Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-29
ITALIANS IN RIOT BECAUSE THEIR
PAYMASTER HAD BEEN ROBBED.
Five Arrests Made Last Night of
Suspects Held at MetuChen
and WestfieId.
MANY REPORTS HEARD.
Lively Chase for the .Men--FOur
Were Seen and Followed In
to Q Swamp.
Special to the EVENING NEWS:


NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. 29:-
While armed officers scour the woods
and settlements for miles around and
watch every trolley and railroad car,
and with hourly reports of armed
Italians being seen in or near differ
ent towns of the county suspected of
being the men guilty of yesterdays
holdup on the Metuchen-New Bruins
wick road, the Italian employees of
Delaware River Quarry & Construc-
tion Company, whose pay, amounting
to from $4,000 to $4,000, was stolen
from the paymaster, are in panic.
Late yesterday afternoon and last
night the Italians opened their en-
ployers' tool boxes and scattered the
tools and implements about the road
and paths. In some cases trolley
crews, last night, were obliged to stop
and remove the Instructions from the
tracks before they could proceed. Eff
forts are being made by officers of
the county and Representatives of the
company to pacify the men and per-
suade them to return to work, assur-
ing them that they will surely not
lose the pay due them, as fear of the
latter is presumed to have caused
their actions. One other theory,
sympathy for their four or five hunt
ed countrymen, has been advanced as
the reason for their disorder.
All to be Discharged.
All the laborers of the Construc-
tion company who are working in the
trenches between Bonhamtown and
New Brunswick will be discharged
tonight and trouble is anticipated
when the men find that they will not
be paid until tomorrow. To avoid
any disturbance Sheriff Church has
ordered back the nine deputy sher-
ifs whom he has sworn in, and who
returned to this city at noon today,
after guarding the company's prop
erty all night. These men will go on
duty at o'clock this afternoon. They
are: Peter Murphy, James A. Kinney,
George Oliver, Jacob Weldy, Charles
Rogers, John Britt, Robert Julliand,
Charles w. Grover and John Faulk-
ner.
Two Arrests Today.
At o'clock this morning two Ital-
ians were apprehended at the Me-
tuchen railroad station. One was
known to have been employed by the
company and both had tickets for
Newark. They were taken before
Mayor Litterst for hearing. They
professed to know nothing about the
holdup, but will be given another
hearing this afternoon and in all
probability will be discharged.
The authorities are keeping strict
watch over another man at Metuch-
en-. He is stranger and is thought
to know something about the hold
up. There has been no warrant is
sued for his arrest, but it is thought
that there will be.
Five Italians Arrested.
Three Italians were arrested at Me-
tuchen last night and two at West
field, on suspicion of being part of
the band of highwaymen.
Prosecutor Berdine went to Me-
tuchen and talked to the three pris-
oners there through an interpreter.
W. s. Harkins and William Schieck,
the men help up, also went there with
the prosecutor. They could not iden-
tify the men as any of those in the
party which held them up.
The men had brass checks identi-
flying them as employees of the Della
ware River Quarry and Construction
Company They said they left that
company's employ about Christmas,
and knowing that yesterday was pay
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