Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-09-02
Shoe Store Owner Starts
Roit By Kicking Woman
Customer During Argument
WARRANT ISSUED
AGAINST OWNER
Trouble Averted By
Action OF
Officers
Woman's Condition
Considered Serious

A Near riot was precipated at
Hastings and Erskne SITS. about
/ $50 Wednesday evening when
Louis Jacobson. 2OO5 Taylor ave
nue. and operator of store at 1924
Hastings street is alleged 10 have
kicked Mrs Beatrice Harris 80.
922 Benton street. following an
argument in his store.
Only the timely arrival Of officers
and the restraining of furnishing
guns prevented serious trouble.
Patrolman Lindsay Skidmore was
struck by brick before the quell-
ing of the disturbance and received
first aid treatment.
Customer For Three Years
The trouble began when Mrs.
Harris. accompanied by Mrs Lille
Berry. 800 Benton street. went to
the jacobson store. where she has
traded for more than three years.
to purchase pair of shoes. She
had made a small deposit on some
Y two weeks ago.
n Mrs. Harris Is under the care
: of a doctor as the result or the AL
"a legged assault. Her attending
physician, DIR. I. II. Martin 2eOs
- HastinE street. said that her con
Idftion was temporarily serious.
When questioned at her HON.
by a Tribune reporter. Mrs. Har-
rfs told the following story;
II have been trading at the JAG
OLSON store a number OF years.
| About two weeks ago I went there
and made a deposit on pair of
shoes, and had them laid aside
until | finished paying for them.
have a receipt for the deposit.
when / went for the shoes We'd
nesday afternoon. I'm company with
Mrs Berry. saw pair of shoes
i'm the window which | liked
better. l went in and asked that
the pair of shoes in the window
be substituted for the ones orig
inally selected. An argument fol-
lowed and the proprietor stuck me.
Holds Proprietor
Mrs. Berry stepped in and
grabbed Jacobson and while she
was holding him he kicked me
in my stomach. causing me 10
sink to the floor from the intense
pain caused by the blow
Mrs. Harris said that when
officers came she and Mrs Berry
we're rushed out OF the front door
and Jacobson. his son and the
clerk were escorted out OF the back
door by the police after the pro-
prietor of the shoe store had
struck her in the officers presence.
] Mrs. Berry. in statement. said
she went to Mrs Harris rescue.
when the latter was attacked by
Jacobson. striking him with shoe
rack. She said she left the store
and called for help after Jacobson
kicked Mrs. Harris.
MIR. jacobson was not in his
store Thursday morning and the
clerk in charge was reluctant about
talking. He said that il he told
the story he might lose his job.
He defended his employer. saying
that when Mrs. Berry seized JAG
obson's hands and held them be-
hind him. jacobson kicked Mrs.
Harris in trying to protect himself
from her attack.
Store Forced To Close
The store was forced 20 close
Thursday afternoon when some one
threw a brick through one of the
windows
a large crowd congregated a
round the store during the distur-
lance. According to witnesses,
owner of fruit store on the west
side of Hastings and just south
of Watson. rushed TO Jacobson's
assistance. flourishing revolver.
His store was later stoned.
More than one hundred officers
we're Immediately ordered TO the
neighborhood and kept the people
moving. Some one turned in false
fire alarm about eight o'clock and
fire engines rushed TO the vicinity.
Judge John Boyne, Assistant
Prosecutor Llyod Loomis and Fred
Fuller. Investigator in the prosecut-
or's Office. went TO Mrs. Harris's
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