The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-08-05
CBLD STORAGE HORROR
Recalled by Alarming Testimony
Before the Grand Jury.
1NOENDIARIsM TO COVER ROBBERY.

If the Statement of Joseph Duggan DO
True tho Fatality Was Due to the
Criminalisy of an Organized Gang OF
Piundorers.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-Evidence OF a start
ling nature concerning the Cold Storage
Warehouse company was taken by the
grand jury yesterday. The witness who
gave this startling testimony was Joseph
Duggan, formerly Stony Island avenue
saloon keeper, and the man who first told
of the looting of the Cold Storage ware
house and its firing by IA gang of robbers
He was flushed and excited with the in
QUESTION he had undergone, but said he
had made a clean breast of it ALL
According to Mr.. Duggan there were
l3o men concerned in the conspiracy, and
he declared that he had given the names
to the grand jury. He said that from the
opening of the exposition right up to the
time of the fire goods were stolen, or at
least removed from the Cold Storage ware
house by the wagon load. The wagons
used were express wagons generally,
though he had known of water carts GO
ing out the gates with tanks filled with
hams, bottles of wine and other stock.
VINO removed the goodsr' he was asked
by a reporter.
Employees of the warehouse and gang
that lives on Stony Island avenue, just
outside the grounds"
"Did you give evidence that would i'm
plicate criminally the persons who removed
the goodsi"
"Yes; there will be II sensation when
this thing comes out There are about $50
implicated. have given the names to the
jury"
More witnesses are testifying in regard
to the affair today
The bonds of the Worlds fair officials,
found guilty by Judge Stein of contempt
of court in the violation of the Cling
man injunction by closing the fair to
the public Sunday, July p, were filed yes
terday, thereby suspendng proceedings
pending the action of the appellate court
The case cannot take precedence on the
appellate court calendar, and at the ear
hest possible time will not be called before
the end of next October
Colored people from all parts of the
country will visit the fair OH Aug. 70, this
day having been set aside by the fair man
agemcnt for the African race. The eXcur-
sion committee has secured concessions
from several railroads, and excursions will
be run from Louisville and other southern
cities and intermediate points. There will
also he excursions from the east and west.
hall, beginning at 3 o'clock. Siessieretta
Jones, the black Patti; Harry Bureigh,
teacher in the National Conservatory of
Music, New York; Sidney Woodward, of
Boston, and Mime. Selika will be the solo
lists a specially trained chorus of 100
voices, the original Fisk Jubilee singers
and the exposition orchestra will partici-
pate. There will be scenes from the opera
of Uncle Toms Cabin" composed by IL
young negro, Will NJ. Cook All the music
will be by colored authors. In the evening
Fred Douglass will preside and deliver the
Grafton. Addresses will also be made by
Jonn VI. Langston, of Virginia; ID. X.
Bruce, of Mississippi, Charles NJ. Morris,
of New York, and other prominent colored
orators.
One of India spotentatcs, the Maharajah
of kapurthalia, reached Chicago yester-
day. Accompanied by one of his half
dozen wives and his retinue, he registered
ut the Hotel Windermere, where sump-
tuous apartments had been reserved for
them. The mnharajah has come 10 sec
the fair and will stay until lie has done"
the exposition thoroughly.
The paid admissions ut the fair yester-
day were 90,907.