The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-04
Alleged Discovery of Plot to Dyna-
mite n Car Leads to Placing of
Guards on Company Property.
STATEMENTS BY THE COMPANY
PROSECUTIONS OF CHARLOTTES-
VILE RIOTERS TO BE MADE.
Manager Chipmnn Declares No Step
Has Been Taken Outside the Law
Director BinfOrd's Views.
peciaI TO the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind, Aug. 3.-The In
dianapolis & Eastern Traction Company re-
sumed running its cars to-day. These were
not molested until this afternoon, when
carload of passengers from Knightstown
were held up at the Hancock county line
at the west edge of Charlottesville, and was
compelled to return to this city. A large
log had been placed on the track, and
Sheriff Larrabee. of Hancock county, with
seventy-five armed deputies, was on the
scene with orders to enforce the quarantine
and prevent the cars going through. Some
of the recalcitrant passengers were forced
bodily by the sheriff and his deputies to
enter another car and return. The motor
man, John Curry, and the conductor, Oliver
Hill, who were arrested yesterday on the
first trip, were rearrested this afternoon.
Elmer ]. Binford, of Greenfield. one of the
directors of the company, furnished bond,
and they were released tonight.
The cars were running regularly as far as
the county line, but they did not attempt
TO run further. A rail was found mis-
placed this morning. and the company is
afraid of the possibility of a wreck If it
attempts to run through.
1t was reported tonight that plot had
been discovered under way to dynamite
one of the companys bridges and part of
the track before morning. The company s
men who had been ordered to the scene
were impressed into the service this after
noon by the sheriff, but tonight a force
of fifteen or twenty men was taken to the
scene armed and ordered to patrol the
track and shoot III necessary, any fntruders
on the company s property. Elmer j. Bin
ford, of Greenfield, one of the directors,
was on the scene 10 remain all night, and
he declared that the cars would be run as
usual and that the company would protect
its interests and those of its patrons at any
cost.
1t is expected that the quarantine will be
lifted tomorrow and both the company and
the people of Charlottesville are wrought
to the highest tension. The villagers are
out en- masse and violence probably will
follow an attempt to run the cars through.
The company, on the other hand, declares
that the law is with it and that a common
carrier cannot be stopped or delayed. The
leader Of the mob is said TO be a merchant
of Charlottesville, who, it is alleged, is
afraid of the effect or business in the viii
lage if the quarantine is broken.
Mr.. Binford said TO the Journal tonight:
I'VE will fight these cases through the
courts and send these men who have re-
sorted 10 violence to the penitentiary If ii
costs us $4,000. We do not propose to
tolerate such business. We shall prosecute
the sheriff and every officer who has had
anything to do with this action and will
prosecute every man who was implicated in
these violent demonstrations"
Word reached here at midnight that
at u o'clock tonight the coroner of Han
cock county arrived al Charlottesville with
warrants sworn out at Greenfield by Off
GERS of the traction company, and arrested
Sheriff Larrabee, Constable Walker, of
Charlottesville, and w. F. Lane, the Char
lottcsville leader of the mob. and returned
with them to Greenfield. The charges in
volved obstruction of traffic and the plac-
ing of dangerous distractions on the
tracks.