Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-01-30
8 LOCAL MEN
ARE HELD IN BAIL
IN WOODBRIDGE:
Charged With Assault and
Battery in Case at the
HopeIaWn Section
GRAND JURY TO PROBE
Charge Is Made by Alexander
SitnitSky Who Says Men
Attacked Him

WOODBRIDGE, Jan. 30.-Harry
w. Warren, twenty-six, of 469 AM
boy avenue: Frank Donegan. twenty
three, of $40 Market street, and
Timothy Meaney, twenty-three, of
125 Brighton avenue, Perth Amboy,
were held under $500 bail by Rec
order Martin Ashley in the local
police court last night, on the charge
of atrocious assault and battery. The
charge against the men was made by
Alexander Sitnitsky of Hopelawn,
who alleged that the men attacked
him when he caught them trying to
enter his garage at o'clock yester-
day morning.
As Timothy Meaney did not figure
in the original arrests his connec-
ton with the cage therefore caused
considerable commotion. To get
down to the root of the story, yes
terday afternoon, the local police
assisted by the Perth Amboy police,
arrested Warren, Donegan and John
Meaney, a brother of Timothy Mean
ey. They were taken to the Perth
Amboy police headquarters and later
brought to this place. Following the
arrest all of the men declared their
innocence and Meaney was the most
certain of the three that he had not
been connected with the affair.
Last night, when the hearing took
place here, the court room was
crowded by friends of the accused
men. David T. Wilentz representing
the defendants suggested to Record
er Ashley that 1t would probably
be a good plan to have Sitnitsky
pick the three men out of the crowd.
This was agreed to and the results
were that Sitnitsky picked both
Warren and Donegan, but when 1t
came to picking Meaney, instead of
picking John, who had been ar
rested, ,he picked Johns brother
Timothy. The unlucky fellow ap-
peared to be much in the dark con-
cerning the whole proceedings and
also declared his innocence.
John Meaney was then discharged
and the hearing began. AS is GUS
tomary in preliminary hearings only
the plaintiffs side was heard. The
witnesses for Sitnitsky were himself,
his wife, his brother-in-law, Louis
Waxler. and his daughter, Edith
Waxler.
The testimony concerned the fact
that at l o'clock on the morning in
question, Sitnitsky heard a noise in
his back yard and going into the
yard to see what it was about saw
three men attempting to enter his
garage He declared that he grab
bed one of the men by the collar
and that this man was Meaney. He
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black jack or some other instrument
to force him to let go of Meaney
and that Donegan pointed gun at
him and said he would shoot him
IL he cid not release Meaney.
Sitnitsky alleged that he told
them he would hold on even if killed
and at that he was assaulted and did
not release Meaney until he had been
knocked unconscious. As it was, he
declared he still continued to hold
the belt from Meaney's overcoat and
his cap. AS climax Sitnitsky de-
clared that he knew the three men
well and had known them for long
period of time. At the conclusion of
the testimony the bail was fixed and
the men held for the action of the
grand jury.
Now comes the other side of the
case. According to information re-
ceived today, it is declared that the
overcoat worn by Meaney in court
last night was the same one he has
worn for the past two years, and
strange to say, it had the original
belt on it. The same. is also true of
the cap. Some of the defendants be-
tween now and the trial, it is
med, or probably on the day of
the trial, will prove conclusively
that at least two of those arrested
had nothing whatever to do with the
affair and that two other young men
of Perth Amboy are the guilty par
ties. The names of several persons
are subject to rumor in connection
with the case, it is said.
According to the police, it is be-
lieved that the attempt to enter the
garage was made because it was
thought that Sitnitsly had quanti-
ty of booze stored therein. The truck,
alleged to have been stolen from the
garage Of Christ Fries, of 37S New
street, Perth Amboy, and owned by
Steve Homusick. All Summit ave-
nue.. Perth Ambqg, was found nearby
It is believed that the three men in
tended to carry the stun away in
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