The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-04
PLACED IN JAIL.
SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
ADVISORY BOARD
OF the Strikers At Homestead Arrested ON
Warrants Charging them with Treason.
1t Causes a Great Sensation.

Homestead. Penn, September 3O.-A
great sensation was created here tonight
by the arrest of a number of members of
the advisory committee. Of the Homestead
strikers. Tor treason Those arrested
were Chairman Thomas j. Crawford, Will
liam Baird, George Ryland, John Dierken
and Il. w. Brown. The arrest came like
thunderbolt to the strikers, they were SO
suddenly made and SO unexpected. The
prisoners We're chatting at the street cor
ners, when they were taken The officers
were Detectives Mills and Fowl and Du-
puues Young, Brady, Devlin, krept and
Ward. 1t was late in the afternoon when
the warrants based On information of Chief
Justice Paxson, reached Homestead and
were placed III the hands of the officers to
serve. They started out at o o'clock and
hrst caught Crawford and Dierken. who
We're hurried to the provost guards tents.
The others wee caught in quick succession,
before the strikers had time 10 realize what
was happening.
AS the prisoners were speeded to the prison
tents, an alarm was taken and many strik-
ers FASTENED toward the guard, but were
held back and denied all informat ton. In
deeu some OF the prisoners did not know
why the; We're arrested until safe behind
tho bayOnets OF the soldiers 1t was in-
tended list to keep the prisoners all night
and hunt for others, but through fear of
al attempS at rescue they were taken to the
city farm station, placed on a train and
brought t. Iittsburg at IL o'clock and
landed in Jail.
AT the station a crowd Of $50 angry. If
not surprised, men assembled with aston
lshIng 1apidlty and their determined looks
caused apprehension. Two deputies tried
to keep them back, but by the time the
train arrived they had almost surrounded
the group OF prisoners and officers. When
the tram pulled out sullen jeer of dc-
ance went UP and Chairman Crawford
said:
They can prosecute us, but they can't
mat us go to work.
The information for treason upon which
the men were arrested were made by Coun-
ty Detective Beethoven this afternoon
before CHlef Justice Paxson, Of the supreme
court OF pennsylvania. The petition
charges Hugh ODonnell, Thomas ]. Craw-
ford, John McLuckie and thirty others. all
members of the strikers advisory committee.
with treason. 1t states that the defendants
who are inhabitants and residents of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, did ar
range, prepare and levy war against the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the end
that the constitution, law and authority
We're deted, resisted and subverted, and
that said defendants on July 1st with hun
dredS of others, armed and arrayed in n
warllke manner, that is to say, with guns
revolVers, cannons. swords, knives and
clubs, did unlawfully, malciousIy and trait
Orously assemble together in the borough Of
Homestead in the commonwealth of Penn
sylvania and then and there with force and
arms did falsely and traitorousIy and in q
hostile and worke manner array them
selves in instruction and rebellion to the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania contrary to
the duty of allegiance and fidelity of said
defendants.
Chief Justice Paxson at once pushed the
warrants for the arrest of the accused and
officers were dispatched by the sheriff to
Homestead to serve them. The action Of
the county Authorities was entirely unex-
pectcd and carried CONSERVATION into the
camp of the strikers. This is the first timei
in the history of the state that any resident
has bcnn charged with treason agoinst
against the commonwealth and the en-
trance of the cases will be watched with
interest. The penalty which was formerly
death, is II years Imprisonment in the PEN
itantiorv