Evening journal., 1898-10-31
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
Jacob Zimmerman Struck on
the Head With a Brick
AND WAS RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS

WHILE ON HpIS WAY HOMIE SAT-
URDAY NIGHT LAST HE WAS
ATTACKED BY -FOUR AlEN-CON-
RAD MOUITON, ONE on THE
GANG, GETS TlHREE MONTHS.
Conrad Moulton and Samuel Cloud
were fined $25 and costs each and
MouLten was sentenced to three months
in Jail by Judge Ball this morning for
assaulting Jacob Zimmerman.
Zimmerman is a driver for John
3. Taylor, and lives at No.
7OS Monroe street. After leaving the
store on Saturday evening last about
1880 o'clock he started out Seventh
street towards home. At the corner OF
Seventh and Tatnall streets he was
approached by Moulton, who asked him
for ten cents. He refused the money,
saying he did not have it. A few mo-
ments later Cloud, accompanied by a
young man by the name Of ]. Nous
ley, and another man came up and ask
ed him for five cents. This he also re-
fused, and after few words he start
ed home, accompanied by Mousley.
Upon reaching the corner OF Seventh
and West streets MousIey tried to in
duce him to go down West street, Dut
he declined. and after some alteration
he struck Mousley, knocking him in
the street. Zimmerman then took to
his heels, fearing that the rest OF the
gang, who were following, would 90
him bodily harm.
Upon reaching Seventh and Jefferson
streets he entered a store and tele-
phoned to the police that four men
were after him and that he could not
get home. In response to his message
Captain Chambers detailed Officer
Frank Kane. who, upon reaching JEFF
ferson street, met Zimmerman and was
told the circumstances by him. Officer
Kane then told the man to go up on
enc side of the street and he would
take the other. and il he was accosted
by any one Of the gang to hold on to
him until he came up.
Reaching the corner Of Seventh and
Madison streets Zimmerman saw the
FOUR men sitting in front OF store
on the opposite side Of the street
Upon his approach Cloud came across
the street with another man and Jacob
grabbed him and held on until Officer
Kane came UP and placed him under
arrest. The other man ran across the
street with Zimmerman in pursuit, bun
just as the latter reached the middle OF
the roadway he was felled by a brick
from the hands Of Mousley, receiving a
severe cut on the head, which knock
I'd him sensegess. Zimmerman eaw
AIousley throw the missile and tried TO
dodge it, but was unsuccessful He
Was carried into nearby store and
DIT. Veasey was summoned and put
three stitches in the injured mans
head. The wound was about three and
haR inches IN length, but did not
fracture the skull.
OFFICER Harry Pierce arrested Moul-
ton last night at $50 o'clock at Fourth
and Madison streets. The other mem
bers of the gang escaped. AT the hear
ling this morning a charge Of disorder
ly conduct was preferred against Cloud
and MouGton, but after hearing the tes-
timony Judge Ba.l ordered a charge oa
assault and battery be filed.
The case OF George Wilson and John
Newson, charged with drunkenness
and disorderly conduct by Special Offi-
Ger Dughn, was continued until to
morrow at 9 O'Clock. Both men were
cut on bail. but when Wilson's name
was called this morning he did not ap-
lpear and his bail bond OF $50 was for
feited and a capias issued for his ar.
rest. Before his release on Saturday
last, from which time the case waf
continued. Wilson told Newson that hG
ll4NCQ az lWSup4Cull anu AldIhcl ctIttls
and was employed in factory at No
1910 Market street. Wilson is unknown
at the address he gave, and, as a mat
ter Of fact, there is no factory on Mar
ket street above Twelfth. The officer
are looking for the man.
John Burke and John Norton weri
each held in $500 bail for a furthe
hearing tomorrow morning on thu
charge of rObbing John Lee, China
man, of No. 41O East Fifth stret, OF SO
The case of Samuel Moore, colored
charged with The larceny of a pair o
shoes. the property Of William John
son, coIored. was continued until Wed
nesday to allow the prisoner to sum
mon witnesses in his behalf from Della
ware City.
John ]. Cronln, soldier, who wa
found in a sewer at Chestnut an'
Monroe streets on Saturday night b.
Officer White, was fined 81 and cost
for drunkenness.