The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-10
WITNESS HELD FOR FIVE DAYS.
DELAYS OVER A TRIVIAL CASE
VEN 4 PHILADELPHIAN.
He Volunteered to Testify. but wished 10
Return Home to Attend TO Business
when Hearing Was POstpOned-Sent
TO the House Of Detention Instead.

After being held in this city for five days
against his will and through no fault OF
his own, Hurst Bousohl Of Philadelphia
recovered yesterday from the City Cham
berlain $lOO, which he had put up as cash
bail to get out OF the House of Detention,
and returned to his home.
He was at first a voluntary witness and
afterward witness in spite OF himself
in trivial case which has been pending
before Magistrate Pool in the Jefferson
Market police court since Monday morn
ing. Bousohl said yesterday that he
wouldn't volunteer again as witness
until he had found out what sort OF Magis-
trate was going to hear the case.
The Philadelphia man was riding up
Broadway last Sunday night in street
car when young woman got aboard and
sat near him. A second or 80 later an ex-
cited young man jumped aboard the car
and spoke to the woman. She hit MIN
in the face There was q lot OF excite
ment among the passengers and Police
man Bourg Of the Tenderloin station ar
rested the woman, who said she was Nellie
Burke of l15 West Thirty fifth street. The
man she had slapped said that he was
Alfred Sellinger of 40 East Thirtieth street,
a wrong address He accused the woman
Of stealing 81 from him on the street just
before she got on the car. Robbery was
the principal comp amt and the punching
episode was only incidental.
Mr.. Bousohl knew nothing about the
ale Qed robbery and had never before
seen Sellinger or the Burke woman, but
on the impulse Of the moment he volunteered
to tell what had happened on the car When
the case was called in the Jefferson Market
police court the next morning Magistrate
| Pool adjourned it for two days at the re-
quest of the woman.
| Bousohl said that it would be impossible
for him to attend, as his business made 1t
necessary for him to return to Philadelphia
on Monday night
Il guess you'll be here, said the Magls-
trate, smiling at the joke he was about TO
play on the witness "I'll send you to the
House Of Detention to make sure OF your
presence here on Wednesday,"
! Then the astonished Philadelphian was
taken by policeman to the House OF De-
tention, where he was locked up for two
hours. He learned that by depositing
800 in cash he would be released, 50 ne put
up his bail.
| On Wednesday Magistrate Pool ad-
| journed the case again. because he wasn't
able to handle all of the court bushes IS
for the day. Bcusohl again said that he
ought to return to Philadelphia, but got
no satisfaction. In the meantime Sell
| linger had changed his address and said that
he lived at 1870 East Fortythird street.
He is not known there.
| The case was called for the third time on
| Thursday. The woman was in court and
| 20 was Bousohl, but the complainant failed
to appear. Magistrate Pool adjourned the
| case again until yesterday, and told Bcusohl
that be must surely appear He did, and
so did the woman, but the complainant
was again absent
The Burke woman denied that she had
robbed SellinRer. She said that she hit
| him because he insuted her. Magistrate
| Pool dismissed the complaint against her
| Bcusohl said it had cost him more than
| 800 TO be detained here, but that he didn t
want to get into trouble by jumping his
| bail