The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-25
SHERIFF WILCOX
HAD NO TROUBLE
One Hundred and Twenty
Strikers Arrested at Helper.
MEN MADE NO RESISTANCE
CAUGHT IN BED AND NEARLY
SCARED TO DEATH.
MEN MADE NO RESISTANCE
Especial to The HersldA

| the district court room Of the county
court house and the little brick iail in
the rear. The Jail contains only about
thirty of this number. leaving ninety
IN the court room. The prisoners are
LOT the most part Italian strikers who
| quit the employ Of the Utah Fuel com
/ pany some five months ago and have
! Deen making the Half Way house above
/ Helper their rendezvous since that
| time.
! They and their leaders it was who
( rescued Mother Jones from ouaran-
tine at Helper on Tuesday night last
ana TOOK her to what is known locally
| as Striketovn.
When an officer went there to arrest
! sylvester Tedesco aud Cessare Anto-
! mo. Two Of the leaders of the armed
/ mob which spirited Mother" Jones;
/ away. he was told there were not men
! enough in the state TO take them. Gov
! ernor Wells having declined 10 send
J troops in aid of the civil authorities.
| and ntimating that the deputies of the
| Utah Fuel company should assist Sher-
| IF Wilcox, the latter took the key and
! proceeded to do business.
Arrested in Their Beds.
With forty deputies Sheriff Wilcox
| lett Castle Gate at o'clock this morn
ing. Following the wagon road down
the canyon until within a quarter OF
! a mile of the camp of the strikers. the
| sheriff and his deputies crept through
| the rocks, SagebrUsh and pines until
| the camp was surrounded. With the
! coming of daylight, and at a given sig
| nal they went among the tents and
! rude hutS. awakening the men in the
camp and placing them under arrest
| before the offenders were fully aware
| Of what was going on
! In a number OF instances resistance
was made one deputy being hit about
| the head with the butt end Of a shot
gun. He was overpOWered and his
weapon taken from him and thrown
into the river Some of the foreigners.
thinking the deputies had come to muir
der them. fell upon their knees and
pleaded for their lives As the men
| were taken from their beds and com
PEELED to dress, they We're placed in
line and later marched down to Helper.
! breakfast being served them on the
! common. where they were held under
| strong guard.
BarbogIio Also Arrested.
There were 116 captured at the camp
! and four more taken at Helper, two
of them being saloon Keepers. Joe Bar
boglio and James Martello. The charge
! against rs of the men is resisting an
| officer Deputy Sheriff World. i'm the
| discharge Of his duties. In addition 20
this charge, TedescO and Antonio VIII
! have to answer to breaking the state
quarantine laws. and Tedesco the adj
diJiOnal one of holding up and attempt
/ ing the life of Mark p Braffett. the
salt Lake City attorney. when Tedesco
/ and six others stopped Bradett at
| Helper a few nights ago and held him
up with Winchesters as he was going
TO his hotel
| Warrants were read to all the men
! this afternoon. they being &rraigned
before Justice Ward at Helper. They
pleaded not guilty to the charge and
were placed under $500 bonds each and
given till Wednesday morning to plead
Braffet Was There.
This part Of the programme over
| with. the men were loaded into one
! coach and Il box car and run by spe-
cial train to Price Attorney Braffei
/ went with Sheriff Wilcox and party &c
make the arrests this morning and hao
the satisfaction of placing the hand
r cuffs on Tedesco and Antonio. two oi
? the men who had q few nights aSC
made him look down seven gun bar
rels.
Arriving here Tedesco and Antonio
were placed in the two steel cages OF
the jaiI They were handCufted to-
while coming down on the train.
Mother Jones had had guard
placed over her while in quarantine
. according to instructions from state
Health officer Beatty
But Two Left in Camp.
But two Italians We're left at the
I camp Of those found there this morn
$ ing. Dominick Bergera. proprietor OF
i the place. and an old fellow who Is
u suffering from appendicitis, and who
D has at best but a short time to live
, On the way to where the strikers
/, were guarded while at Helper the pro
: cessiOn passed within speaking dis
lance of the house where William
Price, the organizer, is suffering from
\ / smallpox With his face almost one
: solid scab, Price came to the door and
e gave the boys words of cheer
Deputy Offered to Fight.
Great crowds Of women and children
{ followed down from the Half Na5
e. house and were about the place unit
70 the men were sent TO the Price jan
When the men were being loaded int
f the cars some of the women began q,
abuse the officers, applying imnumera
/ bic vile names, and sympathetic rail
road trainmen encouraged them TO
4 was overheard by c. l. Maxwell, a de
putty. The latter walked up TO tn
1 ( railroader with two Winchesters. on
: his own ard the other gun he Wat
= holding temporarily for another guard
4 Inviting the railroader to take choic
= of weapons. he said he would fight j
! out with him. This was declined u,
: the trainman and closed an inciden
y which came nearest to any bloodshe'
y after the original arrests of the day.
y Strikers Had Few Guns.
y Sheriff Wilcox and posse found bu
y two or three guns aud a half doze'
y revolvers in the strikers camp, bu
= about a half bushel of ugly knives o
y every description we're disclosed afta
y the men had been searched. The i'm
= preston prevails that the guns an
= ammunition which the Italians are n
= legged TO have had and which We're see
= by General Cannon and others wer
= cached in the hills somewhere. Tn
sheriff will make a search for ther
later. THESE are known to be in ex
k istence, for they have been traced
4 the source of purchase
at Many Others Wanted.
4 While but a few over 100 men ar
A. under arrest there are at least fit