The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-28
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charge was made against him. A nitro
glycerin bomb powerful enough 20 wreck
a dozen cars was found in one OF Cope
lands pockets when he was searched at
the city hall police station.
The detectives told Magistrate Beaton
that they were standing at Forty-ffth
street and Springfield avenue. where there
is an intersection OF car tracks. when
Copeland and Field came up and laid
something on one Of the rails. A car
was approaching. The two looked around.
observed that they were being watched.
and hastily removed the object they had
dropped. They walked away hurriedly.
followed by the detectives. At Forty
ninth street and Woodland avenue, Sill
cox and O'Conner arrested them.
Say Copeland Confessed.
The detectives told Magistrate Beaton
that Copeland confessed to them that he
had attended a meeting OF strikers last
Friday night in the Forty-nlnth street
and Woodland avenue car barn, where
it was planned to use nitroglycerin
bombs to destroy cars At that meeting
Copeland. according to the detectives, was
persuaded by Field 20 take one Of the
bombs that had been prepared and watch
his chance to use it.
1T was a straight out plot to blow up
cars" said Detective Silcox The picket
for the strikers who was stationed at
Forty-fifth street and Springfield avenue
became suspicious when he saw O'Con-
ner and me and signalled TO Copeland to
take the bomb on the track. A car with
fifty passengers in it was only half a
block away at the time"
The Amalgamated Union officials IN
sisted that the arrest OF Copeland and
Field WAS a frame-up to discredit the
strikers. They admitted that Copeland
was a member Of the union.
Policeman Thomas Ray was struck
with brick which broke his Jaw He
was guarding car at Tenth and South
streets. He started to shoot into a crowd
which surrounded the car and bombarded
IT, but before he could get his revolver
pumping a brick knocked him senseless.
number OF persons vera hurt in a
fight between the police and a crowd at
Fourth street and Girard avenue. The
trouble was started by boys. In less than
up against a wall and lodging bricks. |
They shot into the mob. finally bringing
down Thomas Kershaw. one Of the riot |
ers, with a bullet In his neck
When re-enforcements arrived the police |
charged the mob and dubbed savagely. |
Half a dozen persons went TO the hos
pital out Of this fight. one man with a |
broken arm. another with broken rib, |
and third with a cut on the face.
Several Passengers Injured.
At Fifth and Jefferson streets several |
passengers OF a car that ran into a |
hornets nest were injured Mrs. Mary /
Goodwin was hit in the abdomen with a /
brick and taken 10 the ChiIdrens Homeo- /
pathie Hospital.
Wherever the State constabIes were not
on patrol the trouble was constant and /
vicious. Most Of the constabIes were as
signed to Kensington. the most danger
out section Of the city at this time The
troopers had to level their AS several
times and prepare TO shoot before the
crowd in that district broke.
Perhaps the most serious Of the dis
turbances was IN Manayunk, where until (
to-day there had been little violence 4
Thomas Wagner, fifteen years old. who 1
lives at pa Hermitage street was shot /
In the right breast during the struggle
between. the crowd and police al PENIS Il
dale and Main streets. Tonight at St Il
Timothy's Hospital it was said he prob Il
ably would die