Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1903-02-28

Another Of the non-union trolleymen
was arrested this forenoon by Officer
Brickel ON a warrant charging him with
breach of the peace. The man gave
Ehis name as Lazarus Loria and his
occupation motorman. This morning
Loria was engaged on an East Main
street car. He is said to have been
looking for trouble for some time, dar-
| ing everybody to all kinds of things.
This morning he called Joseph Derwin,
a driver of union bus on East Main
street pretty tough name, and taking
up a switch stick or bar of iron, it Is
not known which, he dared Derwin to
| say ''boo' to him. Derwin instead of
saying "boo" lodged complaint against
him and a warrant was issued. Officer
Brickel saw the man on a Waterville
car at II 40 on the green and proceed
ed to take him into custody. This
would leave the car without a motor
man. Any occurrence in which a troll
leyman appears nowadays attracts
throng, and this instance was not an
exception. AS if by magic a crowd
had collected In minute. If the
power of the warrant was enforced the
few passengers on the car would be
greatly delayed bcause there would
]
to their destination and the crowd was
growing every minute. Detective
I Dodds was. consulted about the matter
and it was decided that the officer
should accompany his prisoner to Wa
terville and back. The plan was car
ried out and on the return trip Laz-
arus was taken to the police station
accompanied by Boss Farley. The lat
! thnJ h4 he 4> fJo u,
tender $100 bill for a bond. He had
Equite wad with him, too, but it did
not go. Chief Egan Informed him that
the police station deals In real estate
bonds only Later, however, Lazarus
torney Meigs.
Mrs G., G. Gary of Naugatuck came
ITO Waterbury this afternoon for the
purpose of entering complaint against
a conductor on one of the trolley cars,
whom she claimed insu1ted her day be-
fore yesterday. The man was on car
us the day the incident occurred, but
she saw him on car % to-day The
woman found Mr. SeWell in Exchange
place and stated her case. NJ. Sew
ell requested her to reduce her charge
to writing and send it to the company's s
loffice and he would consider it. The
answer did not please Mrs Gary. who
i took Mr. Sewell's hasty reply to heart
and talked freely about him to cou-
pie OF reporters. She said she is a
so1therner, every inch, ard considered
Mr. Sewell's treatment of her nothing
short of insulting. She said the mo-
torman: threw kisses at her and in 9th
er ways showed chat he is no gentle
man. She entered a complaint against
him in Naugatuck, but the officers
there were not able to locate the right
man. Asked If she intended to take
further action. she declared that sila
was not going to let it stop At that bit
said that she had made up her mind to
have somebody else state her case next
. time. She appeared to be bright wo
man. with lots Of force Of character
and it is quite probable that if the con
ductor knew the character of the per
: son he sought to fiirt with he woulG
have reserved his kisses for somebody
who might have been more willing te
accept them. While the lady was
talking to Mr. Sewell small explosion
occurred in one of the cars and al
; though Mr. Sewell and all the men folks
/ in the group jumped out Of the way
: and looked scared, the shock did no
b lphase the woman in the least
Another gang of non-union trolley
: men left town to-day. They claimed
to have been deceived into coming
here by statements that there was n,
, strike or any trouble with the EN-
: pIoyes Of the company. Between tn,
: arrivals and departures Of the past few
days it is said the company is shor
fourteen men.