The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-12
THEDEPUrIEs ExPLAIN
How the Shooting was D0ns-BStWSSu two

NOW tne hnootlnk was bOne-heNeen Two
Fires,
ST, LOUIS, Mo-, April lO.-T, G, Hewlett,
Charles Kinsler, VIM, Tustsr, Sam Jones,
John Hague, W. ], Laird, Stewart Martin,
Geo. W. Burnett and ], T, Williams, the
East St, Louis Deputy sheriah who sur
rendered themselves to the st, Louis police
alter the shooting yesterday are still
locked up. This morning Chief Harrigan
was notified by Mayor Joyce, Of East 81.
Louis to hold the men as fugitves from
justice till requisitlon papers could 10 se'
cured for them,
Mr.. Hewlett, who Is q special agent for
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, az
we'll 40 beingtemporarily q Deputy Sheriff,
has made statement explaining the
shooting Of yesterday. This 10 corrob-
Grated by the other deputies, and 10 In
substance as follows; ThurSday the
strikers captured one OF our deputies and
held him about an hourRnd a half, They
let him 20, and told him they intended TO
visit US again and do US up. About 10
o'clock man who recognized me as an
Odd Fellow came and told me to look out
for serious trouble. Immediately told
Mr.. ]. 7. HRrrAhahn, General Manager OF
this division, and he said he had also been
notified to look out for trouble.
~ then wrote two letters TO Adjutant
General Vance, explaining the situation,
and sent them to him little before l2
o'clock. While writing the letters | was
summoned to keep the strikers from
coming into our yards at the east end. l
went up there with General Manager Har.
rahAhn. There were about three hundred
men collected around when we got there.
Sheriff Ropiequet was present, and tried
10 disperss the crowd, but they would not
listen to him. They jeered at him, calling
him all sorts OF names. Seeing he could
not disperss the crowd the Sheriff went
away.
"Then commenced talking tot the crowd.
| said. For Gods sake, men, get away
and save trouble. Look at this thing ra-
tionally. You heard the Sheriff read the
law TO you, and you'would not leave /
then read the law to some twenty or thirty
men who were nearest me. When stop
ped reading some one In the crowd said,
referring to me, This man is right Others
said, Pay no attention to him; we don't
care a d-n for the law. He Is Bcab.
All that l said had no eject upon the
crowd. While some Of my men were at
dinner Mr.. Sample came 10 me and said,
Hewlett, hurry and get some men 10
help and bring In our coal train; there are
Yeshundred atrikers at the crossing.
This was about o'clock. Mr.. Sample
came to me again in few minutes and
said, Come on; we have not got time TO
eat now they have halted our train OF the
Broadway crossing"
1--WE had six or seven deputies at the
crossing TO protect the train, and started
with about twelve other deputies 10 REIN
force them. The crowd when we got
there was maOed on the bridge over Ca
hokia creek and on the east side Of our
tracks around the Green Tree.house and
about the Illinois & St. Louis passenger
platform. There was q great deal Of yell
Ing from the crowd. They jeered at US,
and called US everything they could think
OF. This thing lasted quite while, until
the General Manager induced the engi-
neer to run the train through the mob
with rush.
"While we were waiting there at the
crossing TO protect the fireman and engi-
neer, a striker said TO deputy, You will
never get out OF these yards alive said,
Il will arrest that man; 1t Is my sworn
duty 10 do it, / took hold OF him 10 ar.
rest him, and he resisted. He swore he
would not be arrested, and attempted To
Jerk away from me, but l held on To him.
The mob then closed In on me, but with
the assistance OF one Of my deputies we
forced the man out OF the crowd. l turned
around TO the crowd then and said; For
Gods sake men disperse, while am car
ryinR out the law. Don't persist
"Just about that moment heard pis'
tol shot to my rear. 1t sounded like the
report from small pistol, and quick 40 9
hash saw stone coming at my head.
lodged, and II struck me on the shoulder
Judge the hrst shot came from the real
windows Of the bar-room on the west side
OF the creek. My deputy, Kinsler, says II
came from there. Alter the frat shot wa
fred the shooting became general.
ave were between two fires, and ! then
noticed shots coming from the rear bar
room windows. Shots were Rred at u
from the east side oi the track, from q
little house or from coal cars on the In
dianapolis and 81. Louis track. The
crowd then started west along the dixie "a
cut uB Of by o cross street from our depot
| saw this movement and started with my
deputies across our ttestle on run Tor the
depot and got there In advance Of the
crowd. We halted at the depot, and the
freight men came and begged Tor protec.
tion, saying the strikers would murder ey'
cry one OF them. l told them 10 60 y
the bridge and we would protect them.'
He then describes the scene Of the
bridge and the arrival Of the deputies In
this city as previously reported.
Probable Fatal Shooting.
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