Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-04


The Coroner yesterday completed his in
quests on the deaths of w. b. Angel and
Albert Stern, who were killed at the Shouse-
town bridge, on New Years Day, and the
jury brought IN scathing verdict.
Mr.. Rickert, che oil-drilling contractor at
Shaunopin, testified that he had no work
for extra men and that August P. Geisler,
the employment agent, at No. $40 Grant
street, had no authority from him to send
out men.
The jury then brought in verdict Of ac-
cidental death on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad, near Shousetown. It found
that August P. Geisler was responsible for
sending the men out on fruitless errand,
after taking their money from them. The
jury found Geisler guilty of inhuman con-
duct, and recommended that his case be
taken up by the District Attorney and that
he be prosecuted for manslaughter. The
jury recommended that there should be a
thorough investigation of the employment
agents of the city, to the end that the bogus
agents should be weeded out, and that there
should be such legislation as would compel
all persons desiring to conduct agencies to
procure licenses from the Department Of
Public Safety.
ADVISED GOING SLOW.
Geisler has not been arrested, and no in
formation has yet been made against him.
On Wednesday evening, when Inspector
McAleese called upon Magistrate Gripp
with view of making an information
against Geisler, the Magistrate said: "Geis-
Ter has been before me a number of times,
and has been fined or held to court He
has been convicted in court of bad practices,
but has escaped with small fine. If it is
desired to punish him severely in this case,
it would be well to go slow until you have
the strongest sort of evidence against him."
Inspector McAleese has therefore decided
to wait for few days until he makes an in
formation. He has already some very Sc
rious evidence against Geisler and is in the
way to get more. He concluded, in fact,
that he would not need Max Maiterer, the
boy who was with the unfortunate men who
were killed, and for that reason allowed
Malterer to go to his Ohio home with his
father. The young mans statement, sworn
to, is in the possession of Coroner Mcdowell,
and can be used if necessary.
August ?. Geisler is not the only employ
ment agent against whom the police are col
lecting evidence.
FUNERAL OF THE VICTIM.
The body of W. H. Angel was buried yes
terday. The funeral service over the dead
man, brief and simple, was conducted by
Rev. Charles Edward Locke, of the Smith
field NJ. E. Church, in the little chapel at
the public morgue on Fourth avenue. There
were only four or five persons present,
among whom was Mr.. A. G. Angel, of
South Stirling, Pa, a brother of the de-
ceased. The body was taken to the new
Bellevue Cemetery, in Allegheny, and
there placed in the vault. The other vic
tim, Albert Stern, was inferred on Thurs
day by Hebrew friends in this city.
The Coroner also held an inquest on the
body of Philip j. Meyer, the Lawrenceville
man who died on Thursday from self-in-
ficted bullet wound given on New Years
Day. The verdict was that the young man
shot himself while suffering temporary in
sanity. The father, Philip Meyer, testified
that the son bad several times showed indi=
cations of mental alteration.
SOME OTHER CASES.
In the case of Henry Gruey, who died on
Wednesday night at Boley's Hotel. the
verdict was that death resulted from hemor-
rhage.
The inquest into the killing of George
Kelly, the boy killed by jumping off the
train at Neville station on Thursday, re-
suited in a verdict of death resulting from
on the part of the deceased.
Death from convulslons was found to be |
the cause of the taking off of Adolph |
Schurch, who died January 2 at the West |
Penn Hospital.
An inquest was begun, but not COM |
pleted, on the body OF Alfred T. Moore. He |
was Baltimore and Ohio brakeman, who |
fell between the cars and was crushed at |
West Newton on January 2, and died that |
night at the West Penn Hospital. His |
ante-mortem statement was read. He said |
that he was making his first trip as brake
man and that the accident was his own |
fault.
THE CORONER'S VIEWS.
Coroner Mcdowell said last night that |
the suggestion made by the jury in relation |
to licensing employment agencies would be |
taken up at the next meeting of Pittsburg |
Councils, when he would have an ordinance |
presented requiring all such agencies to |
apply to the police officials before |
they would be allowed to begin business.
The ordinance would further require that
all such agencies should keen a complete |
record of every application for help and of |
every application for work with the name,
age, residence, description, and nationality |
OF each applicant, with the fee charged in |
each case, that record to be kept open to the |
examination of the police at all times and |
the agency to be under the surveillance of |
the police as the pawnshops are now.