Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-07-21
STRIKERS ARRESTED
HOMESTEAD MEN ACCUSED OF MUIR
DER BY SECRETARY LOVEJoY.:
Burgess McLuckie the First Man Jailed.
The Union Now Proposes 80 RetaIiate
and Have Carnegie, FricR and others
Arrested for Murder and Treason.

The Union Now Proposes 80 Retaliate
and Have Carnegie. Frick and others
Arrested for Murder and Treason.
PITTsBuRa, July l9-John McLuckie
burgess or chief municipal officer of Home.
stead, Is confined In one 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 ODonnell, the leader of
the strikers, and warrants are in the hands
of officers of the law for seven other promi-
nent participants in the troubles at Home
stead, and who are but the vanguard of a
ssmall army of strikers that it is proposed to
bring before the bar of the law.
The intention Of the Carnegie company to
institute criminal proceedings against the
Homestead leaders in the event Of the
county authorities failing to take cogni-
zance Of the recent riot was carried into ef-
feet much quicker than had been antici-
pated, or than the authorities at the execu-
tive Office, who feared the effect of a pre-
mature publication of their Intentions were
willing to intimate. The preliminary stages
OF the proceedings were conducted with
considerable secrecy.
Secretary Lovejoy, of the Carnegie COM
pany, sauntered leisurely into the office of
Alderman j. V. McMasters at Diamond and
Grant streets. He was unaccompanied, and
by peculiar coincidence nobody but the
alderman was in the office at the time, the
constables attached to the place being be-
hind the closed doors of the anteroom.
Secretary Lovejoy stated that he desired to
lay lnformations against number of men,
charging the crime of murder, and the alder
man proceeded to draw up the papers.
Charged with Murder.
The information set forth that in Mifflin
township, in the county of Allegheny and
state of Pennsylvania, on July 6, the de-
PENDANTS did, of their own malice afore-
thought, feloniously and riotously, with
force of arms and deadly weapons, kill and
murder T. j. Connors, Pinkerton watch
man, and Silas Wayne, a worker at the
mills, and that this information was made
upon information received and believed to
be true by the deponent, who therefore
prayed that warrants might issue and that
the men to be named might be arrested and
held on the charge of murder.
When this document had been drawn up
the alderman suggested that it would be
better to have two informations, one relat-
ing to the killing of Connors and the other
to that of Wayne, and a second paper was
accordingly made out. Secretary Lovejoy
then named as the men accused Hugh
ODonnell, John McLuckie, Sylvester
Critchlow, Anthony Flaherty, Samuel
Burkett, jaime Flanagan and Hugh Ross
In one information the name Of ODonnell
stood first, while in the other it stood
second. When the papers had been COM
pleted Secretary Lovejoy listened to the
reading of the oath, kissed the Bible ap-
pended his signature to the informations,
buttoned his sack coat, shook hands with
the justice and sauntered out of the office
as leisurely and to all outward appearances
as free from care and anxiety as he had en-
tered half hour before.
McLuckie Locked Up.
No time was lost by Magistrate McMas-
ters in making out the fourteen warrants,
and they were intrusted to Constables to-
seph Weber, w. j. Morris and Mike j.
Price, who at once left for Homestead. On
their arrival they made known their bust
ness to General Snowden, who referred
them to Colonel Green, in command of the
provost guard. The latter detailed two
companies of soldiers to accompany the con-
stables 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
When the officers returned to this city
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 several friends. The warrant was
served upon him, and to the magistrate he
said that he had already sent word to the
other men who were wanted to come back
into town and surrender.
Alderman McMasters committed the bur
CESS to the county Jail without bail pending
preliminary examination on Friday.