The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-08
WHIPPED OURS.
Dismal Homecoming of the Pinker-
tons-Jersey Citizens Among
Them.

| sEY CITY NEWS that three OF the wounded
Pinkertons at Homestead, Pa, were from
Jersey City, created considerable COM
| ment, and speculation was rife as to who
| else and how many others went along
with the Pinkerton band of thugs from
| this city. So far as could be ascertained
| last night, there were but five. In addi-
| tion to the three-Thomas Ma!lly, Thorn
| as Bennett and Fred Fisher-mentioned
as among the wounded, William Herman
and George (or Harry Colyer. made up
the Jersey City coterie.
| 1t is difficult to trace the homes or
friends of any of the group. except tn at
of Mailly, whose father, William Mailly,
| keeps a shoe shop on Montgomery street.
near the junction. He was dismissed
from the Police Department about three
years ago for general cussedness. and for
the past two years has been connected
with the Pinkerton Agency. For awhile
he was employed q, bouncer at the old
Cooper Hall Concert garden. He is a
married man. but left his wife soon after
marriage.
PRETTY MATERIAL.
Bennett is said to be big strapDing ex-
bartender out of a Job. but could find no
one who knew either him or Fisher well
enough to say where they lived or what
definite occupation they followed Ker-
mans address was given me as Sixth street
near Erie, but no one bv that name was
known by the residents of that section on
whom I called. He Is SAID to have beeni n
the uniformed service of the Pinkertons
for some time and my informant further
said that both Herman and Colyer bore
ntof nj Hnr3c odA
ksVen as Sixth street and Jersey
avenue. At No. 6l5 jersey ave-
nns found respectable old gentleman
who believes his son Harry (not George
yas among the Pinkertous at Home
stead, though he refused to give his rea-
sons further than to say that Harry left
home nearly d week ago and had not been
seen since. He was an advertising
agent, and frequently STAYED away from
home several days at a time. Neverthe-
less the family have closely scanned the
various newspapers containing the list of
the dead and wounded of the Homestead
riots.
MAILLY ORGANIZED IT
Mailly got the band together in this
city. He has done the same thing for
Pinkerton on number of occasions, ana
while some of the men who are hired by
him for Pinkerton are ruGians and hood
lums OF the toughest sort. occasionally
of employment, wLo are unable to sup
port their families, and who Jump at
Mailly's offer Of SIS week and expenses,
under the supposition they are merely to
act as Waterman.
LIKE WHIPPED OURS.
The New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
| City Pinkertons who were able co leave
Pittsburg were expected to arrive on
Pittsburg special at the Pennsylvania
depot in this city last night. A crowd
assembled to meet them, but melted
away as the night wore on. They ar
rived ct 2:20 this morning.
Almost every one of the men in the
| waiting room beaped maledictions upon
| the Pinkerton men. The men stood
on the Pennsylvania Railroad plat
form until long after midnight
despite the fact that the railroad officials
tried their best to persuade the crowd
| that the defeated mercenaries would u OF
| arrive over the Pennsylvania road At
| twelve O'clock and again at half-past one
o'clock, the station-master said that he
had heard of mo special from Pittsburg,
and by two o'clock but half a dozen
| men were left of the crowd that
| had assem- bled. AT twenty minutes past
| two o'clock train came rolling slowly
| into the shed. There were no lights in
| the cars. the windows were all shut and
| the blinds were down. In the train were
the most miserable looking men that ever
came to Jersey City. They were the
Pinkerton detectives from Homestead.
and some of them could hardly realize
that they were home. Many of the men
broke down and cried like babies.
When the men left the cars they pre-
sented a frightful sight. Men with cruel
| cuts on their faces could be seen every
where, and the fickering electric light
| lamps made the scene even more hid eous.
The men wore hats of all descriptions.
They weie battered and torn. Their hands
We're cut in hundred places.
GAG Law.
The men walked down the platform
| together and were put ON the Desbrosses
street ferryboat. They sat together in
the mems cabin talking with each other.
| One ugly looking fellow with big straw
hat and heavy black mustache walked
up and down the cabin watching
the men. He was the lieutenant in
charge of them. He had given them
Homestead or of the battle there. and was
| Datrolling the boat to see that the men
obeyed his orders.
Some of the men were willing to talk of
the battle, but the Lieutenant in charge
as soon as he saw them engaged in con-
versation with outsiders" would come
up and tell them to shut up or they would
| be discharged.
1t was like searching for needles in a
haystack to find this morning any of the
men who arrived home from Pittsburg
last night. Mailly and Colyer reached
home early in the evening. The other
three arrived with body of $50 men at
| 2;30 this morning.
When reporter for, THE NEWS called
| at Colyer's house this morning, he was
told that the young man was too much
shaken up to see a reporter.
CHAT WITH BENNETT.
Bennett Is respectfully CON nected. He
lives In Grove street, but was found at
the heme of his sister in Fourth street.
He is man past middle age, with
| streRks OF silver in his hair.
| kindly face aud affable manners:
| his face, however, was much
bruised. Both eyes were blackened, and
his head was full OF bumps. His vest in
| front showed the mark OF knife that
hal cut through his blouse, but did not
enter his breast. His right arm
had been grazed by spent bull
let. His back WAS sore, aud
he said his body was covered with bruises
received at the hands of the crowd that
| formed gauntlet through which the
men. four abreast, were obliged to walk
| for three-Quarters of a mile after the sur
render.
II got knocked down so many times
| he said, ''that / left off counting them.
It was boy about twelve years old that
| attempted to stab me in the breast
"Yes, we knew we might have to fight
when we went out there. Still I sup
| posed we went simply, as detectives.
| to guard property. have
been employed for some time