The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-04
SERIOUS CHARGES
Against Members Of the Home
stead Advisory Committee.
Charged With Treason Against the
Commonwealth.
The Move One Which Was En-
tireIy Unlocked For.

for NEcLuckie, O'Donnen and About
Thirty Others-The First Case of the
Kind in the states History. and VIII Be
Watched with Interest-The Penalty
Twelve Years imprisonment IN the |
nitentiEry.
HOMESTEAD, Pa, Oct. 3.-The strik-
ers were startled by the sudden arrest !
Friday night of Chairman Thomas j. |
Crawford, William Bair, George Ry-
lands. John Dierken and T. W. Brown, |
of the advisory committee of the Anal !
galnated association.
The men were chatting at street cor
neTs when they were taken. Indeed,
several of the prisoners did not know
why they were arrested until safe be-
hind the bayonets of the soldiers.
It was intended at first, to keep the
prisoners all night and hunt for others,
but through fear of an attempt at rescue
thew were taken to City Farm station,
placed on the train and taken to Pitts
burg at Ii o'clock and landed in jail.
At the station crowd CT $50 angry. If
not surprised men assembled with aston
ishing rapidity, and their determined
looks caused apprehension, but there
was no trouble.
The infor1nations for treason We're
made by County Detective Beltzhoover,
before Chief Justice Paxson, of the su-
preTne court of Pennsylvania.
The petition charges Hugh ODonneH,
Thomas J. Crawford, John McLuckle
and thirty others, all members OF the
strikers advisory committee, with urea
SON 1t states that the defendants did or
dain and levy war against the common
wealth of Pennsylvania, to the end that
the constitution, laws and authority
were resisted. and that the said defend
anita on July 1. with hundreds of others,
armed and arrayed in warhEe manner
! did rnla~fuIly and traitorously assem-
bile IN the borough of Homestead. and,
with force and arms. did feloniously and
| traitorously, and in hostile and warlike
manner array themselves in rebellion
AGAINST the commonwealth, contrary TO
! the duties of allegiance and fidelity or
1 the said Defendants
Chief Justice PGxson at once issued
warrants for the arrest of the accused,
and officers were dispatched by the shex-
III to Homestead to serve them
The Locked Out Men Alarmed.
The wholesale arrest Of the members
Of the advisory board on the charge OF
treason has spread CONSERVATION among
the Iocked-ont men They do not even
now fully understand. and are in more
or less dezed state. 1t is already notice
able that those residents of Homestead
who heretofore took no active interest
IL the existing trouble are loud In de-
runciation of the act reSOrted to by the
Carnegie company
TheT 6enCIince the charges as i'll
advised. unWslrranted and untenable,
and through 1t claim to discover what
desperate straits the company Is N, enc
claim to believe the purpose is to Int1In-
idate the locked-Cdt men and cause a
general stampede. It is believed here
that the result viii be but TO sohdlfy
the ranks of the men and arouse general
sympathy with those who are now con
sidered the victims OF persecution.
The search for the members OF the adj
visorv committee was il progress Satur-
day morning. = number of deputy
sherifTs were on the watch for the par
: ties not yet in custody, but up to the
hour of noon no additional arrests had
been made.
The usual Saturday meetings of the
locked-out men took place as usual
!, Denounced.
& PTTTsBURG, Oct. 3.-When the news
. that the charge of treason had beer
I brought against the advisory committed
reached Homestead Friday evening, i
+ shocked the people. The locked-ou
c men were puzzled and declared tha
: they did not know what it meant. They
e were unanimous in the belief that thu:
i thing Offering charges had gone too far
o saving that charge OF treason reflected
uIlon their standing as American cltl
E, gems and against their patriotism. Al
d together il was roundly denounced. L
i was believed by the men that the obJec
n of the arrests is to get the leaders out Q
,e the way SO that the others will go Il
e work, -~veE1SEl@ssiG
Eez5s~ Can 1t Be Sustained7
lie W. J. Brennan, Esq, attorney for til
lie defendants, was not greatly surprised a
L the charge, though he had not though
It of any charge against his clients bein;
If made before the supreme court.
II "I do not believe that the charge vii
J. ever be sustained" said Mr.. Brennan
because there was no element of trea
n son in the acts of the men. There mus
ID be q general purpose to destroy and re
n sist all rightful and legal authority
l. The simple act of an individual, or OF
ID mob Of men in, case like we have ha
Ia ct Homestead, is described by the law
a of the state as riot and as the acts of
mob. II was wrong for the strikers
-. prevent men from entering the works 4
- Homestead, and it was wrong for ther
- to enter them, and nobody on earth rt
% grets it now as much as they do. Thes
"a were acts committed in the heat of e1
~ element, and were intended to proven
- disorder of a more serious nature.
Probably some of the acts alleged.
committed. were simply expedients n
AZ sorted to. that advantage might /
ID gained in the strike, but treason or
al plot to overthrow the government. as
y legged, was farthest from their thought
IN am very free to state upon the info
Tn nation have received about the pr
as ceedirgs that the men viii never be COZ