Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-13
SITUATION IN RICHMOND.


The strike continues TO be the one
absorbing subject of interest in Rich
mond, as either by inconvenience or
cost it enters into the daily life of every
citizen of the city directly or by In
fuence. Nearly every car carried a SOL
der with loaded musket, and the dis
orders that fiourished under impotent
police protection have once more van
ished in front of the gun which Shoots
to kill" Hoodlums, bold under police
regime, turn and sneak away when the
Springfield rifle is in evidence.
1t is evident that the disorderly ele-
ment are not deferred from their mis-
demeauors by the fear of the police, and
for this reason it is question OF how
long the military will be kept on duty.
There seems no prospect of any consid-
cradle number being sent away mined
lately.
The coroner's investigation in Man
chester of the shooting of Luther Taylor
by the guard detailed from Company + on
duty that night showed up strong in favor
of the soldiers Saturday. Russell Casley,
an intelligent lad, told of seeing the sol
der pushed out of the buggy by Taylor,
and Taylor was ordered TO halt several
times before shot was fired. There
was no evidence to substantiate the
charge of drunkenness on the part OF
the soldiers.
At the Henrico courthouse the case
against Special Officer Angle, who was
charged with neglect of duty in not ar
resting an inciter to riot at the car barns
in the early days of the car strike, came
up. Angle undertook his own case and
was so offensive in his language that the
magistrate several times called him ia
order. Angle was fined So and costs.
The chief of the strike-breakers, Farley,
was fined So by county magistrate and
put under bonds Of 500 for six months
| Notice Of appeal was given.
b. w. Medinger, motorman, and e.
n. Puryear. conductor, charged with
firing into the crowd at Vine and Main
streets on the night Of June "a, were
both discharged in the Police Court Sat
urday. In the several hearings II
city and county courts as the result
of the arrest of company guards fol
this shooting there has never been pu
in any evidence for the company. 1t vii
be held back for the higher courts anC
will be generally to the effect that thu
men on the cars fired to protect theil
own lives, as we'll as the property Of The
company.
The declaration in the boycott damage
suit of the Sitterding- Carneal- Davis Com
pany against certain members OF th'
BrickIayers' Union was completed on
Saturday by counsel for the concern.
Practically all the large brick contractors
now having contracts for building in the
city have been named as witnesses. The
declaration charges the following mer
with conspiring to intimidate and coerc'
the contractors by refusing to purchase
material from the company with view t.
coercing and intimidating f Sitterding
into using his influence to settle the
street-car-strike: Thomas Davidson
James Duke, Henry Rhodes, James Nc
Allister, Ira Benedict, Edward Oliver
Less Hawkins, G..Kritzer, Fred Jordan
Geo. Ely, Jas. Oliver, L. Hobson, Tim
othy Jennings. William Grubbs, Edward
| McEIwee, Z. A. Clay, Robert Kinstey,
E. B Weymouth and Clarence Yeager.
The suit is brought against these mer
as individuals owing to the fact that thell
union is unincorporated and cannot be
sued
An interesting feature of the strike
news is the constant recurrence of tht
reports that strikers are eager TO get
back TO work. The stories will no
down and with them come rumors o.
men with families being in distress as
the result of no money being furnished
them regularly for their maintenance
Superintendent Buchanan is still engag'
ing men. From distant cities they arr
offering themselves in patches of from
three to a dozen. A great many of the
new men are Virginians, representing
nearly every county in the State, and in
many instances coming from the mill
tary forces.