Evening star., 1936-05-31
z|ONCHECK JAILED
FOR NEW FRACAS
WITH POLICEMAN
'Tosses Clothes From Win
dow, Then Takes Punch
at Officer.
WIFE QUITS APARTMENT
WHEN NEWSMEN STAY
"Trouble" Calls From Harvard
Hall Keep Headquarters
Busy Investigating.

Climaxing another day of kaleido-
scopic developments, Representative
Marion A. Zioncheck was arrested on
a charge of disorderly conduct last
night after he again threw Harvard
Hall into an uproar by tossing clothing
from his apartment window and then
scuffling with a policeman who sought
to take him into custody.
The latest escapade of the Washing
ton State Representative occurred
when tenth precinct police received
telephone call from an excited man.
who informed them that Hes throw
ing things again!"
Verifying his suspicion that the
scene of the disturbance was apart
ment 208 at Harvard Hall. where
earlier in the day police had trotted
back and forth, physicians had re-
sponded to emergency calls, lawyers
had rubbed their heads and reporters
had groped for words to describe it
all, the desk sergeant dispatched Of
fcer L. N. Francis to investigate.
Finds Zioncheck Barefooted.
Stripped to the waist, barefooted
and with his hair trousled, zioncheck,
who apparently was alone in the
apartment, answered the policeman S
knock.
Dammit, you're helping sic 'em on
me-" the Representative greeted
Francis as he stepped into the hall
way. Zioncheck then made a lunge
at the policeman, according to wit
nesses, and they wrestled until an
other man intervened.
At one point in the fracas, the Off
Ger swung his club with no effect and
zioncheck retaliated with a poorly
aimed punch and hurled a discarded
fash bulb from a photographer
camera The missile struck a by
stander, but caused no damage.
In the foyer, where a hundred or
more persons had collected, Zion
check snapped pleasantries with his
audience.
"Oh, where is my crown of thorns,"
he cried. Later he added: Just foot
prints on the sands of time-oh, hell,
this is marble"
Ambulance Arrives.
At this point an ambulance from
Emergency Hospital pulled up at the
apartment house and was followed by
a police patrol. Three burly officers
escorted Zioncheck out after permit
ting him to make a telephone call.
He had said he wanted to call his
mother.
At the precinct, Zioncheck was
kept in the squad room. Told he
would have to post $25 collateral for
his release, he made several more
telephone calls after finding only a
crumpled dollar bill in his pocket.
His attorney, L. Q. C. Lamar, finally
came to the precinct.
Shortly before IL pm. the $25 was
produced and zioncheck was at
liberty again.
1t later developed that the money
was posted by Marion Young, Zion
checks secretary. Police said the
Representative elected to forfeit COL
lateral and would not appear in Police
Court.
Zioncheck slipped out through the
back door of the station house when
released. His attorney said he had
gone to Atlantic City," wearing cloth
ing brought to him by his secretary.
but later on he returned to the apart
ment with an unidentified man.
Before police arrived at the Zion
check apartment the Representative
threw a suit case full of women's cloth
ing from the window. A portable type
writer followed close behind. Whether
the clothing belonged to Mrs. Zion
check, who repeatedly had staged a
walkout on her husband some time be-
fore, or to Mrs Benjamin Scott Young,
who sublet the apartment to the Rep
resentative, was not determined. Per-
sons in the street seized the articles
as they landed.
Trouble" Calls Numerous.
Many strange things have happened
In the Zioncheck apartment during
the last "a hours.
Trouble in apartment 208 at Har-
ward Hall" as the announcer of the
police short-wave radio station has
described it monotonously so many
times of late, scarcely does the situa-
tion justice.
Trouble" does not seem quite the
word to describe Mrs. Young's bodily
elections from the apartment under
joint persuasion of Representative
Zioncheck, using a double hand lock
on Mrs. Young's arm, and Mrs. Zion
check, employing pressure elsewhere.
Nor does it convey an adequate idea
of scenes in the corridor outside
apartment 208 subsequent to several of
these elections, with police pushing
(see zIoNCHECK, Page A-s.)