St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-01
TREASON IS CHARGED.
Arrest of a Number Of the
Advisory Board at Home
stead.
Treason Against the Com
monWealth the Charge
Made.
The Arrested Men Taken OF
the Street Without
Warning.
Five Arrested and Warrants
Out for TWenty-Eight
Others.

HOMESTEAD, Pa. Sept. 30.-A grea
sensation was created here tonight by
| the arrest for treason of number of the
members of the advisory com iittttes tee Of Z
the Homestead Amalgamated associa-
ton. Those arrested were Chairman
Thomas j. G. Crawford, William Baird,
George Reynolds, John Dierken and T.
w. Brown. The arrests came like a
thunderbolt to the men, they were so
uddenly Eiade'and SO Unexpected. The
prisoners were chatting on street cor
nerS when they were taken. The Off
GERS were Detectives Mills and Farrell
and Deputies Young4 Brady, De win,
Kross and Ward.
1t was late in the afternoon when the
warrants based on the information of
Chief Justice Paxson reached, Home
stead and were placed in the hands of
the officers to serve. They first started
out at O'Clock and first caught Craw-
ford and DIerken, who were hurried to
the provost guard tent. The others
were
Caught in Quick Succession
before the locked-out men had time to
realize what was happening. AS the
prisoners were speeded to the prison
tents an alarm was given, and MANY of
the men fastened toward the guard, but
were held back and Denied all informa-
ton: indeed. several of the prisoners
did not know why they were arrested
until safe behind the bayonets of the
soldiers.
1t was Intended first to keep the pris-
onerS all night and hunt for others. but
through fear of an attempt at rescue,
t.422..c. ...s,ere taken to the City Farm sta
ton, placed Oh tie train, brought to
PIttsburg at IL O'Clock md landed in
jail. At the station crowd of $50
angry, surprised men assembled with
astonishing .rapidity, anu their de-
termlned looks caused apprehension.
Two deputies tried to keep them hack.
but by the time the train arrived thew
had almost surrounded the group of
prisoners and officers. When the train
pulled out Chairman Crawford SAID: .
"Ihey MAY prosecute, but they cannot
make us go to work."
The EnformatIons
PITTsBURG, Sept. 3O.-The informa-
TONS for treason, upon which the men,
bers of the advisory committee of the
Amalgamated association we're arrested
tonight, were made by County Detective
BeltzhOOver this afternoon before Chief
Justice PaXson, of the supreme court of
PENNSYLVANIA. The petition charges
Hugh O,Donnell, Thomas q. Crawford,
John McLuckie and thirty others, ali
members of the advisory committee,
with treason. 1t states that the defend.
ants, VINO are inhabitants and residents
OF the commonwealth OF Pennsylvania.
did ordain. prepare and levy war
against the com monwealth of PennsvI-
vania to the end that the constitution,
laws and authority were defied, resisted
and subverted; and that the said de-
PENDANTS on July l, with hundreds Of
others, armed and arrayed in warlike
manner, that is to say, with guns, re-
volvers. cannonS, swords, knives and
clubs. did unlawfully, maliciously and
traltorously assemble together in the
borough OF Homestead, in the common
wealth of Pennsylvania, and then and
there with force of arms did falsely and
traitorously, and in hostile and warlike
manner. array themselves in insurrec-
ton and rebellion against the common
wealth OF Pennsylvania. contrary to the
duty of allegiance and fidelity of the
said defendants.
Chief Justice PaXson at once issued
warrants for the arrest of the accused.
and officers were despatched by the
sheriff to Homestead TO serve them. The
action OF the county authorities was en-
tlrely unexpected. and carried con-
sternation into the camp of the locked
out men.
!. This is the first time In the history of
the state that any resident has been
with treason against the com
monwealth. and the outcome of the
cases will be watched with interest.
The penalty. which was formerly death.
is twelve years Imprisonment in the