1 The victim was Tamoszius Kuszleika, who played the violin.
2 Two years was the "statute of limitations," and after that the victim could not sue.
3 The victim was an insurance agent, and he had lost a hundred and ten dollars that did not belong to him.
4 Jurgis and his gang joined in the sport, every man singling out his victim, and striving to bring him to bay and punch him.
5 So the crowd subsided; and a few moments later several policemen came up, staring here and there, and leering at their victims.
6 Jurgis had gone with the desire to get into an inconspicuous corner and see what was done; but this attitude of silent and open-eyed attention had marked him out for a victim.
7 Then when he got one, he would dart round the corner and return to his base to get warm; and his victim, seeing him do this, would go away, vowing that he would never give a cent to a beggar again.
8 Harper did not appear, however, until after the prisoner, feeling very weak and ill, had been hailed into court and remanded at five hundred dollars' bail to await the result of his victim's injuries.
9 There was a long rest for the orchestra, and plenty of refreshments, while Marija was making her peace with her victim, seating him upon the bar, and standing beside him and holding to his lips a foaming schooner of beer.
10 The lantern had been upset and extinguished, and it was so dark they could not see a thing; but they could hear Jurgis panting, and hear the thumping of his victim's skull, and they rushed there and tried to pull him off.
11 And when, in answer to this, the victim would say that the whole country was getting stirred up, that the newspapers were full of denunciations of it, and the government taking action against it, Tommy Hinds had a knock-out blow all ready.