The sun., 1903-05-23
AIDED NoN.UNl0N MAN; BEATEN
HOSTLER WHO STOPPED A ROW
SET UPON At NIGHT.

McCsuiro Told striking Tcau,sters That
They Couldn't Fight In the Stable
Attacked by Four Men. Pounded win
an Iron Bar and Kicked In the Face.
James Mcclure, a hostler employed by
Clarence l.. Smith an excavating and truck
ing contractor, with stables at Thirtieth
street and Eleventh avenue, was cowardly
assaulted early yesterday morning under
circumstances which made it look as though
he was victim of union violence and bru-
tality.
He incurred the enmity OF some striking
teamsters on Thursday and as he was on
his way home shortly after midnight that
night he was set upon by four men, beaten
over the head with some heavy object
probably piece Of iron. kicked in the face
and left lying OH the sidewalk in West
Thirty-eighth street, near Eleventh ave-
nue., bleeding and half conscious
He is now in st. Vincent's Hospital with
a broken nose, several bad scalp wounds
and bruised generally
Mr.. Smith has been having trouble with
the striking teamsters. Mcclure and
other hostlers in hls employ have not taken
sides with the strikers, but at the same
TO take sides with the non-union men.
But on Thursday afternoon non-union
man drove a load of hay into Smiths
stables. Two Of the strikers were, around
when tn, hay was unloaded and they told
the driver that he had b.ttar not get onto
the wagon again. He started to climb
up and they pulled him down.
Then the driver tried again to get his
team and wagon out of the barn The
k,1,l <,f n itv,n md
prevented him.
Mcclure was a witness to all this and,
after the strikers had forced the nom
union man back the second time, he stepped
in, boiling with rage. and announced that
there would be no more of that sort OF work
in the stables.
The strikers sullenly submitted and the
non-union man drove out Nothing more
was said to Mcclure by thu strikers that
afternoon and at o'clock he left for his
home at 4ss West Thirty-third street
Early in the evening he went to r ella
tives house at 4s4 Eleventh avenue. A
death had occurred in the family there and
he stayed until about l O'Clock in the morn
ing. He had got only few steps from
the door when some men came from
dark place az he passed.
One of them cracked him on the top of
the head with what he thinks was piece of
iron At the same time another hit him
in the face with his fist. Mcclure dropped
to the sidewalk and one OF his assailanfs
kicked him in the face. breaking his nose
Then the men ran away Mcclure thinks
there we're four of them. No attempt was
made to rob him.
He lay on the sidewalk for almost half
an hour until he was discovered by police
man. who had him taken to Roosevelt
Hospital.
Al soon as Mr.. Smith, his employer.
heard of the assault he went to see him
and had him removed to a privete ward at
st vincents Yesterday Smith offered a
reward Of 5000 for information which will
lcrA to the arrest and conviction Of the
guilty parties.
The police are working on the case. They
have found that some men called at
McGuire's house late in the evening and
asked to have him called and sent to the
s,rhles as he was needed. they said, to
help the night man take care Of sick horse.
The woman who answered the men didn't
open the door, hut told them where McGure
was.
II is said that he ia often called to the
stable IN that way, and whoever asked for
him must have known that Nobody from
the stable sent for him.