The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-07
RIOTERS CASES HEARD.
Tho Buckeye Glass Works Nom
Union Mon Triod
AND HELD FOR COURT YESTERDAY.
Mayor Wostwood Hears tho Evidence
aud Binds Thorn Over, but Their
Lawyers will Demand q Rchcaring
In tho Probate Court-Tho EvI.
dcnco offered.

Seven OF tho nine non.union glass
workers accused Of rioting all tho Buck.
eye Glass Works on tho night Of Janu.
ary 90 were hold Yesterday In tho sum
OF $500 each to await tho action Of tho
grand jury. Tho case Of John Eyarts
was continued. no being unable to at.
tend on account Of sickness, aud James
Locke was discharged. The prelInin.
airy examination was held before Mayor
Samuel Westwood at Martins Ferry.
1t was commenced at 10 u. III. aud
entod at $3.50 p. NJ, with tho .court
room packed all day.
J. 9. Tallman, OF Bellaire, aud W. T..
Dixon, OF Martins Ferry, appeared for
the strikers and George Duncan aud S.
w. boyd tor the defense. The tes.i.
mony was taken by u ssenographer for
the latter.
Tho seven mon bound over are John
WiIlcrd, Gonkor Porter, John Everatts,
Henry johnson, John Thomas, Bort
DANSS tud oOul NlHOT.
DR.. w.. b. Mcclure stated that Eyeretts
was confined to his bed and was unable
to attend the hearing.
James McCatirey, ono OF tho strikers
who caused the arrest, was. tho frat
witness examined. lie said the glass.
workers had been meeting trains to SEQ
The non.unlon men. explain their side
Of the case aud try aud persuade them
10 leave town, that sixteen had been
sent away. not by force, to his
knowledge. that their railroad fare had
been paid, that no was not OH FRS.
street when the shooting occurred, but
soon atterward talked with tho Wells.
burg man, who did no. 20 into the
Buckeye. and went home.
Cross.examined, McCaflrey said he
made out tho affidavit on what informa.
nation he had. He said he had heard
that some men were roughly handled
after their arrival in town.
The only elassworkers he recognized
on tho corner OF Hanover and First
streets attor tho shooting were Charles
Otto, William Kellar and Larry O'Con.
nell and two from Wheeling. lie said
he did not know why the nou-union
men stay in tho works; he thought
they could safely walk out on the street
and that tho union 10 opposed to
assaulting men.
Charles Colly, who wa 4 brakeman
on the Cleveland. Lorain & Wheeling
train. saw three mon get Of on the side
next to the factory. The train did not
stop, only slowing up to let tho men off.
He stood on the platform between two
cars, saw the flash Of a revolver at the
works just after the train passed; did
not know positively that the Buckeye
employees under the bridge had guns.
but thought they had, thought twelve
or fourteen shots were fired. As the
train passed n OF the men under the
bridge beceoned with hislhands for the
new arrivals to como on. but no had no
gun in either hand. lie said he saw
one shot fired from tho Office window.
John Workman, OF Bellairc, said he
was on the rne OF First and Hanover
streets, and saw two men get OF the
train; saw tho flash OF n revolver at the
office window, just after the train pass
cd; five shots were fired from under
the bridge and eight from the other
side Of the street; he saw several men
under tho bridge.
William Morgan. a glassworker en-
p!oyed at the West Virginia glass
works. talked with one OF tho nom
union men at the Buckeye last Sunday,
and Willerd told him no shota were
fired after he got upstairs.
Jesse Biggs, OF First street, said he
was standing on the corner aud saw a
shot from tho upstairs window; saw
twelve men under tho bridge; saw seven
shots under the bridge and five on the
corner across the street. He say, the
crowd on tho corner ran, heard some