St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-18
A Women Shot in the Thigh
in Her Own Doorway at
Albany, N. Y.
One Of the Detectives Dis
robed and Badly Beaten
by Infuriated Men.
Albany's Chief Says the Pin
kertons Merely Inflame
the Populaee.


day, owing to the fact that the Pinker-
ton men were all known to be armed.
These expectations were in part full
filled. Nearly all the Pinkerton men
were withdrawn to-day from duty at
crossings within the city limits, as
their presence served to excite the
throng of onlookers. The police took
their place, and it is owing to this
change that more than the following
affrays are not re corded. The stoning
Of the Pinkerton men was continued
to-day up to noon with no serious re-
suits. About l o'clock James Hatton.
of New York, Pinkerton man, was
patrolling the tracks in the vicinity OF
Van Woert street. He claims to have
been struck with stone in the chest,
while his companion, who was on duty
at that point, was knocked down and
severely hurt by gang of roughs.
Then he fired his revolver into the
crowd, the ball striking small boy
aged fifteen years. named Richard
Dwyer, who received an ugly wound on
the hip and is now Ill the hospital. He
will recover. Hatton had no time to
fire another shot. The crowd surged
around him. and, before the police could
interfere, his clothes were torn off his
back. He was struck with fists and
clubs and presented pitiable spectacle
when rescued from the anger of the
crowd by the police, who were obliged
to, draw their reyolyerS to stem
The Croyyding Mass
ofpeople. One policeman had his coat
torn off him in the fight. Hatton was
taken to the station, where his wounds
we're dressed by the police surgeon, and
he was locked up on the charge of as
sault in the second degree. Hatton
would surely have suffered death had
not the police come to his assistance
when they did. These occurrences
aroused the passions of the spectators.
mostly roughs and hoodlums. as moth
ing else has since the strike was de-
slared. Their number increased, and
the chief Of police. fearing more trouble,
established his headquarters in the
station house near by and placed all the
reserves at that point. At intervals
after this freight trains came
down from West Albany past the cross
ing on their way to New York. About
o'clock one of these trains passed
through the city, and the Pinkertons
say it was stoned. The police claim
such was not the case. AT any event,
when the train reached the Broadway
viaduct the Pinkertons on top of the
freight cars, carrying Winchester rifles,
began reckless fusilade on the crowd
standing iu that vicinity. Four or five
shots were fired without any provoca-
ton and resulted in the injury of an in
nocent party. Mrs. Thomas Hogan was
standing on the stoop of her residence
on nearby corner, when shot struck
her in the right thigh. The train went
right on. Mrs. Hogan was carried to
her apartments, where the ball was ex-
tracted, and the physicians say she will
recover. After this incident Robert
Pinkerton, who had charge of his forces
here in person, called on Chief Willard.
He said his men had been assaulted
continually, and that the. firearms had
been put in their possession only yes
terday, that they might be used if neces-
sary in self-defense and in the work of
protecting the company'S property,
which task had been allotted to him.
He declared his readiness to turn over
to the police any of his men who had
Committed a Crime.
and promised toinvestigate the shooting
of Mrs. Hogan. He was sorry innocent
parties had suffered, and added that it
generally happened that way. Still, he
would stand by his men against the
wanton attacks of the roughs. Chief
Willard expressed the belief that if the
Pinkerton men had never been brought
here the local police would have been
abundantly able to cope with the situa-
ton. AS it is he fears there will be
further trouble if these men stay here,
and says that in that event the local
authorities could not be held responsible,
as he had repeatedly informed Supt.
Russell that the cOmpany'S property
would be well guarded by his own men,
it no outside force were brought here
to infame the passions of the SYM
pathizers Of the strikers. While the two
chiefs were talking. a third victim
was brought into the station
house. He was Frank Parks, aged
eighteen, and had been shot in the right
arm above the elbow by one Of the
Pinkerton men on freight train, which
passed through at o'clock. This as
sailant escaped, the train continuing on
its way. The boy CLAIMS to have been
sitting on post near canal boat. lying
i'm the Little Basin. On which he is an
employee. A Pinkerton man, who fired
into the crowd at the Van Woert street
crossing, was pursued up the tracks to
West Albany, by Officer Dunn, and
captured. The officer brought his pris-
<s,,or book 70 tho nity hv frai1, op fho
understanding that the engineer would
stop and let them off near the station
house. The train was not stopped, but
continued over the bridge to East Al
bany, where crowd of Pinkerton men
rescued the prisoner and handled the
officer roughly, Capt. Davidson ar
rested & boy who was in the act of ston-
ing train, and later he was arrested
for the same offense.
RAILROAD MEN UNITE.