The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26
SLUGGED MEN FOR SIS.
Inside Methods of UnprincipIed Por.
ton of Chicago Strikers Is
Confessed.

Chicago, May 1S.-Two more uniol
men have been arrested and others are
being sought by the police as a result
of additional confessions and state
ments by officers of the Carriage and
Wagon Workers union and the thugs
hired BY them to assault men who re-
fused to so on strike.
Charles Gilhooly. one of the trio
which received SIS as the price of the
life OF Charles ]. Carlstrom, who was
so brutality beaten by hired thugs that
he died. yesterday was confronted with
Charles j. Casey. business agent, and
Henry J. Newman. financial secretary,
Of the Carriage and Wagon Workers
union. who had confessed Saturday
night that $50 was appropriated by the
union to pay Gilhooly, Feely and
Looney. who We're hired as an "educa-
tional committee" to attack
men and prevent them from working.
Casey IL Newman told of the pay
ment of SIS to GilhoOly after he re-
ported that he had beaten Carlstrom.
an aged woodworker who refused to
go on strike.
S%lugser Faces Union Officials.
In he presence yesterday of In
spector LAWN, Louise A. Heile, attor-
A'NS ~ NAiS N"i los pllA ~ oSoI a
ufacturers' association; Charles Heile.
its secretary, and the detectives at
work on the case Gilhooly made state
mentS which are regarded as eStab-
fishing his guilt even If the confessions
of the union officials and his identifica-
ton by those who saw him running
away G.ser the attack on Carlstrom
had not already done so. Gilhooly's
statements We're made in Inspector La
wins office, where, in the presence Of
Case, and Newman, their confessions
were e to him.
AS he realized that his employers had
betrayed him Gilhooly flew into a rage.
He lifted up his shackled hands and ex-
erted all his strength to break the
handouts, at the same time CHANGING
~furiously at the two union officials, who
sat covering beside him with great
beads of perspiration standing out upon
their foreheads. Although a giant in
break his shackles M he was thrust
back into his chair.
Then he began to curse the union Of.
ficials.
You dirty. white-livered dogs!" hi
shouted. IF o hadn't been suckers
they couldn't prove a thing about it.
This thing Will and o fellows as
well as me. We have got our necks in
the sume moose"
Little by little he told what knew
about the smuggling Of Carlstrom. His
first admission was made when he told
Identified by Casey and Newman as
one of the %sluggers who had received
payment for the killing Of Carlstrom.
mo, l won't stand for that" he said.
"Ill shoulder the whole responsibility
myself. L4ooney was with me. but he
went along to keep me company.
Later on he exclaimed While being
QueStiOned: why, gentlemen, the
worst you can make out Of this Is
m~anslaughter. l have a good case
of self-defense. I will bring in seven
teen witnesses to your one"
Victim Showed Fight.
You talk of self-defense,' said At
torney Helle. "Then Carlstrom put u.
u pretty good fight?"
Yes" was the answer which Slipped
from Gilhooly's lips. I'll ave to give
him credit for it. He was a pretty
game guy"
After that Gilhooly talked more
freely.
II wish I had had ten minutes
more" he said. You never would
have got me then. l wish 1 had q
chance to do 1t. over again. But
don't know. l guess l would have
done the same way"
Then the slugger talked Of how he
was caught. He blamed a companion
Toes" ~Shaughnessy, who occupied 6
cell with him while he was under ar.
rest for telling the police of the Carl.
strom murder.
"If 1 had known Toes was a stoo
pigeon he never would nave got GU
Of that cell alive" he said. Just pu
him back with me and I'll warrant HI
Will come out a corpse. Wait until
get out Of this trouble-Tm going t
get out, you know, and I'll give you {
, job finding out h killed Shaugh.
. messy"