The Scranton Tribune

TRIED TO BULLY A BOY.
He Was a Bully Boy with His Fists and
Showed It.
A lively scene was created in Ross
blacksmith shop, Adams avenue, yes-
terday afternoon, about 2 o'clock. At
that hour the shop was in charge of a
boy, Henry Decker. Mr. Ross being at
dinner. A drunken fellow named
George Haynes, entered the shop and
was preparing to go to sleep in a cor-
ner when young Decker ordered him
to leave.
Instead of obeying the command.
Haynes tried to bully the boy and fail-
ing in this he seized a hammer and
attempted to strike him. Decker, who
is a wiry youngster and unusually
strong even for a blacksmith, caught
his assailant on the jaw with a swing-
ing right hander and sent him sprawl-
ing into the street.
As he was falling his head came in
contact with a stone tie post and two
large gashes resulted. The young fel-
low then got astride the prostrate bully
and held him down till Chief Simp-
son came along and took both of them
in tow. Decker was released until this
morning at 9 o'clock and Haynes was
locked up.
Haynes has served a term in the pen-
itientiary for burglarizing J. D. Clarke's
tobacco store on Penn avenue. It will
be remembered that his booty on that
occasion consisted only of a lot of old
tobacco bags filled with sawdust, which
were used for advertising purposes.