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Show ASSAULT ffi Tenant Accuses Landlord Tind Three Sons of Using Violence Toward Him. Sprciiil td 'J'Jic Tribuno. t( ! !.' L'.X. J.ec. !ti. -The ca.se of Die y(:Ue ! -tuaiii-st A" i 1 1 i;x m SLophen.s, Sr., and his 1 sons, William, Jr., Georuo and K. !. i Stephens, char-led with assjuilt niion liam I1. I -i'th bridge. prciclenf, of Liie Term i its assoi'iatirm, was t ailed forr trial before Jude .A. li. Robcri s. in. tlie city! court today. The entire duly was t alien j up with testimony and an a cl juii rnni on t was taken until liJ o'clock tomorrow niornin.-r. Tlie yrineipal witness on tlie siand to-dar to-dar was J.eiiiir-id;e. who iestitii'd Ciat in a t ten ip tin.-: to reach his a pa r intent on 1 teceniber 19 he was assaulted by the four defendants. lie said that ( ieor.-,re Stephens Ste-phens struck him in the left eye and "William "Wil-liam Stephens, Jr., pulled his hair. 'Me added that he attempted to keep the four men from lnirlinq' him into an air- ' shaft and he finally was thrown down lie stairs. lie said prior to the fiiu that his daughter had been loeked in ihc a pari men t by tho defendants a nd, as there was no fire escape from any of the windows, he was in fear for her life A moiar ot hei' witnesses who enr-rohorated enr-rohorated Jethbrid,re were Cleo Teth-1 bridge, the Misses Kmma anil 1-teth An-j , uerson and -Mrs. I'rtle I-ivingston. |