The sun., 1898-02-16
THE TRACT BUILDING ROW.
FOUR oHlRe rs OF ASSAULT MADE
lGlINBT r. b. l.. EIKER.

paia 60 NAVE Punchea n MAN In the u. Paul
BuiIdins Befero No Assailea W. \. skinner
nsd Mr.. skinaer's Typewriter ssa Aaver-
| tisenent soiicitsr-Outcoae or n 1ibei suit.
Thaddeus B. L. Eiker was arraiened in Cen.
tire Street Court yesterday on four separate
charges Of assault. The complainants against
him were William e. Skinner. manager of the
| Womdn's World and other publications owned
| by Charles e. Ellis; his typewriter, Miss Viola
Ray; his advertisement solicitor, John 8. Gray,
and Edward u. birmingham, editor of the
Fourth Estate.
Tho assault on birmingham, It 10 said, oc-
CURED on Monday afternoon in his office in the
st. Paul building while the three other fights
came of in SINNERS office on tho twentieth
floor Of tho American Tract Society building
in the carly evening.
Eiker, with u. L. Hill, publishes the National
Advertiser, which has Its offices in Temple
Court. On Fob. this paper printed attack
on Ellis declaring that the missing lottor con-
tests Ellis was conducting to boom his circula-
tion Of his publications wcro not conducted
honestly. As q result Ellis had both Eiker and
Hill arrested on a,charge of.criminal libel, and
the hearing IN now pending in Centre Street
Court. Thissoaused strained relations between
the two firms.
A week ago postal card was rent to the
various trade papers on which was printed an
offer for q reward for iroof Of crooked work"
on the part Of four largo firms that buy largo
advertising space. This postal was signed
Tho National Advertiser" Elker and Hill
promptly disavowed its authorship and offered
q reward Of 5000 for information that would
lead to tho detection Of the person who had ad-
dressed the card. IL was over this card that
Eiker had his fight with Birmingham.
Eikers employ, that he believed Eiker wrote
tho postal, and that he thought Eiker was
hs h'R 2tsr wsns to- oes
snd an r9l2Ey h h re-
$ on his oo9Ses
and then ran out of the Office
Ray when called to testify g to her
Marks We're t6sro. Eifer waifed 1a up to skin: %
was wa Jew. She said that Skinner GG' REPLIED that
he had not knGwRthst nth! EikeT had wife
Mr.. Skinner a lot Of names and swore wore at him
e klll you, Il the National zdSsrtissr can't
with that he knocked Mr.. skinner who was
seated in q chair on the head twice, and Mr..
between some books. 50 that he couldn't get
out, I ordered Mr.. Eiker to leave the office,
saa %S sa have @ tes .snsnr 5
desk. and that supported me-, The blow
Se spd 5n
times, after which he ran out OF the office"
Mr.. Skinner told the Same story when called
Eiker on Boetman street at 5so in the afternoon oe
and that Eiker at that time threatened to kill
ibid you tell Mr.. Botthof." asked Eiker's
lawyer. that You considered 1t funny that both
Eiker and his wife had black hair, but that they
had number of tow-headed children running
y never did" replied Skinner.
the story told by Mics Ray and Skinner. He
declared that he had sat still in his chair
through all the fraces, and that Eiker had de.
lbereteiy knocked him of his chair without
did you attempt to strike Eiker with your
umSrellSr aSe a. asked the lawyer.
Didn't you interfere when he struck the wo.
well. l just said. You ought not to hit
woman, and then he hit me-"
Eiker. In his own defence, said that he had
had made to .Botthof about the tow.headed
children. c rem He denied that m he had hit Miss Ray.
punching me In the stomach with his umbrella.
turned toward him and he gave q yell and fell
never touched him. He has been waiting
for many years to be assaulted, SO he could bring
Eiker also denied that he had soen Skinner on
Beekman street earlier in the afternoon.
Ernest G. Frederick. who said he was Eiker's
Eiker to SINNERS office. He swore that Eiker
did not strike Miss Ray or Gray. ,oo
os 81 hs In
proprietor of the Real Estate Record, VINO had
testified to poor purpose in Eikers behalf.
THE Sun in It's account Of. the row in tho
American Tract Society building, published
Ing connected with the Ladies' World. 8. II.
Moore & Co. publishers Of the Ladies' World.
have written to THE Sun to announce that
but that he is connected with paper of sfmi-