, 1888-07-25
CLEvERLY CAUGHT.
Meeting Of Brotherhood Men
in st. Joseph.
A Spy Betrayed by a Pair
of Shoes.
Further Race Troubles in
Arkansas.
Captured a Spy.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 24.-The Joint
meetings of locomotive engineers, tiremen.
switchmen aud brakemen met to consider
the Burlington strike convened at Toctle's
opera house to-day and about 700 dele
gates were present, representing lodges of
the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Great care was taken to keep the proceed
ings as quiet as possible.
Frank P. Mcdonald, chairman of the
grievance committee of. the local brother
hood Of engineers, called the meeting to
order. All the morning the committee
was at work searching the opera house
looking with lanterns for spies. Finally a
pair of shoes were found ON tho stairway
leading up into an attic about the ceiling
and gallery. This excited suspicion and
the stage carpenter, whose name is Moore,
was asked about the shoes. He said that
they belonged 10 him and when asked to
describe them made a mistake. A search
was Immediately made for the owner of
the shoes and he was found secreted in
the chandelier supports, with no clothes
on excepting a honeycomb undershirt and
a pair of overalls. His name is David
Septogle. a shorthand writer in the EN-
ploy of Lancaster, Thomas & Dawes, at
torneys here. Septogle was discovered
by a member of the local brakemen's
brotherhood named Pat McNulty. Sep
togle was ordered down the ladder amid
the wells of the brotherhood members,
who believed that Septogle was a Pinker.
ton employee.
Septogle stated that he had been hired
by Jake w. Spencer, formerly publisher
of the EUening Ne,cs, but now proprietor
of the Journal Of Commerce. to take the
proceedings of the convention in short
hand for his paper. He said that he was
to be paid $25 for the work, and admitted
that the stage carpenter had shown him
the hiding place. A large crowd gath
cred around him when he was brought
down on the stage. and but for the inter
ference of cooler heads Septogle would
have been roughly handled.
Septogle had taken a lunch and a bot
tie of water out to his hiding place and
was prepared to remain there all day. 1t
was suggested by one of the brotherhood
members that he be photographed and
his likeness be published in the Police
Gazette and the Burlington Scab Cfrcu-
lar, but the opera house was too dark to
have the photograph taken. He was
marched to police headquarters through
the streets in his bare feet.
Great excitement prevailed while Sep
togle was being taken from the opera
house and cries of "Pinkerton spy. and
''scab'' were made by the delegates.
Chairman Mcdonald begged the dele
gates not to offer any violence to the man,
saying that if there was any legal method
for punishment the man would be dealt
with accordingly.
After the excitement subsidized the con
vention proceeded to business and elected
Frank p. Mcdonald, chairman OF the To-
cal grievance committee, permanent
chairman.
The forenoon was spent in speech max
ing, the principal speaker being Chas.
Sargent of the Eyiremen's Brotherhood. 1t
is expected the convention will last four
days.
AT the afternoon session nothing Of
interest occurred, most OF the time being
taken up with expressions of the views of
the laa1pra