Theodore Eggaling, 26, one of the five German seamen who invaded Yorkville Tuesday morning and had to be rescued by police with drawn revolvers, was given a suspended sentence yesterday by Judge Jonah J. Goldstein in the East Fifty-seventh Street Magistrates’ Court.
Eggaling, wiper on the Albert Ballin of the Hamburg-American line, was charged with malicious mischief. He and four other, including Walter Miller, 24, of the same ship, now recuperating in Bellevue Hospital from lacerations incurred while falling through a broken window, marched through Yorkville Tuesday berating Hitler.
Complications arose when judge Goldstein was obliged to subpoena a German interpreter from Domestic Relations Court who refused to appear of his own accord.
It was made clear by Goldstein Tuesday evening that if Egalling paid the $25.00 cost of the window he had shattered his sentence would be suspended. Yesterday morning Eggaling volunteered to pay and the Judge kept his word.
Captain Maurer of the Ballin expressed surprise that members of his crew could have acted so, but would not state whether the men will be disciplined.
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