The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-07-21
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CHARGES AGAINST STRIKERS MADE
By SECRETARY LOVEJOY.


Hugh O'Donnell and Number of Other
Leaders Charged With MEsrder-Burgess
John McLuckie, One of the Accused
Men, Placed Behind the Bars.
PITTsBURa, July 1S.-John lNcLuckie,
burgess or chief municipal officer of
Homestead, is prisoner in onIe OF the
cells of the county Jail. kilograms are
being sent to dozen points between
here and New York seeking the aid OF
the police authorities for the arrest of
Hugh O'Donnell, the leader Of the
strikers, and warrants are in the hands
of officers of the law for seven other
prominent participants in the TROUBLES
at Homestead and who are but the vala-
guard of small army of strikers that it
is proposed to bring before the bar OF
the law. The intention of the Carnegie
company to institute criminal proceed
ings against the Homestead leaders in
the event of the county authorities fail
ing to take cognizance of the recent riot,
was carried into effect much quicker
than had been anticipated. The prelim-
iminary stages of the proceedings were
conducted with considerable secrecy. 1t
was shortly before noon when Secretary
Lovejoy, of the Carnegie company, saun-
tered leisurely into the Office of Alder
man McMasters, at Diamond and Grant
streets. He was unaccompanied and by
curious coincidence nobody but the
alderman was in the Office at the time,
the constables attached to the place
being behind the closed doors of the
anteroom. Mr.. Lovejoy stated that he
desired to lay informations against cer-
tain men,
Charging the Crime of Murder
and the alderman proceeded to draw up
the papers. The information set forth
that on the 9th of July the men did fell
oniously and riotuously with force Of
arms and with deadly weapons, murder
T. j. Connors, q Pinkerton Waterman,
and Silas Wayne, worker in the mills.
Secretary Lovejoy named as the men
accused, Hugh O'Donnell, John Nc
Luckie, Sylvester Crichlow, Anthony
Flaherty, Samuel Burkett, James Elan
nigan and Hugh Ross When the papers
had been completed Secretary Lovejoy
listened to the reading of the oath,
kissed the Bible, appended his signature
TO the information, buttOned his sack
coat, shook hands with the justice and
sauntered out of the Office as leisurely
and to all outward appearance as free
from care and anxiety as he had entered
half hour before. No time was lost by
Justice McMasters in making out the
warrants and shortly before 3 o'clock
they were entrusted to Constables Joseph
Neber, J. NORRIS and Mike J. Price
who at once left for Homestead.
Looking for the Men.
On their arrival they made known
their business to General Snowdon, who
referred them to Colonel Green, in COM
mand of the provost guard. The latter
detailed two companies of soldiers to
accompany the constables and the latter
visited the houses of all the men wanted
but without result. Not one of them
was at home and most of the residences
were locked in darkness. When the
officers returned to this city toward
dusk they were surprised to find that
Burgess McLuckie had gotten out Of
town while they were searching for him
and had already surrendered himself to
the alderman. He was in the Office in
company with Attorney Brennan, of the
Amalgamated association, and friends.
The warrant was formally served upon
him and to the magistrate he said that
he had already sent word to the other
men who were wanted to come into
town in the morning and surrender. To
those around him he said that O'DOnnell
and he were not leaders but among the
strikers and as for himself he did not
know if he was any longer a member Of
the association.
After Carnegie, Frick and Potter.
81 might as well come out with it"
he said, land say that information will
be laid against Prick, Carnegie and Pot
ter Whether we will bring any one
else into it l cannot say at present
tell you we will make this man Prick
come down on his knees SO hard that the
sound will be heard in the farthest cor
ner of civilization"
"Yes," put in one of those present,
sand once the warrants are issued we
will have Carnegie extradited in short
order"
Alderman McMasters waited in his
Office until s o'clock and then none of
the men putting in an appearance, he
committed the burgess to the county
Jail without bail pending preliminary
examination on Friday. In custody of
Constable Price and accompanied by
Jere Dougherty, ali official of the
Amalgamated association and several
mill mon he walked to the county Jail.
On the outside he shook hands with his
friends and then passed through the
iron gate. After being searched by
Chief Warden MeAlees, who found in
his pockets nothing more dangerous
than the key to the Homestead lock up,
he was taken to cell on the first tier
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