The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-07-06
WOMAN VICTIM
OF A ROBBERY
Unusual Story Develops as a
Result of CarOusal.
BOYS UNDER BOND
Hungarian Man and His Wife
Claim They Were Badly Treat
ed at Bridgeport and the
Woman Finally Robbed of $35
Which She Carried.

"oui HloiIy NOOUCu VI spOO
Which She Carried.
Claiming that their ignorance of the
English language had been taken ad-
vantage of, that they had been robbed
and otherwise mistreated, Greyor
Leskrie and wife, Hungarians, who
had come 10 this section for the pur-
pose of working at Crestmont, accused
Homer and Troy Brooks of Bridgeport
of the offense and as a result the two
boys are being held under bond for
their appearance at court.
During the course of the prelimery
examination which was held here
Friday before Esquire O'Neil, it was
revealed that Saturday, June 24th
had seen carousal about the depot
at Bridgeport, that quart of whiskey
had been consumed and that three of
the five boys in the room where the
foreigners were awaiting the arrival of
a train, had guns, and that the man
had been compelled to play an accord
ion for hours while the woman had
suffered indignities, during which
time she claims that her pocket book
containing $35 was stolen from her
stocking. -
The story of the plight of the Hun
garians as brought out is as follows.
They sold their household goods in
New York for $50. Joined the immi-
grafton agent who was gathering en-
ployes for the Champion Lumber COM
pany and came South. Before leaving
New York they deposited $40 of their
money in bank. The woman carried
$35 of the remaining money in her
stocking, tied around her leg In q
handkerchief, while the husband had
the balance. They did not like the
work at Crestmont and so set out to
walk part of the way over the noun
tains and last Saturday about dark
came into Bridgeport. They sat
around the depot for some little time
when Troy Brooks, Homer Brooks and
Will Blanchard arrived. A little later
w. z. Strange an operator came on
the scene, as he was to releave Brown,
the operator then on duty at midnight.
The foreigners carried an accordion.
The boys began drinking, giving drink
to the old man. who says that he spit
it out. The woman refused to drink
at first but finally took drink. They
madel Leskrie play his musical in
strument and the boys had great
time dancing around, Troy Brooks In
the meantime taking seat besides the
old lady, putting his arm around her
shoulders. She tried to push him away
but could not The man became tired
playing and Homer Brooks, with
revolver in hand urged him to keep on
and he played from about s o'clock to
about 11:30. Brown the operator had
revolver as did Blanchard and this
thing CO ntinued until the couple left
the room, going out onto the platform.
The boys followed them, and finally
left. The man claimed that one OF the
boys pointed his revolver at him and
asked tor money, but he only had
nickel as he had bought tickets to
Asheville and the boy would not take
that small amount. The woman did
not discover her loss until some two
hours afterwards when she found that
her stocking was down and handker-
chief, pocketbook and all were missing.
She made a search for it, but it was
not to be found. They went to Ashe-
willie, and not being able to talk Eng
lish hnng around town for three days,
doing without food, and finally jew
manaoed tn learn mart of their story