The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-26

this afternoon, but his death wa.
momentarilJ expected. He i:
an emp lying teamster engaged about
the yards and has q wife and family and
took no part in the strike. The Pinkerton
men say the strikers made an assault FIRST
with stones and then with revolyers and
that they had made no attack until they
had been
FIRED UPON.
Capt. Marley said, however, that the Pin
kerton men did the first shooting and with
cut any provocation. When the specials
were lodged In the Harrison street station
the city police begun the work of
asserting out the ones who did the shoot
ing. Captain Workey's three boys and
man who were present all declared that
they could identify the man who shot
Begeley. The specials were to march be-
fore them, and two were picked out as
participants In the shooting. The weap-
ons of the specials wele seized BY the Do
lice, when TIE work of identifying the
men who were said to be guilty OF the
shooting began.
THE NoN-UNION MEN
were set free. After the boys had picked
out two men the whole force were filed
back into the court house where Chief
Marley and a central station detective
examined their rifles and revolyers to see
II there were any empty shells to indicate |
hat they had been recently discharged. |
One was found to have an empty shell in
it and the bearer was told to stand inside |
the court railing. After all the
men had filed into the benches, VIM.
Pinkerton said: "Those of you who fired
put of the car, step here" One young
man
WITH A BLONDE MoUSTACHE,
arose and walked to his chief. No one
Use moved.
"Be as manly as this brave fellow here"
,ried PinkertOn, and the men within the
aIling said, 81 shot" No others yolun-
eered. The two men who had
inst been picked out by the boy stood
lnder guard OF two police in the entry of
ne court room. james Hill and Walter
Andrews are the two men identified as two
4 the men who did the shooting. Richard
AIDES, Guy Sewer, s. Peyron and j. Par
ON confessed to having shot into the crowd
4 strikers.
AAAA~1I ~A<A 1AH--' n EE@l<D 4
I the arrOry. The remainder of the Pin
erton men ard the workmen who were
n the train were let go. Capt. Joice was
n charge of the Pinkerton men when the
hOoting occurred. He was
STANDING ON THE REAR PLATFORM. s
He said the men picked out by the police Z
-ere not the guilty parties. He said also I
nat the strikers gathered about the car ,,
our hundred strong Just as they we're =.
bout TO start and began pelting them
18th stones and some of them shot. eve &
ere sent down there said Capt. Joice,'
} preserve the peace, not to disturb il.
ut WHEN some OF my men we're fred upon
ley returned the shots, thinking perhaps
lat the lives OF the employees, who were a
their charge, were in danger. / was L
anding on the rear platform of the train
the time. Il
RUSHED OUT II
Ito the train and ordered them to stop =
ing. did not know what injury was ,;
'ne until / came into the city. y
VIM. A. Pinkerton says he has ample a,
'oof that his men did not fire upon the *
ovid until they were fired upon Chas. N
eek, one OF his men who was in the car II
lead of the one from which the shooting "
Is done, says o,
THE CROWD FIRED FIVE SHOTS d
fore the ire was returned. One of the n
IlletS passed through the car and embed ar
d Itself in the opposite wall. Bricks and 70
mes were then thrown until the side of n
e car was well battered up. Mr.. Pink T.
tOn Gays the men had been the subjects Of
constant assault and abuse while in the h,
rds, and two Of them are now laid ND IN
tn wounds that may prove fatal.
Begely died tonight.