Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28
n LITTLE KING.
A Member of the Firm of Bowers,
Dure d Co, Establishing a CENSOR

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exposure of the falsity of the pretence on
which workingment of Wilmington have
been urged to vote against II Hancock, asked
its editor If he would not be willing TO
put the price at one cent per copy for
week In order to secure much larger
circulation. The proposition was declined
for business reasons, but the gentlemen
were informed that they could have what
copies they wanted at the wholesale price,
delivered as they pleased, and they there
upon entered into a contract for a large
number of papers which The Every
Evening Publishing Company agreed to
deliver upon the streets to workmen som-
ing from shops and other persons. In
accordance with this large number of
extra copies were run oil and boys sent
out to deliver them, with instructions to
only deliver them upon the public high
ways.
Two of these boys, Harry Thatcher,
aged II, and Howard Shrack, nged .,
were stationed on the sidewalk outside of
Bowers, Dure x o.. property to deliver
papers to workmen, employed in their Car
shops, as they were going home from
labor in the evening. Other boys were
stationed near other shops, ship yards aud
rolling mills for the same purpose. None
OF the others were disturbed as far as
known, i'll the performance OF this duty,
but the boys at Bowers Dure " Co. y
works were assaulted, and one of them
| robbed
| The story of Harry Thatcher, the eldest
OF these boys, which We are assured can
be corroborated by more than half dozen
| competent Witnesses il as follows
| II was there with Howard Schrack
serving papers on Monday and Tuesday
evenings. We stood outside of the fence
on the sidewalk between it and the rail
road. On Monday evening an old man
with short, white chin beard came out
OF the Office and told me that one of the
shops had not let out yet and that If !
would give him some papers he would
take them in and hand them around
among the mon working in that shop. l
| gave him few papers and he took them
in. Soon after that clerk in the office
came out and got some more. l was
afterwards told by some boys that were
there that they did not hand these papers
around among the men, but tore them up
and threw them down the water closet,
| Last night Shrack and were there
again. Shrack had 100 papers and had
$50. We went on giving them to the men
as they came out from work until Henry
| II. Dure (the boy spoke of him as ''old
Mr.. Dure" and says he knows him by
sight came out to usand asked me to give
him some more papers to take in and
serve to the men AZ they were getting
their pay. told him that had heard
what was done with the papers the night
before and would not give him any.
He said again, Give me some papeis'
and l again refused to do SO.
''Shrack had his bundle OF papers, about
half of what he took out, under his arm.
Mr.. Dure caught hold of the end of the
bundle and jerked the papers away from
him and then told me to give him mine. |
told him would not do il and he then
told me to get away from there or he
would kick me away. | then walked
across to the other side of the railroad and
/ was told by some OF the men that Mr..
Dure made n kick at me as | started, but
/ did not see him do it. Mr.. Du.e then
took the papers that he had taken from
| Schrack and carried them into the Office"
Young Schrack corroborates the kick
ing saying that as Thatcher turned to go
across the railroad MIR. Dure made kick
at him. One of the men who was stand
| ing by has bsen seen by policeman, to
whom he told the same story that
| Thatcher tells, and says that Mr.. Dure in
ordering the boy away caught him by the
shoulder and made a kick at him as be
turned to go.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
| In addition to the story of young
Thatcher, given in an earlier edition, with
regard to the unprovoked assault upon
him and the theft of papers from his COM
rade by Henry Il. Dure, the following cor
roboratiye information has been gathered
| from some OF the eye witnesses who saw
the assault only:
| MIR. Mahon Nj. Wright, a car builder at
the shops of Bowers, Dure X Go. and who
lives at No. l6 Forest street, was an eye
witness to a part o. the difficulty and
gives the following account of what he
saw to an EVERY EVENING preventative
Last evening about . 10 O'Clock | got
my money and came out by the gate. just
as / got outside ! saw Mr.. ii. Il. Dure
holding boy by the arm. The boy had
! a bundle of papers and MIR. Dure was pre-.
venting MIN from giving them out. He
held on to the boy for about two minutes
while stood there. Then he gave him
II shove and kicked at him, but cannot
| say Whelner lie mt MN or not.
~ did not see MIR. Dure take any papers
from the boy, but did not see the whole
of the trouble, for when | came out at the
gate Mr. d ire, rs have already said, had
! hold of the boys arm. did not hear the
hoy say anything 10 MIR Dure. As Mr..
Dure showed the boy and kicked at him,
he said: Go of from here now and don't
you CONS back again
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fence, between the fence and the railroad
track. After Mr.. Dure had let 90 OF the
boy he went across on the other side of
the railroad. L believe that most of the
men at the shop received copies of ithe
EVERY EVENING, but cannot say whether
they got them from the boy that Mr..
Dure sent away or not. | got one copy
and took it home with me HBd read it,"
Another eye witness said that he saw
the assault upon the Thatcher boy and
was informed that Mr.. Dure had pre-
viously taken come papers from young
Schrack. He did not see the taking of the
papers, but noticed that young Schrack
bad no papers with hun when he saw him.
When this witness came out of the gate
young Thatcher was standing outside
of the fence, on the sidewalk
and MIR. Dure had hold of his arm aud
was urging him to come inside the yard.
This the bny declined to do, aud Mr.. Dure
repeated the demand some half dozen
times in succession. The boy persisted in
his refusal 10 go inside, but
used no impudent language. Then
Mr. Dure whirled the boy around and told
him to get away from here, )" at the same
time raising one foot az if about to kick
hun. Whether Mr. Dure actually did kick
the boy, witness could not say, but the boy
went quietly across to the other side of
the railroad.
hlr. Charles II. Quigley is an apprentice
carbuilier at b., d. " Co.'s. He lives at
Shallcross avenue and Scott streets He
saw the assault made by Mr.. Dure on the
EVERY EVENING carrier boy, and his ac-
count of it corroborates the story told by
Mr.. Wright. He says:
II was coming out of the shop yard
about 20; had been paid off, and stopped
to get paper from a boy who was stand
ing Just outside the gate between the
fence and the railroad. got paper and
started off
Presently heard a noise and turned
arouud to see what was the matter. MIR.
Dure had hold of the boy and he also had
paper in his hand | can't say he got it
from the boy because did not see him.
Ne was saying something to the boy but |
d d not hear what it was.
'Soon after | turned round Mr.. Dure
gave the boy push and at the same time
he kicked at him, but don't think he