The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-28

urged Curtis to go ahead and cut the
him If he attempted it. Heard some one
whom he believed to be Slater say:
Burst in the pipe, then we will put the
cars on and take the tracks," Witness
at the time was acting assistant super
visor.
This closed the case for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr.. Collins said N he
was made to cut the spipe
or disturb the tracks. There was no
thought of it. 1t was nonsense, because
to cut the pipe would have drowned out
the Junction men.N
CHIEF ENGINEER SKATERS STORY
Frederick NJ Slater. Chief Engineer OF
the National Dockstand New Jersey juno
ton Company, made an unsworn state
ment. Curtis he said. was sent to MN
from, the companys yard at Bayonne. lie
merely told him to sit on the pipe and
not to do anything until he was tod
what to do. Nothing was said about cut.
ting the pipe. The first witness knew OF OF
over and seized Curtis and drew re-
volver and threatened to shoot anyone
who interfered with him. No one had
any desire or purpose to cut the pipe.
McNally said something about cutting
the pipe and Slater said to him:--
tWill you cut it? You have knife;
Curtis had chisels and hammer, but
he was not sent for to cut the pipe.
Curtis next made statement to the
effect that he neither cut the pipe nor
attempted to; that Slater, did not tell him
to cut it nor anyone else. He did not
hear anything about cutting it. Mr.. James
told him to take chisels and hammer and
go to Slater and he would tell him what
to do The chisels were already sharpened
for him. Slater told him to sit on the pipe
and he did as he was told. He would have
sat there until now If he had been told
to, as long as. he got paid for it. He
scraped some dirt off the pipe just for fun
because he had nothing else. to do and
wanted to be doing something all the
Justice Potts decided there was no
evidence to substantiate the charge Of
malicious mischief against Curtis and
dismissed the case The charge against
.McNally was then similarly disposed of.
there being, as Justice Potts said no
sault and that being special officer
he had a right to carry revolver and
draw it if he deemed it necessary when
The cases of the men arrested yes
Superintendent for Franz 2. O'Reilly, the
identified two Of the prisoners, Thomas
Dunning ard William Seeberger, as
being the foremen who gave orders to
pany to shovel cinders and dirt dow-s
upon his head and back, which they did.
He admitted that warnings not to. go
several times. also that if he. had not
torn down fifteen feet of hulkhead that
had been put up where they We're shovel
ing the stuff would not have fallen on
mi HELD FOR THE GRAND JURY:
Chief Engineer Slater identified John
Moran, another prisoner, as the man he
saw throw q stone in the direction OF
Angelo Mowker. an Italian employed by
the Junction Company. He saw the Ital-
him Mowker was called as No. and
showed his head the stone having struck
him, cutting his head ard knocking him
down Mr.. Vredcptprg claimed that the
wound was merely a mosquito bite
went to work there yesterday. morn
ing. and that one. of the Pennsylvania
men struck him in the eye and played
a hose on him. He was shovelling back
the cinders which they We're throwing
into the excavation, and they played
the, water on the, cinders, to make them~
Policeman Higgins charged Michael
Barnard whom he arrested. with etrik-
ing Moranta on the head with shovel
John Moran denied throwing thestone
which s.s,l.ck Mewker: SAYING that he
there yesterday until lust as he was
arrested. Moran and Barnard were held
for the Grand jury
The names. Of the prisoners are John
Mloran l Jacob Mccoy ~, James Slavin
Michael Barnafd Edward Nolan, Doivi
Kolslzi Joseph Schultz. Martin Ward
Timothy DAILY, Thomas Reilly, John
Crocker. Joi1n H. Jones, John Connell
lanes McHorn, Owen Lee. Thomas Seal,
Patrick Callaway,@ Michael Bannon
and Ward We're discharged there being
no evidence against them, and the others
were paroled in custody of Counsellor
Nredenburg. to appear this morning for
further examination.