The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-30
YOUNG STRIKER BAYONETTED BY
 STATE SOLDIER
Stuck Through the Back, Boy Lying in Lawrence Hospital at Point of
 Death
According to Police, Wit messing Squads Charge, Wounded Lad Was Doing No Wrong.
Special from. United Press.)

NoPSCld1 IAOIIlr CllllSu tSS. Lawrence. Mass, Jan. 30.-An IS year old syrian striker was bayonet- ed, today, by a member of a squad of Massachusetts militia on Oak street. The boy was stuck through the back like a pig as he ran with seven com panfons before an unprovoked charge of the state soldiers. He is lying at the city hospital at the point of death. It is the first time the blood of an unarmed citizen has been shed by armed soldiers in Massachusetts, the cradle of liberty, since British red coats fired into the mob of Boston ians at the corner of State and Dev- onshire streets, where the historic Boston massacre occurred.
 The wounded boy, John Rami, ac- cording to the police themselves. who witnessed the blood letting, was doing no wrong. The bayonetung occurre;l shortly after o'clock, this morning, but so fearful were the authorities that news of the boys injury would arouse the strikers to revenge, that they exerted every means to hush the affair up. News of it did not leak out until just before noon.
 Rami, according to eye with esses of the affair, was walking along Oak street with seven companions As they neared a corner of the street. where a squad of eight armed militia men were standing, one of the boys said, jestingly:
 1 There are the soldiers now. Let's i have some fun with them.''
 1mm ediately the man in charge of : the squad ordered the soldiers 10 ! charge. Rami, unable to run as fast
 as his companions, brought up the
 rear. His steps were slightly retard-
 ed by the slippery pavemen and he i appeared to stumble. As he did so, | one of the rnilitiamen caught up with l him and thrusting viciously forward.
 stuck his bayonet into Ramf's back. The boy screamed and staggered 1 forward. He ran a few more steps and fell, fainting. Officials at the hospital where he was taken would
 net entered his body but it was ex- pected he would die at any nom ment.
 Another Sensation.
 1 A sensation is expected, today, un- ] less powerful interests are successful ! in quietly flushing the matter fol ow- ] ing the arrest of John Breen, under taker, school commissioner and poii- tica1 boss. who is charged with con- coverieS'' of dynamite, one week age Saturday When the dynamite was | found" by police, reports were sent out broadcast that the strikers had brought it here to blow up the mills It has since been stated, officially, by police. who worked on the case that the strikers were not guilty. Seven Syrfans, however, are still under ar rest. They were arrested in house where dynamite was found
 Breen's arrest, late last night, caus- ed a great sensation. He furnished the tips which led to the discovery of the dynamite.
 Breen has heretofore refused point blank to tell the police how he was able to give them the tips or where he got his information. Wherever it was, he got it far enough in ad- vance. to foEewarn the bureau of criminal investigation in Boston on Thursday, as that bureaus reports showed, today, and to ask that a personal friend be assigned from Bos- fn Q tiles said, today, that Breen asked that Inspector Kelliher and Patrol man WOodcock be assigned to assist in running down the "dynamiters.'' Both these men are close political and personal friends of Breen.
 The police found nothing. Breen told them where the dynamite was and, drawing a rough map of the place, said he would go with them. They returned alone and found the dynamite wrapped in brown paper.