Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-21
MR.. HANNA'SSON ACCUSED
Charged With Assault on Man at
Charleston, W. Va.
VIGOROUSLY DENIES CHARGE
It is Alleged That He and John Widner,
Dragged Representative Caldwell From a

Charleston ". Va, Feb. 16.-John
Windner, general manage Of the Kan
awha and Hooking Coal Company
Dan Hanna, son Of Senator Mark Han
ia, and others are charged with as
saulting Hon. w. @. Caldwell.a member
Of the Legislature from Ohio county.
here early Saturday morning while the
latter was going home from the leRis-
latiye ball IN d cab. The other men
bad been at a club during the night.
20 IL is charged They were on their
way TO the Kanawha and Michigan
depot and wanted q hack. They hail
ed the hack in which Representative
Caldwell was riding and attempted to
enter it. Caldwell protested, and said
the hack was his. Widner and Hanna
ere said to have entered the hack, and
it is charged that Widner dealt Cald
we'll q hard blow in the face. rem
dering him unconscious. Represen-
tative Caldwell was thrown out of the
hack and the others took charge Of it
Caldwell was picked M bv friends
and taken to the hotel in a serious
condition.
EVADED WARRANTS.
Widner, Hanna, and others left on
an early morning train for Columbus,
Ohio. A Warrant for their arrest was
sworn out by Caldwell and.telegraphed
to Point Pleasant. w. Va, but tae men
got across into Ohio from Point
Pleasant without being apprehended.
The affair has caused IA very great.sen-
sation here, and it is said that a re-
QUESTION will be made on the other
States for the return of all parties inn
plicated.
Representative Caldwell rested we'll
under the care of physicians. He was
badly hurt and may lose n y o 1t
is announced that the friends of John
II. Winder, in the coal business here
secured orders countermanding the
messages for the arrest of the parties,
aud that their private car went over
the Ohio river bridge, at Point Pleas
ant. W. Va, unmolested. The war
rants were sworn out by Capt. j. B.
White.
Winder represents the interests of j.
Pierpont Morgan in Ohio and West
Virginia, and all the coal operators
here pleaded to have the order of ar
rets rescinded. Winder is here fire.
quently on business, but it was the
frs. visit of Hanna ana the others.
1t is stated that Caldwell's friends
will offer q resolution in the house of
delegates inquiring into the reasons
for the Kanawha County Officials conn
demanding the order for service of
the warrants.
COMPLETE DENIAL MADE.
Columbus. Ohio. Feb. 16.-Ihe pri-
vate car bearing John Winder, general
manager of the Kanawha and hooking
Valley and the Sunday Greek Coal
companies. and Dan Hanna, son Of
Senator NJ. A. Hanna, reached Column
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day. It was transferred to the Big
-Four. and taken to Cleveland later.
Mr.. Hanna and his party stopped here
an hour with John Winder. and spent
the time at his Office in this city.
Mr.. Winder. when seen by an Asso-
ciated Press representative and shown
the story of the assault on Represent
tative Caldwell. at Charleston. w.
Va, said the entire story wa a false
hood, and that none of his party was
connected with it whatever.
"We did not even see Caldwell. "
said Winder.
He stated that lac had stonped in
Charleston over night and then came
on to Columbus.
Mr.. Hanna also was interviewed.
He told practically the same story. He
stated that ". a. Clark jr,, who was
reported from Charleston as being
with them. was not in the party and
denied that he even knew Mi. Clark.
AS TO Mr.. Caldwell. he stated that he
never saw him at Charleston, and was
not at a banquet FRIDAY nj Eht.
They evidently got our party mixed
with another" said Hanna. LAS far
rs the assault goes. | know nothing
about it,"
Mr.. Hanna and a party Of two or
three left Mr. Winder's office late in
the afternoon and started for Cleve-
land a few minutes later. Senator
Clark's son was not with the party
when it reached Columbus. and it was
denied that he was with them at
Charleston.
PHYSICAL CULTURE FREE
Attila, the man who developed San
dow, and who is recognized as the