Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-17
HOPE IN HARD LUCK.
Experience of a Hon-Unionist in
Homestead Told by q Friend.
HOW HE GOT INTO THE COUNTY JAIL
Deputies Prepared to Resist Interference
With Workmen.
MORE HOMESTEADERS APPLY FOR WORK

James Harper, one o. the non-union men
ut the Homestead mills, called ut the county
iail last night to extend a word of epcour-
agement TO Thomas Hope, an engineer from
the mill, who is held for court on charge
late to see Hope, but Harper promised to
return this morning during visiting hours.
Harper told this story about Hopes ar
rest: 81 had no acquaintance with Hope
previous to going to work in the mills, I"
said Harper, ''but since being there I have
found him to be very pleasant, decent
sort of a man. His arrest last Thursday
night was an outrage. Hope was taking a
drink in a saloon in Homestead when sew
eral men got round him and began to call
him vile names and abuse him for working
in the mill.
"Hope saw he was likely to get into
trouble, and, after taking two drinks, was
about to 20 out, when one of the men dared
him to go out and fight in the back yard.
He made no reply, but started for the front
door.
Hope Suddenly Became Unconscious.
"All at once his senses left him. He don't
know whether he was struck on the head or
his drink had been drugged, but the next
thing poor Hope knew he was locked up in a
cell without knowing how he got there.
While in the lookup Homestead man was
put in, but not placed in a cell Hope and
two other men who were in cells were
abused by this man for three hours He
reached in and tried TO catch hold of them,
threatening to wipe them out OF existence
The borough officer, who seemed to be afraid
OF this fellow, finally came and let him go.
Next morning Hope was taken before the
Squire and fined $40 and costs. amour ting to
sl7.40 for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct. Constable Stewart went with him to
get the money at the mill office After it
rant from his pocket and rearrested Hope
for carrying concealed weapons. He was
locked up again. At the hearing Squire
oeffner held him for court. Now he is in
until the grand jury meets in December or
January. The man is a stranger here, and
the only way he can get free is for the firm
TO go his bail. Under the circumstances
they ought to do It. 1 mean to lay the case
before Superintendent Potter myself to-
morrow, and if he won't act I'll get some of
the men together and we'll hire lawyer"
How Hope Was Fooled.
Harper insists that the officers tricked
Hope into paying his fine so they could get
their fees out of him before sending him to
Jail on the other charge. Hope did have a
revolver in his pocket when arrested, but
Harper declares it was not out of his pocket
until taken out by the arresting officer.
1t was reported to Deputy Sheriff Ritchie
yesterday that q concerted effort was to be
made this morning to prevent number of
non-uDion workers who live at Gehring-
town going to work. To prevent this a
force of deputies will be on hand at o'clock,
and any crowd which may assemble will be
promptly dispersed.
Two more Homestead men applied for
work yesterday morning ut the MILL one of
them being a heater. They were told that
there was no work Tor them.
MI. David Lynch during Saturdays meet
ing stated that he had been repeatedly Of
fered back, not alone his former but better
positions. The mill management emphatic
ally denies ever having made such offers.
Homestead was entirely peaceful yester-
day, although the non-union men thronged
the streets, mixing with the strikers This
leads the deputies to believe that no further
violence may be looked for during the con-
tlnuance OF the lockout. "a