New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-08
it is believed that it was dynamite encased in an

iron pipe.
PLANNING ANOTHER ATTEMPT.
The committee were disappointed at the small
amount of damage done to the brewery, and a
second attempt was considered, but no date was
agreed upon. The boycott was discontinued for
two weeks, to wait until the excitement attending
the explosion had subsided and TO divert sus-
picion. After this lapse of time the boycott was
continued more vigorously than ever. O'Connell
resigned as Master Workman and Reardon TOOK
his place. Fitzgerald had charge OF the ooy-
colt, and, as he was not pursuing it hard enough
to suit the other members Of the committee, Rear,
don was appointed to assist him. Fitzgerald ana
Reardon visited the brewery at da33 .. M
who bought the beer They tried in every way
to persuade them to dlscontinHe ltS use; Sc bct
headed and believed in violence. heara9n goO
into quarrel with one Of Mr. Steyensons dT1S % ers
in Equor-Store, and they came TO DloWS hEar- ar
don invited the driver into lot TO settle te us
pute, but the driver refused, and Reardon piIchea
into Fitzgerald for not helping him IN the ngnI
Reardon complained to Close and OOoEnen sp1nS tS
result was that Fitzgerald was compelled 70 re
sign from the executive committee, and was him.
self visited with the boycott.
O'Connell waged the fight vigorously, ana col
Iected S5 from each Of the worlmen IN MESS aIe
brewery in Chrystiest. on the pretence that Locai
Assembly No. $3.50 was getting weak ana neeueu t
assistance A few evenings ago, in secret meeO-
ing of No. $3.50, in the Bowery, OConneii Is re-
ported to have said In the course of vindictive
speech that it is one thing to talk about blowing
up breweries and IL is another thing TO DO IT,
After FITZGERALD had unbosomed himself lnspec-
TOW Bvrnes had a consultation with one OF the
Assistant Distrct-Attorneys, and the lnformer was
taken before the Grand Jury, which was then IN
session, and the result was that lndlclmenS "clo
speedily found.
A RECENT BOYCOTT CIRCULAR
When Close was ARR sted he threw two pieces
of paper into o stove, but they were taken out by
one of the detectives before they were burned.
One of the papers contains the names Of the liquor
dealers who bought beer from Mr.. Stevenson, and
the other is circular having upon 1t the seal OF
the Central Labor Union. 1t reads as follows:
Belfast Spider, Boycott Boycott T.. BoyeoI' oI
He has discharged all his former employees & ThG would
not renounce their union and has reduced their Wags
men n Of the Le Csron and PigOtt stamp, and should
be treated with contempt by all honesI men; mv
not to patronze those stores who sell his products
Since this agitation began Reardon, VCOn1eli,
Fitzgerald and Close have been drawing sZrr rI pO
each week from Local Assembly No. 1880 Inc
prisoners will be arraigned in the Court OF General
INSPECTOR Byrnes believes that the statement
made by Fitzgerald is true, and that case VIII
be made out against the conspiratorS that o1 VIII
convict them. Tney were kept closely connneo
What they have to say to the charges Is Eit, HoC
known The police are carefully guarding RITZ
gerald and Will not tell where he nVeS OF any
thing about his antecedents.
David Stevenson was seen at his home No. z
Fast Twenty-sixth-st. lie said that the RECORDS
showed that OConnell had accumulated properly
10 the amount of 81, 900 within what seemed 70
he an unusually short space Of time for man III nus
poSition In answer to the direct queshon as 70
whether he had talked with Fitzgerald aoout I Ms
Giving evidence he said that he left those mattefs
m inspector ByrneS in whose charge he had place9
the case Mr. Stevenson also SAID tnat DC haa
ALWAYS treated his men as Klndly as nc CVuia, Ic
having their wages when they were III, D1t ne
pfS'sad 70 hecome a servant of the union and pay
The dues Of his men and permit them 10 run hiS
business. .,
HOW THE CoNsPIRAToRs LIVE.
The home of John o'Connel in on the ground
floor of the rear house No. BIZ berseh-sS'
Brool,lyn. The rooms are neatly and comfortably
furnished and the members Of the family con,
sisting of his wife and three children, were wei
dressed when the reporter called there last even
inc TIe found Mrs. O'Connell discussing the
sitnation with Garrett A. Lyman, secretary OIL tne
Ale and Porter Brewers Protective ASSoclatloh.
She spoke bitterly of the manner IN Wmch , UHc
arrest was made Her husband was taken lhUo
custody lust before noon Saturday, ana at ume
when IL was impossible to get pondSmeh- "a
little inquiry, she added, would nave eno"n ;nS So
poice that OConnell could not have been mixed
nm in the plot to destroy the brewery ine
attempt was made while her husband was SICK
and the illness lasted three weeks ne was sunel- %
ing from bronchitis. Another thing IN her nus
lands favor was the fact that he spent his even
ingE AZ home, except on meeting nights OF the
asSooiation, and then he came home as soon as
the meeting was over DE had Deen enPloseu ICssS
in the Long Island Brewery for fourteen years.
Mr. lyman said that he was % surprised 70 % htSr tSr
casS Until last December, Fitzgerald was
walking walk delegate of the association. Then
charges of crookedness", Were made and a1ter s
trial 'be was expelled The specific charge against
him Lyman could not tell, but remarked that
% crookedness' meant anything dishonOrable: .,
o1 last
potrick + Close one of the walking delegates
Of the union He occupies an z,St extremely mel welt
furnished fat at No. 34l East ForIy-hrst-SE 10
would seem that the lot OF the walking dehga
is not an unhappy one for there was piano IN
the parlor, and the furniture was muon
above the average Of that commonly found in
yyorlCingman's home His wife stouuy insisted
that Close had been guilty of no wrongdolng'
Thomas ReaPdon was not to be found at no.
3Oi West Forty-sixth-St., which he gave TO inc
police as his address. The building Is large %
anartment house but none of the inmates VINO
vicre accessible could remember that Reardon mad
ever lived there.