The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-11

lon2Shofemcn refuSe TO handIe the
freight of the Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western. Lehigh Valley, Reading.
and other roads concerned in the strike.
For obvious reasons II was necessary
to keep the project dark. Consequent
ly. Mr.. Kcefe came here incog. and
when he learned that the newspaper
men were on to his conferences with
President Mitchell. he proceeded to
elude them.
Mr.. Keefe told in detail of his every
move while here. and his recital was
IN perfect harmony in every detail to
the discoveries of the newspaper men,
even to the purchase OF a box of cigars
and bottle of rheumatism cure at the
Valley house bar just before his de-
parture
lie went to the Turkish bath. took
cab to Pittston, went to Wilkes
Barre on the Lehlgh Valley, took u
train to Bethlehem, thence continued
to Philadelphia by way of the Read
ing. and. from there. went by the
Pennsylvania to Chicago.
AT Harrisburg" Mr.. Neefc relates.
~ was about to get off the train to
get lunch. when | espied a news
paper man whom / had seen at the
Valley house in Scranton. I told the
Pullman car porter that n drunken
friend of mine was on the platform
and that as | did not want to be both
cred with him, 1 didn't want to get off.
and would like to have the porter get
me couple of sandwiches. I went
into hiding in the car, and after the
train got under way again. I emerged
from my. hiding place. The porter
brought me my sandwiches. and said.
I guess that friend of yours was e%-
pecting YOU. boss. He went all through
the train. like as If he was looking for
somebody He didn't seem to be drunk.
though / admitted to the porter that
maybe I was mistaken. and let 1t go al
that. When ] reached my office in Chi
Cago. | found that there had been sew
oral telephone messages from Scranton
asking for my wherea bouts. so it must
be some of you newspaper men tele-
rhoned to every labor leader in the
country to find out if any Of them were
away
HIS ASSUMED NAME.
The assumed name Of Guernsey was
not altogether accidental, Mr.. keefe
explained. His private secretary was
ill at that time. and young lady
named NJ. a. Guernsey was taking her
place. Before leaving the headquar-
ters, Mr. keefe arranged that he should
use her name and she should use his.
in their telegraphic and telephone conf
munications. He was careless in writ
ing the name on the Valley house reg
lister and the a. was made to look
like a w. while the Guernsey was
spelled phonetically "Gurnsey."
Mr.. keefe is here, of course, to dis
prove the claim made by Little and
the Scrantoniin that the "mysterious
Mr.. GurnSey' came here from some
mysterious source with inducements
from some mysterious party or parties
to effect some mysterious sort of a
scheme for settling the strike. NJ. p.
Flynn, proprietor OF the Valley house,
and a number of other reliable wit
neSses are ready to testify that NJ. w.
Gurnsey, the supposed corruptor of
John Mitchell. and ID. j. Keefe. the
president of the International AssO-
citation of LOngshoremen. are one and
the same person.
Patrick OKeefe. formerly chief de-
tective for the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western company who was rep
resented to be the authority for the
identification of the mysterious Mr..
Gurnsey as the man the Scrantonan
claimed him to be, passed through this
city last sunday, on his way from
visit in Ireland to Chicago, to resume
his former position with the Illinois
Central road. Mr.. O'l<eefe stated,
while here. that he didn't know any
thing about Gurnsey, and didn't want
10 be mixed IN in thn libel case Mr..
Okeefe left for Chicago Sunday after
noon.
D. J. Keefe, the longshoreman. does
rot know Patrick O'keefe. although he
says he heard considerable of him in
Chicago. and once saw him in a store,
where he was pointed out by friend