The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-15

cial officers about him, the deputies
apparently realized who he was and
made no offer to resist his authority.
The mob, which had scattered at the
commencement of the shooting, re
turned when the borough police de-
scended on the washery, and once more
began to grow turbulent. Some of the
deputies sought shelter in the washery
building. Sixteen deputies and work.
men hid in the tower. A colored man,
who was cook, an aged workman, and
Carrin, who was deputy, broke and
ran up the railroad, pursued by the
crowd.
Assault On Carrin.
Carrin was overtaken near the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western sta
tion by some of the strikers and laid
low with blow from a stone. He got
UP again, but had hardly regained his
feet when an italian felled him with a
base ball bat and then beat him over
the head as he lay bleeding and un-
conscious on the railroad. The bat with
which the deed was done was snatched
from the hands Of a boy named Leo
Gilboy. one of the crowd of urchins
who had come from the ball field to
join the mob. The boy, it is said, knows
the name of the man who welded the
bat.
The old man who took leg bail out
distanced his pursuers and sought ref
uge in the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western station at Lackawanna. He
was seen to enter the station and q
crowd of strikers soon surrounded the
place. The old man crawled under a
seat in the waiting room, and the sta
tion agent locked him in.
When the train leaving Scranton at
$40 p. m. reached Lackawanna, Chief
Detective ]. E. Adamson and five Of
his men, who were bound for Duryea to
protect the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western company's Hallstead colliery,
which adjoins the Warnke washery.
rescued the trembling old man and put
him aboard the train. He was so terri
fled he could scarcely speak AS the
the toilet room of the car, locked HIM
self in and remained there till the train
stopped at Pittston.
An Onlooker Mobbed.
The colored man ran around the
crowd that was assaulting Carrin, and
made for the upper end of the town to
get Scranton trolley car. A man, who
said he was an agent and who refused
to give his name, let the colored man
have ten cents to help him get away,
and then hurried down to the center OF
the town to see the excitement. Nearly
an hour later, some one who saw him
give the colored man money. pointed
him out in the crowd. A move was
made towards him, and he ran down
the street, alongside the Pullman house.
A hundred men followed him, calling
out in half dozen languages that he
was "scab" and deputy" A hun
dred yards down the street he came to
the river, and had to halt. While he
was expostulating that he was simply
a disinterested onlooker. some brute of
a foreigner struck him on the forehead
with jagged rock. A few white men.
who became compassionate at the sight
of the stranger lying half-conscious on
the ground, with blood fairly pouring
from an ugly hole in his forehead,
picked him up and helped him back to
Main street.
A Wilkes-Barre trolley car was halted
and the English-spealiing men who had
the wounded stranger in tow proceeded
that he was a deputy and wanted to
renew the assault on him. Some argued
one way and some another. Several
times the wounded and half-daZed man
was partly aboard the car, only to be
dragged back by the crowd and jostled
about. Some We're for letting him go.
and others wanted that he should be
locked up. Finally, he was forced
a hn tIn
started up.
The mob cheered as the wounded man
sank exhausted into the car seat. He
was helped off at Pittston and taken
care of at doctors Office. He refused
to disclose his identity.
Attempt at Lynching.
The colored man. whom the stranger
had befriended, got safely aboard a
Scranton car, but word of his coming
preceded him to Old Forge and when
the car arrived crowd was awaiting
him. He was dragged from the car,
buffetted and pummeled, and finally
thrown down and tied. A rope was
placed around his neck and he was
being dragged towards a tree at the
roadside when Deputy Sheriff John f,
CARNEY, who is stationed at the WIN
lam A. colliery, happened along and
persuaded the crowd to let him 60
All this time Carrin was lying on the
railroad track, bleeding from half a
dozen wounds. Some one, it is not
known whom, carried him to the rail-
road station and summoned DR.. Bur-
lington. The battered head was dressed
as best it could be, under the circum-
stances, and the doctor, who is also the
burgess, left to take hand in restor-
ing what is the equivalent of order in
Duryea. AS he was coming from the
station, to use his own words, 'rhose
fellows wanted to kill me because I
treated the man who was hurt"
Carrin was laid out on the hard floor
of the waiting room with his coat for
pillow and newspaper covering his
face, Hungarans, Poles and Italians
fingered about the station and uttered
imprecations against the dying man in
side. So threatening did they become
that the station agent locked the door,
The up-train at 4.35 took Carrln to
Scranton. The crowd again cheered when
the limp and blood-covered form was
brought TO their view as Chief ADAM
son and his men lifted him into the
baggage car. The cheering continued
until the train was out of sight.
Carrin was taken to the Lackawan-
ma hospital At midnight he was re-
ported to be in critical condition.
Warnke's Men Arrested.
The mob had been somewhat scat
tered by the chase after the two who
fled from the washery, and this made
1t less difficult than 1t might have been
for Chief of Police l,nsprovn and his