Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-08-05
SENATOR Si6N
WAS JUSTIFIED.
The. MlssOurian Did Right In As
sauIting the Negro.
THE CHARGE WAS DISMISSED
The Judge eald the ProvocatIon Was
Such That He Was Absolutely
justified Ii Striking
Brown.

W1AGuAUEos JUDY eusOoSA4IAub IhN
under the circumstances assault wa
justtaable, Police Magistrate Eugene
| Grammar. Of the central district dis
missed the charge against Senator
William ]. Stone Of Missouri. Of hav
Ing assaulted Lawrence @. Brown,
waiter on the Pennsylvania railroad
train.
Justice Grammar said:
Senator Stone, I have travelled q
great deal in my time. l can fully ap-
preciate the treatment that you re-
celved at the hand of Brown, who It
has been. shown was discourteOus In
the extreme. l feel that you had
sufficient provocation and that you
were absolutely justified in reprlmand-
Tag and striking Brown. dismiss
you"
The crowd applauded until the mag
istrate raped sharply for order
Senator Stone was surrounded by
congratulating friends among them be-
ing Murray Vandiver, the treasurer OF
Maryland and others prominent poIiti-
cally here.
The case which brought to the bar
of the central station perhaps its
most distinguished prisoner, grew out
Of an incident of the trip Of Senator
Stone from Philadelphia to Washing
ton and which was interrupted at
Union station this city when police
man of the Pennsylvania railroad en-
tered his car, and placing Rim under
arrest, sent him to the station house
in the patrol wagon accompanied by
Brown, who charged the senator with
having assaulted him.
Senator Stone and his counsel took
their places In the ordinary prisoners
dock when the case was called.
At this point an attorney for the
Pennsylvania railroad and the Pull
man company requested that the case
DO dismissed, saying that neither of |
he companies he represented desired |
% press the charge. Brown being the
was asked by the magis-
Itrate whether he desired to prosecute
he case and he replied:
Il do. insist upon his being tried"
Senator Stone took deep interest
n the proceedings as, one after an
,ther Of the witnesses gave their testi-
nony James Owens, coloreds the
'ook on the buffet car, said there was
ome trouble over the serving u an
rider to the senator and that he heard |.
he latter threaten to shoot and. kill |
he ''black dog" as Owens expressed
!. He added that Brown had deliver
d the food intended for the senator
0 some one else by mistaken |
Brown testified that Senator Stone
sed very abusive language to him in
with the order saying II
as shocked at what he said, deed
as. Then he struck me right In my
l0uth."
He then asked Senator Stone to give
Is version of the affair. The senator
Md he had given Brown an order for
lme luncheon and also for 4 drink Z.
The latter was not brought as he
I'd requested and he sent Brown back
correct his mistake. Still the order !
as not properly filled and Brown
hen reprimanded, was impudent. The '
majors order for luncheon, he said, |
, found on investigation waited in I
o kitchen after all the other guests
I'd been served and had finished eat s
6. THE fellow put in an appear. d
lce." said the senator, "and uttered t
marks calculated to make him sit {
! and take notice. was angry at h
Ding made to wait so long and when c
reprlmanded the waiter he told me 4
wait my turn and then would be
rived. l saw the food was cooked h
d getting cold. You black dog / Z
Id You are trying to show your re, "
ntment.' Then l reached over and n
'pped him In the face
Following the testimony Of Senator
one, Magistrate Grammar delivered
, decision quoted above. "a