itself.
81 waited at tho corner of Forty.fourth street
and Broadway on Tuesday evening for some
minutes in order to catch an uptown Columbus
avenue car. Five or six cars passed me. all
full. Some of them were closed cars, with both
front and rear platforms full. as well as the
middle aisle in the car. Others were open cars,
In which people were standing up between the
narrow seats. holding on to the sides az best
they could. or bobbing about among the passen.
gers as the car moved. might have crowded
in between the narrow seats Of one of these
cars. but preferred not to do II.
Finally a closed car came by full as a sardine
box in the body Of the car and on the rear plat
form. There were four men on the front platform.
The gate on the front platform was open and
the front door was open and people were stand
Ing in it and from II out onto the platform. I
hailed the motorman. He stopped and received
me on the front platform. He subsequently
rang the bell for the conductor. The conductor
came forward and collected my fare, and neither
the conductor nor motorman said anything to
me or the others on the front platform with re-
gard TO going inside. In this way / rode as far
as Sixty-siXth street on the front platform with
out protest from any one, swinging around the
curves, and once suffering a generous SCATTERING
OF tobacco juice, due to the motormanw with the
assistance Of the wind. Ihad 10 stand this sort
OF thing. walk. or get out and walt indefinitely
pnd then pay a new fare.
torman suddenly turned TO me-the others who
had been on the front platform having got of
u, ne, ef n ,Sse mo ! IG0Hsa t turned r1% ,G, me a",d and no,b said.
He then said, Don't you heari Get in there!' I
looked at him and SMILED. He then said, Damn
It! Get in there! There's room inside Hooked
inside, and there was no room whatever. Where
lion l fell back into my corner and began read
ing my paper The motorman then rang for the
s snslI and Or fso Gti NOT I fG se, e orPa / H sS thsD not Sre ssss Id
20 il. He asked the motormas to assist him.
The motorman told the conductor that that was
iE,n decided to wait until he came to an officer,
arolice officer. 1t was not long before a police
tl,fsd him. The officer begged me not to get
NS conductor into trouble. but to either go In
s!de or get of. told the officer that the affair
was a matter between myself and the company,
ttl that he would recognize he had no right 10
interfere. The .onductor then asked the police
TODD.
by this time a number of other cars had come
up behind us and were blockaded. The conduo
Tors OF these cars came forward TO see what was
the matter. They held a sort of informal con,
ference and decided to put me off,, was hold
the folding gate with the other. One OF these
men came around In front and pounded my
han 9! 1 iRGs eT partiesiap me cs sG ls sos FG me b b9 1S sen riRRi
shoulder. another conductor took me by the LETT
shoulder. and in that way they got me TO the
q the company's servants jumped on tc
Inc PLATFORM put bis hands over my
his shoulder. and in that way they pulled me
from the platform into the street. l made no re
slstance whatever. except that compelled them
Altar this had been done I called the atten.
Jon OF the police officer to the assault, and asked
refused TO do. The conductor asked him TO ar
rest me for diSobedienceo OF the com pany's rules
that il there We're any rules. they I had been
broken by themselves, and that such rules were
not law. Nevertheless, he said that / must &c
WIN him 10 the station house. Several gentle
men ThO had witnessed the entire affair wen
Elth me. The complainant was not forthcom
Ing. They detained me there for about an hour
finally insisted that the Sergeant himself, II h,
Circumstance, Would be saiity Of false impris
N'A w ~ ~ y" AfN 'NA
Eeant then asked the officer II he had any com
PLANT TO make, and tho officer said none, where
upon | was discharged.
This all took place between hRlf.past q and
hall,ptst : o'clock. 1t now appears that the
conductor returned to the station house just be
iore midnight, and was surprised that | had NO
oeen Kept IN custody at his pleasure.
lhese things are extremely disagreeable, anc
ltesrft the notoriety OF it, but everybody up my
way has suffered more or less from exactly thi,
soFt 81 thlng, and | don like to feel that when l
Hqata d cotnpany's car ! part with my persona
Ioerty. |, therefore, shall make an effort 10 tint
out exactly what the respective rights OF the
COMPANY ana IA passenger are in such a case.
IN situation beautifully illustrates the out
taseousness OF the present system Of passenger
transportation, and the fact that q passenger II
aoL sac from either insolence or attack on the
bart OK The company's servants. II also incl
Mentally illustrates the excellence of our police
sssteM where a man who 10 the subject OF ar
assault ny live or six others Is held and the per
s2ns making the assault are allowed to 60"
ulmne policeman who arrested Mr.. Wins was
lillian J: Ddbbyn OF the East Sixty.eightf
street. station. The Sergeant who discharged
nun Wa Thomas J. Flannery Of the Same sta
non The conductor who had charge of the cal
~ which Mr.. WINS was riding was John Riebe
\! o32 West Forty-seventh street. Presiden
IRELAND OF the Broadway road started an in
tslsatl3n Yesterday. It had not been com
pcltG when THE SIN reuOrtpr saw him, ILL