Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-08-24
.IRATE WOMAN
LASHES EDITOR
At LYNDHURST
Prominent Resident Chastises
Man Who FIayed Brother
in Editorial.

Special to the Evening Star.
LYNDHURsT. Aug. 24.-Late last
night. Mrs. Martha Gray, aged thirty
years, who lives at the corner of Stuv-
vesant and Valley Brook avenues,
horsewhipped Louis Wander Pyl, edi-
tor and publisher of the Lyndhurst
Sentinel, started a near-riot. gave
Byndhurst more excitement than it
has had since Editor Wander Pyl first
called Michael Ritchie, her brother. a
jailbird, and finally appeared, dishev-
eled and with his scalp damp with
gore from injuries, before Township
Recorder George A. Sutton. who
heard an atrocious assault and bat
terry charge preferred by Wander Py1.
and held her in $500 bail pending ac-
tion by the grand jury. Bail was fur
nished by George Smith. Lvndhurst
business man, and Mrs. Gray's adven-
lures were ended for the night. Then
she, the editor. the recorder and the
rest got Sleep
A fiery editorial in the Sentinel. in
which Ritchie was called a jailbird
and was mentioned in connection with
police raid some time ago. and
which went on to say that Ritchis
lacked citizenship through having
forfeited it by serving jail sentence,
is believed to have put the horsewhip
In Mrs. Gray's hands. 1t appeared in
the Sentinel issued Saturday
The editorial followed the appear
ance of Ritche before the Township
Commission last week with a protest
against "a waste of public moneys
as now being carried on by your
commission" Ritchie said he re-
ferred to ."the wasteful and improper
advertising which citizens, and their
number Is legion, object in advertis-
ing your notices ordinances taxlists,
etc" These quotations are from Edi-
tor Wander Pyl's published report of
Ritchie's talk to the commissioners,
in Saturdays Sentinei.
The commission met again last
night. The meeting lasted until af-
ter 10 o'clock. Wander Pyl was there
taking notes and acting no different
from usual, apparently burdened with
no premonition of evil. Ritchie was
there. but levelled no shafts at the
busy reporter editor. There was big
attendance at the meeting, and the
town folk were disappointed Was
this bout to be f1zzle? The commits
sioners had not advertised a go" be-
tween Ritchie and Wander Pyl as
feature of their meeting, but still the
big audience felt 1t had been wheedled
into attending under false pretenses
If there had been an admission fee
the box Office would have been
thronged with claimants for the re-
turn of their ticket money.
The meeting ended and the crowd
made its way out of doors. Going
through the passageway Ritchie and
Wander Pyl did not pay any attention
to each other. Outside Wander Pyi
walked to his automobile and stopped
over to crank it. hftt
Whish Zipl Ouchl
The three noises came one after an.
other. The first was a whip whis-
Ting through the air, with Mrs.
Gray's weight behind it. The second
came with the contact of the whip
with Wander Pyl's anatomy The
third was coincident with a sudden
of the Wander Pyl
frame. The car remained uncranked.
Wander Pyl's hands, which had been
before his body, went behind He
turned, and was met by a frontal
attack in which his body received
blow after blow.