New-York tribune., 1910-08-13
COLUMBUS POLICE REBEL
Thirty-fIVe Refuse to Guard Cars
Against Strikers.
ALL WILL BE DISMISSED
Mayor Addresses Men in an
Effort to Induce Them
to Obey Order.

Columbus. Ohio. Aug 12-Thrty-fve out
of 40 members of the night detail of the
Columbus police force rebeIled tonight
when called on by Mayor Marshall to board
streetcars in effort 10 catch persons who
tacking cars nightly with stones. bricks
and bullets The mutineers Mayor Mar
shall announces. will he dismissed from The
department tomorrow The Mayor adj
dressed the men. pleading with them tn DO
their duty. but the thirty-fve were firm In
their refusal
The Mayor called only on regular police
men to assume duty on the cars. One hun
dred and thirty-seven special policemen.
engaged especially for riot duty in connec-
ton with the strike. were not drawn on for
this service. as they were assigned TO places
about the city where trouble was expected
Included in the thirty-f1ve who refused 20
board the cars are some Of the oldest men
on the force.
Until to-day Mayor Marshall had with
stood pressure brought to bear by the Co
lumbus Railway and Light Company TO
put officers on cars City officers and mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce Joined in
urging the Mayor TO take this step and
favor the plan.
Within a few hours his change Of policy
became known to the police and during the
afternoon there was widespread dissatis-
faction in the department This reached
a elimination at rollcall this evening The
Mayor began to make assignments and
those in rebellion stepped out of the ranks.
There was little i'll feeling openly ex-
pressed. although one policeman took OFF
his coat and asked the Mayor to don 1t
and board a car.
As a reason for their rebellion the officers
did not advance fear Some said they had
been warned by grocers and butchers that
if they rode on cars provisions would not
be sold to them. Others said they had be-
lorg ged to unions. After being told that if
they refused to obey the new orders they
would be dismissed two officers who had
at first rebelled stepped back into line
The Mayor said later that ne had enough
officers to man the fifty cars which the
company operated tonight.
The Columbus Railway and Light Com
pany to-day brought force of special de-
tectives to the city to apprehend those
guilty Of stoning and shooting at cars
1t was announced at the conpany's Of
cided on, effective at 10 a. m. Monday. Such
strikers as did not apply for places then
would be barred from future employment.
There was persistent rioting tonight.
Stone throwers lay in wait for cars and
pelted the crews numerically. A score Of
carmen were injured during the early even
ing, none seriously Patrolnnan Charles
Snyder was hit on the head with rock
and badly injured
The stone throwing was not limited 10
the cars that had no policemen. Arrests
Of stone throwers were effected by the po-
licemen riding cars, and are the first
arrests in several hundred instances OF
stone throwing reported since the strike
began.
The police are searching tonight for
John F. Brady, leader of the imported car
crews He has been managing them by
travelling about the city in an automobile
He will be charged, the police say, with
diScharging firearms from his machine
There was not so much shooting tonight
as last night, but the trouble makers were
more ruffianly in handling carmen, par
ticularly some who were dragged from
their cars.