The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-12
A COWARDLY ASSAULT
On u Glnss Worker from Wolls-
burg Yesterday.
A DASTARDlY CRIME COMMITTED
By Martins Ferry hien at tho Powlky
Station IN This City Yesterday
Morning = Tho Assnilants Escape
Attor Nonrly KILLING a Well Known
Mnn on His Why to Tustiry IN Court.

Ono OF tho most cowardly and das.
tardly assaults evor committed In this
community occurred at tho Panhandle
station yesterday morning on tho ar.
rival OF tho carly train. Tho circum.
stances preceding and leading up to tho
affair mako 1t appear not only cowardly
and dastardly in tho extreme, but utter.
ly contemplate on tho part Of
the perpetrators. james Lauck, a
o : union glass worker, was
tho victim, aud tho asaiiant.
were ak or eight union glassworkcra
and friends OF theirs from Martins
Ferry. with possibly one or two Wheel.
ing men. Lauck ha, been employed at
tho buckeye factory, at Martins Ferry,
since 1t resumed with q non.union
force. Last week no was summoned to
appear yesterday before tho probate
court at st. Clairsville and testify In tho
case oil the glasaworkors accused Of riot.
Ing. Saturday several glassworkera rs.
sured him that he would notbe molestei
ut any time, and that no could freely
walk about anywhere ia the vicinity
without fear. That evening ho won't TO
Wollsburg to visit friends aud relatives.
and spent Sunday there. Yesterday
morning no and Thomas Touner, an.
other glassworker, boarded tho train to
return, the latter being accompanied by
q small son.
Whonthe train arrived here, tho men
startled to get of, L.auck being in front.
lilo had scarcely stepped from tho car
steps TO the ground until he was as.
saulted with metal knuckles, i base ball
bat and other weapons. Tonner saw
the assault and with his boy returned
into the car. and went back on the next
train TO Wellsburc.
Lauck was taken unawares. Ho was
cruelty beaten about the head, shoulders
and body. lie managed to get away
from the cowardly ruttians who were
beating him, and get to the Windsor
hotel, from which place he was taken
to the police headquarters, where DR..
Walden dressed his wounds, one cash
In his head requiring six or seven
stitches. He was pretty nearly done
Tor. The officers sent him 10 the home
OF his brother.in-law, Rev. Mr.. Hayden,
pastor OF the First Chriatian church, on
tho Island, whore he rested az easily as
was to be expected.
The brutal assailants escaped across
the river IN the ice. Only a few OF them
are known, but among these are some
who assured Lauck, on their Honor"
that he would not be assaulted. Ono Of
them Is under bond to keep the peace in
Ohio.
Tonner's son. when they returned
into tho car, said: ''Oh. papa, some
men out there arc killing Mr.. L.auck."
The conductor knew that Tonner had
been with Lauck, and said 10 him:
You had bettor stay in the car, and il
those men come in here the company
will get after them and prosecute them
to the full extent OF the law"
Ionuer, on arriving at Wellsburg,
telegraphed Manager Humphrey, who
was at ST. Clairsville, explained his do.
lay and asked what he should do.
Humphrey Immediately wired him to
so to Brilliant, thence to St. Clairsville
via Bellaire and the Baltimore & Ohio.
He did 10. reaching St. C~lairsville in
the afternoon, after the hearing was
over, and most Of tho parties had re.
turned to Martins Forty. lie made
himself known to two law abiding ci,i.
zens OF Martins Ferry who were in S.,
Clairsville, and they escorted him to
Martins Forty and saw that ho reached
the works safely.
Tonnsr and Lauck are tho two men
who arrived at the Buckeye the night
the riot occurred.
Tho outrageous assault caused indic.
nation in Wheeling. among union
s%ympathizers as we'll as others. and a