The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-17
ALL SENT TO JAIL
THREE MEN WHO POUNDED
STATE TROOPERS AT LAKE
LODORE HELD WITHOUT BAIL
TO AWAIT OCTOBER TERM OF
COURT-SMITH AND GOULD
GET HARD WHACKS.

COURT-SMITH AND GOULD
GET HARD WHACKS.
1T was a rough and tumble fight
for a few minutes, Squire, and IL
the Junior Mechanics hadn't come
just in time the chances are that
somebody might have been killed.
said Sergeant Herbert Smith of the
state police to Justice Robert A.
Smith in the course of his evidence
when. Friday morning at 10, he
appeared against the three Lithuan-
ians-Powel, Adamitis and Spudis
who were before the court for
beating up State Trooper Charles
Gould as we'll as the sergeant him
self.
Fifty or 60 men-all the little
place would hold-jammed into the
office of Justice Smith the minute
the three prisoners were taken into
the room. A good big crowd had
followed the officers and the uni
formed Mechanics from the station
to the courthouse. Sheriff Bra
man, who had met the party at the
station, showed them the way. 1t
was exactly 10 o'clock when they
got to Justice Smiths.
Sergt. Smith made the complaint.
He charged Sam Powell with lar
ceny, for Powell was the man that
got Gould's match from the troop
er's fob. He charged George
Adamitis and Paul Spudis with as
sault and battery and disorderly con-
dnpf pnu,a1l olcn oh nit
assault and battery and disorderly
conduct.
There wasn't a soul in the room
that could speak the language of
the prisoners, and after Gould had
read the warrant to them Sergt.
Smith had a job to get them to
understand enough of the charges
to plead Powell, who seemed to
have faint glimmer of an idea of
Uncle Sans tongue, finally con-
cluded to deny, for himself and his
associates, the charge of making
big fight at Lake Lodore"
This was taken as a plea of not
guilty and Attorney r. NJ Stocker,
who was there as a newspaperman,
took it upon himself to question the
witnesses. In that way the court
and the newspapermen got the gist
of the big row at the lake that came
near putting the two state officers
out of business.
L was on duty at this Lithuanian
picnic at the lake Thursday" said
the sergeant, who got into the wit
ness chair first" and Charles Gould,
my partner from Wyoming, was with
me. At 6.45 we were standing near
the dancing pavilion when a lady
ran up and said there was a fight
among the picnickers. Gould went
to look it up. He found the men
were squabbling among themselves
and that they had knives and ra-
zors and were likely to cut each
other up. He took hold of Pow
ell, who seemed to be the aggressor
in the scrap, and started with him
toward the station, but he did not
get far, for the whole crowd jump
ed right on him and he had to fight
for his life. In the tussle Powell
grabbed hold of Gould's watch,
which was on a fob, and tore it
loose. He thought, | suppose, that
in that way he could get Gould to
let go, but Gould didn't do it. He
held on, though he got some hard
cracks over the head with a club.
by this time ] was in the fight
myself, but the crowd was ugly and
! must have been knocked down
five or six times. / saw Adamitis
hit Gould over the head with a
club and also with a stone. Adam
tits and Powell finally broke away
and ran to the station, and | chased
them. | caught Powell, but Adam.
tits got away, ran into the woods
and was not captured until IL OF
IL that night.
THE boys from the camp came
Just in time to save us. Gould and
were both OF us about all in and
if the soldiers hadn't shown vi
Just as they did / think somebody
would have been killed, for nearly
all the foreigners were armed anC
most OF them that didn't have pis
tolls had knives. There must have
been about a dozen shots fired al
together. One fellow held the bar
rel of his gun close to my face, bu
the muzzle was pointed away from
me. The powder burned my fac'
a little and I can feel that gun bar
rel yet. I did not hre MY owl
gun"
Sergt. Smith is not large man
He will weigh $50, hardly more
Gould is close to six feet tall ant
well put together. He was thu
next witness.
"At 6.45." he said. II was at thu
pavilion. talking with Smith ant
Horace Jordan of Scranton. w
were notified fight had started an'
we went over and separated tn
fighters. I showed Powell m!
badge, told him / was a state ON
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