Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — M’LUCKIE IS IN JAIL. [ARTICLE]

M’LUCKIE IS IN JAIL.

Manager Frick Mow Begin* the War la Earnest. Monday was the most excltiDg day at Homestead since the battle between the strikers and the Pinkertons. The boast of Chairman Frick that work would be resumed in the mill by nonunion men was not realized, but the Chief Burgess of Homestead, John MeLuckie, is in the Allegheny County Jail charged with murder, and warrants are out for several other strike leaders. The Carnegie,isfficial states that other strikers wyjU bje prosecuted from day to day until ale who have been prominent In the trouble at Homestead have been punished or forced to leave the country, and the strikers claim that within twen-ty-four hours. Chairman Frick and other officers of,;the Carnegie company will be arrested on the charge of murder. The informations against the strike leaders were made by Secretary F. T. F. Lovejoy, of the Carnegie Company, and were made against Hugh O'Donnell, the leader of the strikers; John McLuckie, Burgess of Homestead; Sylvester Critchlow, Anthony Flaherty, Samuel Burkett, James Flannagan and Hugh Ross, who are collectively charged with the murder of T.-J. Connors and Silas Wayne the morning of July 6 during the riot. Connors was a Pinkerton man, 30 years of age, and lived at 80 Bond street, New York. He was struck on the back of the head with a dynamite bomb and had his right arm crushed. Wayne was a young single workman who lived with his parents in Homestead. He had his head shot off with a cannon ball fired from the opposite side of the rivdr while standing with his brother In the steel yard. Therte are two separate informations against the defendants, and only vary in the names of the victims. A short time later Burgess McLuckie appeared at Aid. McMaster’s office and announced that he was ready to answer the charge of murder preferred against him. The* Alderman then had a commitment issued, and he was placed In jail. Before going to jail McLuckie 6aid he courted a thorough investigation. The other defendants, he said, had not left the city to escape arrest, and that all would be on hand.