New Britain herald., 1918-07-20
ALIEN QUESTIONS
LOYALTY OF POLE
Assault Follows; Complainant
Gets Into Trouble With Police

| 0oto 1utU l1UtlUlU HUI l. UllUU
! Several references to the trial of
! Kew Theodore Bcussel, sentenced
/ yesterday in the United States district
| court 10 10 years for sedition were
made in the police court this morning
at the trial of Stanley Piorkowski,
charged with assaulting Charles
felke. Attorney =. f. McDonough
! was counsel for Piorkowslli and he
! bitterly attacked Felkc. The motive
in the assault, brought out by the
! defense. WAS that Piorkowski was
tainted on the question of his Amer
| lean citizenship. Vile language was
used by the principals in the trouble
and Piorkowski, according to Fel3le
and another witness. struck Fellzc
with heavy iron tamping bar. a
1lhc of SO was imposed and enforce
iheht o. the penalty was rcmitted.
Dr. Henry II. Bray testified that he
attended Felkc at his home july -.
There was a welt ON lFelIxe's back and
1t was infiamed Jeremiah Galivan
knock FeIke down and strike him
with the iron bar.
Fight At Union Mfg. Co.
| The state rested it's case with the
! testimony of Felkc, the complainant
who said that he worked at tho Union
| Works, where the trouble took place,
| for six years. When Piorkowski
| knocked him down, Pio,flowsl1i ut
| alb tn Ill
him.. Attorney McDonough gave
him d gruelling cross examination.
| bringing out that FelIlc. who said he
was German, had been in tho country
! for Id years and had not taken out
! his citizenship papers. In reply to
! questions he said at other times that
| he was a German-Pole and at another
| time he claimed to be q Russian Pole.
! He said he was born in q town 10
| miles from the German border line.
| Counsel for the defense then got at
| the witness to bring out the whole Of
the trouble and disclosed that the
| witness had called PiorkoWski a vile
name and Piorkows1i replied with
! the same name. The witness denied
| that he questioned Piork owskis Am
orican citizenship. Fellle smiled and
Mr.. McDonough said that Il few days
/
played similar cunning and protest
| ed his loyalty.
Felke Regarded As "Crazy."
The defense then called witnesses
who testified that when Piorkowski
| was called vile names he resented it
| and demanded that he be known as
| an American citizen. Then Felke
vulgarIy classified that citizenship.
II l1n GJn in Iii
own defense, giving his version of the
affair. He denied that he struck
Felke with the bar. Prosecutor Klett
brought out that men in the factory
regarded Fell<e as ''crazy'' and that he
was commonly called tho Kaiser.
Prosecuting Attorney I<lett claimed
| a conviction and at the same time
said that he would charge Fe}lIe with
| breach Of the peace in police court,
| Monday morning.
In his argument Attorney McDon-
ough described the actions of Felke
as "diabolcal cunning "If there
were 10000 such as Felke here and
we were /, 900, | don't k NOW how we'd
be-" said Mr.. McDonoHgh. Mr.. Nc
! Donough said it was to the discredit
| of I7elke that he had been in the
! country IA years and had mot become
tackled him for seeking the cloak and
| protection of the court after ques-
tioning the loyalty of the Pollock.
| FeIlze, said the attorney, vas not
| fool or q knave. but was di$loyaI and
dishonest.
Judge Mosldl1 in his find ing said
that if the complainant used the
words credited to him the\ United
States authorities should tak\e up the
case. There has boon a growing ten
dency in assault cases to infect the
questions of Americanization end dis
loyalty and the court has to be care
full Judge Mesllill imposed the fine
of $50 and RENTED it.
Wanted Last Word.
Mrs. Annie Gustafson was found
guilty of breach of the peace by am
noying her neghbors and she w3}s
let go with q warming. Judge Mes
kill proceeded to lecture Mrs. GUS,
tafson who interrupted him several
times trying to exercise the Wom-
ans right to having the last word
and she succeeded.
Vincent ZaliazewslIi was fined s.
for drunkenness and 81 for breach of
the peace. He made trouble at Skri-
tulsky's saloon because he was re-
fused q. drink
Carmellow Dominica and Stanley
Zuirzlink were each fined IS without
costs for keeping unlicensed dogs.
Stanley Drezyk was Let 20 on a sUs-
pension Of sentence.