The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-04-26
ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 26 1911
Swarm of ConstabIes.

dorf and Burns and his operatives
have been staying was lively all day
with the search for Burns and his
assistants by constables who had war.
rants for them on the kidnapping
charge. The constables patrolled the
corridors and seemed bent on going
into every corner, until the hotel man,
agement declared they should not in
trude upon the guests of the hotel.
Drew and Badorf, soon after this
order had been issued, came into the
lobby of the hotel and announced they
had forcibly taken a constable from
corridor leading TO their rooms and
had sent him to the first floor in an
elevator.
This constable, Daniel j. Barton,
late today obtained in police court Il
warrant charging Drew with assault
and battery, but the warrant had not
been served late tonight.
While it was known that Burns ar
rived early this morning from Toledo
his whereabouts during the day were
mystery His men, who had been
conspicuous for their numbers and
activity, disappeared from the hotel
and efforts to find them were unavail
ing.
Many officials and organizers of la,
Dor unions have been coming into In
danapolis from other cities since the
arrest of j. j. Mcnamara and the
uncovering of dynamite deposits here
last Saturday night and demonstra-
ton of i'll feeling against Drew and
FORD was made today at Justice Man
nngs court when constables took
them to Jail.
Drew was pale and obviously re.
luctant to pass through a densely
crowded corridor to the stairway.
A constable took hold of him and as
he hung back several men in
the crowd that pressed about him
grasped his coat and roughly jostled
him forward. There was a clatter of
hand-clapping and volley of laugh
ter as he appeared at the door.
Drew here regained his composure
and passed smilingly down the stair.
way. A hundred men followed the
party to jail and for time loitered
about the entrance, but dispersed in
half an hour.
Labor Unions Prepare to Fight.
After executive conferences of ma
tional officials of several labor Or
ganizations here today it was an
nounced definite plans are to be made
for the assistance Of the Bridge and
Iron Workers association in defend
ing itself and its secretary, J. ]. Nc
Namara. Statements were made con.
tanning emphatic denunciations of the
use of explosives in disputes with en-
ployers and expressions of belief that
Mcnamara and the iron workers as
sociation are victims of great con-
spiracy against labor unions in gen.
eral.
State Representative John j. Kee-
gan, who is connected with the ma
tional organization of the machinists'
union and who made the affidavits al
leging kidnapping, said tonight that
the arrests of the private detectives
and unofficial investigators was not
"a "grandstand play" on the part Of
the labor organizations.
I'VE are going about this case
said Keegan, without any show and
expect to prove our charges against
the men who have been arrested"
Five witnesses were examined by
the grand jury during the day. Su-
perintendent of Police Martin ]. Hy-
land and Captain of Detectives w. A.
Holtz were the first summoned and it
is intimated the grand jury purposes
to learn if the police officials and po
lice Judge, James A. Collins, exceeded
their authority in the part they took
in the arrest and extradition of Nc
Namara.
1t is reported evidence will be pro-
cured in an effort to show the two
police officers had no jurisdiction in
the case and that the requisition pa
pers for Mcnamara, which were hon
ored by Governor Marshall, should
have been served by the sheriff Of
Marion county instead of by police
officer
Attorneys for labor leaders say the
extradition case should have gone be-
fore Judge of the circuit court in
stead of being heard before Police
Judge Collins.
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