St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-08

delegate OF lne Ale ana HOrter brewery
Employees Protective association, who
compose Local Assembly $500. embraced
in District Assembly 40, Knights Of
Labor. The men whom he duplicates
in his confession and who are in Gus
tody are John O'Connell, president of
the local assembly; Patrick F. Gloss
and Thomas Reardon, members of the
executive committee of the local as
sembly. O'Connell was president of
the executive committee and reduced
its members from nine to five when he
undertook to bring Stevenson to terms.
Stevenson having discharged
ALL UNION MEN
and refused to re-emplOy any but those
who severed their connection with the
union. The four prisoners constituted
the executive com mittee at the time of
the explosion. According to the story
gathered from the informer's state
ments, this committee went about to ir-
vent some scheme whereby Stevenson
would be made to recognize the uniOnv
by re-employing its members and disc
charging the scab workingmen. The
first plan approved by the committee
was to send union men to the brewery
to apply for work and state that they
were not attached to the union. The
hoH WAo might SECURE eHploymcn
under this disguise were to
place grease in the beer and
ale watts whenever an opportu-
nifty offered, and in this way destroy the
brew. Several applicants, thus advised,
visited the brewery, but were not given
employment. At subsequent meeting
of the executive committee it was des
termlned to appropriate $50 to continue
the fight against Stevenson. The union
ratified this action. Now the cOnSpira-
tors in the executive committee, mada
furious by failure of their first attempt,
conceived the plan to blow up the brewj
cry. Reardon and Close were delegated
to see person whose name, though in
the possession of the police. is withheld,
for instructions as to the destructive
element to be used and the method in
which it should be operated. These two
men followed instructions, and reported
that they had succeeded in learning all
that was necessary in the
USE OF AN EXPLOSIVE
with which they had been provided,
The engine of destruction, it was
planned should be exploded in the en-.
gine room. The opportunity to reach
the engine room was not afforded the
cOnSpiratorS and they became involved
in quarrel among themselves which
delayed the use of the explosive. In
carrying out the boycott against tha
brewery, Fitzgerald was charged with
inactivity. and was threatened with sus.
pension arom the position of walking
delegate, which yielded him $3.50 a
week. He finally was ordered to be
suspended, but anticipated the
action by resigning. The explosion
followed. Central Office detectives
who have been on the case
learned recently that OCOnnell, who
had been succeeded by Reardon as pres.
ident of the union, stated at meeting
that it was''One thing to blow up brew
cry and another to prove it." Inspector
Byrnes, after securing Fitzgerald's con.
fession, took him before the grand Jury
on Friday, where he repeated his con-
feSSion. Upon the evidence presented
the grand jury found indictments
against OConnell, Reardon and Close,
| and bench warrants were isSned for
their arrest. O'Connell was taken from
work in the Long Island brewery.
Brooklyn, last evening by Detective
Sergeants Won Gerichten and Handy.
He describes himself as married
man, thirty-four years of age.
Bergen street, Brooklyn. The other two,
entered on the police books as Patrick
S. Close, forty years old. married, of
No. 341 East Forty-first street, New
York, and Thomas Reardon, thirty
three years. single, No. 301 West Forty
sixth street. The pedigree and resi-
dence of the informer is kept concealed
by the police. He is at present an in-
mate of the house of detention, held as
witness. The case will be called up
in general sessions court tomorrow,
when the men will be called to plead to
indictments charging them with felony,
About Six and Six.
Special to the Globe.
HELENA, Mont, April 7.-Sheriff
O'Neill, of Choteau county, yesterday
arrested Charles and William Farrell,
JEFF Pruitt and another man on the
Marias on the charge of stealing sixty
horses from the Canadian mounted po-
lice. The Farrells drove these horses
into the Northwestern territory to
sell. The Canadian custom officers
claim the payment of duty was evaded
on them and they confiseated the whole
band. The Farrells and Pruitt sup
prised Lees camp on the night of Feb.
16, recaptured the horses and ran them
back to the United States.
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