Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-15
DYNAMITERS ARRESTED
Pennsylvania Miners Charged
 With Murder and Arson.
DETECTIVES RAN THEM TO EARTH.


 the Authors of Several Bomb Outrages
 During Recent sfrIke-More Arrests
 Are Expected to Follow.
 RIDGwAY, Pa, Nov. 15.-Seven men are under lock and key in the jail here today, and they will be closely guarded until they are brought to trial. They arc coal miners, and at their doors are laid various deeds of violence, the least of which is the burning of valuable prop erty, the ascending gamut including the wayIaying and beating of men who work cd in their places. plotting to kill their employers and ending in the killing of boy when the house of a nonunion work CT was blown up with dynamite.
 Detective Daniel McSweeney, armed with warrants and guarded by six of his most trusted assistants. went to the min- CTS house in tho dead of night and drag ged the men out of their beds and away to jail And it is the belief that before many hours have passed the company will be increased by nearly dozen, who are to be arrested on charges of being inn pIicated in the outlawry.
 Those who are now in jail are:
 Frank Myers. who is charged with mur- der and arson, having been, 1t is said, the ringleader in tho burning and destruc- ton of property and having instigated the blowing up of n house with dynamite, the result being the death of a boy and the maiming of several other persons
 Ludwig Rosen beck. charged with mur- der and arson. having manufactured the bomb which killed the boy.
 Edward Fox, charged with murder and arson in having touched of the bomb.
 Leo Worm, charged with murder and arson in having helped discharge the bomb.
 William Geitner, charged with arson in having applied the torch to many houses that were burned. It was Geit- ner's talkativeness that put the detectives on the right track.
 Sebastian Schwentner, charged with arson, being implicated with Geitner.
 Joseph Geitel. also implicated with Geitner and accused of arson
 When Anarchy ReIgned.
 When the strikes were inaugurated in the bituminous coal regions in Pennsyl- yania last summer, no miners were moro concerned than were those in Elk county and in the northwestern part of the state. and when the mines were closed none be- came more vindictive or riotous. Nothing seemed too desperate for them to do. and for n time absolute anarchy reigned, for, although the sheriff of the county and his deputies were on the scene. they could dc nothing tn stem the tide of lawlessness.
 Several houses occupied by gangs of tho men who work at the reduced prices were demolished, and the hospitals were filled with the victims. In only one case, how ever. was any one killed.
 When n bomb was thrown against the house in which foreman slept, a boy was caught in tho wreck and was so bad ly maimed that he died n few hours after ward. By the explosion half a dozen la bOrers were badly injured.
 The strikers employed unusual inge- nuity in the construction of these bombs, having first tried gunpowder and finding 1t was not powerful enough. As a gem eral thing they took small coal car wheels, which arc hollow, and filled them with dynamite cartridges. Fuses were attach | ed. and these were ignitcd after the | wheels had been placed under a doomed house.
 | sawlOg. hollowcd it out, and inserting i their cartridges had a most destructive | bomb.
 As may be imagined, tho community was tcrrorized, and no one could be found willing to utter n reproach to the strikers, | for this action meant death.
 After the attempt on MT. Kauls stock farm. however, the mine owners deter mined to secure aid from the outside. sent For Detectives. | They communicated with Barring X l McSweeney. who, although they have offices in the Equitable building in New York, do little detective work there. They have branches in Scranton. Pittsbura | and Wilkesbarre, and in that region is | their field of operation.
 Mir. Barring made a visit to Ridgway | in the middle of July, went over the l whole ground and then decided that his | only chance was to place men at several points who could work in the mines il necessary, and in this way become ac quainted with the strikers and obtain il possible their confidence. How we'll he | decided and how faithfully his instruo tions were carried out the arrests prove.
 We had to get in the first place, 7" said | Mir. Barring in an interview. 'men who were daring and adventurous and at the same time had thorough knowledge oi coal mining. That was no easy task. but we got them, and giving them the most | concise instructions we sent them to diff ferent points in the mining region. They mixed with the strikers, who, knowins the men were miners, were at first suspi cious, fearing they were about to work 1T | the mines. This led them to suggest thai our men should become members of tn, union, and this they wero only too glaG to do, as it was long step toward secuI ing the information we desired. On co casions they would work in the mines and in this way they heard all the gossip
 and 1t was the most material aid to us. ["
 Lawlessness on the part of striking
 miners in Pennsylvania is nothing novel
 but 1t is not often that the perpetrator
 are brought up with such a round turn
 In the mining troubles in Wilkesbarr
 last May murders were of almost dail,
 occurrence. while assaults, robberies an,
 other crimes were without number. Il
 the previous year Is men were tried fo
 murders committed during a genera
 strike. In 1892 12 men were jailed fo
 taking life. and only four of them wer
 convicted.