The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-02
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DISGRACEFUL SCENE
ON A TRACTION CAR
insulting Annoyances of Drunken
Rowiies--Result of Game Fights
at Monkey Run--The Principals to
Be Punished.

The 1awless cooking mains which
ave been conducted in a flagrant man
Ter in the village of Simpson. or Mon
Ncy Run, as it Is generally known. at
frequent intervals during the past few
months was the cause Of a disgraceful
scene on traction car late Saturday
night.
\ delegation of the sports who fos-
ter and patronize these matchings Of
game birds precpitatcd fight with
the conductor of the car, who came
TO the defense of several women pas
Scngars, one of whom was subjected
TO the grossest of insults by one of
The rowdics. The scrmmagc BODIED
disaster TO the passengers and, under
fear of being waylaid and mobhed, Il
bury call was sent to the traction
company office for police assistance.
tongta blcs Moran and Neary accom-
panied Superintendent Kelly to the
scene. but the disturbers had aban-
doned the place for the cooking main
and could not be located. The princi-
pals of the affair who are from Car
hondale. are known, however. and war
rants for their arrest we're sworn out
Yesterday. 1t is expected that they will
bt readily apprehended and. if cir
cumstances favor it, the traction COM
rany officials will make an example of
the offenders in order to effectually
suppress the spirit of disorder which
these bird lighting exhibitions have
stirred up.
The disturbance of Monday night
took place shortly after the car left the
transfer point at the new bridge which
is being built at the junction of North
Church and Belmont street. Among
the passengers transferred were the
men who enacted the disgra ceful
scene. There We're probably a dozen of
them. They We're on the way to the
fight and had the fighting birds with
them in coarse feed bag. While n
number of the men We're in a noisy
mood they showed no misbehavior un-
til a number of women who were re-
turning from church services boarded
the car en- route to their homes in the
northern part of the city.
One of the party soon became rest
less and after making several futile
attempts to engage one OF the ladies
in conversa ton he took further liber-
ties with them. The screams uttered
by the young lady who was especially
the object of his insulting annoyances
seemed only to delight the offender
and before the conductor could pre-
vent him he committed an outrageous
ly indecent offenSe. The conductor. as
soon as he could reach him. grappled
With the fellow and succeeded in eject
ing him from the car. Another Of the
crowd came to the assistance of his
companion and engaged in a sharp
struggle with the conductor The con-
duCtor. who was Clarence BroWnell,
of this city. pluckily struggled with his
antagonist. and had pushed him as far
as the door when the latter managed
to free himself and half jumped and
craWled through Il window at the rear
of the car. Both men when put off
the car scampcred about for stones to
hurl at the car. at the same time keep
ing up running fire of threats en-
phasi2ed with oathS. The threats
which the men uttered. together with
their endeavors to locate stones to hurl
at the car. caused the women to be-
come panic-strickon The disturbers,
however. did not follow up their
threats and when the rest Of the party
left the car when it nearad Justice of
the Peace Nicholas Glenns hotel the
fears OF the passengers subsidized some
what. At the end of the run the crew
of the car, Conductor Browncll and
Motorman cobb. fearing that they
would he moestcd, telephoned to SUI
perintendant kelly for assistance The
sure int nd mt located Constables Nor
an and Neary, who accompanied him
10 tho end of the lines and endcaNored
to locate the men, but without sue
cess. They We're probably enGrossed in
the fight which was in progress near
Glcnns hotel.