The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-31
MORE ARRESTS
 IN WATERBURY.
EIGHTEEN MEN APPREHENDED
 BY THE POLICE.

been 1ssued-SOn of Policeman Among Those Taken Into Custody Evidence of Authorities Reported to Have Been Obtained Through the Confession of a Member of a Police Officers Famiiy- Burpee Says 1t is Strong Against Them for the Water willie Assault.
 Waterbury, March 30.-Eighteen men placed under arrest on the charge of assault with intent to kill was the rec ord of sudden activity on the part of the police to-day in their efforts to dis cover the authors of some of the out breaks of violence which have occurred since the beginning of the strike of mo- tornnen and conductors of the Connect ieut Railway and Lighting company, eleven weeks ago. The men arrested are charged in the warrants with as- sault on William T. Merner and George Morrisette on the night of February 26 with intent to kill. These two men were the non-union employees of the trolley company who had charge of a car which was attacked at lonely spot on the Waterville line on the night 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 lit tie more than a week prior to an attack of a similar nature on car at Forest park, when Policeman Paul Mendels- sohn was killed by bullet from a mob of masked men. Since the murder was committed detectives, attracted by the large rewards offered, have been quiet Iy at work.
 While the arrests to-day are nominal ly for the assault of February 26, the officials do not deny that they hope from this action to learn something that will clear up the mystery of Mendels- sohn's death.
 Colonel L. F. Burpee, attorney for the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company, said in an interview tonight that he had strong evidence against the men arrested for the Waterville assault and that he felt quite confident of trac- ing out the murder of Policeman Men delssoI1n. Colonel Burpee added that warrants for twenty-two men have been issued, and that he expected that the whole number would be under ar rest before tomorrow morning. The credit for the arrests. he said was due to Pinkerton detectives acting in CO., operation with the local detective bu- reau.
 Of the arrested men seven are mem- bers of the Trolleymen's union now on strike. These are Charles T. Ross, Harry w.. Warren, Clifford Wander mark, Willis Vandermark. David c. Marsh, Edward B. Winnegar and John McGufre. All of these, except Ross and Willis Vandermark, were arrested by a squad of a. dozen officers, under com- 1nand, of a sergeant, who visited the meeting place of the strikers union this forenoon. They were taken to the po- lice station, and the hunt for others against whom the warrants were di- reeted was begun.
 Early this evening the police blotter contained the following additional names of men arrested on the assault charge: John Brearton, Ernest Wolcott, Charles Thorpe, John Ennis, Michael Began, James Whitty, James Quinn, Stephen Ball, Thomas Quinn, William Costello and Joseph Kelly. None of these aforementioned men are strikers. They are nearly all factory workers and young men of from twenty to twenty five years, having homes in the west end of the city, in the neighborhood of the car barns. Brearton is son of Police Officer John Brearton.
 Attorney John o'Neill was secured as counsel for the arrested strikers this afternoon, and efforts were made to se- cure bail, the amount required being $2,0O0 in each case. The two Wander marks, who are brothers; John Ennis, Charles Thorpe, James Whitty, Ernest Wolcott and John Brearton secured bail during the afternoon, and it was thought bail could be obtained for the others tonight.
 It was stated this afternoon that the evidence against the arrested men was obtained through an alleged confession of a member of the family of a police man, Coroner Mix arrived here this afternoon, but left for New Haven ear- ly in. the evening. He would make no statement.
 During the day the arrested men had two conference at the jail with their attorney, MT. O'Neill.
 Although the officials decline to indi- cate the exact nature of the evidence on which the arrests are based, a re- port, which seemed to be reliable, was current this afternoon to the effect that one man would turn states evidence. One of the attorneys for the defense said he hal heard this report, but that 1t was not true of any of the three or four men for whom he had been re- tained.
 At midnight no more arrests had been made, and the police said that the other men wanted would probably be taken into custody tomorrow. It is under- stood that one of the men for whom the police are looking was seen in Nauga- tuck this evening.
 President Daley, of the Central Labor union, made the statement tonight that if it was shown that the strikers were in any way concerned in the assault for which they were arrested the support of the Central Labor union would irn- n1ediately be withdrawn.
 
 Captain Babbsts Seriously HI.