The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-08
ALL CRIMES
 OF, F,CATALOGUE Charged Against the
 Miners Union. JUDGE GRAY AST0UNDED Pathetic Stories Told Before Strike Commission. Bridegroom Attacked as He Came from Altar and His Bride is
 Left. to Make Shift
 for Herself.

Philadelphia, Jan. 1.-The non-union men today continued to occupy the at. tention of the coal strike commission in presenting evidence of lawlessness and reign of terror in the anthracite coal region during the strike. The testimony included many acts of violence from murder down to assault and larceny.
 Dynamite played leading part in the alleged persecution of non-union men and their relatives. Five witnesses testified to their houses being more or less seri- ousiy damaged by persons. some of whom were known to be union men. placing the high explosives on the property; other witnesses told of dam being blown up, one locomotive damaged. steam pipes in different colliegies broken or damaged by dynamite. bridges and fences damaged by incendiary fires. and the attempted wreckage of trains.
 One youth said he was stabbed. several of the witnesses were boycotted, several others told of being beaten by crowds and of their houses being Stoped. Be- sides this. a young woman told the com mission she was dismissed as a school
 
 work during the strike.
 Bridegroom Attacked.
 A young man testified that he was at tackled as he was coming out of church after being married. forcing him to seek refuge in a colliery while his bride got home as best she could. This story caused Judge Gray to remark: What sort of a community is this anywayr"
 Charles Carl of Mahanoy City, loader boss at the Tunnel Ridge colliery of the Reading Company. told pathetic story. He was compelled to remain within the confines of the colliery because he was afraid to so home. When his wife and children visited him at the mines they were followed by jeering crowds, He '4szFged that his mother was dying. and taking a circuitous route. reached the home of his mother just after she died. While she was lying dead in the house, he was annoyed, called vile names and threatened with death. He did not at tend the funeral of his mother because he was afraid he would be killed.
 As an instance of lawlessness at one colliery one witness told of having been punished by A mob which forced him to walk fifteen miles at ths head of cheering crowd of strikers.
 David L. Jenkins of Pottsville. a coal and iron police at the Silver Creek col- fiery of the Reading Company at New Philadelphia, gave a list of acts of violence at or near that mine. 1t in- cluded the tying of railroad ties and spikes across the tracks over which coal trains run; the turning of a switch which was discovered just before an express train came along; a railroad bridge damaged by dynamite, then set on fire; and the saving of timbers on the bridge after 1t had been repaired.
 Evidence Not Shaken.
 Counsel for the miners did not succeed in shaking the testimony.
 It is the intention of the attorneys for the non-union men to occupy about two more days in presenting this sort of evi- dence. Tomorrow they expect to place on the stand Bragidear General J. P. s. Gobin of the 3rd brigade, P. N. G., and several of the commanders of the regiments in the field during the strike.
 During the proceedings James H. Tor rey of Scranton, counsel for the Dela- ware and Hudson Company, interrupted long enough to explain to the commis- sion the law in Pennsylvania regarding the payment of deputy sheriffs for special duty which caused some discussion yes terday. It was to the effect that the laws of the State were not adequate enough to permit the county to pay the deputy sheriffs for this special work and that in consequence corporations foot the bill. MT. Torrey said that the operators will gladly join the miners in having the laws amended so that the companies asking for protection shall not have to pay for it and that the burden placed upon the people, where 1t belongs.
 Chairman Gray said that he was glad to hear that an attempt would be made to amend the laws to that effect and ad- ded that with all due respect to the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania, he thought it was a ''most deplorS6le state of law" when a sheriff cannot hire help and must depend upon the rich to assist him. If that be the case, he said, then the poor are helpless.