The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-01-06


the sheriff to take charge. I also asked him
If he had a rifle He said yes, and / told him
TO bring it along. He went away and brought
another man, l think his name is Brown,
and said he was good young man If l needed
any more and l said, "Take him along if you
can vouch for bim being good, steady man.
He said he could vouch for him. Mr.. Briggs
also said Woavil was a good man aud 1 told
Briggs he could 20 along, too. Briggs said
Woavill belonged to the same company as he
did and he knew him personally. The
dukey had meantime gone on to q Bolmesville
to get some of the repairmen. also went to
a hardware store to get some cartridges for
the rifles. 1 had previously got some but
they were the wrong size. ! went to the
store and left Briggs, Brown and Weavil in
front Of the restaurant After that we all
went to the power station and loaded up the
repairmen with the tools. Then we went to
Gibertou, When we got there we found
quite a mob The streets were crowded. /
couldn't tell whether the track was torn up
or not The mob was so great 1 couldnt see.
@. Up to that point what had you done
with the cartridges
A. I loaded our Winchesters
Q, What did Briggs do with his2
A. don't know.
Q. Do you know his own gun?
A. Yes
Amour identified q gun marked "Fr and
1907 produc by Mr. Wadlinger as the one
Briggs had that night.
Amour then continued When 1 saw the
crowd there turned to the men ia the car
and told them under no condition to attempt
to shoot until l said so, even if I was shot.
Almost as quick as the dinkey stopped I saw
Mr. Reynolds, the Chief Burgess Mr.. Stone
and several others that knew. 1 called on
them, in the name of the Commouw wealth, to
help me maintain the peace and help lay the
track Mr. Reynolds said, "Dck, that won't
work tonight This amt Homestead.
Everybody was talking and l can't say what
the others said. talked to Mr.. Reynolds
and he came up to the car He said, Dick
you can lay that track tonight. We have
been waiting for you two hours" ! said
"John, see it," There were a good many
men there intoxicated. Quite a number
drew revolvers. Reynolds and me shook
hands. said "Johu, we have been
friends for many years and we
will be many more This is
no personal fight" He said, NO. but you
| can't come here and lay that track with all
your hands We are too many for you. You
can't lay that track tonight. l said, 81 see
that, but we will wait to see if any of the
bosses come up in the next car and perhaps
they can manage the matter with the Conn
Gil" While we were having this converse
ton Keating came and said said, "Dirk, I was
opposed to tearing up the track, but now that
| it is up am opposed to it being put down
again until they comply with the law"
talked with Heating a few minutes ard we
shook hands. Then he walked towards his
house. There was quite loud holerine
about Homestead which took no notice ofan
| l walked on the north side Of the eastern end
of the platform. l stepped down on the steI
Of the car and I talked with some people
One young man said, "you ought to be ar
rested because you are blocking up the
street" l looked up and at tho cross street
and said, "that is so;" and turned to the mo
tor man nearand said, "Runabove the crossing
we are blocking part Of the street," and w,
run the car back l was standing on the
step Of the car with my back towards tn,
center of the car when 1 heard some one say
Where is the Girardville militia now2'
had to get back from an awkward step abou
10 inches high as l got around and got on tn,
platform with my face to the east saw Mahon!
struggling with Briggs with a gun.
hollered, leave 90 Take that wanted
to say "Take that gun back but before
could say gun back the gun went of
Mahony kind of fell back, and put his hanJ
to his side Just then I noticed man stel
up aside Mahony and he put his hanC
through the front of the car and shot mi
here (pointing to his right breast). The sho
eau ed me to fall back against the side of tn
car door. and as did the man again shot M
here (pointing to his right thigh. 1t wa
not 30 seconds after the struggle with tn
guns. The same man shot me twice, wen
to the west end of the car aud found no on
there In going through the car / passe
a man named John Sweeny, l think, one q
the repairsmen. came back and tried
sit down on a seat in the car, but as I did S
fell of the seat and l rolled from there o
to the floor with my head to the east and m
feet to the west. laid there some 30 seconds
as near as ! can form any opinion, aud ther
was no one else on the car then. A ma
came on the car, got hold Of my leg an
, pulled me; then he picked up one Of tn
guns, / cannot swear which gun or to tn
t identity of the man. Immediately after
3 was shot a sensation came over me as if theI
p was a dark red light before my eyes and thl
' made it impossible for me
: distinguish things clearly. He wa
t tall man and dressed dark. Il
e laid on his elbow and sat on the seat wit
D a gun he had picked up off the seat pointe
through the west window on the south sid
of tbo dfvboy Ha 6rnd mora than ono