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Show CHAUFFEUR TELLS HIS TALE IN COURT F. Augustus Hoinzc in the Bolo of Pugilist; Pu-gilist; Punch on Jaw Fol. lowed Poke in tho Eyo. Special to Tbe Tribune. NKW YORK. May 2-t. Mow F. Augustus Augus-tus Hoinzc of the Montana Copper. Mill company is alleged to have quail-fled quail-fled as a pugilist was related to Justice Jus-tice Delanly and a Jury in the supremo court today by Joseph B. Hubbard, a chauffeur. Hubbard is suing Helnao for JS00O damages, declaring Hclnze assaulted assault-ed him on the night of April 2o, l'JO'J. in front of the Cafe Boulevard. "After tJiev had all alighted from tho tjuclcab at the. Cafe Boulevard. Mr. Heinze asked what my meter registered and I told him Stl.fO." said Hubbard. Ho objected to the bill and started to walk away. Hubbard followod him. "Then." ontlnued Hubbard, "he struck me in the .eft eyo and gave me a punch on the jaw." Hubbard said two days after the al-lcg"d al-lcg"d assault his left eye was so badly puffed and swollen that he could hardly hee out of it. Heinze denies that he struck Hubbard. He s:ild Hubbard laid hold of him when he complained of the tux I cab fare being excessive. Testimony was brought out to show that the distance from the Claremont to tlie Cafe Boulevard is seven miles and that under the law Heinze should not have been charged moro than $1.40. |