ALLEGED ASSAULT

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9

ALLEGED ASSAULT

CONGRESSMAN'S ATTACK QUESTION OF IMMUNITY FROM ARREST WASHINGTON," May 30. The question of Congressional immunity from ordinary arrest has arisen in the case of Representative Marion Zioncheck (Democrat, Seattle). At night police were called four times to the Congressman's apartment, where apparently a hilarious party was in progress. During the evening the owner of the apartment, an elderly magazine writer named Mrs. Benjamin Young, attempted to evict the Congressman and his bride of a few weeks. Mrs. Young later reported to the police that Zioncheck violently threw her from her apartment, breaking her hip. She is now in hospital undergoing X-ray examination to determine the extent of her injuries. During recent weeks Zioncheck has been subject to newspaper publicity almost daily. He has been detained at least a dozen times for speeding in an automobile, and at such times has invariably bragged of the amount of intoxicants he had been consuming. In hospital Mrs. Young declared that the police refused to arrest him because he was a Congressman, but she is determined to press assault charges against him.