Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-22

Fectory Girls sunn"'ed
On Monday evening four , "aa.
employees in the Prsnk kim young oas
Ninth and Walnut slrssta cotton
90 90 BY a number Of what v "s's sa a'''
70 Do negroes, as they CANA s" on sapp
n factory to start on their way P ban d
men who assaulted the yon nome.
stood on the opposite sii So ~ !
street, At the gateway Of tia " a,V W.
Of National Hall. Under ts sSa u
feelings OF the young ladies 't !, ~ si1
ported that there were so,, " wy
my negroes in the crowd WIN W, \
the stones and bricks. T Tu'
ladies, however, were mis,a Ius
as the number of persons comr 0u y
gang who threw the stons, pU'lA
cerned. Mr.. John Hewlett, III. w. ~
~. y, .n' Ualu room In the Franklin
tory, saw the assault and saw
were but six or seven. %"
The assault on the girls b,,
taken advantage OF by bitts, nv M.
Democratic papers, aud they sI t'
to make political capital ont Of i,s|
party, BY saying that the rsr,'.I
lawless, riotous and disposed S ~
trouble. Exaggerated accounts
been telegraphed over the coun,,,
tiguratively speaking molebil,
been turned into mountains, IT,,
matter might Le Set straight b,i,'
community by request a reports,
REPUBLICAN,, this morning wen,
franklin Mills and had a yerv NJ
interview with Mr.. Hewlett s A.,
Mr.. AshwOrth, superintendent n \
mill.
Both the gentlemen named eo,,
in testifying to ths quiet and m
character OF the cOlored men wboN)
that neighborhood and who nah
tional Hall their general and MI
headquarters. They knew M
about the riot Of Saturday, j,
Hewlett was in the mill On h
forenoon, saw the commencsnI
the disturbance on that merplr|
Is positive that a policeman d,
hrst shot.
reference to the assault on th.,
ladies, May Sweeney, Katie and
Burke and Lizzie Mckinley, Nj.
lett, who saw 1t makes the stI
already given that six or seven
men apparently, did throw fN,
twenty bricks and stones at Ii,
named. This was on Monday
Fearing q repetition Of the sta
Tuesday night Mr.. Hewlett at
minutes past six O'Clock, The Id
girls usually 90 away from Ii
vent out to skirmish around snl
there were any suspicious lOOkll
acters ia the neighbOrhood.
His search resulted in 6nd.I
young men, very black, Stsrdl
hind the board fence where Tai
tersects Walnut. The men Id
If they nigh: be 20 or q yesnd
and each Of them had an an
stones and brickbats. Mr..
asked them what they were gdl
with those stones, but they nd
answer. He told them they Id
ter throw down the stones SliE
that he was a Republican as
they were and they could d
party no good if they wen
Gratis, they could do no good
kind OF conduct. Still they n
lent, not oHe Of them Ofa!H
remonstrauce or a word ia rsIa1
Finally they threw down th
and walked down Walnut stIa
out a passing remark eithab
to each other. Mr.. Hewlett .
man wers very black, and hl
cannot account for their si1gI
duct except upon tie idea Ii
we're white men painted blaokI
there to make q distuFOan'
would make political capital
the Republican party.
He went and notified the y
the affair but since Tuesday
no molestation has been Oas'N
factory..girls, neither had
been molested before Monday
II will be remembered thatNs
sons In last Saturday nightSp
made to psrsonate negroes, sn'
lieved now that the men who
the mill girls were painted IN
manner.