Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-05
POLICE COURT DoTNGs.

Tn the city court to-day John Elan. agan, the democratic registrar of yot- CTS, was charged. with assaulting Jo- seph Downes in the Arlington hotel Thanksgiving evening. Downes though having lived here practically all his life, has recently become better identi- fled as the man who caused the strike in the buff room in the clock factory. Downes's story of the assault is as follows
 With his son, Joseph, he went to the Arlington hotel Thanksgiving to see Mir Bagley, one of the proprietors about a little matter of business in connection with the strike mentioned. 1t was then about 11:30. He saw Flanagan and he said to him .'hello.v Flanagan made use of an expression which Downes feared would shock the court, but Judge Burpee said there was no fear of that, whereupon Downes stated the words used Be- sides that, Flanagan advised him to go to certain very warm place which well known statesman once said was the Headquarters of the republican party. Downes asked Flanagan what he meant by the expression and scarcely had he finished when Flana- gan struck him on the face with q pool cue. knocking me dead on the floor" said Downes. He got my thumb in his mouth and that was all he saw or heard or felt for some mfn- utes. When he came to he saw his son and Flanagan fighting. He could not say if the cue was broken by the force of the blow, because he was s'dead on the f1oor.'' His son was covered With blood. Downes said he ought to know Flanagan very well be- cause he chased him out of business fin Waterbury.
 Attorney Lynch, who defended Flanagan, cross-examined Downes in great detail. He said that although Downes claimed he had no hard feeling against Flanagan, he had reason to know there was bad feeling there. MT Lynch got him to admit that he had been drinking After the salutation between Flanagan and Downes, the former passed into the pool room of the hotel and the latter followed him for an explanation of his remark. What did you do when you got to the pool table where Flanagan wasp asked Mir Lynch, and Downes said he did nothing but fell dead. F He denied calling Flanagan out of his name, or saying to him You - you'll eat snowballs before this win ter is over. or that he told anyone that he would kick Flanagan into rib bonS.
 Joseph Downes, Jr. corroborated h's fathers story and said further that Flanagan hit him with what was left of the broken cue. Downes fell and t1a I0d Ea VIs,x, 1-nsg Hennessey then went for Downes and hit him on the nose. He denied say ing, Father, if Flanagan said that to me, I'd sail into him. or that he spur red on his father to assault Flanagan He denied throwing a pool ball al Flanagan as the latter was washing himself but he would not be surprised if he had thrown a ball. He was sso bunged up that he was unable to leave the house until yesterday. and he ruined his overcoat with blood. He denied striking Flanagan in the eye while Flanagan and Downes, ST were at it.
 .Flanagan's story was to the effect that when Downes saluted him he re- piled, T don't want you to talk to me, and you'd do me favor by not talk ing to me, for you're no good" and Downes replied, "So you're sore, too?'' Then he began to play pool and Downes began to talk to him and then he grabbed the pool cue and in the tussle 1t broke. Flanagan was struck in the, right eye and blows fell upon him in every direction and he did the best he could to protect himself. Some one kicked him in the groin and he fell to the floor with young Downes. When he got up blood was flowing from his nose and ears and he went to the sink to wash up. There was. a small mirror over the sink and few minutes after he got. there a pool ball broke the mirror and some one called out, Lookout, Jack.' Flanagan duck ed his head and the glass of the br0k- en mirror fell on the floor and the ball dropped into thessink. A moment after another ball was thrown in the same direction.
 When Flanagan looked around he saw the elder Downes with another cue In his hands. Flanagan was con fined to his house three days. This story was substantiated by Frank Burns, night clerk in the hotel. Thorn as Nelligan, witness for the state, also gave favorable evidence for Flan- agan He saw young Downes throw the pool ball at him, and heard him tell Downes that he would favor him by not speaking to him. Sentence was suspended.
 Daniel Ki1loughey was before Judge Burpee in the city court to-day charg- ed with intoxicaton. He was fined s2o and costs on account of his bad record.
 Edward Meehan, an employe of the Consolidated railroad in the local yards, was charged with breach of the peace. He was discharged few weeks ago and apparently has been drinking since. He was prowling about the yards and offices last night looking for someone who knew some thing, and he abused Yardmaster Har- " Bunce He was fined $10 and costs.
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