The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-12

hood, he said, countenanced no illegal
measures.
When arrested yesterday, Bowles, one
of the trio, demanded that Hoge and
Alexander Sullivan be sent for at once.
Mr.. Sullivan was counsel for some OF
the 30" strikers who were arrested and
tried for conspiracy shortly after the IN
ception of the strike. He Is also the at
torney who was to present the strikers
side of the case in the complaint against
the 90" which was filed before the inter
state commerce commission.
Mr.. Sullivan was asked what action ne
would take with regard to the men
arrested yesterday. He replied:
"I am not counsel for the men you
refer to, aud will not be. The Brotherhood
of Locomotive engineers has nothing to
do with their defense, and would not, If il
could, prevent the punishment of
anv men who are guilty of
the offense charged against them.
Do not understand me to be assuming
that the men are guilty. On the CON
trary, the whole story looks very sus-
piciously like detectives conspiracy,
manufactured for the occasion. All the
accused are said to be intelligent men and
com etent engineers, 1t is not likely such
men would risk carrying dynamite on
railroad train. For their sake, even if
they are credited with no higher sense of
manhood, it looks like manufactured
case"
In their conversation with Hoge and
the attorneys to-day the prisoners told
story that differs somewhat from pub
lished accounts. They positively and
emphatically denied even when they did
not know reporter was within ear shot,
all knowledge of the dynamite. They did
not have it, they said, and they did not
know who brought the stuff into the car.
Broderick said, speaking of the arrest:
"We were on our way to Chicago to see
what chance one would have OF getting
work on some eastern road. l met
Bowles yesterday morning, and he told
me he was going to West Virginia, where
he could get work. 1 said, 1 would
come into Chicago and make inquiries
and might possibly go with him.
We got on the train and Wilson
and sat together, and Bowles sat alone
on the other side of the car. The man
who 1 learned sfterwerd was Pinkerton,
we were about six miles from Aurora this
man stood up and tapped Bowles on the
shoulder, and another man came with
him behind us and did the same thing,
and told US they were detectives and had
a warrant for Us. We did not
know what the charge was,
and then they handcuffed us.
After we were haudcuffed Manager Stone
came into the car, and one of the detec-
tives reached up to the hatrack which
was over the seat that Wilson and l sat in,
and took down package wrapped in a
piece OF newspaper. He opened it and
found sticks of what they said was dyna-
mite. 1 never saw the package, nor the
dynamite, till saw it in the detectives
hands. 1t was not on the seat between me
and Wilson, but was taken from the hat
rack. After we had been handcuffed l
threw letter out of the car window, but
it was not anything relating to the strike
or dynamite; it was something l did not
want to get in the papers; they stopped
the train and one of the detectives ran
back mile or two and got it; then l saw
him come running i'll all out of breathe
laughed at him, and he says: ut seems
funny to you, doesn't it?" l said l was
having the most fun out of it then.
The change in the position of the
speaker prevented the hearing of what
explanation may have been made con-
corning the Illuminating caps said to have
been found in his pocket. Wilson and
Bowes confirmed Broderick's story. Mr.
Donohoe, the attorney for the three men,
said this afternoon:
"My clients case is set for the 18th, but
the district attorney informs us there will
be no court until October, and that ii
these men are held and cannot find bail,
there is nothing for them to do but to lie
in Jail till that time.
Deputy United States Marshal Burchard
left for Aurora this afternoon. In his
possession we're warrants for more of the
alleged conspirators. How many men he
was after he would not say. twas known,
however, that he had warrants for at
least three more dVnamiters.