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Show IIIH IIOMIIt IV JAIL. The JIrr or Lone Island tllj lis thoCnslodrof IheMierirt JCew York, Oct. 22. Slay or Patrick Pat-rick J. Gieasou, or Long Island City, was today sentenced to five days in JaiL and to pay a fine of 250. Ho Is now in the custody or the sheriff under guard. This du-irrace du-irrace which has ct-me uiwn the chief executive or a New York municipality mu-nicipality was caused by his unprovoked unpro-voked assault upon George R. Crowley, Crow-ley, a newspaper reporter, or which he had previously been convicted. A mayor sentenced to jail for rive dayi' A thing unheard of even In Long Island City, whose mayor had served a term of imprisonment far felony. Indeeil.slnce themayor or an Iudlaua town was shot dead while committing a burgUrysuch degradation ot municipal dignity has not been reported. Patrick J. Gleason Is built in tho coarsest mould upon a lydy framework frame-work that would lx Invaluable to a nrlze-fighter. Ha stands at least six feet high, most measure nearly fifty Inches around his chest, hss arms like a blacksmith's, a long reach and a thorough development, and cannot tern the scale at much less than 2 JO rounds. So far as the average human being Is roncerncd, be would in a rough-and-tumble t-o-lcounter, such as Mr. Gleason pre fers, stand about as good a chance of being killed, whether engaged with the mayor ot Long Island or the pride of Boston. It was with such a man that the unfortunate correspondent or the Associated As-sociated Press, George R, Crowley, encountered on a Sunday night In a Long Island City saloon when tlie place should have been closed. Crowley was severely beaten and Gleason now pays the penalty. Mayor Gleason'o Incarceration will not interfere with tho affairs of tlie city. The city charter provides that in case the mayor is absent from tlie city for more than ten dais or is Incapacitated for duty that length of time, tho president ol the board of aldermen should become be-come tho acting mayor for the city. Mr. Crowley has a civil suit against Gleason for damages ou account of the assault. |
