Show BUILDING TRADES SECRETARY FINED FINEDE i iE E A Dunsby Assessed 50 for Unprovoked Assault Upon Reporter OBJECTED TO APPROACH CHANGES ADVOCATED D IN COURT For unprovoked assault upon Charles CharlesA A Bergin a reporter for The Herald Republican E A Dunsby secretary of ot the Building Trades council was fined 50 by Justice F M 31 t Bishop yesterday afternoon and given the alternative of paying It or serving fifty days in Jail The reporter had been sent to cover a meeting of the council and Dunsby objected to the manner In which he asked for news of the proceedings Dunsby ordered the reporter from the place and supplemented the order with rough handling and a smash In the fac face Dunsby gave as his excuse that The had been printing inside facts concerning secret actions of the Building Trades Trad council and that he was overzealous In safeguard safeguarding ing the news of at events that transpired at the meeting Dan Alexander assistant county at attorney attorney attorney torney appeared for the state yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day assisted by Ben L Rich Dunsby appeared without counsel and later gave notice of appeal He has five days In which to file appeal papers That Ethical Question During the trial an Interesting dis din discussion discussion developed as to the manner in If which a reporter In search of news should approach one the dope going on and kin kindred kindred kindred dred queries were deeply deplored by Dunsby as displaying a vast ignorance of professional etiquette and he sug suggested suggested suggested that more demeaning terms were not only becoming but more con conducive conducive conducive to obtaining requisite information tion When the reporter sold said that I put him out said id Dunsby to Justice Bishop my Americanism or ormy ormy ormy my individuality arose and as I was in my m own place J I asserted myself strongly I am not quarrelsome for I believe in the of man manIt manIt manIt It Is hardly a part of the of man to knock him down replied Assistant County Attorney Alexander Dunsby on the stand denied that he had struck Bergin in the face His Hi only witness Charles White testified that he ho saw Dunsby hit Bergin on the nose nos and this was corroborated by other witnesses |