Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-03


. A general alarm. tolled from the four
fire towers of the town. called out every
policeman and every fireman. They. to-
eether with aldermen and citizens.
drove the strikers from Kearny.
Tolen himself was badly injured and
he barely escaped being stoned to death
Only the quick alarm saved him. He ID
In the German Hospital, this city. with
three slight fractures of the skull
The widest confusion prevailed during
the rioting. The pupils of the High
School, near where the fight took place,
were thrown into panic
The prisoners will be arraigned before
Police Recorder Leonard A. WINNER
and held without bail to await the action
OF the grand jury ON a charge of in
citing a riot.
Hold Up and Rob Man,
In a compact body the 200 strikers In
vaded West Hudson and marched along
heatny avenue. On the wav thev
stopped long enough to hold up Frank
Lem, OF "a Stratford place, this citv
ana rob him of IS, with which he wap
gong to pay for license at the Town
Han. They threatened to XIII him u
he resisted
Wiiiiam Guenther, an acting inspector
OF the Public Service Railway saw tha
mob. He jumped on a car and ordered
the motorman- to run full speed to the
Iown Hall. where he warned Chief o5
Police Tolen
Near the High School the strikers
came upon four men at work In a cellar
excavation. They rushed upon them
just as Tolen and Patrolman Philip Bell
arrived.
Call out the reserves" sbouted ToI.,
TO Bell, as he started toward the bans
of strikers
Confronting the men Tolen ordered
| them to halt. Instead, they sureed for.
ward. One of them picked np a rock
and threw 1t. Tolen was struck on tha
head. He went down amid the angry
mob.
Struggling to his knees. he drew his
revolver and fired twice into the crowd.
Two men fell.
gered to his feet. There were no police
men near TO aid him.
Holds Crowd at Bay.
He held the men at bay with his ra
volyer and stumbled backward toward the
cellar excavation. The infnrlated str.k-
ers pressed upon him.
With his back against the earth Side
he stopped
II will kill the first man that comes inr'
he shouted.
His answer was storm of rocks,
Stones were lying all around The strlk-
ers picked them up and hurled them
toward the chief. One struck him in
the neck Just below the chin and drew
blood. second hit him on the head
Every stone that could be raised was
thrown at him Then the strikers rushed
upon milk wagon driven by Edward
McMann and tried to get bottles to
use as missiles McMann closed tho
door and held it shut against the rot.
ers by sheer strength
The strikers were about to brave the
chiefs revolver and storm the cellar
when the fire bells began to sound the
tocsin
Bell had telephoned from the High
School. In answer to his alarm the
fremen and police rushed to the scene
from every part of the town.
Waving his gun toward the crowd that
pressed about him he stumbled backward
until his back was against nearby
house The infuriated strikers pressed
upon him. Then he pushed oren the eel
lar door. slipped inside and barred II.
BY that time the bell at the High School
was sounding the tocsin The hremen
and policemen rushed to the scene from
every part of the town.
AT the sound of the alarm the strik-
ers started to fee. The reserves headed
] Of
most seriously wounded were sent to
st. MichaeIs Hospital The other was
carried 10 the Town Hail.
Chief of Police Tolen who was found
almost unconscious. was assisted to the
drug store of DR.. +. II. Goldberg. where
the flow of blood from his wounds was
staunched. Then he was taken to tile
Office of DR.. Walter r. Rieck for treat-
ment.
The man who is dying is Lisdor Caro-.
whose address is unknown He was
operated on at noon in an attempt to
extract the bullet from his kidneys.
Vito Mari, of 90 Monroe street. was
the other striker hit He was shot
through the arm.
After the alarm was sounded the busi-
ness men of Kearny placed their an
tomobiles at the service of the police
and firemen. and some of them joined
In the hunt
The prisoners were run down one by
one and taken to the town hall. where
they were locked un and guarded by .
strong force of policemen.
The names given by the prisoners are
as follows:
James Marteln, of % Madison street,
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