Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-03-06
Witness Tells of Babies, Little
Boys and Girls Gagged in Cells
by HeatIeSs Officers at Law
renee.
OFFICER IN CHARGE
UNABLE TO EXPLAIN
Congressman Inquire in Vain to
Learn Just What Law Viola
ton Resulted in Arrest CT
Women and Children.
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| Washington, March Sc. F. Lyncsl,
commissioner of public safety at
| Lawrence, Mass. who has charge of
the police department there. today
told the house rules committee. which
is hearing testimony on conditions
! in the mill strike in that city that he
did not know by what authority of
law women with babies in arms had
| been taken to the police station after
the riot at the depot,
| Under questioning by Representa-
/ tive Stanley. Lynch said none of the
parents of the children had appealed
! to him against their being taken
away, but he understood from one #
| the police captains, that all of them
did not have permission to leave.
did you see in the Jail, after the
struggle at the depot women and
children and women with babies in
arms?" Representativ Stanley asked.
YES, | saw them there, but they
were not in Jail
| How were they restrained? We're
they free to go If they Wanted to -
! "They were brought there to be held
until their cases had been disposed
Of"
They were brought there by the
police then, and did YOU ask any OF
these mothers whether they were in
careerated because they had tried TO
keep their children from being KID
mapped or because they tried to send
them away
No / did not"
"By what warrant were those
/ mothers and children there?''
| II did not know what the law was
on that subject"
well, then, just why were they
arrested"
q don't think they were, and
didn't know at the station whether
they were mothers or not.
| The child strikers who were brought
before the committee to testify in its
hearings concluded their testimony
today and members of the citizens
committee of Lawrence were heard.
Lynch appeared as the first
Mrs. william IL. Taft attended the
hearing and gave close attention 20
the testimony of the riot at the sta
ton.
Max Bogaty of Philadelphia, wit
ness Yesterday, recalled today, said
he had seen babies, little boys and
girls. in cells, locked up. Women ar
rested in the riot. he said. had been
fined 81 foh blocking the sidewalks.
George f. Roewer, Jr.. a Boston
attorney. appearing for the strike
a. h., huh 1iffiFtIltN
in getting court officials to show nm
complaints against the children.
Josephine Liss, a striker. testified
that when she went out for a walk
soldier stopped her with a bayonet
and swore at her. Then she struck
him with her muff and was arrested
for assault. locked up and fined $40
on another occasion, she testified
she had seen woman struck on the
head bv a policeman with club ana
had seen men beaten until their heafs
were covered with blood.
Miss Tema Camitta, Pilade!palA
vocal student and SUNDAY school
teacher and n member of one OF the
committees that sought to get the
children out of Lawrence. admitted
that She saw no clubbing of women OF
children in the station. nor after the
affray. did she isee any who had
been injured.
'I did see the police clubbing wo-
men I'M the patrol wagon. she said
..The wagon was crowded and the po-
lice were thrusting the women about
with their clubs
Tho witness refused to advance an
as.Ftk
the wagon. but said she saw more than
one woman beaten.
At no time. she said. had she oD-
served any outrages committed py
the militisnen.
4, was while Miss Camitta was tes-
tifying that Mrs. Taft arrived at the
committee room. she appeared 'ol
take great interest in the proceedings
and remained several hours.
Before Miss Camitta took the stand
Representative Victor Berger OF WIS
consin. socialist. had read into N.
record a telegram from William ID.
HAYWOOD, one of the strike leaders,
that two women witnesses sought oN
Mr. Berger could not come to Wash
inRton because Of injuries sustained
AZ the hands OF the police during ne
recent rioting. One woman was ID
the hospital while the other was COB
fined TO her home.
Miss Camitta related how she had
endeavored 70 lead the children from
the station TO the train.
For some reason the children ept
ahead OF the men and instantly the
women and children were hurled in-S
struggling mass by the police
,rse uou.e-cd AGAINST the wall Of ths