New-York tribune., 1910-06-06
ROWD|ES GET THEIR Due
MauIed by Passengers, Fined
Heavily by Magistrates.
GIRL OF 19 A. PRISONER
Limit of the Law Promised TO
''Undesirabl BILE Citizens" Brought
Before Brooklyn Court.


Manhattan and Brooklyn police courts
handled many cases of rowdyism yesterday
as the results of arrests on car hhes
throughout the greater city. In almost
every case the magistrates dealing out SEN
ltences dealt sterniy with the Offenders,
most of whom were young men between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. one
girl Of nineteen was among those who were
arrested for creating disorder on cars II
was plain from the attitude of the magts-
trates that hereafter an cases of rowdyisrn
will be dealt with severely
The most fragrant cases brought 10 the
attention of the courts yesterday were
those OF Henry J. Struch, of No. f8 West
4eth street, and Carl s. Chase, OF Auburn,
n. Y. both of whom said they were stenog-
raphers employed in the immigration Bu-
reau at Ellis Island. Magistrate Krotel, I'm
the night court levied f1ne OF $40 each,
with q. warning.
According to the story told by James
Lumia, of No. III Sullivan street. he. his
wife Grace. and his rfsother, Mrs. Annie
Lumia. boarded a Sixth avenue elevated
train at South Ferry last night, and had
not been seated long when Struch and
Chase entered the car and took seats next
to them Soon after the train pulled out OF
the station, according TO Lumia, Struch
sat down on the younger Mrs. Lun1ia's lap-
The action was so evidently Intentional
that Lumia demonstrated with Struch,
whereupon the latter swore at him.
Before the other passengers in the car
knew what was happening Lunnia and the
two stenographers were rolling In heap
on the floor of. The car, while the women
l-,f
came to the assistance OF Lunia, and by
the time the train reached Battery Place
the two offenders were buried under a
dozen angry men.
The guard of the car, seeing that there
might be serious outcome to the fight,
signaned to the motor1nan TO blow his
whistle for the police. This brought Pa
trolmen McCauley and Fitzgerald, of the
Fulton street station, to the train on the
run, and they piled into the car and be
gan to pull the passengers from Struch
and Chase The passengers were unanl-
nous in saying that the stenographers
were responsible for the outbreak, and the
two men were then arrested and taken to
the Night Court, where Lumia preferred
charge of disorderly conduct against
them. Both prisoners paid their fines from
Detectives Arrest Girl
Among the prisoners arrsigned before
Magistrate Steinert in the Morrlsania
court yesterday morning was a girl VINO
gave her name as Violet Bennett. of No.
443O Park avenue, The Bronx. She was
arrested while in q southbound Westches-
ter avenue car with three young men re-
turning from C1ason Point.
The girl and her escorts began 10 make
a disturbance in the car by annoying the
other passengers, and were finally arrest
ed by Detectives Buckley, Weldon and
Boran, of the Morrisania station. In court
the three men gave their names as Samuel
Goodnough of No. S12 Westchester ave
rue; Harold Conger, Of No. 1887 Holland
Place and James Cooney, of No. 2266
Bathgate avenue. They were each fined 30
after being reprimanded.
Magistrate OReilly in the Manhattan
avenue police court, Brooklyn, announced
his intention to do all in his power to
stamp out rowdyism in the cars of that
borough. Like rank weeds rowdyism
mer season." said the magistrate, in hold
street, williamsburg, and Samuel GnfeId,
of No. "a East Broadway, Manhattan, in
$500 bail for disorderly conduct
Vogel and Gilfeld were arrested Cor Great
ing a disturbance on cars of the LOrimeT
street line and the Broadway elevated road.
II want to warn this class of undesirable
citizens that If brought before me on
| charges of tf1s character 1 will give them
the full limit of the law IL found guilty,
said Magistrate O'ReilIy.