Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-08-11

miles, and back again at night, rathel
than ride v it'll strike breakers.
The strikers have arranged to run public
c~onveyances In opposition to the trolley
company. They have many sympathizerl
and. the cars, are very little p~atronized
county have been placed on duty. q,
Tracy Rogers Of Binghamton, n. Y, pres
ident Of the company, says;
"We won't recognize the union under
any consideration. We've started in to
break the union aud we'll do ii II 1t takes
all SUMNER"
The first trouble occurred Wednesday
when John Kelley, a strike breaker,
struck William Rowland, a union rail
road brakeman because the latter asked
q restaurant waitress not 10 serve strike
breakers. An immense crowd gathered
Immediately and the strike breakers were
locked in a store guarded by police while
Mayor II. q. Carpenter addressed the
crowd asking that the matter be left to
the police. Kelley was arrested and later
bailed out by the company.
Michael Pixie of West Rutland was
bound over to the grand jury Friday en-
two charges OF intimidatinR workmen,
il being alleged that be yelled ''Scab" at
two crews of strike breakers on the local
street railway line ~ the cars passed
through West Rutland. Pixie furnished
1900 bail in each case.
The company has had almost daily mis-
haps since the strike breakers have run
its cars. Friday q trolley struck q heavily
loaded ice cart and tipped it over, scat
terlng . ton and a half of ice in the road
and throw log the driver, W. H. Double
day, out on his head. He was not serious
~ hurt.
John Kelley, the strikebreaker who
struck Robert Rowland, q union man,
was fined $40 Friday for breach OF the
peace. The street railway company APP
pealed the case. Rowland filed civil suit
against Kelley, asking q, 1000 damages for
assault.
Ludlow Doctor EIopes With Nurse.
DR.. Charles W.. Bates OF Ludlow, who
was arrested In Kansas City last week
Sunday and who was being taken to YER
mont, attempted to end his life on the
train while passing through Illinois. He
drank poison but his life was saved by q
physician at Pana, Ill. DR.. Bates was
with 9 young roman when be was ar
rested. He has q wife in Ludlow. His
alleged creditors asked for his arrest.
Bates disappeared from Ludlow at the
same time as did a young nurse named
Susan Barrett, who had been living with
him and his wife. He WAS prominent as
a physician in Ludlow and his disappear
-. -.1N-.l aa.at-A TUkan
he eft be had q, 600, but was practically
without funds when arrested. He started
from Ludlow in the evening Ia his auto
mobile, q Ford runabout. Miss Barrett
left Ludlow the same evening on q train,
ostensibly for Rutland. DR.. Bates is 43
and Miss Barrett is "a years old. There
had been no gossip connected with their
names and the doctor and his wife were
apparently devoted 10 each other. DR..
Bates and Miss Barrett met at some point
north Of Ludlow and went by automo-
bile to New York city. They proceeded
from there west by train, leaving the au-
tomobile. Mr.. Bates had paid only a
small amount On the purchase Of the au-
tomobile. He left his financial afiairs
much involved, having raised money in
different ways. DR.. Bates and Miss Bar
rett were brought home to Ludlow Thurs
day afternoon. Doctor Bates is now at
Woodstock Jail and Miss Barrett at her
home in Rutland. A crowd was at the
railroad station to see them, but the party
eluded the curious eyes by getting of the
train at Proctorsville, and driving to Lud-
low In q closed carriage. At q hearing,
both parties waived examination and
were held for trial by the county court on
the charge OF a statutory offense. Miss
Bertha Colburn OF Rutlsnd became surety
for Miss Barrett. The doctor, being una
BILE to furnish bail, wal remanded to Gus
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