Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-10-11
SIX IN BRAWL AT
RAILROAD STATION
Four Arrested After Resisting
Chief and Assistant
Fists Flew and Blood Flowed In Hot
Encounter-Lively Scene at Lookup
During the Night.


Encounter-Livey Scene at Lookup
During the Night.
A fst-fghtlng and cutting ARRAY at
the railroad station Tuesday evening
about $50 o'clock resulted in the arrest
of four men. Two others escaped, one
of whom Chief of Police George Wilson
is anxious to arrest on the charge Of
assault with a deadly weapon The
four men arrested appeared before the
municipal court Wednesday morning and
pleaded guilty to the charge of drunk
enness. Three paid their fines and the
other went to the county Jail In New
fame to serve a 2O-days' sentence.
Chief of Police Wilson and Policeman
Ellis Worden were called to the station
in a hurry Tuesday evening and on ar
irving there found three men, all intox-
icated, fighting among themselves and
another lying on the platform with a
freight brakeman sitting on his chest.
Two of the men were badly battered
and blood was streaming down the face
of the third. Railroad employees told
the officers what had happened and the
four were arrested, but not without
trouble One Of the DRINKS tried to es-
cape, but Policeman Worden chased him
half way across the bridge and caught
him. The entire quartet resisted the
efforts of the authorities.
The disturbance began when the six
intoxicated men gathered in a group.
One was looking for a fight and his
challenges were not long unanswered.
A companion sailed into him and there
was something doing" Miles Cough
lin, who also was under the influence of
liquor, stood apart from the fighting
crowd, but suddenly one of the men
reached at him with knife and in
flicted long, deep cash under his right
eye and across his nose. Coughlin at
tempted to fight, but his assaiant es-
capped. Railroad men. residents of the
| town and persons waiting for trains had
| gathered about the combatants and
| when Coughlin was cut they started af-
| ter the man with the knife.
Daniel Doyle of this town and several
| other men chased him around the rail-
road station, but the fugitive ran in
| back of the Swift companys beef-house
| and escaped.
| A New London brakeman who had
made an extra run here that afternoon
| was standing watching the other men in
| their fracas when one of them reached
him with a sockdolager straight from
the shoulder. The brakeman clinched
his assailant and they fell to the plat
| form and rolled over, the railroad mer
landing on top, where he remained un-
| til the police arrived. When the CHIEF
| and the patrolman reached the station
four men quickly were placed under ar
rest and another had slipped into the
| darkness.
A peculiar feature of the affair wa.
that the men were not together previou!
to the fight but came together b,
chance at the station. Two of then
were friends, but the others were no
acquainted.
When the quartet arrived at the lock
up under the town hall the man will
the cut and bleeding face fancied tina
one of the arrested men was the maj
who did the cutting and he jumped up
on him. The officers had difficulty Il
separating the combatants DR.. Thoma
Rice was summoned and dressed Cough
Inns wounds. The men were not locke
in cells and the officers hardly had LEI
the place when three of the men fancie
that Vernon c. Parker was the man VIII
had done the cutting and they rushe
at him. He escaped their drunken fur
by locking himself in CELL One c
the DRINKS filled a pail with water an
threw 1t over Parker and followed
with several more. In desperation tn
water soaked man lifted his mattres
from the cot in the cell and held 1t be
fore the barred door for protection. TIL
police returned and saved him from fur
Their trouble by locking the men up.
Chief Wilson brought the men befor
the municipal court Wednesday mornin
: in pairs. not wishing to take a chanc
with all four at one time Vernon {
Parker, a paper hanger, made a sorr
looking spectacle. He pleaded guilty be
fore Judge w. r. Daley and was assess
ed S. and costs. the costs amountin
to s4.79 He sent a hurry call by telt
phone to his brother, who lives in tow
, and his fine was paid. Dennis Rile
who has been working in Westmorelar
for Crosby & Parker of this tow
e pleaded guilty and was assessed S. ar
, costs, the costs amounting to 1919. job
Bowler, laborer, and Miles Coughlin Ii
borer, were brought in together. Cougl
h Inns eye and right cheek were covere
n with a bandage and Bowlers nose W;
cut and his clothing was stained wit
blood. Bowler was fined S. and cos
J of 1919. which he paid. Coughlin hs
: been working on e. c. Crosby's built
ing until Tuesday, when he left. Jud,
Daley asked him If he had money vii
which to pay his fine and he replied,
did have, but I wasted 1t all away
= booze" Coughin could not rememb
e the occurrences of the previous nigh
: but persons who were at the station 8;
he was the quietest man of the ere
by a curious twist of fate, he was Il
only man to go to jail