Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-25

The nrSt departure from the ways of peace since the strike was declared, five weeks ago tomorrow, came Mon day morning at Mechanicsville, when Fred Ellery, chairman of the strike committee of the revolting operatives who were with the French River Tex tile company. engaged in an alterca- ton with Gerald Mayne, a detective employed as guard by the company. The affair resulted in the arrest of Ellery by Deputy Sheriff George F. HoIbrook of this city, who brought his prisoner to Putnam and placed him in a cell in the police station.
 Later in the day Ellery, who is now regarded as the Ettor of the local strike, was presented in a justices court in the town of Thompson, within which Mechanicsville is located, two charges being preferred against him, l. e., breach of the peace and the use of threatening language, on the 20th inst, to an agent of the mill company. and breach of the peace on Monday morning. In each case his bond was liked at S250, the total amount of $500 being forthcoming from l. w. W. members during the day Ellery's release following.
 Ellery's encounter with Detective Mayne came early in the morning when lli6 OptldllN0S WHO dlG HOW III LL6 plant were going in to work Ac cording to the accounts of the officers Ellery was endeavoring to induce a woman worker not to go in when MaYne took hand in the game. Mayne is much larger and more pow erful than Ellery and the latter had no advantage in the encounter and was almost immediately arrested.
 In regard to the matter, Ellery had the following to say, Monday after noon: "A man on the picket line (nOt Ellery) said to a girl going into the plant, You are not going to make scab out of yourself, are you? Imme- diately C. Fred Waterman, agent of the company, called the attention of the guards about the mill to the man, who, he claimed. had called the girl scab.
 In the meantime I was standing about 20 yards away. I told the man on the picket line that the man could not arrest him, for he was only night watchman. Immediately, with jump, Detective Mayne leaped in front of me and struck me several times in the back of the head, for no other cause than stated.
 Then Supt. Percy Waterman jump ed into the crowd and demanded my arrest, 1 being roughly handled and placed under arrest by Sheriff Hol- brook. At that time I was on the public highway, making no disturb ance whatsoever, and I consider the assault and the arrest entirely unprO- voked and a frameup to bring about trouble and place the strikers in a bad light"
 ElIery further stated that he had od ,f f- case came up Friday morning at ten o'clock, to which time Justice Ran dolph H. Chandler continued it, he would be represented by one of the ] best lawyers in the state who would see that he got full justice.
 The strike committee will insert in Boston papers this week advertise ments calling upon probable strike breakers to keep away from the mill. Trolley Crews' New Runa.
 When the half-hourly schedule on 1 the Putnam lines of the trolley com | pany went into effect between West l Thompson and DanielsOn Monday there was a new allotment of runs the fol- lowing being the arrangement under which the crews are now working Run No 1, c. E. Monroe, H. B. Brooks run No. ?, Harry Conklin Everett | Cominsi run No. 5, Benjamin Martin, | B. Vachon; run No. 4, William Bar | ton, Rienzi Brown; run No. 5 (Central | Village Moosup), Thomas Weaver, A. Moffitt; run No. $, James | w. Card, c. Chandler; run No 101, Ray l Shippee, H. Arnold; run No. 102, S. Larose, H. Shippee; run No. 103, P Bernier, A. Vachon; run No. 1O4, P Green, Frank Preston; run No. 105, A J. Hall W. Babceck.
 The half f-hourly schedule, in effect Monday, is put into operation daily al 143 B. m, by starting cars from the
 West Thompson and Danielson ends
 and is continued until 7.45 D. m., the cars passing through Putnam 30 min-
 utes after the regular cars, the running
 time of which is unchanged.