The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-12-20
ALLEGED PRISONERS.
Latest lMove in the Mysterious
Homestead Gases.
A MASTER WORKMAN ARRESTED.

The Head of District No. 3, Knights
of Labor, Charged with Furnish
ing Poison for Workcrs-He Is
Promptly Admitted to Bail. 81
PITTsBURG, Dec. 20.-District Attor-
ney Burleigh took hand in the Home
stead poisoning case yesterday. and as a
result Hugh f. Dempsey, master work
man of District No. 8. knights Of Labor,
is under 81, 800 bail for trial at court on
charge of felony and assault and bat
terry in administering poison, or causing
it to be administered Ito the non-union
mon at the Homestead Steel works. Mr.
Dempsey surrendered himself as soon as
he learned that warrant for his arrest
had been issued. A similar charge was
also made by County Detective Beltz-
hoover against J. NJ. Davidson Zone Of
the cooks who confessed to the alleged
plot, but at this writing he has not been
arrested. An information was also made
against Patrick Gallagher by w. r.
Grittiths, charging him with administer
ing the poison on Oct. 5.
Mr.. Dempsey waived hearing and
entered bail for court. Attorney l.. X.
Porter, who represented Mr. Dempsey,
said to a reporter: You can say that
neither Mr., Dempsey nor his counsel is
annoyed at this charge, as they expected
it in view of these alleged confessions.
When the statements made in the affi-
davits are repeated in judicial proceed
ings we will have something TO say"
On account of the assurance of the
Carnegie official attorneys that Gala
gher and Davidson will be produced
when wanted, no attempt has been made
to arrest them. 1t is likely, however,
that the disctrict attorney will insist
that they be treated like the others in
the case, and forced either to give bail
or go TO jail.
Looking for Larger Game.
The attorneys for the Carnegie com
-pany are devoting their energies to the
collection Of evidence to substHntiate the
poisoning confessions, though they pre-
serve strict silence as to theirplaus. 1t
reported that they have subppaned POS
witne ses-all non-union men who were
attacked by disease. An official of the
company is quoted as saying that the
attorneys do not particularly care for
Beatty, Davidson and Gallagher, but are
looking for larger gane-the leaders
whom they believe instigated the poison
ing. 1t has been learned that il poison
was administered with the object of
driving away the men who were at work,
the plan was nearly successful, for in the
last week of September the non -unionists
We're so frighted over the alarming sick
roll that the mill superintendent were
forced to use every endeayor in order to
prevent a stampede,
District Attorney Burleigh, in speak
ing of his move in the case, said: There
has been enough publicity given to this
case to warrant judicial investigation.
This is an awful charge, and no person
should want it more thoroughly sifted
than the men against whom it is made
and the members Of labor organizations.
took hold of this because | want it
stripped Of all connection with Frick,
Carnegie and labor unions, and have it
tried as simple case so that we can
have Il better chance Of reaching true
and just verdict
1t is thought that Mr.. Burlelgh will at
once take action in the cases OF the doc
tor, druggist and others whose names
have been connected with the case. The
names thus far mentioned are Dr. Pur-
man, Druggist Schaefer, David Lynch
and Thomas Crawford, all of Homestead.
The Case of Louis SZinyei.
Yesterdays papers contained long
story about the death of a hungarian
named Louis Silnns at the Allegheny
General hospital, who was supposed to
be one of the victims of the alleged
poisoning at Homestead. A brother of
the deceased called at the coroners office
and said the name of the dead man was
Szinyei; that he was one of the Home-
stead strikers; that his brother was sick
a short time; that he did not return tc
work till the strike was ended, and that
he did not believe Louis had been
poisoned
AT the conclusion of post mortem ex-
animation on the body of Szinyei the
coroner gave the dead mans intestines to
II chemist for an analysis. His report
will not be ready for week OF more.
In the meantime the other evidence in
the case will be taken. There does not
at this time appear to be much founda-
tion for the statement that Szinyei was
victim of the alleged poisoning plot.
Still Fighting for Hallingcr's Life.