Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-22
WIDOWS BEAUTY
MARREO BY FISTS
OF CONTRACTOR
Mrs. Mary Palmer Bested in
Fierce Encounter With
Otto Melcopy.
ASKS COURT FOR WARRANT
FOR ARREST OF ASSAILANT
Trouble Starts in Broad Street
Office When Furniture Col
lectOr Calls for Money. u

Mrs. mary Falmer, handsome
widow of 80, whose heavy veil but
partly concealed two discolored eyes
Justice of the Peace Bosset and asked
him to do all in his power to intercept
Otto A. Melcopy. treasurer Of the
Trinity Construction Company, with
Il ofiices at 500 Broad street and hand
some home at Central avenue and
4 Valley road. West Orange.
4 She says that he is responsible for
her discolored eyes and her other in
juries Incidentally there was revealed
a string of exciting events which came
in rapid succession in the Globe build
ing, where Melcopy has his offices. In
cidentally. also, the offices of the
Trinity Construction Company are
closed today.
AS result of much excitement yes
terday afternool4. in which stenogra-
4 there are two warrants out for Melcopy.
4 One was sworn out by the fair widow
Sand the other by Frederick Mccarthy,
! collector for furniture house. From
The tales that were unfolded to Justice
Bosset, Melcopy's offices must have
been in a state of siege the greater
part of yesterday afternoon.
Mccarthy was the first to feel the
Weight of Melcopy's wrath. He called
al the office, he told Justice Bosset, to
collect a bill for furniture which was
delivered at flat at 115 Ridge street,
which had been occupied by Mrs.
Palmer. 1t Is said that when ne asked
Mrs. Palmer to pay for the furniture
she referred him to Melcopy. Melcopy
ragged when the collector came to his
Office with the demand for the money
III was Stand, it is charged. kicked
NIcfsrthy- from the building. The kick
ing Incident and the row caused stir
in the building, it Is said, bat 1t WASN'T t
a-circumstaifce to what was to come
About half an -Four after the rout OF
( the collector Mrs. Palmer-she says
today she didn't know at that time OF
the fate of the bill collector--with Miss
Lena Bode. her ''lady friend of Ii
Centre street, trooped up to Melcopy'
Office. Then things began. to sizzle.
Stenographers and clerks ran from
their offices, and they heard the
screams of a woman-it was the fair
widow--pleading Don't kill me. Otto
There was the noise of chairs being
knocked oyer and windows being
smashed Then, tied almost in Cor
dian knot, there tumbled out into the
corridor Melcopy, his husky office boy,
and the two women The women
punched, scratched and bit, while Mel
copy and his Office boy let fly we'll
rtC or, tors q n al
''loop-the loop" blows
1t was an uneven battle. The women
were getting the worst of it. The cor
ridor floor was strewn with hairpins,
hatpins and millinery. The women were
soon a sight Women stenographers
went to the aid of their sex, while law
clerks and staid business men, trying
to act as peacemakers, made matters
worse. 1t was only when three police
men from Broad street came in that
anything like order was restored.
Melcopy and his office boy soon got
out of the way and the women. went to
drug store to have their battered
faces patched up. Then the crowd
melted away and the Globe building
was normal once more. 1t was then
Z that Mrs. Palmer went to Justice of the
Peace Bosset's Office and caused a war
rant for actrocious assault and battery
to be issued.
II never thought Otto would act the
way he did yesterday said Mrs. Palm
er today 1--WE always have been such
good friends. We have been away on
many trips together to Albany and
philadelphia. He has been very kind
to me. On our last trip to Phlladel-
pfia he came home ahead of me, and
when I got back / found that he had
placed the furniture of my. fiat in q
Belleville avenue storehouse. I called
him up yesterday and asked him what
he meant. He said he would meet me
at the Hotel Broad. told him I would
meet him in his Office.
"As soon as I got in the Office he
started in to beat me. He knocked me
down and kicked me and drew re-
yolyer. never knew him to act that
way before. He must be crazy.
aBut intend to prosecute him to the
extent of the law" the widow conclud-
ed as she placed her hand up to her
badly bruised face.