Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-02
Story That Attorneys Danaher
 and Paige Had Agreed
FIFTY MEN WERE TO GO BACK

Colonel Burpee in New York Upset
 Things-John T. Daily Talks About
 the Effect the Arrests Will Have on
 Labor's Attitude Toward Trolleymen
 Strikers Issue Daily Statement and
 Say Their Men Will Come Out of the
 Affair With Clean Hands. -.
 There is no element in local society that fee4s the shock of the arrest or the strikers so severely as the Central Labor union, for 1t not only hurt that body to some extent, but knocked all their plans for a settlement on the head. A settlement was practically made @ few days before the arrests were m>'le. Everything had been tending that way: Allan W. Paige, counsel general for the trolley company, had consented to the plan submitted by Attorney Danaher of Meriden, rep resentative of the. Central Labor un= ion, who conducted the matter for the strikers when the blow fell and every thing was knocked topsy turvy. While the plans for the mass meeting that was held in the city hall a few weeks Ngo were in process of formation, At torney Danaher was negotiating with Allan W. Paige for settlement of the strike. Colonel Burpee was also con- cerned in these negotiations and. with out going into detail now. 1t is enough to say that so far as Mir Paige was in- terested he was satisfied with the pro- position made by Mf Danaher. This, substantially was that the company mhn AnI boo nh nf n men immediately and the others with in month and pay the latter mean while. MT Danaher convinced MT Paige that 1t was better for the conn., pany to do this than keep on losing about 5000 day in passenger fhres There were other features, minor things considered. but this is substap- tiafly the proposition that was made.
 The matter appeared never to have presented itself to AIr Paige in that way before. simple as it was, and he agreed to it. Colonel Burpee there upon proceeded to New York with the proposition to meet the directors, and while the matter was under discussion there telegram was received from one of the detectives Informing them that definite traces of the assailants of sthe Waterville car crew were revealed and that the prospect of them leading to important disclosures in the Mendel- ssohn matter was very good. This sen sational telegram knocked every thing upside down and all negotiations were severed.
 The Central Labor. union will hold a meeting tomorrow evening. This noon President Daily was asked what business would take place at the meet ing and he said nothing except to take some measures to pay the lawyers for the defense of the strikers.
 'These arrests" said Mir Daly, 'have struck us harder than the people may think. If the men are found guilty we will have to part from them. There Is nothing else left us to do in the mat ter. We cannot countenance acts of the kind these men stand charged with, but we will stand by them until they are found guilty. for every mau is in nocent until he Is proved otherwise.
 'Tt is strange, as the men arrested have borne first-class regulations, are apparently mild in demeanor, the last men that one would think of accusing of this kind of work. We feel it keen ly. We repeatedly warned them
 
 way that would hurt their cause I cannot tell you how often we did this, and we all believed the men needed our advice. Strikes cannot be won by acts of misconduct not to speak of violence, and in the face of what we have said about such things in our meetings it is very hard for us to be- neve these men have violated that con Gdence."
 The prosecution in the cases of those who have been bound over to the su- perior court are confident that all of them will be found guilty. They em- phatically deny that the examinations in the city court yesterday and the day previous before Judge Peasley were fishing excursions or means to frighten those who have turned in- formers, and thus make them tell more than it is said and believed they have already told
 Anyone at all conversant with court matters is aware that the hearing be- fore Judge Peasley was merely a mat ter of form. that the state did not show its hand at all, but merely put in sui ficient information to hold the accused iOA LhG supSIlOE COuTl. buC tnPF0 seems to be considerable doubt about the case of many of those bound over, particularly those of McGuire, Warren and Brearton. McGuire was identified as one of those who were at Hurlburt' S shop before the crowd went up to the trolley switch to meet the car. So far Brearton has not been mention%l at all in aIy conspicuous way. Warren has played very minor part, and one of the witnesses for the state has said that he ran away when he himself ran away when he saw the car on which were Merna and Morrissette approach ing. and that he saw the two Vande- marks running also. It is said that when the cases are heard in the SUI perior court next June an alibi will be attempted for Brearton and according to very good report he will have a number of witnesses to show he was not on the grounds of the assault on the night 1t was committed. Never theless, inquiries to-day show that the state has a good deal of information 'hat has not vet been made public. The hearing before Judge Peasley was merely like the preliminaries to star boxing bout. Each side tried for points. tried to get at the others eyi-