Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-11
BOY, ASHAMED OF DEBT.
STAYS w FROM SCHOOL
Stanislaw Niemaszek, Who Was
Jailed for Non=payment of
Damages, Remains Home.
LIABILITIES ARE $93.93;
ASSETS ABOUT rs CENTS
Parents of Youngster Injured by
Accused Declare They
Were Justified.

Ashamed of his debts and fearing
that his sehoolmates would shun him.
| 11-year-old Stanislaw Niemaszek re-
fused to go to school today and stayed
at his home, 394 West Kinney street.
"Stanislaw will not be with you this
morning, he is too busy studying Black
stone on torts, damages and domestic
relations and looking up technicalities
on the responsibility of minors for
! debit could have been the reply to the
plaintive Inquiries of a pretty little girl
who called at the store where his
mother tends the counter. The reply
was in a foreign tongue and beyond the
ken of the reporter who was waiting
to interview the boy who was thrown
into prison on a writ of body execution
IN default of payment of a Judgment
rendered by a jury in an assault case.
Bankruptcy proceedings will be
opened by Stanislaw, who having moth
ing but the clothes or his back, as
sessed at a total value of seventy-lye
cents, will declare himself voluntarily
a bankrupt with liabilities of 1888. The
| youngster will be represented by MIR.
Minard, who interested himself in the
case when the boy first same before
the courts charged with assault.
There are two sides to the story, in
teresting legal points are involved in
the case and a twelve-year-old child is
enjoying his liberty upon bonds after
being jailed for debt. 1t all started
through a childish fracas while at play,
which developed into a fight, and
charge and counter-charges were made
of stone throwing. striking and Me
maszek, it is alleged, stabbed the other
boy, Edward Wilmansky. now living at
Il Prince street.
Mrs. Wilmansky this morning said
that her boy had been stabbed in the
side. that he had to be operated upon
twice and rliGt he had been danger
ously i'll from the effects of the wound.
Blood poisoning. she said, had set in
n he had not fully recovered from the
effects of the fitness which he suffered.
Mrs. Wilmansky says that her boy is
IA wears old. and that ne works in an
automobile garage in New York. She
claims that the Niemaszeks are able to
settle the debt; that they owned a house
and had one in the bank at the time
of the assault, when they were neigh
bors. She says the house has been sold.
Mrs. N.emaszek claims that her boy
did not use a knife and that he was
merely an 11-year-old child who threw
some thing at his asgressor. who. she
says is 16 She pleads poverty, a
that shee has no money n that the
wound inflicted upon Wilmansky vas a
scratch on his back int which his
mother rubber vinegar, causing blood
poison. She says that the wound was
caused in. Il scuffie while Wilmansky
was on the ground and that he was
scratched by &. stone thrown at him by
her son in self-defense.
All this was threshed out in the as
sault case before Il jury. and the jury
awarded damages amounting to $93.93
against Niemaszek, This amount re-
manned unpaid, and it was in default
thar the execution was secured, and the.
child thrown into the ounty jail.
While a child cannot be held responsible
for debt he is responsible for his torts,
torts being damages liable to recovery
at law.
City Counsel William A. Lord, of
orange. counsel for Edward Wilman-
sky, in a statement issued today on
his part in the case said he la strict
ly followed the law as it exists in his