Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-07-25

phone was disconnected, and very little in
formation was given out by those who
had charge of the door. One or another
of the surgeons was in constant attend
ance during the day, and the injured
mans wounds were frequently dressed.
The medical men were gratified yester-
day to find that SO far there was no in
dication of inflammation or blood poisoning.
AT no time since the shooting has the
wounded man lost consciousness from
pain.
About l o'clock DIR. Litchfield dressed
the cuts made by Berkman's dagger. There
are no less than six of these cuts of greater
or lesser degree. In addition to the two
serious ones ON the right side, there was
deep one in the calf of the left leg which
was not discovered till Mr.. Prick was I'M
dressed at home. This wound was made,
Mr.. Prick thought, when he tried to force
Berkmann against the wall while he tried
to disarm him. Besides this there are two
long cuts ON the upper part of the left leg
and slight cut on the right hip.
There has been and is good deal of talk
and speculation regarding the possible
effect of the shooting upon the manage
ment and affairs of the Carnegie Com
pany as we'll as upon the Homestead and
kindred strikes. In this connection a
gentleman who stands very close to the
corporation, and who knows whereof he
speaks from his long intimacy with Mr..
Prick, said this morning, $50 long as Mr.
Prick retains possession of his faculties
there will be no necessity for a temporary
chairman or even for the vice chairman to
assume control. Mr.. Prick, on his back
to-day, is the same Mr.. Prick that sat in
his revolving chair in his office Saturday
morning. Every detail of every section
of the gigantic interests under his care are
at his fingers ends, and the corporation
will be run from his sick room with the
same promptitude and same unerrin q
| Judgment, the same instantaneous grasp
of the situation, the same autocracy that
| has always distinguished him. This was
evidenced Saturday by his pluck in insist
| ing that the surgeons should stop probing
| for the bullets in order that he might ap-
pend his signature to important docu-
| ments, as well as by his action in calling
all his head men into the Office and giving
them instructions for to-day's work.
GAS to the Homestead strike, am con-
| fident that this affair will not change his
policy one iota He will go on the path
| he has laid out, although it may be
necessary to call in others to do work that,
| under different circumstances he would
have done himself"
The would-be murderer, Alexander
| Berkmann, spent last night in cell No 4
of the Central Station, and, awakening
bright and early, asked for some break
fast, particularly requesting that it
should include some eggs. A good meal
was given him, and after cleaning the
| plates he put on a clean, laundered shirt,
and standup collar and a light tie, then
he lit a cigarette. He smokes necessarily.
One of his first questions to the guard
was concerning the condition of Mr.. Prick;
and when told that he was doing very well,
| shrugged his shoulders and said that he
had nothing to say. Presently he asked
what the people, laying stress upon the
point that he did not mean the newspa-
pers, thought of the affair. On being told
that it was the general opinion that he had
no ground for his action, he replied ener-
getically: "All the people will soon think
as do. They say am against the law
but say that man was against the law
He was against the people, and when he
is against the people he is against the
State and therefore against the law"
He refused to say whether he was an
Anarchist, or having known Herr Most
and laughed heartily when asked if he had
lived on AID street in New York "Why,
I am not rich enough to live there" ht
said. "An rich people-the big men live
there. / do not belong to them" HI