The morning call., 1890-08-03


were very few people to be seen anywhere
in that neighborhood, but In an incredibly
short period of time upward OF 5u9O OF 4OO0
people sWarmed the streets within Dlock
or two and no one seemed to know what
the matter was. The cause of the confusion
was removed in a very short time by the
arrival on the scene of three or tour police
men, and the facts began TO come to the
surface. 1t is a two-sided story. and as told
by the policemen ana tue m. union moiders
mixed up in it is substantially this:
About O'Clock TWO n0n-unlon men en-
ployed in the RisdoD, named John L.
Young and John Hendra, went up to the
Metropolitan Restaurant, on Second street,
near Howard, for their supper When
they came out, they were violently attacked
by five men and chased into grocery near
by. owned by one Gleason, where regular
melee occurred.
STRUCK ON THE HEAD.
One OF the nOn-uni0n men. Young. was
struck on the head by blunt instrument,
and an ugly cash, four and half inches
long, was the result. He also received
bad cut clear across the back of his left
hand. After short and sharp struggle
in the grocery, Young and Hendra broke
away from their aSsailants and ran down
Howard street toward the RisdOn, por
tion of the attacking party after them.
Young, as he started on his flight. drew
revolver and commenced discharging it.
He seemed to take no aim at all. The shots
were all fired while he was running, and
apparently at random. When he was near
the door of the RisdOn Works he was seized
by some one that was thought to be an
officer and hurriedly helped into the build
ing. Hendra coming along Immediately De-
hind him.
BY this time crowds of people filled the
streets and rushed pell-meli toward the
Risdon. The greater portion OF them
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minutes the handful OF policemen watching
that district had all they could do to keep
the crowd back and prevent trouble. Thou
sands rushed down upon them, and only by
the stern emphasis of the club was any;
thing like order preserved there for several
minutes.
INQUTRING INTO DETAILS.
When the shooting ceased and the man
who did it had disappeared, and the pur-
sued and pursuing were no longer seen,
the curiosity of the crowd subsidized and the
police were able to control the crowd. Grad
uaIly it began to dispel and then the Off
GERS set about to find the real cause of the
trouble.
After learning few of the details from
Young they went back to the grocery
where the outbreak occurred and there
found q buckSkin sack filled with Shat that
had been used by one of the attacking par
ties for a sungshot. A little more search
ing revealed an ugly police club lying under
a chair against the wall. This had also
been used and probably dropped in the
scutfie.
Dr. Harris was called in at the Risdon TO
dress the wounds on Y0ung'S head. and eX-
| pressed it as his opinion that the severe cut
on the injured mans hand was made by
knife None of the wounds were serious,
| however, and after they were dressed
Young was put to bed. Hendra was fortu-
nate enough to escape without any cuts, but
received some hard bruises in the first part
| OF the attack.
WHAT YOUNG SAYS.
Young says that when he was running
by big pile of brick on Howard street, a
block away from the RiSdon, some one in
ambush there raised up and fired two shots
at him. He has no idea who 1t was, and the
only notice he took OF it was to turn his
own pistol that way and fire in return.
During the struggle to keep the crowd
down, the four policemen, Ryan, McGrayn,
lutte and Shear, were struck two or three
times with flying missiles of different kinds.
Ryan received severe thump on the back
of the neck with a brick, and Shear was hit
twice, but neither time seriously.
Now the union molders tell n different
story from the above. They deny that any
one was watching for these men, nor were
they even attacked or chased into the gro
Gerry mentioned. They say that when
Young and Hendra started down the street
toward the Risdon a gang of boys in
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"Scabi" at them. Then one of the boys
picked up small stone and threw it at the
couple. This seemed to brighten Young,
and, becoming bewiIdered, he started down
the street, whipped out a pistol ana began
to shoot.
NO CUT AND NO BLOOD.
Nov" said one of the molders at their
headquarters in the Montgomery House.
young couldn't have been cut very bad,
for l was standing near the Risdon when
he went by, and | can swear that he didn't
have any cut OF his head then, nor any
blood on him anywhere.
But when he got to the door of the Ris-
don he was met by pig policeman. who,
caught him by the shoulders and showed
him inside the door, with the exclamation,
Get in there quick or those fellows will
kill you Those men are armed by the
police, and they seem to be under the
special protection of that department"
Within about fifteen or twenty minutes
after the outbreak Captain Short of the
Southern Police, who had been telephOned
to, came running down to the scene of diff
Guilty with a squad of eight or ten police
men, and in a few minutes more another
squad of fifteen men arrived from the Cen
trail Station. But as the trouble was all
over when they arrived, and there was no
more fear Of another outbreak, they re-
turned 10 their respective stations and were
kept there in reserve.
Until after midnight groups of union
mulders could be seen here and there on
the street near their headquarters discuss
ing the serious matters that had taken
place during the evening, but none of them
seemed able to throw any light on the case
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