St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-20
Pinkertons Testify in the
Trial of CritchloW at
Pittsburg.
Cross Examination Fails to
Shake Their Testimony
Materially.
Other Witnesses Give Testi-
mony and the State Rests
Its Case.
After a Long Session the Bea-
YER Falls Strike Is De-
clared Off.

PITTsBURG. Nov. 19.-Capt. Cooper,
an employe of the Pinkerton agency,
and who was i'm command of the men on
the bargeS during the fight at Home
stead, July 6, was on the stand when the
trial of Sylvester Critchlow was re-
sumed today. The witness stuck to the
story told yesterday afternoon. His
cIosS-examination was conducted by
Attorney Brennan, assisted by Attorney
Erwin. The court room was thronged
with prominent Homestead strike lead
ers and members of the famous advisory
board.
W. L. Burt, of Chicago, Pinkerton
detective, was called. Witness gave in
detail the trip of the PinkertonS from
Chicago to Homestead, and corrob-
Grated Capt. Cooper as to the attack on
the bargeS. He said that when the
gang-plank was run out the crowd on
the shore shouted, Don't come ashore,
you ---. We will Kill every
one of YOU" When the gang-plank
Was thrown out | got on the shore
and placed the plank in position; re-
turned to the boat. When | started to
come back again / heard shots fired;
the firing from the shore began about a
minute after the plank was thrown out.
When | got on the outside again l found
Capt. Hines. of New York, and O'Day,
of Chicago. Lester and Kline had been
shot. No shots were fired from the
boats until
The Men Were Shot.
AS soon as the breaStworkS on shore
We're completed the men were irng
again. A hole was torn in the roof of
one of the bargeS Dy dynamite thrown
from the shore. l think six charges of
dynamite were thrown at the barges.
Some of them fell short. Oil was
poured into the river above the
barges and ignited. 1t went out before
reaching the boats. A burning raft
was put into the river above MS, but it,
too. went out before reaching US. 1t
lodged against all obstruction and the
/ fire died out. | knew L. j. COnnors. He
was on the boat. | saw him between IL
and II o'clock that day, that w>5 before
he was shot. He was near the bow of
the boat. Three or four minutes later
saw two men picking him up.
He had fallen about twenty-five feet
from the bow of the boat. He
was placed on a table and medical
student from Chicago, who had hired as
a guard, bandaged the wound on Con-
nors' arm. At this point, it being 1890
O'Clock, court adjourned for dinner.
At the afternoon session Of court the
request of the jury to attend church to-
morrow was denied. The croSs-eXam-
ination of w. Ii. Burt who is also under
indictment for riot and murder, was
completed.
Peter j. Connors, another Pinkerton,
said he was on the barge. AS they
passed through Lock No. 2, the bargeS
were fired on from the shore, and this
continued till the works were reached.
Witness then related the story of
The Attempt TO Land
at the works, and said that no shots
were fired from the barge until four
men had been shot, and about twenty
shots had been fired from the shore.
Witness told OF the attempt to burn the
bargeS, the use of cannon and dynamite.
This witness is the man who escaped by
telling the strikers after the surrender
that he was Chicago newspaper man.
When he had escaped he was held up
in the Pittsburg, McKeesport IL Young
hioghenny bridge and asked if he had a
revolver ~ es. two," lie answered, and
when ordered to give them up he said
"Why should l? l got them on the
bargeS. Go down and get some your
self. There are plenty of them"
Capt. w. b. Rodgers, of the Little
Bill. described the bargeS and the Incl
dents of the trip. lie corroborated the
other witnesses.
Joseph Ii. Gray testsfied to having
been on the steamboat Little Bill on the
morning of July q, and was there in ca
| pacity of a deputy sheriff of Allegheny
county. The witness was asked no fur
| ther questions, and there was no cross
examination.
James Porter, photographer, testi-
fed to taking pictures of the barges
| about $50 IN the afternoon of July 6.
At this point court took recess until Z
! O'Clock.
| Several Witnesses identified Criticize
| low. and testified they saw him in the
vicinity of the mill yard with gun in
his hand on July 6. Samuel Stewart
testified he saw Critchelow, Joseph
j A. Hall and James Flanagan fire IN
| the direction of the barges. Stew
| art is a clerk in the employ OF
| the Carnegie company and his testi-
monY was very damaging to the defend
ants. He was cool, and all efforts to
confuse him were unsuccessful. When
Stewart left the stand at 9:05, District
Attorney Burleigh announced that the
commonwealth would rest Court then
adjourned till Monday morning.
FEW TAKEN BACK.