The sun., 1904-05-30
STRIKE MURDER PLANNED OUT
BY "SYMPATHIZERS," CURRAN
THINKS; OR, THE RAILROAD.
Edward Grimm Is striker. and Edward
Grimm Is the Man Arrested for the
MurderTwO Other PrlsOners-Third
Man was Laid Out With Iron Bars.

Lawrence Curran, head of the New Haven
Railroad strike, whose advice to the strik-
ers on Friday on the entertainment Of
.cabs' without the use of guns was fol-
lowed on Saturday by the murder of one
on.,lnion man with an iron bar and assaults
with similar weapons and with cotton
hooks upon several more, declared yester-
,av that the men who killed Dominick
Sokotoski were not freight handlers at all.
Then who were they?" he was asked.
They we're sympathizers. he said.
Here a man who was with Curran thought
Curran apparently was talking without
thinking hard, and bhtted in
That kind of sympathy wouldn't do
Won much good, he said. " ou surely
don t mean what you say.
C1lrran said that he knew the men who
Killed Sokotoski were not striking freight
handlers, anyway. As proof OF that he
sa,d none of his men had been arrested.
Il don't think they were union men,"
said he Il think you'll find the company
hired those men to beat some of these
4cahs lust TO arouse sympathy and get the
blame fixed on Ms That's an old game.
but the people get on to it. told our
fellows not to carry revolvors. told them
not to carry iron pipe, either | SEQ I'm
c.,io,ec as advising the freight handlers to
entertain scabs properly Well, I say right
here now | said every word of that speech.
bit it's been misunderstood. ! meant by
that to take 'em up in halls. feed EN-. ecin-
cate EN- and tell EN- what they're doing.
Treat EN- nice, anyhow. The newspapers
got it misunderstood, that's all
Three detectives from police headquarters
in Jersey City visited the Fall River Line
rier Yesterday and had a long talk with
Assistant General Manager Griffith. They
earned that the name Edward Griffin,
The name Of the man arrested for the muir
car Of Sokotoski. had been on the payroll
Of the company and that Edward Griffin
is now on strike. They also learned some
other things about the way men have been
followed hy Curran's strikers, who have
heen watched by detectives of the COM
pany.
While the sympathizers were beating
;>okotoski to death in Jersey City on Satur-
day evening and laying out Peter Hoeznik,
another non union freight handler. a third
man was 80 mishandled and frightened
that he barricaded himself in his house
when he got there and said nothing to the
police.
This man, William Uscavidschki, of 1873
Thirteenth street. Jersey City, with two
companions, was in Pavonia avenue, follow
ing about 500 feet behind the main body of
non-union freight handlers who were re-
turning from work on the Fall River pier
in New York. and they were attacked
by part Of the same gang that murdered
SokotoskE The frightened men leaped
a fence and ran for Fuller's platform, a
milk depot OF the Erie which stands some
distance south Of Pavonia avenue. As
Uscavidschki turned the corner of the
building, seeking shelter. he was seized,
40 he says, by Timothy Shaughnessy, a
uniformed watchman Of the Erie. who lives
at 213 Thirteenth street. He also says that
while the watchman held him three men
ran up and struck him over the head with
iron bars until he fell unconscious
This assault was out Of sight of the crowd
that saw the fight in Pavonia avenue.
Uscavidschki's friends had escaped and
nobody notified the police Of the assault
or that it's victim was lying in the street,
apparently dead.
Uscavidschki came to and managed to
get to his home, where he barricaded him.
self, fearing even to go for a doctor to
dress his wounds. The police first learned
Of the assault from a woman, whose name
they conceal for her protection, who noti-
fed the Second precinct that man was
lying dangerously wounded at 1873 Thir-
teenth street. Roundsman O'Donnell went
to the house with policeman who speaks
Polish. and through him got the story
from the wounded man and had him cared
for by City Physician Hoffman. DR.. Hoff-
man found that the man had four bad
scalp wounds and that one arm was nearly
broken.
The watchman, Shaughnessy, was ar
rested and taken to the Second precinct
station, where he was picked out OF crowd
by Uscavidschki and was locked up on a
charge of atrocious assault. Uscavidschki
was in bad shape and was sent to the City
Hospital.
Very late on Saturday night Thomas
Crawford Of sos Grove street, Jersey City, |
went to the Second precinct station and
asked Sergt. Booth II his cousin, Edward |
Griffin, had been arrested.
Questioning by the sergeant made 1t
when the attack was made. He was locked
up on a charge of atrocious assault.
Chief Murphy of Jersey City says that the
non-unon men have been watched by the
known when and by what routes they re-
turned to their homes; 1t was also noticed
that when the New York police left the
men on the Jersey side no police met them
there All the men arrested 80 far live in
Jersey City, but Chief Murphy says that he
has witness who saw three men go to
New York over the Pavonia ferry after
the assault on Saturday night, and heard
them boa st that they had helped do up
one .scab who wouldn't bother us again
in a hurry
The police found several cotton hooks,
such as freight handlers use, which had
been thrown over fence near the scene
of the attack.
Chief Murphy has asked the New York
police to try to find the men who were in
Saturday nights fight and who returned
to New York. He has also asked the super
intendent Of the Fall River pier to notify
him when any of the non-union men are
crossing to Jersey City, in order that he
may have squad Of police to meet them
on that side of the river. For further pre-
canton extra men have been stationed at
all Of the Jersey City ferries.