The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-09
AMMONIA FOR "SCAB'S" EYES.
ANOTHER PRISONER TAKEN IN
THE IRON WORkERS' VAR.

thiIutt W. 1ETNNlS 4FIhuC
John Doe OF San Francisco" who looks
like a mechanic out of a job, is registered
at the East Thirty-fifth street police station,
He tried last night to blind william A.
Malaney. superintendent for Post 4 McCord
on a building job in Lexington avenue
between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-ffth
streets. Mr.. Doe was caught with the
goods on. The goods included a pair OF
rubber shoes, or sneakers" and a con-
densed milk bottle which had held am
monia.
Malaney has been threatened several
times since he has been in charge OF the
Post Il MoCord job. The firm il putting
up a seven story building for Fiss, Doerr
Il Carroll, horse dealers, between Twenty
fourth and Twenty-fifth streets and Lex
ington and Third avenues. Several times
striking iron workers have gone up to Big
Bill Malaney and told hin he would get
his head knocked off if he didn't quit "soab-
bing."
Finally he got an anonymous letter which
said he would get blown to hell if he didn't
give up the lob. Then he went to the police
and got a permit to carry a pistol. Be
sides being superintendent Of the con-
s. rlction work, he is an assistant pHymaster
for Post & McCord and, the police say,
Is one of the most cordially hated men in
town by the strikers.
He knocked of work about 0 o'clock
last evening and started up Lexington
avenue for his home at l6a East Thirty
fourth street. Before he got to the corner
Of Thirty-second street he noticed that
there was an unusual number of children
at the corner. The children weren't play
ing, They were just hanging about and
doing nothing in particular,
Across the avenue he saw something
which Interested him more than tine children,
Three or four men were standing on the
sidewalk Watching him m talking to-
gether. Malaney recognized them as strik-
ing ironworkers He remembered their
faces, but he couldn't recall their names.
He kept his hand on his gun pocket and
walked on.
As Malaney pushed through the crowd
of children a big, squarely built man lodged
swiftly around the corner holding some
thing in his right hand. He jumped for
Malaney, throwing his right hand up.
Malaney pulled his gun instantly and threw
it up to shoot. There were children all
around and he didn't dare to let fly for
fear Of hitting one of them. At the same
moment the big man got close to Malaney
and threw a bottleful Of ammonia at his
face. Malaney managed to cover his eye
with his right arm just in time. The
ammonia burned his arm and his face in
spots and the fumes blinded him for a
minute or two.
He fired a shot into the air, threw his
pistol down and closed with the ammonia
thrower. The man wrenched loose, leaving
part of his coat in Malaney's grip and ran
up Lexington avenue. The children scat
tered. Policeman Charles l.. MCGOWAN
ran up from Thirtieth street and chased
the fugitive. He is one of the best sprinters
in the Police Department and he caught
up in two blocks, getting a hold on the mans
tug that pulled the man off his feet.
MCGOWAN took his prisoner around to the
station house, where Sergt. Routh inter-
rogated him. He shut his mouth and
wouldn't talk except to say that his name
was John Doe, that he was 40 years old,
born in this country and came here from
San Francisco. He is built like a heavy
weight Dug. The sergeant asked him il
he belonged to a union He refused to
answer.
Malaney came around to the station
house, his ayes red as fire, and made a COM
plant of felonious assault. A doctor
from Bellevue Hospital, but the
superintendent said he didn't need any
but what he would get at home.
Il don't know the man, " said Malaney
afterward, though his face looked kind
o. familiar. You can't keep tab on all
these fellows, you know, There's one thing
sure, | would have killed him il the kids
hadn't been strung out all over the corner.
| would have shot one Of them il | had
let go. Kline O. funny about them kids.
| pass that corner every night, but | never
saw one-ffth the number there were to-
night. 1t looked very much as if somebody
had managed to get a bunch of kids there
on purpose to prevent shooting, or some
thing of that kind.
Il was dead sure the men across the street
belonged to the Housesmiths and Bridge
mems Union and | was keeping an eye
on them when this buck emptied his bottle
at me. However. I'm on the job and on
the job I'm going to stay. Maybe III
have to shoot somebody, but | guess there
1 bC VI uoilV ~ Il W
Charles Moran and Thomas Weir, who
are accused of having attempted to blow
up a Post & McCord building in East Twenty
third street. will not be put on trial until
next Wednesday. An agreement was
yesterday between the District
Attorney and counsel for Moran and Weir
postponing thu trial, which had been set
for to-day. Moran and Weir cannot be
released except on S. 900 cash bail for each, |
that being one Of the stipulati ons for the
postponement.
Patrick H. Farrell. secretary of the
Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union. told
Assistant District Attorney Train yester-
day that Weir and Moran were not mem
beers Of the union. Mr.. Train said he would
send for Moran and Weir so that he could
make sure that they were not union men.
Moran and Weir we're brought from the
Tombs, but by that time Farrell had gone.
Moran admitted to Mr.. Train that he has
been IN prison before,
Peter "a. Conroy, who is said to nave been
a friend Of Weir and Moran, was arrested
yesterday on the charge of having assaulted
a Post 4 McCord Waterman, He was held
in 81 500 bail by Judge O'Sullivan in General
Sessions, |