DRUG CLERK WON'T PROSECUTE SLUGGERS
Item
- Title
- DRUG CLERK WON'T PROSECUTE SLUGGERS
- Source
- Evening Journal (DE)
- Date
- 7/12/20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042354/1920-07-12/ed-1/?sp=1&q=assault&r=0.249,0.891,0.402,0.242,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- criminal assault, children
- Gender of alleged offender
- male allged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Chief of police
- Stage of the Legal System
- warrant issued
- Location
- In state, Wilmington DE
- Length of story
- 181
- Description
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DRUG CLERK WON’T PROSECTURE SLUGGERS
Although Ross R. Geisbert, drug clerk, who is alleged to have been brutally assaulted on the night of July 2, while outside the drug store at Eight and Monroe streets, has withdrawn the warrant he had issued on July 6 for his assailants.
There is no question that Geisbert was assaulted, his face showing the assault plainly the following day. Chief of Police Black said this morning, however, that Geisbert made no complaint to the police until four days afterward and the first knowledge the authorities had of the assault was that contained in the newspapers.
Geisbert also went before Magistrate Stradley and had warrants issued but as in the case of the one issued at the police station the officers have been called off the job.
Although the actions of the young men around the neighborhood of Eighth and Monroe streets has been the occasion of considerable complaint on the part of residents of that section and those guilty of the attack on Geisbert are said to be well known, no arrested have been made.
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