Arrests for Sunday-Law Violations
In Brooklyn, N. Y., on a recent Sunday, seventeen persons were arrested by the police of the Ralph Avenue and Brownsville stations for violation of the Sunday law. The men were all found working in different parts of the precinct. Two Brownsville policemen raided four blacksmiths' shops and arrested eleven men. On being arraigned in the Gates Avenue police court the next morning, they all told Magistrate Higginbotham that they observed their own Sabbath, and were discharged. The National Horseshoers' Union, it is understood, complained about these men. two other men were arrested by the police of the same station while they were working on new buildings in course of construction on Bristol Street.