Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-13
FIST BLOW FOR JUDGE
Holy Roller Resents Being Call
ed mo Man."
COURT KNOCKS HIM DOWN
Then Bishop" Robinson Says
Judge Tried to Kiss Me-
H1GGINBOTHAM HOLDS BOTH
Woman for Contempt of Court and
Man for Assault-Angered
by Happenings.
HIGGINBOTHAM HOLDS BOTH

NEW YORK. August 13-Two Holy
Rollers made earnest efforts TO fiatten
out Magistrate H.gginbotham in the Bed
ford avenue police court, williamsburg
yesterday.
Miss Elizabeth Robinson. assistant
pastor of the sect whose Church of the
First Assembly of Christ the police
ralded July 81 last. accused the learned
magistrate of trying to kiss her while he
was questioning her in his private ROOM
At this accusation Mr. Higgnbotham ac-
tually wept.
What! kiss you.'' he gasped
Having disposed of Miss Robinson. the
magistrate. after the session, was going
TO his waiting automobile Howard Dun
WILDLY. one of the peculiar sect asked to
speak to him privately.
You can't talk to me- because I want
nothing to do with you said the masis-
trate holly. You know what 1 think of
all you people. l think you are no man.
DO you mean that?" shouted Dun
WILDLY.
You're no man and you know it," re-
turned the magistrate.
Rolls on Floor.
'Biff,' Dunwiddy struck the maeis-
trate on the neck. Mr. Higginbotham
countered on the face. and the Holy
Roller rolled on the floor. The magistrate
called the court officers. who grabbed
Dunwiddy. Returning to the courtroom
the magistrate caused Dunwiddy to be
arraigned on a charge of assault. Dun
WILDLY calmly pleaded mot guilty. but
the magistrate held him in s15OO ball.
which was furnished by Miss Robnson's
mother with whom she lives at No. 179
| Pulaski street.
When Police Capt. Hughes of the Yer
non avenue station raided the Holy Roll
ers meeting place. Tompkins and Will
1Oughby avenues he arrested twenty
seven women and six men. In court next
morning four were held-Miss Robinson,
Miss Isabelle Clarke of No. 2M Hewes
street. H. D. Durham and David Wecker-
stein.
The chief witness against the Holy
Rollers yesterday was the Rev. Malachi
Gabriel. a Kurdish priest. who said he had
felt an impulse to join the Rollers, but
after attending some of their ceremonies
his eyes had been opened wide.
Tells of Antics.
He described the rite the Holy Rollers
performed in the effort to chase away
the dragon of evil" Gabriel, blowing his
own horn, so to speak, said he was deeply
Disguised by the antics of Miss Edith
Rimpo of No. $50 Pulaski street, who in
chasing the dragon fell into religious
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Miss Robinson and other Holy Rollers
stoutly denied the statements of Gabriel
and of the policeman Before giving de-
cision the magistrate took an hours re-
cess, and told Capt. Hughes to bring the
Rollers singly to his room, so that he
might further question them
| After visiting the room Miss Robinson,
| seemingly much agitated. whispered to
her associates that Mr. Higginbotham had
tried to kiss her. The alarming rumor
spread and quickly came to the magis-
trates ears. He angrily called Miss Rob-
insOn to the bar.
Sticks to Story.
Yes" she said. II have told my friends
you tried to kiss me. and It is true"
The magistrates face grew livid with
rage. He shouted some short and ugly
words Capt. Hughes and two newspaper
men who had heard the magistrate inter-
rOgate Miss Robinson in his room testified
that he had not made the most distant
| approach to try to kiss her. The magis-
| trate then held Miss Robinson in 81. 800 on
the charge of criminal contempt of court
| and in the same amount on the charge of
keeping disorderly resort Her mother
bailed her.
| Mr.. Higginbotham reserved until August
30 his decision as to the three other pris-
Oners. He lectured Miss Ethel Rimpo, but
| finally bade her go home with her brother
Then, pretty soon, he encountered Dun
WILDLY.