Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-26

guilty. PatroIman Wheeler testified that h. of Cosgswell street last Friday nigh,
 with the crowd that had thrown the stones at the trolley road building
 State PSliceman @ Bridgeman gave lserved two years in the army and he I could stand two years more for the part he took in behalf of the trolley 1 charge.
 Harry NJ. Hoyt the company's rep l resentative in Pawcatuck testified
 that the building was stoned and that
 rocks came through the open windows
 of the building. Conductor George w Poole identi- 1 fled Shea and O'Connell Is the men
 who assaulted him when the car was | in StoninGton near the trolley sta .
 ton. The two men had made trouble 1 on the car, and when the car stopped the men got off. and invited the con ductor to step off and threatened to do
 him up The witness took the brass controller in his hand and warned
 Shea and O'Connell to keep. off the
 car. Shea then whipped a revolver
 from his pocket and threatened to
 shoot the conductor. Just then an au-
 tomobile approa ached and the head :, | light illuniined the scene. The con
 ductor then gave two bells and the
 car statred for Westerly. The motor
 man. Henry A. Tupper. got off the car
 
 car was started
 I Representing the Shore Line Flee
 tric Railway company. Judge Herbert w. Rathbun assisted Prosecuting At torney William A. Wilcox in the pros ecution- Judge F'airbrother found both the accused probably guilty, and
 they were held for trial in the super | for court the first Tuesday in Septem- Der. Bonds in each case was fixed at s200o.
 Shea's father furnished a bond for his appearance. O'Connel1 was com mitted to the jail in. New London The state policemen did not halt with the arrest of Shea and O'Connell but continued ferreting out another serious case, an outgrowth of the trolleymen's strike. Saturday night between eight and nine o'clock. Oliver A. Brown. fireman at the Mystic power house. was brutally assaulted. When the trolley car on which he was riding to his home in Pawcatuck reached Stoningtcn, at Elm and Cut Ter streets, a stop made. Brown saw men picking up rocks and fearing they were to throw them at the car. got off and started in the direction of the group of men to urge them to desist. He was greeted with a blasphemous ejaculation and accused of being strikebrealSer and they were going to get him. Brown was terribly beaten, his face being pounded almost to a jelly and his jaws severely swollen, ana ms I'D ana nose cut.
 With the aid of Patrolman OCon- nell of Stonington borough. the state police, guided by Judge Herbert W Rathbun. acting for the trolley com catch the men, or some of them. who assa aulted Oliver A. Brown. They first brought in Michael Sageka known as Red Mike" and Peter Bulato. both of the borough. and they were given a rigid examination by officers for the state, to learn what they knew of thes assault on Brown. Next came. Au- gustus Jacknowski. of Mystic. They were arraigned on the charges of as- sault on Oliver A. Brown. and a sec tention of maiming and disfiguring him. The accused all entered pleas of not guilty.
 Oliver A. Brown testified that on Sunday evening. shortly after eight. he was at the waiting room and saw the three accused there with three others He told of the way in which he was assaulted by the six men. He with steel knuckles. This after being told he was a strike breaker and that they were going to get him.
 Lieutenant Bridgeman of the state that he struck and knocked Brown that August struck Brown once and that Baluta kicked Brown. They said they had been drinking beer and whis- l Key at the NOrklnSmen club In ! 
 August Jackowski's evidence was to | the effect that Baluta kicked Brown, l and that he struck Brown once.
 Judge Rathbun told the court he i had much cumulative testimony. and would rest the case.
 Michael Sageka said he was stand | ing with others, including a man from ! Westerly, when Brown came over and threatened to arrest them. The West erly man struck Brown and jwitness simply pushed Brown down and tha' is how he got hurt. Witness said he with Bulato and others were in the Workmgmen's club and had drank beer and whiskey in the rooms tn Westerly hit Brown first and witness showed Brown. and then walked off. He was with the crowd one second. hc said. then left and Brown must have been injured by falling in the street. he testified, and Brown wae wholly to blame and no one else. The other men accused did not testify.
 Judge Fairbrother adiudged the three prisoners guilty as charged. At torney Rathbun stated to the court the seriousness of the case, and urged severe punishment to Sageka and Blu lato as they had falsified beyond limit when being questioned at the investi- ga ton. He recommended leniency for Jacowski who told the truth frankly and acknow ledged the part he took in the assault.
 Judge Fairbrother Imposed a fine of s10 and costs and thirty days in jail upon Jacowski. and suspended sen tence in relation to jail term and then. placed him on probation. A fine Of s1o and costs and ninety days in jail dealt to both Bulato and Sageka. None of these three men are former trolley employees and are not strikers.
 The barn of AIonzo P. Kenyon, in was struck by lightning at bout 10 o'clock Sunday night. and burned to the ground with large F quantity of hay and some farming The livestock was res ,ued and wagons. harness, etc. saved.