New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-20
SYRIAN STORIES DIFFER.
BISHOP Makes PROTEST.
Police Matching Colony-Fear Fur
Their Outbreaks.

When Bishop Raphael Hawaweeny. head of
the Syrian Orthodox Greek Church in this coun-
try, and several of his followers. We're arraigned
in the Butler-st. court. Brooklyn, charged with
assault, yesterday morning, they told an entirely
different story about the fight between two fac
tons of the Syrian Church in Pacifc-st.
Monday night from that told by their enemies al
the time Of the arrest. According 20 the Bishops
account Of the trouble, he was returning from
the home Of sick parishioner, accompanied by
the friends who have acted as q bodyguard for
him since the bitter feeling among the Syrians
broke out, when several Syrians began to shoot
off revolvers in Pacifc-st. between Clinton and
Henry SITS. He declares that it was part of a
plan to assassinate him. He believes that If he
had not taken to his heels he would have been
killed 1t was while running that he placed
under arrest by Patrlonlan Nallin. OF the Butler
ST station.
Nallin declares. and he made a COM
plant to that effect, that Hawaweeny turned
around and snapped revolver at him three
times Although the bishop declares that he
never owned a revolver and would not know
which end Of to use. he was held two
charges Of assault, one on the complaint of
Nallin and the other for having, as alleged, had
a part in the shooting Of A D. Achkoupi. who
got bullet in the left Les. A. E. Bryan, a legal
Magistrate Voorhees, to parole the prelate. but
the request was not granted All Of the prison.
ers We're held in 81 900 bail each for a hearing
on September %. The bishop, whose dignity had
been ruffled by a most uncomfortable night in
a cell in the ButIer-st, station. furnished bail
and was released.
II should like to say" declared Mr.. Bryan,
that the humiliation of this arrest is the most
serious feature Of this case TO the bishop. He
will be able TO disprove the charges but the dis
grace Of the thing is what he suffers from most
After the prisoners had been rennanded they
held Syrian prayer meeting and sang songs
in a quaint dialect
For the last three months" said the bishop
speaking of the trouble later, Il have been at
tackled with bitterness in Syrian paper.
have been called a spy of the Russian govern
ment and been denounced as fanatic. liar and
deceiver. Feeling has been stirred UP against
me in certain circles. AS q result, have been
obliged to have friends accompany me whenever
I have had TO go out at night had no pistol
and never had. 1t would be unpriestly for me
to go armed. I am a man Of peace, and try to
Queu strife, not % provoke it
AS stated In The Tribune yesterday the story
obtained by the police on Monday night was
that Bishop Hawaweeny and his friends had
gone to the home of Nahum Markazeo, EdltoF
of "Al Hooda" a paper which has been hostile
to the bishop, and that the trouble started
there. Some suggestions were made yesterday
that some of the feeling against the blsnop was
due to the fact that wealthy syrian nef-
chant, who lives in Staten Island, believes that
the bishop advised his wife to bring proceed
ings for divorce. For many months the Va
rious Syrian newspapers have been printing I'M
pleasant stories about the members OF the Iac-
ton TO which they opposed. Physical en-
counters have not been uncommon. either.
Early Monday night as Nicolo Abrou-
samva, Manhattan merchant and an adherent
LfeIa.1v Cor hfN1
ing to Brooklyn, he was attacked by two strange
Syrians. They struck him on the head with
stick before he elUded him. This incident led to
the rUnor that two hired assassins had come 10
Brooklyn to Kill the bishop. After the fight in
which Bishop Hawaweeny figured, Patrolman
ToTmey told by woman that d man, loiter-
ing in Pacifc-st, had been seen earlier in the
evening with two men she thought were as
sassns 1t was nearly 2 o'clock and as the
stranger seemed 10 have no particular business
the policeman arrested him. In his pocket was
found long dagger, with a keen blade, In
Kelvin and was held in $500 bail on the charge
of carrying concealed weapons
The Syrian colony in Washington and Rector
SITS. is greatly ag1tated by the feud- Both sides
it was said last night, are heavily armed and
prepared for any emergency. The police guard
along lower Westinghouse was increased in
anticipation OF further trouble.
Bishop Raphael visited Police Headquarters
yesterday and asked Deputy Commissioner Nc
had been made against his life by the members
of the faction representing al Hoda~ The
deputy commissioner PROMISED the olsEop proper
protection and instructed the police TO Watcn
the enemies of Bishop Raphael
The friends Of Bishop Raphael assert that his
arrest was the result of a plot Men were es-
naciaIIy brought from AsbuTy Park and Fish
kin it was said. by his enemies TO assault his
followers. n. Maloof, one of the faction OPP
rosAd TO the bishop, arrested Monday for
essaulting one of the latter's friends He
threatened, it is alleged, that Bishop Raphael
would be arrested before midnight ana ne was
,T4be btshor's friends say that he carried no re-
IoIyer but that one supplied fox the occar
sion by his enemies. He ran away When the
dntertfyes arrived because he believed ne was
being pursued by the men who threatened MS
life. - r,-,., o,,1a r-,rc
IT was said that Bishop FIaphael WouId orlIls
.,-t+ e-aine+ the men who caused his arrest
.,cumoNn WANTS TO FEED PRESIDENT