Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — THE TABLES TURN. [ARTICLE]

THE TABLES TURN.

Carnegie /Officers Placed Under ... Arrest for Murder. Admitted to Ball In 810,000 at once—Ex- ’ citing Times—Almost a Riot. _ I On Aug. 3d the long-talked-of warrant? charging H. G. Frick, Superintendent Pot- 1 ter, Secretary Lovejoy and others with’ murder were made out on an affidavit by I one of the Carnegie lock-out men and the strikers had the satisfaction of knowing that some one besides employes would have to answer to th&law. The suits are against the Carnegie officials and the Pinkertons, charging them with murder out right, and warrants were issued for the arrest of the defendants. J At 11 o’clock Messrs. Brennan, Cox and Hugh Ross, the prosecuting witness, went to Aiderman King’s office, on the South Side, and made the information, and the warrants were issued. Robert and William Pinkerton are the heads of the Pinkerton agency; J. A. Potter aud G, A. i Corey are superintendents at the works, and Messrs. Frick,. Lovejoy, Leishman and Curry are officials of the company, and the balance are Pinkerton men. About three o’clock. Secretary Lovejoy, Vice-President Leishman and Treasure 1 Gurry, of the Garhegie company, appeared before Judge Ewing, in Criminal Courtand said they desired to surrender themselves on the charge of murder preferred by Hugh Ross. Judge Ewing refused to hear an appli" cation for bail until the accused had surrendered to Alderman King. The magistrate was sent for, and. after he had pre’ sen ted the document, the hearing was had. LeischnianrCnrry and Lovejoy waived a hearing, as did H. C. Frick, McConnel, James Dovey and Superintendent Potter, who were absent, but represented by W. F. Patterson, their attorney. Frick. Lovejoy, Leischman and Curry were then released on SIO,OOO bail each, and R. B, aadß. W. Mellon went.on their bond. The hearings on the application of the others were pdstpone3 _ Judge Ewlfig said: * “I think the story in the newspapers is true none of the men charged in the information can be held for murder, and certainly not in the first degree. The men In the barges had the right to use all necceSsary force to maintain their rightful possession of this property.” . . Dovey and McConnel were arrested at Homestead by Constable Stewart and brought to Pittsburg. They were taken to the jail and locked up for the night. Superintendent Potter has not yet been arrested. It Is said that the reason Superintendent Potter did not surrender Wednesday afteinoon is that the evidence against him is stronger than against the others. He was on the barge with the Pinkerton men, and it is clained gave the order to firUl For this reason the other officials were anxious to be released before he gave himself wp. - - It is stated that W. J. Brennan, attorney for the Amalgamated Association, will go into court Saturday and ask for an injunction restraining the Carnegie agents from bringing men hgjre under^ Jalsg pretenses. He is said to have in his possession several affidavits by men "who claim they were brought here under false representations and were not hired to work at Homestead.

RIOT AT THE DEPOT, Tho arrests of yardmaster James Dovey and ’ the superintendent of open-hearth department No. 2, McConnell, on charge □f murder, was attended by turbulent scenes, necessitating interference of the militia and the additional arrest of a striker. It was 2 o’clock when the constables reached Homestead with four warrants, two for tho above Carnegie dfificTalsTanff the others for Potter and Corey. The last named had gone til Pittsburg by the time the constables arrived. Dovey and Mc’Connell, however, were found at the mill and were taken to their residences, where they donned street suits. In the meantime rumors of the prospective arrests spread through the town, and hundreds of lockedout and striking mill men gathered at the different stations. At Munhall the crowd numbered about two hundred. The train is due there at 4:05, and about a minute before that time the constables and their prisoners appeared.

This was the signal for a great shout of exultation, and the crowd surged about j the station door as the prisoners were hur- I ried into it. A patrol of militia strove to j keep back tho men, aided by a few I deputy sheriffs. The train was twenty minutes late, however, and every minute the crowd Increased, while muttered Imprecations especially directed against Dovey were plainly heard. As the time passed the crowd became more turbulent, and word was hastily sent to Povost Marshal Mechling. He dispatched at once Major Crawford, with a company of the Fifteenth Regiment, to the station. ■ These arrived just as the patrol I was fixing bayonets to repel tho angry, turbulent crowd. ’ ’The soldiers marched the company froqt, pushing back the crowd, which retired in a surely way Ono striker named Thomas Bowen became obstreperous and yelled: •‘Three cheers for Dovey, damn him.” Before tho crowd cbuld give them Majot Crawford signaled to two soldiers, who seized Bowen. He had it'pen knifo in his hand at the time. He was hustled into the station and placed in charge of two deputies. This stern measure quelled the hostile demonstration. On the arrival of the train, Dovey and McConnell, with Bowen, also, were put on It, and in addition to constables and deputy sheriffs a detail of soldiers were aboard to protect the mill bosses. At City Farm and Homestead stations companies of militia were drawn up in line,as the train passed and kept back' the crowd. At the sight of the prisoners, however, the crowds cheered lustily. Bowen, the striker who was arrested, will be charged with unlawful assemblage,dis orderly conduct and, probably. with inciting to riot. The news that all the Carnegie officials were admitted to bail at onee is a great disappointment to ths people, who had hoped they would be kept in jail a night at least. Tho arrests apparently did not in the slightest interfere with the operation of the mil), while the turbulent demonstration of the afternoon has convinced General Wiley that it la unwise to remove the militia frou Homestead atpicsent.