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Assault in the Perth Amboy Evening News, 1903 & 1923

ASSAULT CHARGE MADE.

Item

Title
ASSAULT CHARGE MADE.
Source
Perth Amboy Evening News (NJ)
Date
1923-01-20
page
2
Identifier
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85035720/1923-01-20/ed-2/?sp=2&q=%22Assault%22+%22Assaulted%22+%22Assaults%22&r=0.133,0.58,0.528,0.244,0
Crime
Assault
Subject
altercation , fists
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged offender
Gender of alleged victim
Male alleged victim
Law enforcement involved
Police
Stage of the Legal System
Trial
Location
In state
Port Reading
Length of story
113
Description
ASSAULT CHARGE MADE PORT READING, Jan. 20, – George Geis, formerly employed by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad was arrested at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon on the complaint of John A. Kimball, an officer of the Port Reading coal yards and held by the Recorder Ashley in $1,000 bail on a charge of assault and battery. The alleged assault took place in a lunch wagon here at 2:e0 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Kimball told in the recorder’s court that he was accosted by Geis and that the latter hit him with his fist in the face. Geis pleaded not guilty and was remanded in default of bail to await action of the grand jury.
Site pages
Map of Assaults