Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-06
ENDED WITH BLOODSHED.
The Street Car Strike De-
 clared of in New York.
ONE OFTHE MOB HEADERS KILLED

the old Terms-The Last Day Marked by a Bloody Riot-Preconccrted Attack on an Uptown Garland to Hand Conflict. NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The great tie up has been officially delared off. This conclusion to the uneven struggle which has been wased between labor and capital on nearly every surface road in the cdty for a week past was reached at II 80 o'clock last night at meet ing of the executive board of division No. of District Assembly 2a6, held at labor head quarters, corner Ninth avenue and Forty fourth street. Reports were received from all the local assemblies recommending that .he strike be declared off.
 No effort was made on the part of the ex- scutive board to make terms for the men with the companies The conclusion reached was that the men should make the best terms they could for themselves. Several of the reports stated that committees from the locals had unofiicially called on the management of their lines, and ill each instance have been told that the men would not he taken hack in q body, but they could return to work as individuals and on the old terms, so long there were places to be filled
 From the wording of the reports the board judged that it was the desire of the men to accept these terms, and official sanction was immediately accorded.
 The tragedy with which the public feared the great car strike would culminate came yesterday afternoon, when one of the strikers, James McGowap, was shot and killed ill a riot
 A large crowd of strikers and their sym pathizers attacked a car of the Forty-second Street line, at the Boulevard and Si1ty-sec- ond street, There are few buildings in the neighborhood, and no policemen were in sight to aid the solitary officer on the car, Thomas K. Schneider. There was but one passenger-an old lady. She got out when the car stopped and escaped unhurt In moment the windows of the car were shat tered and a shower of stones were falling upon the officer, driver and conductor. Schneider used his club freely but could make no headway against the mob. The driver and conductor defended themselves as best they could. A rioter got behind Schnei- der and smashed his helmet with brick. At the same time another hurled a stone, which struck the officer full in the mouth, knocking out several teeth. Schneider took out his re- volver and fired twice over the heads of the mob. A few of the rioters ran away when the firing began, but most of them stood firm end quickly made another rush for the car AS they advanced Schneider aimed at the leaders and fired three shots in quick success sion. The driver and conductor also fired The mob wavered and then fled in all direc- tions. One wounded man was left on the spot, and two less seriously injured were helped away by their friends. Schneider stood over the prostrate and unconscious man <<>f, was found that the wounded man was James McGowan, aged 25, who had been a hostler at the Belt line stables and was out on strike. He was taken to Roosevelt hospital, where he died few minutes later. He was single. His two brothers hostlers for the Ninth Avenue road. His parents lived in Ireland. He had been in America five years The bull let which killed him had struck his arm and ranged upward into the brain
 Schneider went to police headquarters and gave himself up. Superintendent Murray sent an officer with him to the Essex Market police court, where he was arraigned before Justice Patterson. He stated that he had fired several shots in self defense, but could not tell whether McGowan had been struck by one of his bullets or not Louis Brennan a brother of Charities Commissioner Bren nan, eye witness of the fight, described the affair as above, and said he was positive that McGowan was shot by the conductor who fired in self defense. Several other wit nesses testified that it was not Schneider bullet that struck McGowan Justice Pat terson discharged Schneider and issued al order for the arrest of the conductor Schneider is 2S years old, has been police man two years, and has an excellent record
 The attack on the car was carefully planned Mir. Doolittle, who lives in a house overlook ing the scene and witnessed the whole affair says he saw men coming from all direction as if by prearrangement They concentrated and one man took the lead, directing thei movements. They drew two trucks over tn track just in time to stop the car, and at
 signal from the leader every man drew
 brick stone from under his coat and bon barded the car The crowd then made
 rush, and would have made short work of tn car but for the firing