The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06

Through a chink in the boarded windows1
stopped open attack after that but kent
sucn close watch on us that twice when
l /, tried to open the door their pickets threw
hardly shut it.
sa After an hours waiting the crowd
enough inside the house. for the has
windows were boarded up as / said and
We had the stove lit On the street it was
bitter cold, with the wind blowing. We ba1
just begun to wonder why ali had grow
SO subdued, when our besegers set up 81
cheer; and, looking through the chinks we
could see them crowding close to the house
ran up the ladder to the floor above
where the windows were open; and the
saw what they were at.
There was some scaffolding at the sec.
ond story, from which hung a rope. lust
, ,g enough for man to reach. A boy
uohe-crawled in the second-story window
third the n foreman m as had had followed him;
/ didn't wait. pulied do ewa 10 ooar Iea US
that went from the first to the second
foor, shouted to my Pinkertons, and made
OF the swinging man below brought just
e egt;s grabbed me by the coat
OF the window with the strain and the
other passed me a jack-knife. The beggar
on the rope gave one look at US and Slid
down to the ground. 1 cut the rope in
Two, pulled in the extra length, and was
almost jerked out of the window again as
we went back to the warm basement
and left him on the third story where he
was was perfectly safe. If he slid down the
rope he was sure to break a leg at least
ana II he dropped through the floor where
the ladder had stood. he was more like!r
10 break his neck. That second floor was
OPEN its walls were covered with wet
plaster a December wind was blowing,
The officer came back along G his ao beat and
chased the crowd to the other side of the
street again; and they were now so demor-
alized that walked out without opposition
saw the foreman at the window like
paDoon n cage. He CRASHED his teeth,
put | ignored him and went marketing for
my garrison. l bought ham, some bread
butter, pies and other stuff, put them in
a a. BASKET st.91 ar, and started back The crowd
and | went in peaceably.
About in the afternoon the foreman
surrendered and asked to be let out So we
put up the ladder to the second floor, let
MN come down, grabbed him and the boy
and ran them out; but he was SO stiff with
cold he had no fight left in him. His face
was blue, and he was just able to whisper
his opinion of us.
He must have taken restoratives in large
quantity, for by o'clock he was back with
mis- men raging around the house again,
and | began to wonder what the chief was
with the Pinkertons.
When the 6 o'clock whistle blew, over
On Macdougal street, two Italians, who had
been overlooked in all the excitement, came
TRANQUILITY up from the cellar into the base
ment They didn't show fight, but seemed
Indifferent as to what we did with them.
Our only difficulty lay with the crowd
about the door, which we were waiting for
the cold and dark to drive away. We took
the Italians kits up the ladder and chucked
them into the street. That was a mistake
for the crowd had forgotten the Italians,
too, and this refreshed their memory
AT first we thought of keeping the gentle
children of the South with us all night. 1
showed them my badge and the Pinkertons
showed them their pistols; and we talked
very fierce but they had been in America
long enough to know that this was free
country and that they had a right to go
home. True, they wanted no trouble with
US, Tor they had also learned enough of
TaamImany to know what, splendid potenti-
alities for trouble existed in men with lit
tie tin badges; still, they insisted on going
home. When they had convinced US that
they would do so or know the reason why
and the meekest Italian may carry a knife
in his boot-we had council of war. Twas
then l invented the flying wedge
The football men were all dressed by this
time, and We're standing about listening to
the great man who had done all these auto
cratic things tell of them in quiet. we'll
bred narrative. almost devoid of slang and
only occasionally obscured by technical
phrases.
Il put one of the Pinkertons by the door
(Which opened inwards), and stood on the
other side myself to check the rush. The
second PinkertOn man took the two SUBJ
missive Italians across the whole length of
the basement, put one behind the other,
made him lay his hands the first ones
shoulders, and then got behind both of
them and ran them straight at that closed
door, in proper tandem forma ton and GO
ing twenty miles an hour. We timed the
thing perfectly. Just as our tandem got
under a full head of steam swung the
door open and shot it out into the astound-
ed crowd like a volley from masked bat
terry. Half dozen men bowled over, but
the foreman was always alive and Jumped
him with the biggest kind of a right-hand
punch punch; n square on the eve that sent him
slammed the door to again.
You never heard such row as there
came, such a nuisance that when the
roundsman of the precinct happened by he
made the patrolman (who had been in
cl1ned to sympath1ze) hunt them out of the
neighborhood.
by o'clock all was quiet; so I slipped
around to the chiefs house for instruc-
lions, leaving the Pinkertons in charge for
the night with a hot stove and plenty of
supper, and instructions to hold the fort
1.-The chief had some new injunction pa
pers that he was going to present the next
ual possession and being attacked quite al
tered the legal aspect of the matter
morning, and this time our injunction was
granted. certified copy was served on
the contractor. and started up for Tenth
street with another for the foreman, who,
I more than half feared. would pay me
back for his black eye, with the twin of it.
house was. there was that man looking out
of the very door of the house itself. and
his eye did credit to me-: | was so amazed
still with my mouth open He sighted me
with his remaining eye, and gave a whoop
part defiance and part warning. Some one
inside shut the door behind him, and he
came walking across the street to meet me.
g 4 was looking for you. Here's an in
junction for you. That's the judges sigma
ture' says / briskly, showing him the
original and looking him literally in the
eye.
. I've got a warrant for youse,' he
roared. TO - with your injunction. In
functions don't go here. Officer artist this
man. He's him you've got the warrant
for. Injunctons! Wah. I'll tache you.
I'll have you stint to the Island first and
kill you when you git lave TO come home
You hit me foul blow yesterday, but I'll
do you yit Antonio, don't you let nobody
YOU don't know come inside that dure I'm
going to court with this man. Lave no
one inside till 1 come back
while he was defying me, crumpling up
the injunction in his dirty hands. and
shouting directions to the house, Off
GER who had evidently been waiting for
me- came up and put me under arrest. So
we three went to court again before Kee-
gan; but this time with the laugh on me.
Il was still amazed at finding that aw-
ful man in possession of the house | had
captured with so much difficulty the day
before that / didn't even protest at going to
the police court, and hadn't yet wit enough
to say anything about injunctions. 1t ap-
peared that the interchangeable beggar had
hired a bedroom in an adjacent hotel. be-
yUbic and the aDartmpQt hOuSp