The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-25
|ERAAH SAILOR IS
|PENALIlED NINE TIMES
bsuIted Woman On Street In Nor
folk and Resisted
Arrest.
DEFTEs NORFOLK COURT
Up. His jail Term Aggre.
gates Two Years and His Ffnes
Reach Ninety Dollars and Costs.

Norfolk, Va, July 24.--Con-
i tempt of COURTS and costs.
Contempt OF Court--&5 and
4 costs.
Contempt OF Court--s5 and
costs.
Contempt Of Court--sfO and
ISste Ave days In jail.
Contempt OF Court--SfO ana
costs, Ave days In jafi.
Contempt OF Court--$fO ana
costs, Ave days In jail.
Resisting, cursing and abusing
policcmen--9f0 and costs thirty
days In Jail.
Ddsorderiy conduct and insult.
ine 4 wou1ean ON the street--S2S
ana costs, SIX months In tail.
The above items form the costly
Eolice Court bill of B. A. Wiserewski,
German naval sailor from the Prinz
Eitei Friedrich. wearing the hat band
s. NJ. g. Luchs, who defied and lam
sasted by word and deed multitude
citizens an squad of Norfolk's
hest Friday night in CRANKY Street.
Wiserewski his CORY white gar
tents showing the effects OF the even-
kg's melee. appeared this morning be-
Rre Justice John Arnoldl@ He had not
banged his mind concerning the peo-
he in whose midst he Is interned
Fter being chased off the wide ex-
|1nses OF the Atlantic and his temper
Pill bore striking resembiances TO the
J oublous waters upon which he was
FONT to sail In suualiy weather.
Chip On His shoulder
~ Il ,N
Fsrate 10 the Teuton jackie. as he was
|vearing the witness.
But the defiant sailor man from
Per the seas said never a word.
Upon a second request. ne replied.
tvhat, TO be dubbed again ?"
And the magistrate responded with:
Five days in jail"
Then followed a succession OF warm
kHses from the irate jack tar and
EothiRs fines and penalties from Jus
lie Arnold.
Wiserewski complained in English
for a tutor OF rhetoric that he had
b money TO procure the services of
lawyer, but all the while refusing to
N his starboard I'm as is customary
Esfore testifying under oath
He sad that he did not care what
/ ~ might do to him and intlInated
/ at they might take his clothes. or
Enict go great penalty as $1,000
he or fifteen years i'm prisonment and
Hil would he not lift hand.
He never did and found himself at
. very start handicapped with
/ irsy-f,ve days N jail and sac in fines
III contempt OF court.
Rough Tactics Necessary.
And then the witnesses told their
E,ry: how wiserewski had made in
flting remarks 10 woman In Gran
Street last night about 1890: how
te combined efforts OF many citizens.
Ecouple of young American sailors
/ ID squad OF police were necessary
suhsiae the man after he had been
+ken 10 task for his conduct and re-
Inted the interference.
THE sum and substance of the whole
|sair - that wisercwski put UP one
4 the ahlest fRhts and spouted some
the finest American osths against
nerica and against arrest that were
Ter recorded of a street fracas in Nor
Tx He WAS first subdued only after
healthy wallop on the Jaw from
> hercu!ean arm of Charles ormshy.
la later with repeated tape upon his
Hutonic Uranium with the black Jacks
the police,
land at that, some of Sorfolk's blue
}nts are much the worse for wear to-
~
latter the evidence was presented
u accused started a statement. but
h cut short by the magistrate. who
hted that he could not testify be-
.sase he would not he sworn
land then Wiserewski received the
~ two {sams up0n the Police Court
ktement aforesaid.
| Penalties Aggregate Two Years.
THE Kaiser has predicted the end
/ the war in October. but that will
ID effect wiserewaki II will he two
|ass, with fnes and inprison raents;
ffore wiserewski will again be able
| sail upon the blue Atlantic,
1.-Two long years minus beer pref
#s and { e snug hammock Of the
ftei's fo'csstle.
ksprosit'' wiserewski'
no der Tag will have a sweeter
betting for you now.