The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-03

II MandR5T f16TlEu lHIOFned the Fed- | eral authorities that he would guaran- ] tee the appearance of the men in Pen- i sacola any day they might set for the :, official examination.
 Went to Pensacola.
 | Tn accordance with this agreement. | the two accused men. Gallagher and | Porter appeared before Commissioner Marsh Monday to answer the charge
 that they had held lin peonage or I Taurich Mihaly." It was further all | legged in the affidavit made by Lambert ]. that he had been given forty lashes by
 a man named Big Harry. He swore at | tried to escape and that Gallagher and l Porter had overtaken him near Laurel | Hill and with pistols and guns had
 marcned him back to camp where he him, so he swore, to beg for mercy. and ! when he refused they gave him twenty i lashes more. He swore that he was and that John Cox was whipped at the
 same time. but he was given only l twenty lashes
 Taurich Mihaly, the Hungarian. tes- 1 tified that the day after he arrived in overtaken by Porter and Gallagher and | made to return to camp. He was given | only two lashes, so he said. for run
 ming away. He declared that he was was | threatened with guns and told that If | he tried to run away again the dogs | would be put on him.
 | Mihaly was first put on the stand in
 the morning, but Commissloner Marsn | believed that he was holding back some | of his testimon yhtrough fear and he | ordered the man held in jail until the | afternoon when local interpreter, a German merchant who spoke Hunga- rian. was called in to translate Mihaly's s
 Witnesses who swore that men were beaten at the camp ana that they were
 Josehh Joseph Davis. Harry Lambert. John McGinnis and Louis Abraham. These
 men lived on the East Side Tn New I Gallagher and other employees of the company as Bowery toughs. OI nal. natI dozen of these men brought oown, oniy one remains at the logging camp, and he Is employed as a nurse at the hos- pitaI.
 and given every chance for looking in- to conditions as they existed tnere.
 Manager hut H95lan pr rramms sHsefS the eamp surgeon and an Alabamian. drove him out to the logging camp, distance or
 "Hh In discussing the affsir which
 brought so much publicity. Dr. Tram
 mell said: , , .h.
 trouble is the cupidity of the New York
 sent us were the scum of humanity. I the Bowery and pick up a man who would say that he wanted work. Ot course, we got some buns and hood
 good men. These labor agents were
 paid s2 for. every man they secured for
 us. and I believe, like other employees
 hired were in partnership with the
 agents-that is as soon as the money
 pas rom 0ner the er so | that the labor agents could hire them
 over to somebody else. In this way,
 asen foad Ds week Lo~
 before they left New. York. several of
 these men were trying to get away.
 fore fmeS nS they Ar began 'e running away and | making their way back to New York. Mem Cost SEQ Each.
 Now the company had paid $2 to the labor agents for each of these men and | SIS passage for each man from New York. Gallagher was out here in the
 woods with these men and naturally | didn't want to see the company Him. | f1ammed in any such way But don't believe that he went to any such | extremes as some of these Bowery toughs testified to in Pensacola. More
 over, some of the men who remained
 at the logging camp for as long as two
 weeks did practically no work. They were willing to eat and sleep, but they
 were not willing to do any work to pay spent on them. Gallagher, as woods | foreman, issued certain supplies which
 nre neeted by iha campany nm t send in ehe
 mills enough logs to offset these sup.
 plies Now. 1t Is very probable that
 who wouldn't work. heard from GaI-
 laghherfii ghsfiaobar ,s Inc h... woods tor.
 the work all his life, and he knows l how to manage men. l suppose he Is one of the best paid lumbermen in the | perado that he has been represented.
 He Is man who does not fall back cnupis on stick nf bHpdpdS or pistol Managing
 ence. Is no little job, and it takes a So G no ope ss of and dsn Tbe ksh G a0 ut | of the world and set down to them- selves without fighting, and this crowd out here is no exception. And there | isn't man in the crowd, 1t makes no dinerence what sort of a reputation
 the fellow may have or, the, East Side willing to lay aside his coat and fight It out with as man to, man.. I simply don't believe what these buns and hoodlums have been swearing down in
 At the camp. we met the Irish woods panion and a brother to Jack London's
 his men by ruthless strength and re- smallish man of strong and and compact oHSo ct
 build. He is a parrel-chested man with with broad aos1l shoulders gu and strong mus strong, but good-natured.
 "A Fine Set of Liars."
 And the jiggers go down to Pen-
 saGi9la aiS .1nd,, and say that l beat them" he | of liars. That man Lambert takes the
 cake as the champion liar. Why, the very day he says he was whipped, July
 IS, he worked all day, firing on that
 SSagine Sag ne oyer n there And he worked all
 whipped on Friday and every time
 card We keep shows that he was on
 the engine all that day and all the next
 that, Hey. Mike, come over here" Mike Hayes. the angular Irish en1i- neer, was called over and asked whether La bert who had fired for him three or four days. had been at work on the | ped.
 T say now" said the engineer in a rich Tlpperary bregue, He wurruked forty lashes, he forgot to menthion the | fact In fact. he had no time to get whipped because he was on the engine all day except when he ate dinner And zine, too. it being Saturday.
 And say. too. he ran away that very night. he did, He wint to Flor ala on the engine with me and l missed him. Prisentely some wan came in; sez he, Mike, Harry Lambert says for you to go to hell He'll never fire for you. Hes going away from here hats the mssage he sent me. the
 Mikes flagman, standing by. cor roborated this He. too. was with Lambert all day when he claimed to have been whipped.
 In his affidavit Lambert swore the " mi h1f