The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-18
'LUNN, JAILED AGAIN,
REFUSES TO GET BAIL
Little Falls Sheriff Nabs
Schenectady Mayor and
Six Associates.
WIFE SAW HIM LOCKED UP
Militia to Be Called Ont. If
Necessary to stop Social
ist Orators.
WIFE SAW HIM LOCKED UP

UrrcA, N. Y, Oct 17.-George r.
Lunn. Socialist Mayor Of Schenectady.
and six Of his coworkers from that city
are locked In the Herkimer county jail
to- might following their arrest In Little
Falls this afternoon on a charge Of
rioting.
Mayor Lunn, Mrs. Lunn and a num-
Der of other Socialist orators attempted
to address groups of striking employees
Of the Phoenix Mills in Little Falls in
defiance of the ordinance which pro-
hibits the delivering Of speeches in the
public streets without a permit. and
Sheriff Moon and several of his depu-
ties swooped down on the agitators
They caught eight, but permitted Mrs.
Lunn to 60.
Subsequently Mayor Lunn and his
companions were arraigned and held
in $1,000 bail each. They refused to
furnish bond. and tonight were re-
moved to the county jail in Herkimer.
Their examination will be held In Little
Falls tomorrow afternoon.
This is the second time Mayor Lunn
has been arrested after attempting to
address the Little Falls strikers, his
first trial concluding yesterday. De-
cision has not yet been rendered by
the court.
His arrest this afternoon on the
charge Of rioting will prove more seri-
Gus affair. since the Herkimer county
District Attorney will prosecute the
case against the Mayor and his COM
panions and will exert every energy to
convict them.
To-day's raid BY the sheriff's depu-
ties. who have superseded the Little
Falls police in dealing with the situa-
tion, occurred during a recess In the
trial Of Robert Bakaman, the former
Schenectady clergyman. who has been
arrested Ave times in the past three
days for attempting to address the mill
strikers.
After tho court ordered a recesss in
the trial the Socialist orators at once
made their way to Clinton Park, where
the arrests had been made previously.
When Sheriff Moon and the police off,
GERS arrived Mrs. Lunn was engaged
in reading to the crowd an editorial
from a New York paper bearing on
the local situation. She was escorted
to police court by one Of the officials.
but was not put under arrest. Seven
others, including Mayor Lunn, were
bundled into a patrol wagon and hurried
to Police Headquarters. while a crowd
Of strikers surrounded the building.
After the arrests had been made
Sheriff Moon went In front OF the po-
lice station and read the riot act" TO
the crowd. which numbered between
800 and 400. He said that hereafter
not more than twenty persons would
be allowed to congregate In any one
place upon the streets. The crowd dis
persed after he had finished speaking.
The Herkimer county authorities an
nounced tonight that the work Of So
cialist agitators among the Little Falls
strikers must cease and that II neces-
sary they will order out the militia to
prevent what they insist are unlawful
assemblages.
Those arrested this afternoon In ad-
dition to Mayor Lunn are Robert Baka-
man, Harvey Simmons, John Lenehy.
Frederick Hirsch, Louis Lesnicke and
Anthony Deguerre. All but Lesnicke
are residents Of Schenectady.
Tonight Mayor Lunn made this state
ment in police headquarters:
when the right to tell strikers that
they have the right to strike is denied
there is no further chance Of a peace
full solution. tell You there is a stir
ring unrest which Is disguised against
the poverty that exists: against the in
Justice existing. that will be quelled by
the solution Of the problem. and 1t will
be done peacefully, or It will be done
otherwise. II am not to come to Lit
tie Falls without renting some capital
lists hall, II I am a poor man am not
allowed to speak to my fellows in the
open. then tell you liberty is dead.
"I do not want to live longer II may
not speak In the public places. Rather
than surrender my freedom Of speech
would rot in your rotten bastle. II this
is possible in America, America Is as
bad as Russia.
"I want to say that We will have free
speech in Little Falls. II they will not
grant 1t to the people there will be trou-
BILE. and II you want to build new ja!ls.
build them now. And II you want to
get barns. get them. We will speak and
we will continue to speak,"
The strike, which originated In the
Phoenix mills and which was agitated
by the intrusion Of Mayor Lunn. has
spread to tho Gilbert mills. A number
of foreigners employed there went on
strike tonight