New-York tribune., 1902-08-03
SHOOTS AT STRIKERS MOB.
FOREMAN BEATEN AND HIS HOME AT
TACKED-ONE MAN DIES IN
HOSPITAL.

AS the result of labor riot that began at 6
o'clock last night at Observation-Disclosures
and Ffrst-ave., and soon extended to One-hun-
dred- -and-twelfth-st one man died in Harlem
Hospital where he was taken, with a bullet in
his lung and another is locked UP at the one
hundred and-fourth-st. station on a charge OF
felonious assault. Patrick Angeline. an iron
worker, of No. 40 East Ope-hundred- and
twelfth-st., is the man who shot, and Marti
McLane, of No 500 East One-hundred- and six
teenth-st is charged with shooting him. The
coroner called to take an antemortem state
ment. Angeline also under arrest on
charge of assault.
McLane is foreman for Bartlett Hayward &
Co. ironmasters at -hundred-and-e eleventh
St, who erecting an immense gas tank for
the Consolidated Gas Company at One-hundred-
and-tenth-st. and Frst-ave. McLane is fore
man for them there, and also superintendent
Three weeks ago the union men employed by
the company struck. and ever since there has
been trouble between them and the non-union
men who have taken their places. Captain
Moynihan has had six men at the scene of the
trouble in the last three weeks. In the last
few days forty ironworkers. most of them
Italians have been brought on from Baltimore
and put to work On Friday night the trouble
began, when several shots were fired and an
arrest made.
At six o'clock last night McLane paid off the
and started for his home, in One-hundred-
and-sixteenth-st At One hundred -and-tenth- st
and First-ave. he was met by a crowd of forty
or fifty of the strikers. who jeered at him and
jostled him and threatened him with violence
Among them Angene. McLane &C away
from them and up First-ave. The crowd
followed growing more threatening and abusive.
At One hundred -and-twelfth- they caught Nc
Lane and began to beat him. After few mo-
ments he managed to escape from them and
again ran up the avenue. They soon overlook
him, however, and several of the men struck
him. This time McLane drew his revolver and
fired two shots, the first to frighten the attack
ers away, the other into the mob The second
shot struck Angeline. He was seen to totter
and to fall. and for instant the shock OF
what had occurred stayed the attack OF the
strikers McLane took advantage of the oppor-
tunity thus offered and had got nearly half a
block start before his pursuers again took up
the chase
McLane reached his home in time TO lock the
outer door before the crowd reached 1t. The
building is a five story apartment house. and
McIane lives on the second floor. While he was
locking the door of his apartment the MOB now
threatening vengeance. broke in the door down
stairs and came rushing upstairs. They broke
In the second door and began search for Nc
Lane Meanwhile some one had telephoned TO
Police Headquarters that riot was on. and
HEADQUARTERS had told the police of the one
hundred "A nd -fourth-st. station. Luckily pa
troll wagon was standing at the door, and Cap
. tain Moynihan, with Detectives Hughes. Stor-
Johann, Summertime and Lawlor, with hfteen
policemen OF the reserves, crowded into the
wagon which wac driven at breakneck speed TO
One-hundred- a nd sixteenth-st. and Pleasant
ave Here so great a crowd had gathered thdt
the police had difficulty in breaking through
Captain AIoynihan drove the strikers out or NC
Lanes apartments and found McLane under MS
bed He surrendered himself at once Ind gave
UP his revolver.
McIane was sent to the One-hundred- and
fourth-st station in the patrol wagon under
guard of three policemen. The wagon was fol-
lowed all the way by n threatening crowd
An ambulance had been called from the Har-
len, HOSPITAL and when DR. Donovan arrived at
the scene Of the shooting the police had great
trouble clearing a way through the mob so he
could reach the patient. who had been carried
into a drug store at the southeast corner of One
hundred and -slxteenth-st. and Pleasant-ave
He found Aageliue unconscious, and took him
to the hospital probe for the bullet in the
hope of saving his life. It more than
hour after the wounded man had been taken
away before Captain NIoynihan succeeded in
clearing the streets in the vicinity
II is feared there will be more trouble to-mor-
row, at the gas works, and large force of po-
lice will be hand to prevent violence.