New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-07
SAM" PARKS GUILTY.
CONVICTED OF ASSAULT.
Sentence Deferred Week-Says
He WI Pull Many Jobs

Sam" Parks the walking delegate OF the
Housesmths and Bridgemens Union, who as
sauted Peter O'NeiI one of the members, was
found guilty of assault in the third degree by
the justices of the Court of Special Sessions
yesterday afternoon. He was released on the
original police court bail until next Thursday,
when District Attorney Jerome announced,
motion will be made either to pass sentence or
to further adjourn the sentence until the felony
charges against Parks for eXtortion have been
heard.
Timothy Mccarthy also walking delegate
Of the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union,
tried jointly with Parks, was acquitted after an
examination lasting less than a minute. Nc
Carthy was the first witness for the defence in
the Parks case. He was a structural ironwork-
er had known Parks six years, and was in the
saloon of Bernard Lynch, at Third-ave. and
Fifty -ninth-st on July II. about $50 p. m, ac-
companied by Henry Farley ex-Magistrate
Brann, Parks and another man. whose name he
did not mention. They sat in the back room.
he said until sounds Of scuff1ing were. heard in
the barroom. Parks entered the barroom first
followed by the witness and then Magistrate
Brann. Farley did not come in until later. The
witness said he first saw Parks sitting on the
floor, having been knocked down, and Lynch,
the proprietor picked him up Mccarthy
grabbed a man named Monaghan, he said as he
believed Monaghan had struck Parks. He said
he did not see Parks strike any one, nor did he
see any one strike Parks.
On cross examination by District Attorney
Jerome Mccarthy said he knew Peter O'Neu.
Did you know him prior to July 17?"
NO. I have learned of him since"
AN INDICTED WITNESS.
Bernard Lynch. the saloonkeeper, testified to
having seen Parks knocked down and to having
picked him up. He said he Gid not see Parks
strike O'NeiI. Asked by the District Attorney
if Parks was under the influence of liquor, he
said he did not think so.
You are under indictment for perjury re-
marked the District Attorney. "and you had
better tell the truth. Did it look as if some
thing had affected Parks?'
Yes. it looked that way" was the answer.
James Mclaughlin an ironworker, living at
Highbridge, testified that he was drinking at the
bar with a friend, and saw Parks fall to the
floor and saw Monaghan drawing back, as if ne
had hit Parks. Mclaughlin swore he heard
Monaghan say, IN kill him.
Mr. Jerome then summed up his case. He
contended that none of the witnesses for the
defence had seen the critical case of assault
made by Parks and had merely seen the after
affair, when Parks was knocked down. This, he
held. did not affect the peoples case. Justices
some time, and Presiding Justice Mayer an
nounced:
VERDICT OF GUILTY.
We find the defendant guilty.
He got no further, as the District Attorney in
terrupted him, saying:
II this is a case of a barroom Hght. in which the
defendant aroused to heat OF passion py
human that the District Attorney ask that the
sentence be as light possible under the rulings
O. this court: but the contrary, we can snow
that case is of premeditatiOn. or one super
induced by differences Of opinion in labor circles
and that the complainant In this case was ma
Hciously attacked, then it devOlves the District
Attorney to ask that sentence be the usual one IN
cases OF this kind. l would ask tho case 10 be
adjourned until next Thursday and the Defendant
continued in the present bail, and in the mean
time Judge Rrdnn and myself Will confer as 10 the
# this case will affect the of felony against
the defendant in the Court of General sessions; L
shall ask further adjournment until the cthciu-
sion OF those cases II | find that the assault wa;
unwarranted l snail ask that sentence ue 4hlPOSeu
next Thursday.
The case against Mccarthy was then called
The examination took less than minute. and
no evidence was shown to convict him. and he
was acquitted. Parks talking to the reporters
later, said:
viii pull out every job in the United States be
fore ! am through. | heartily in favor OF
artitra tiun form that Is agreeable 10 the
Iaboring class. We have arbitra tton plan with
the Iron League That is a plan they themselves
saw 1T To violate. and going TO nSnt tnem
10 the last. The HouSesmiths and BTidg 5
Union and the Structural Ironworkers' Union are
two of the strongest in the United States. and we
axe ready stay out anywhere from year 10
five years.