The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-12-13
THE ALLEGED POISONING
Officers Of the Amalgamated As
sociatiOn Scout the Idea.
WHY WERE NO INQUEsTs HELD9

One of the Accused Men Arrested
in LouisviiIe-The Attorneys OF the
Carnegie Steel Company Reticent.
Their Plans Not Maturcd.
PITTssURG, Dec. 13.-Information are
to be made shortly against persons i'm
plicated in the alleged poisoning plot
against Homestead steel workers and
sensational developments are expected.
AS yet the attorneys for the Carnegie
Steel company are roticent, as the publ
cation came before their plans were
fully matured.
The alleged conspiracy was the prin-
cipaI topic of discussion here yesterday.
The strikers discredit the story and
claim they arc being prosecuted. Secre-
tary Killgallon, of the Amalgamated
Association, was seen and said: 1.-The
idea that the Amalgamated Association
would take part in such fiendish plot
is preposterous. do not know this man
Beatty and never heard of him before.
assure you the Amalgamated Associa-
ton has had nothing whatever to do
with this case in any shape or form"
The county coroner claims that no re-
port of the six deaths from this alleged
cause has been made to him. The opin-
ion prevails that if Mr.. Frick and his
associates were aware of this poisoning
or even had reason to suspect it the
coroner would necessarily have been
notified.
L. Y. Breck, one of the attorneys for
the Carnegies, was averse to talking on
the subject yesterday, but finally said:
"As to Beattv's statement in Louisville
that he was arrested to prevent his testi-
flying who fired the first shot on the
morning Of the riot, that is nonsense.
He was arrested because of his COM
plicity in the poisoning plot and he
he knows it,"
Opinion in Pittsburg.
PlTTSBURG, Dec. l3.-With the excep-
tion of those directly interested in the
prosecution of the ex-strikers of Home
stead few persons can be found who
credit the story that non-union men were
poisoned by locked ont men and others.
Amalgamated officials, ex-employes of
the Carnegie Steel company and people
generally ridicule the story. They say
that even though it be true, as alleged,
that Beatty and certain other individ-
uals were parties to a scheme to poison
non-union workmen, it is absurd to sup
pose that any prominent Homestead
striker, business man or member of the
famous advisory committee would per-
NIT himself to be drawn into such vii
famous plot to take human life.
Treasurer Caches, of the Homestead
advisory board, said yesterday: This,
the latest sensation sprung by the Car
negie company, is almost too absurd to
warrant a discussion. | will say that
the charge that any member of the
advisory board was a party to any plot
to poison nonunion men is as false as it
is ridiculous. II poison was administered
to the non-union men-and do not be-
lioye there was-the guilty parties were
in no way connected with the locked
out men. Some individual may have
done it, but you can rest assured he did
not act in accordance with instructions
from tho advisory committee. The
whole story is, to my mind, IL fake, but
for what purpose 1t was sprung l can
not imagine"
"A Gigantic Fake"
President Garland. Of the Amalga-
mated Association, when asked what he
| thought OF the poisoning charges, said:
absurd; ridiculously absurd. A fake;
| a gigantic fake" Further than this Mr..
Garland would say nothing. So far
as can be learned no Pittsburg chemist
has been called upon to analyze the
/ stomachs of any Of the men alleged to
have been poisoned.
Alderman McMasters said today that
| no additional information had been made
against alleged prisoners; that Beatty is
the only man, so far as he knew, who is
charged with this crime.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 13.-Robert J.
Beatty, who was arrested here for being
concerned in the alleged plan to poison
non-union men in the Homestead mills,
applied for a habeas corpus writ yester-
day before Judge Toney. The writ was
issued and the case placed on the docket
| for today.