Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-02-22

New YORK, February IA striker shot
and killed by an Officer This was the
startling news which was flashed through
the air; startling because.it was not expect
ed, nearly everyone believing that the life
of the great strike had, to all intents and
purposes, ended. All the morning strikers
had patroIIed the route over which the Tenth
avenue belt line operates, but they we're not
permitted TO cOngregata, owing to the sharp
lookout which Inspector Byrne's men main
tanned.
AS though by preconcerted N movement
the strikers quickly assembled at the corner
of SiZty-secOnd street and the Boulevard.
There were women and children too, IN the
throng, and on the faces of all there were
unmistRkable signs of suppressed excite
ment. Opposite Central Park, as a car of
the Boulevard lire came bowling southwark
and reached the corner it was stopped by
strI kers, the numbers being VarIOuslV stated.
Polio man Thomas K. Schneider was the
only officer aboard the car. The conductor
was Charles Walker, and the drivers name
10 Frederick Kinders. Inside the car an
aged lady Was the passenger. The strikers,
who seemed we'll organized under the lead
ership of one man. stopped the car at Sixty
first street. Suddenly a stone was hurled.
1t was like q signal, for Immediately per
feet shower Of rocks and stones were hurled
at the polio emen. The vOlley Of missiles
smashed every window IN the car and the
aged lady made her way out with some IN
juries and fed with surprising rapidity.
Officer Schneider jumped OF the car and at
tempted to drive OF the rioters. Details
differ from this point but in the officer
careful statement, which has not been made
! public these facts seem authentic.
A man came up behind the OH 'er and
smashed his helmet over his eyes. Another
man struck him IN the mouth with a rock,
| knocking his teeth down his throat. Then
| the officer drew his revolver as the mob
| rushed upon him. He fired two shots 10
| the air. The strikers did not run but made
| a raid upon him. The officer now fired
! point blank at the crowd All the strikers
ran but Pat MCGOwen, who was left IN the
| throes of death. The bullet entered IN the
| back of MCGOWen's head, using almost
| instant death. Two other men were hit,
| one in the neck and the other in the leg,
| but they were carried of to their homes by
/ their friends.
At police headquarters Schneider stated
| that mob Of 1000 persons attacked the
| car. He shot at the foremost of the rioters,
/ he said, and the driver and cOndu ctOE also
emptied their revOlVers.
! Schneider did not know Whsther it was
| his shot which killed McC1Owens
| In the police court where he was later ar
/ raigned, however, Lewis Brennan, brother
| to one of the commissioners of charities
| and corrections, was an eye witness, and
| SAID that the conductor of the car shot the
/ striker and that Schneider did not fire the
! fatal shot.
| Brennan added, f'the car was attacked by
/ several hundred persons. The policeman
| did not fire toward McGOWen. It was the
! conductor. His life was in danger. He YVES
down and the crowd was on top Of him.
/ He drew his revolver and struggled to get
away from his assailants.'
Justice Patterson thereupon discharged
the officer and issued a warrant for the ar
rest of the conductor, who with the driver
/ was later arrested, the latter ss q witness.
NEW York, February There Is very
/ little 10 be id about the street car tie-up,
| beyond the fact that all the roads are run
ming. most of them on schedule time, and
all of them meeting the demands of the
! traffic. Even the Belt lines started out
| boldly. The first car on the down town end
Of that line was preceded and followed by a
/ patrol wagon filled with police, but the pre-
caution was unnecessary, for all the cars
that followed proceeded without mOlesta-
! ton. Very many of the strikers are ap-
! plying for work, but some of the roads, no
tally the Fourth avenue, will have nothing
( to DO with them.
| The strike on all surface roads has been
! officially declared Of no avail. The men will
| go to work as they can.