The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1903-04-03
UNDER $4,000 BAIL
Eighteen Waterbury Men Are
Placed Under Arrest
AN ASSAULT ON TWO MEN
The Charge on Which They Are Held,
but Police Hope to Learn Something
That Will Throw Light on the
Murder of Policeman Mendelssohn

Waterbury, Conn, March 81,
Eighteen men placed under arrest on
the charge of assault with intent TO
kill was the record Of activity on the
part of the police yesterday in their
efforts to discover the authors of some
of the outbreaks of violence which
have occurred since the beginning of
the strike OF motormcn and conductors
of the Connecticut Railway and Light
ing company IL weeks ago
The men arrested are charged ia the
warrants with assault on Williem T.
Merner and George Morrisette on the
night of Feb 26 with intent to kill,
These two men were the nonunion
employees of the trolley company who
had charge of a car which was at
tackled at a lonely spot or the Water
vile line on the light mentioned.
Both were assaulted, and one was
beaten into insensibility and left lying
on the rails in the path of the cars
This disturbance occurred little more
than a week prior to IN attack of
similar nature on a car ut Forest park,
when Policeman Mendeissohn was
killed by a bullet from mob OF
masked men.
Since the murder was committed
detectives, attracted by the large
rewards offered, have been quietly at
work. While the arrests yesterday are
nominally for the assault of Feb. 26,
the officials do not deny that they
hope from this action to learn some
thing that will clear up the mystery of
Mendelssohn's death.
L. F. Burpee, attorney for the Con
necticut Railway and Lighting CON-
pany, said in an interview last night
that he had strong evidence against
the men arrested for the WaterviIle
assault and that he felt quite confident
of tracing out the murderer of Mendcls-
sohn. Burpee added that warrants for
% men have been issued. The credit
for the arrests, he said, was due to
Pinkerton detectives, acting in CO.
operation with the local detective
bureau.
OF the arrested men seven are mem
bers of the Trolleymen's union, now on
strike. These are G. T. Ross, Fl. w.
Warren, G. Vandermark, W. Wander
mark, D. c. Marsh, +. Winnegar and
]. Mcclure, All of these, except
Ross and w. Vandermark, werc ar
rested by a squad of police who visited
the meeting place of The strikers union.
They were taken to the police station
and the hunt for others against whom
the warrants were directed was begun.
Last evening the police blotter con-
tanned the following additional names
of men arrested on the assault charge:
H, Brearton, e. Wolcott, G. Thorpe, j.
Ennis, j, Witty, M. Regain, j. Quinn,
s. Ball, Il. Quinn, j. Kelly and w.
Costello. None of these last NEIL
toned men are strikers. They are
nearly all factory workers, and are
from 20 to % years Of age, having
homes in the West End of the city, in
the neighborhood of the car barns.
Counsel was secured for the arrested
strikers and efforts were made to secure
bail, the amount required icing $4,000
in each case. The two Vandermarks,
who are brothers, and Thorpe, Ennis,
Witty, Brearton and Wolcott secured
bail during the afternoon. 1t is
thought bonds will he obtained for the
others.