FINED $200 AFTER DISPUTE OVER PIE
Item
- Title
- FINED $200 AFTER DISPUTE OVER PIE
- Source
- Evening Journal (DE)
- Date
- 6/8/20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042354/1920-06-08/ed-1/?sp=1&q=assault&r=0.191,1.042,0.334,0.201,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- criminal assault, battery, weapon
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Fined $200
- Location
- In state, Wilmington DE
- Length of story
- 113
- Description
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FINED $200 AFTER DISPUTE OVER PIE
Ethmos J. Frank, who conducts a restaurant at Second and Union streets, was fined $200 and costs by Deputy Judge Finger in Municipal Court this morning for assault and battery on Thomas Leonard in the restaurant on May 8. He struck Leonard on the head, after the latter had
refused to take a cut of pie at 15 cents, causing a fracture of the skull, it was brought out in testimony. Because of his severe injuries Leonard lost his memory of the affair until a few days ago. He was operated on at the Physicians' and Surgeons' Hospital and was in a critical condition
for a while.
