Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-25
startled to think that he had shot

Colonel Roosevelt. Why, 1t was ut
terly unlike anything we had ever
dreamed of him. He was never an
ardent admirer of an particular candi-
date, and, so far as 1 know, he never
registered or voted. He did not talk
Socialism over here"
A visit to the Flushing avenue sa-
loon Of Havestroh & Thurman
brought out a number of the peculiar
tiles of Schrank and his inability to
stand any kind Of discipline. Thur
mann told a reporter his personal ex-
perience with Schrank.
1--WE got this man Schrank through
an advertisement He started as lunch
man at 50 a week, worked week at
that, then we made him a waiter, and
then, because he was so stupid or
clumsy to be a waiter, we made him
lunchman again. He worked for US
until about March /.
ION March l he came to me and
said he wanted his money and would
quit the job, as he was disguised
with it. He said we were knuckling
him down, and q poor man did not
have even a fair chance to earn a liv-
ing.
was apparently down and out. In
fact, he said he was all in, that he
didn't have a penny. and simply had
to go to work at anything he could
get although he was used to mental
effort rather than physical. He
tried to make US understand that he
was a person in reduced circumstan-
ces who deserved a great deal more
from this world than he had got.
IT always thought Schrank was a
weakling. OF course, I did not look
into his antecedents. You don't have
to do that for a lunchman or waiter.
But 1 figured 1t out that there must
be a crazy streak in his family some
where. We took pity on him when he
fell down on his job here and let him
stay and fed him for couple Of days
beyond his time to- quit.
But 1t got so that we just had to
turn him out. He was very abusive
finally; he said we were grinding the
lives out Of our employees. and that
kind of stuff. I wanted to hit him, but
he was such a weakling I did not
have the heart to do 1t.
After he had left US maybe two or
three days he came around one morn
ing and said to me: I want that I'll
you owe me- I did not know what he
was talking about. I said: We don't
owe you any 81 or any other money.
Get out of here
"'Oh, yes you do he said, you hir-
ed me for 50 a week and owe me ~
more for allowances, and I want that
extra weeks wages and the 81 more.
Get out Of here, and get out while the
going is good told him. He left NUT
tering, and saying that he was going
to sue US.
sure enough, he went on March
to the municipal court on Gates ave-
nue. and by swearing that he was not
worth more than 800 he got a free
sammons' for Havestroh and me- He
sued us for the $11 he had demanded
from me. He got two summonses,
and he served one Of them on me,
but he never served Havenstroh."
The unserved summons for Hove
stroh was found yesterday by the po-
lice in the pocket Of an old suit OF
Schrank's clothes in former quar-
ters at No. 156 Canal street. 1t helped
Inspector Faurot's men to trail
Schrank's movements in part, which
they did answer to request OF that
nature from Chief of Police Thomp-
son, Of Milwaukee. q
"The case was set down by Judge
Jacob F. Strahl for March," Thur
mann said, "and after trial, in which
Schrank's conduct showed he was
either a crazy man or we'll on his way
to being one, Judge Strahl threw the
case out of court, deciding it In our
favor"
Thurman referred the reporter to
Harold A. Seaton, an attorney at NO.
373 Fulton street, Brooklyn, in whose
charge the saloon keepers case has
been. Mr.. Seaton told Of Schrank's
frequent visits to his office in an at
tempt to force a settlement OF his suit.
"Schrank is certainly crazy Mr..
Seaton said. HE got his summonses
returnable on March IA and then the
trial was set for March %. Well. In
those two weeks he almost pestered
me and my employees to death. He
also frightened my stenographer SC
badly could hardly keep her In the
office for fear that Schrank would do
her bodily harm.
HE would come around, sometimes
as many as three times a day, and
veil at me. I want this case settled.
I want my money. I'll get that $11
or you'll be the worse for it. He
seemed fearful at that time that the
case would be decided against him.
"Well, I finally got pretty tired OF
having him come in that way and
causing such turmoil. So I told him
one day that IL ever saw him around
the place again I would not only
kick him out, but would have him ar
rested and see to 1t that he got a nice
long sentence to a place where he
could make threats and speeches to
his hearts content. He never came
into my office again.
Knows What He is Doing, Maybe
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