St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-29
Labor Takes the Bit in It's
Mouth and Calls a
Halt.
At S O'Clock This Morning
Thousands of Men Became
Strikers.
Clash Between Police and
Rioters, Many Heads Being
Cracked.

Special to the Globe.
New YORK, Jan. GA tie-up of all
the surface roads in New York and
Brooklyn has been ordered, to take
place early this morning. 1t is stated
that the tie-up was ordered Sunday, and
that tO-nigbt's meeting was merely to
perfect details. The hour named is a.
m. Public interest in the strike of the
Brooklyn street car employees, has been
intensified by the developments to-day,
of the antecedents of Henry W. Adams,
who was killed at the Atlantic avenue
car stables Saturday night. The story.
of the killing is coming to the surface,
and Indignation increases with the
public interest. Adams was descend
ant of the famous Adams family of
Massachusetts. His father, Charles
Adams, founded the New Haven Palla-
dium, and was the third cousin of Presi-
dent John Quincy Adams. The de-
ceased was well-educated man, and
for four years past has been residing
with his brother-in-iaw, j. w. Whee-
lock, Brooklyn. For the past
twelve months he has had no
work and was on the point of nego-
tating for berth on sea-gOing vessel
when the advertisement for 500 Amer
leans to operate the tied-up roads caught
his eye. He decided to apply. He was
accepted, being given work at watering
and feeding the horses. He had a
feeling, however. that something
was going to happen to him,
and upon communicating his fears to
his sister, Mrs. Wheeloek, she said
that no doubt the police would be able
to protect the new men. Adams went
to work and succeeded we'll. At night
he decided to remain at the stable, for
his fears of being assaulted by the
strikers had not left him. His duties
: were many, and it was 10 O'Clock
before he finished them. Taking a
couple of blankets with him. he bade
the watchman, john Schumacher. a
pleasant good night and then clambered
up into the loft He selected one of
the bins as resting place, and weari-
ness SON
OVERCAME ALI. HIS FEARS.
He feel asleep. As soon as Schu-
macher satisfied himself of this fact he
left his post of duty. and, going outside,
he softly called three of the strikers to
him. They were standing in front of
the stables on the corner of Nineteenth
street. They were Morris Stenson.
conductor; Kerwan Graham, a
stable man, and John Collier,
a driver. Schumacher gave them
the facts of the case and then said:
''YOu'd better come in this way" The
three men tiptoed in after him. He
showed them the way up stairs, and
they quietly made their way up. Col
lier was leading. This is Col
lowed: He struck match and
located the bin in which Adams
was sleeping. The match burned out
and the men advanced towards the bin.
Co lier stumbled and fell. They lis
tened. Nothing save the regular breath
ing of the man in the bin could be
heard. Another match was struck by
Collier, and by the fight of this two men
took hold of the blanket upon which
Adams was laying, and quickly lifted it
up. Collier and Stenson had upon first
entering the loft showed aside the huge
front door of the loft. Towards this
they now hastened, bearing Adams be-
tween them. Whether he awakened or
not is not known, for Collier in his
statement says nothing about it.. At
any Tdte. OItiSOjl dIlu Oldldiu
carried the man to the door. Collier
followed and again fell. Then he states
that as he arose Adams had disappeared,
but Stinson and Graham were standing
by the door looking into the street. He
(Collier) got up and looked also and saw
the form of man
LYING IN THE STREET.
The prisoners were arraigned to-day,
and were held upon this affidavit by
Detective Powers.
Il was detailed to make an inventigation
as to how the deceased, Adams, came to his
DEATH learned by my investigation that
the deceased came TO hls death at the hands
Graham, they having deliberately entered
the stables on the aforementioned street
and took the deceased and threw him
from window to the sidewalk below where
his body was found; the deponent further
says that he has probable cause to believe
that one, John Schumacher is also party to
the above action as he was the watchman
and allowed them to enter the stable.
At o'clock this afternoon two police
patrol wagons rolled out from the At
iantc Avenue Railway company stables
on Atlantic avenue. near Third avenue.
In each were thirteen policemen and
eight new employees Of the company,
who were to be taken to other stables.
Twenty mounted policemen formed an
escort to the men in the wagons. A large
crowd was gathered about the stables.
and when the wagons started toward the
Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street
stables the crowd became mob. howl
ing and swearing and throwing stones
at the policemen and their charge.