Three foreign barbers of the Navy Y.M.C.A. were each fined $30 yesterday by the First Special District Court in an assault case in which they recently beat 8. Tass, Russian Jew barber employed by the Cathay Hotel barber shap. The three men are Samuel Baxt, Russian Jew, Abe Shapiro, also Russian Jew and Milai Zipercus, a Soviet citizen. The wife of one of the accused was also fined $30.
The case dates back to December 27 when trouble started at a wedding party held in the Jewish School on Seymour Road where Tass allegedly hit Baxt with a bottle of gin. The Bat and his two friends went to next night this was revenged when
thay Hotel in Nanking Road and engaged Tass in a brawl inflicting some injuries on him.
The dispute at the wedding party following a certain reference made to Mrs. Vorotielack, a friend of the complainant according to the police evidence. Tass wanted to settle the score outside the party but friends of Baxt prevented him from going. Tass was then alleged to have thrown a bottle of gin at Baxt knocking him down unconscious. He sustained a cut and had to be taken to General Hospital in an ambulance.
When a request was made next day by Barts wife for police prosecution was turned down as it was a private criminal case, Baxt and his colleagues went to Cathay Hotel to beat Tass as an act of revenge. They may soon bring up a private criminal action against Tass.
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