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| Title |
, Victor Drury Assaulted by Julius VOGT (TRUTH Newspaper, Brooklyn NY) |
| Short Title |
Julius VOGT Arrested for Assault |
| _BIBL |
. Victor Drury Assaulted by Julius VOGT. TRUTH Newspaper, Brooklyn NY |
| _SUBQ |
, Victor Drury Assaulted by Julius VOGT |
| Source ID |
S908 |
| Text |
TRUTH
The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth
An independent and fearless Morning Penny Paper,
published every day of the year
Publication Office: 142 Nassau Street, New York
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Brooklyn and Jersey City, than any other daily
newspaper, is the best medium for advertisers
doing a local business. The terms are proportioned
to circulation.
#874 New York, Monday, May 8, 1882
VICTOR DRURY ASSAULTED
The Socialist Leader Severely injured by
Julius Vogt, the Carver.
The extreme Socialists of the Justus Schwab
stamp were thrown into a state of excitement
yesterday by the news that one of their most
energetic leaders. Victor Drury. had been
almost killed by his employer. Julius Vogt, at
the latter's wood carving establishment on 173rd
street near Madison avenue.
Drury, it seems, had been regularly at work
since 1880 in Vogt's place. A few months ago
the two fell out in consequence of Vogt's refusal
to pay Drury his wages. When the debt had exceeded
$100 Drury sued his boss in the Marine
Court for its- recovery, und in spite of Vogt's denials,
judgment was rendered for the plaintiff.
Instead of having the judgment executed by
the Sheriff, Drury allowed himself to be cajoled
into accepting the payment by weekly instalments,
the first few of which he received regularly.
But, in the meantime the physical hardships and
mental worry he had undergone
brought on brain fever, and the poor man was
sent to a hospital and cared for by his numerous
friends, who then for the first time learned
the true extent of his misery.
After leaving the hospital, a shadow of his
former self, Drury returned to Vogt and demanded
the installments still due, but was put
off with promises. Yesterday morning he went
to the shop and found Vogt looking over some
plaster casts. The latter when asked for the
money became abusive, and Drury in his turn
also burst out in a torrent of expletives.
Whether Drury in his indignation made a
threatening movement with his hand or not is
not known, but at all events ho had scarcely
passed three minutes in the shop than Vogt attacked
him with a plaster cast and inflicted several
ugly wounds on the top of his head, splitting
the scalp open in one place. Drury
staggered through the door and out into the
street, where he almost fainted in the arms of a
policeman. Vogt was then arrested and taken
to Tremont Police Station. He claimed to have
acted in self-defense. but was nevertheless
locked up. How his claim will hold good Considering
Drury's weak condition will be seen
this morning.
The victim was taken to the 99th Street Hospital
in an ambulance, where his wounds were
found to be less dangerous than first supposed.
The doctors, however, have little hope
of his recovery, for the reason that his whole
system was broken down. The shock of the
affair, they think, is enough to kill him.
Ever since he escaped from Paris in 1871, after
the fall of the Commune, of which he was a
shining light, Victor Drury has been closely
identified with the Social movement of this
country. A New Orleans man by birth, he
speaks English and French with equal fluency
and is gifted with great powers of oratory. Of
late years few Socialist meetings have been held
in this city at which his voice was not heard, and
his influence among his co-religionists was
equaled only by that of Justus Schwab. He
spoke last at the anniversary celebration of the
Paris Commune, held in Irving Hall. March 18.
He was always a poor man. and worked hard
for a comparatively poor living. |
| Linked to |
Jules Oscar VOGT, Jr. |
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