CONVICTED OF ROWDYISM.

New York, 1895

A Riverhead Youth Broke Up a Salvation Army Meeting.

On the evening of May 30 Seymour Anderson created a disturbance at a meeting of the Salvation Army in Riverhead. He was intoxicated, and his conduct was such that the meeting was broken up. He was arrested the next day. At his trial on June 22 the jury disagreed, standing four to two for conviction. A second trial was had on June 29, and the jury found him guilty. He was defended by Surrogate Petty.

The defense was an absolute denial of the intoxication and disturbance. The defense also claimed that the Salvation Army was not assembled for "religious worship," as contemplated by the statute; that they had no legal right to hold meetings in the street, and that the court of Special Sessions had no jurisdiction in the matter. A motion to dismiss the complaint on the latter ground was denied, and Justice Stackpole sentenced Anderson to sixty days in the county jail and to pay a fine of $20.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, July 5, 1895, p. 1.