The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-15
SIZING The crime.
Evidence Being Collected in
Preparation for the Latti-
mer Murder Inquest.

HAZLETON, Pa, Sept. 15 1897.-The
work of collecting evidence for the in
quest is already being prosecuted by the
strikers representatives and others, in
Guiding the Coroner. DR.. Thodorovich,
secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Con-
sulate. Philadelphia, visited the hospital
and took the statements of the injured.
He asked one of the wounded Hun
garians if the mob ran when the deputies
commenced to fire.
Ran like the mischief" was the reply
DR.. Thodorovich was asked whether he
two of the strikers had revolvers and
threatened the Sheriff's life.
mot speaking in my official capacity"
said DR.. Thodorovich, 81 will say that
from the conversations 1 have had with
the men who saw the Sheriff's deputies
shoot the miners, 1 am of the opinion that
the Sheriff is mistaken. I know that when
the striking miners were about to start
from Harwood some of them carried
canes. The leaders told these men that
they must throw these canes away, and
this order was strictly complied with"
When DIR. Thodorovich visited the
wounded victims in the City Hospital to
find out their nationality two claimed to
be Germans.
They are Martin Sofrauek and Joseph
Pavlacsek
It is possible that the German govern
ment will also claim damages from the
United States
Among others who will testify at the
coroners inquest will be Miss Coyle, the
assistant school teacher at the Lattimer
school house, who saw a deputy sheriff
shoot one of the mob on Friday and as
he fell saw him shoot again.
A rather peculiar incident of the affray
has come to light in the statement of
Charles Kennedy and Marie McCarron,
who say that the conductors of trolley
cars passing the scene refused to take
any of the dead and wounded to Halle
ton unless fare was paid. The former Is
said to have paid thirty-five cents and
the latter 81 to have them conveyed TO
town.
Magistrate German, before whom the
warrants for the arrest of the deputies
were sworn out, states that while no at
tempt will be made to serve them while
the militia are here, evidence is being
secured from every available source.
ut is just as well that we cannot make
the arrest just noww,' he added, 1T
the arrest just now" he added, ''it
Technically, the warrants have never
been issued, for, although they have been
filled out and signed, they are all In my
possession and have not been placed in
the hands of any constable for service"
Edward Turnbach, one of the. shooting
deputies, who is spending sfew days
with relatives at Mount Carmel, some dis
tance from here, is quoted in an inter-
view as follows:-
ut was only question of time when
the clash had to ceme. It might nave
taken I'VE, ten or twenty minutes, but
blood was sure to have been spilled. The
strikers outnumbered us and we did not
know whether the rioters were armed or
net Sheriff Martin told US to keep cool
as the strikers advanced
Finally the rioters grew so abusive tnat
it was necessary to fire. During the day
they barred their breasts. daring us to
shoot. 4 During the last stand the strik-
ers felt sure we would not shoot. Had
the sherif been subjected to abuse much
longer the strikers would haye taken M
courag ge and tried to steal our rifles. That
accomplished, there is no telling how
much life and destruction to property