The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-04-10

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- ton and notori
Robert Hunter. Gus as the man
who served long prison sentence for
shooting II. G. Frick during the Home
stead strike, was arrested and held.
Cards and letters signed with his name
were said to have been found in the
room occupied by Selig Silverstein, the
twenty-year-old Hebrew who was in-
jured by the explosion and who was
quoted as admitting that he was about
to throw the bomb at the police as re-
venge for a beating he had received
from them when it exploded prema-
turely in his hands. Berkman, how
ever, insists that Silverstein never
made the admission and that another
than he threw the bomb and escaped.
Robert Hunter, the former settle
ment worker who married into the
wealthy Stokes family, has been prom
inent in the discussions following the
exciting affair because he was the man
selected to address the meeting which
was suppressed. He did persist In try
ing to speak from the steps Of house,
but was hustled away by the police.
The latter were accused of using IN
necessarily brutal force in dispensing
the crowds, especially the mounted po-
licemen riding into the mixed throng
Of men and women even on the side
walks and using their clubs unmerci-
fully. This, however, the police deny
and defend their course on the ground
that no permit for the meeting had
tend that this is a denial Of the right
of free speech guaranteed by the con-
stitution. Whatever the legal aspects
of this question may be. most Of the
conservative papers of New York and
elsewhere have taken the position that
it is unwise to repress the radical
speakers unless or until they actually
advocate violence,> and there is moth
ing to indicate that this particular
meeting contemplated anything more
radical than asking the city and state
to give work to the unemployed. The
Socialists called another meeting to
protest against the brutality Of the po-
lice. Police Commissioner Bingham has
asked the aldermen to appropriate
100000 for the creation Of body Of
secret police to cope with the advo-
Gates of violence. Silverstein had no
connection with the Socialists.
Dynamite For BuIkeIey Wells.
A violent explosion, which damaged
the house of Buckley Wells, former
adjutant general of the Colorado ma
tional guard and bitter enemy of the
Western Federation of Miners, and
from the effects of which Wells is said
to have narrowly escaped with slight
bruises, occurred near Telluride March
%, where he is engaged as general
manager Of the Smuggler Union mine.
Confessed Before Execution.
Chester Gillette, the young man con-
victed of numbering his sweetheart,
Grace Brown, in July of 1906, went
calmly to his doom in the electric chair
at Auburn. N. Y. March 30 after re-
peated appeals of his mother to Gov
ernor Hughes for retrial or commuta-
ton had proved unavailing. The gov
ernor saw no justification for execu-
tive interference with the course of the
law. Before the execution the spiritual
advisers Of Gillette issued n signed
statement saying that mo legal mis-
take" was made in the laws decree,
implying that the condemned man had
made clean breast of his crime. For
some time previously he had embraced
the consultations of religion, and On the
day before his death he wrote for pub
LEGATION an appeal to the young men of
the country to live clean and righteous
lives. An autopsy performed by DR..
Spitzka Of Philadelphia showed that
"Gillette had the brain of thoroughly
normal young man Of his age"
Congressman Shoots a Negro.
Representative Hefin of Alabama
while riding in street car at Wash
ington got into a row with a negro pas
senger named Louis Lumby. who was
boisterous and drinking from a bottle
OF grog. Hefiin says that he request
ed the negro not to drink there in the
presence Of ladies and that when Lum-
by got OH the car he maze an lnSult-
ing remark and prepared to draw a
weapon whereupon he QHeflin) drew
his gun and fred two shots. One hit
the negro in the. head and the other
wounded white bystander. Lumby
was expected to recover, and the hear
Ing was delayed to await the outcome.
In the house Heflin. who introduced
the bill requiring the operation of
"Jim Grow" cars In the District. said
that he had received many threatening
letters. "a
Texas Bars Western -uHtoA.
The state of Texas has won its suit
against the Western Unian Telegraph
company for not taking a state charter
to run a line between two points with
In the state, and the judgment rendered
by Judge Calhoun in the district court
at Austin is that the company be GUST
ed from doing business in the state and
be fined 100000 for back franchise
taxes. This operates to prevent the