The Washington times., 1912-03-05
WIFE OF PRESIDENT
HEARS REVELATIONS
OF STRIKE CRUELTY
Mrs. Taft Attends Con-
greSSional Hearing-So-
ciety Women in Tears.
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tCOnllnueO ITOHl Il ISl BHSe,)
the meat from the table in a manner
that would have brought tears to your
eyes"
Knebel declared that when he
reached Lawrence the streets were filed
with police, soldiers and detectives. On
the day he planned to take the children
from Lawrence, he said, Marshal Sui
llvan personally told him, Those child
ren will not leave Lawrence
Leaps From Chair.
He described dramatically the scene
at Lawrence station. AS it progressed
he grew excited and finally he leaped
from the witness chair, and gesticulat-
ing wildly, he said:
when we entered the station we saw
the two lines of police. Just as we en-
tered the door the police began their
bloody work.
"Children and their parents began to
pass through the police, and the police
fell upon them. They tore children from
their parents. There was screaming,
the most unearthly shrieking that any
human being ever heard. l saw one
brutal policeman draw his club and
strike a woman across the stomach.
"N hen l came out was STOPPING over
four Or five little children. lmmedi-
ately three or four policemen grabbed
lne AMI threw me all over the place.
They dragged me along the ground on
crowd. But L went back. ] tust could
not see women and chill lren brutally
handled that way. ] didn't care wheth-
or I was murdered that day"
How many women did YOU see beaten
that day. asked Mr.. Henry.
L saw whole wagon load of women
and children who had been taken
away" said the witness.
Il saw one young woman who had
nothing to do with the strike, dubbed
over the back by policeman. | tried
to get back TO the crowd three or four
times, and finally they arrested me. I
was taken to station house. where wom-
en- and children crowded the cells"
Knebel was fined 80 for his work that
morning on a charge of constructing
the Sidewalks"
"These murderous assaults were a
most horrible thing" he said.
Tells of Clubbing.
Under examination by Congressman
Hardwick, Knebel reiterated his decla-
ration that both women and children
were dubbed at the station incident.
In the police station that day a man
in the cell with me was Pole. He
>didn't speak much English" continued
'Knebel His wife and children were
also locked up. He knew from what he
heard that his wife was a few cells
away, and he started to call her in
his own language. But the turnkey
told him to stop yelling. The man did
not do it, and opening the door the
turnkey dragged him out and threw
him down the stairs to dark cells in
the cellar: There were babes a few
days old locked up in the cells. There
was a woman locked up who had. a
child only two weeks old.'
What on earth did they want to lock
the ghdrgn Po up Of fSr %orb
Il don't know, ask them,' said
knebel.
Yes they were. The mothers were
Miss Margaret SangIer. a member o.
the committee that took children from
Lawrence to New York, followed Kne
parties, one of 119 and the other of 90
were sent to that city.
Describes Conflict.
Tema Comitta. a member of tn,
Philadelphia committee which went tC
Lawrence for the children, describeC
the conflict at Lawrence station. Sht
told of obtaining the consent of The
parents to take children away and o.
taking them to the station.
Il took the children, lined them W
two by two in order to get them through
the station door" said the girl "Th,
children went before me, and when
Cling mass. [ just don't know how /
happened. 1t was all confusion. but
remember that afterwards the children
were thrown in the patrol wagons. The
police would not allow me to go to thu
patrol wagon, nor to go to the police
station. | went to our lawyer, but W.
could not get the cases up before thu
next Tuesday"
Did the police show any warrant?'
asked Henry.
mo. They lust fell on the GROVE
when they came on the station plat
FORM
The witness said she had not seen an,
one hurt by the police, but that ther
was so much confusion she could no
tell much about what went on.
Arrest Threatened.
She said that detectives had visite,
the homes of children who were abou
to leave Lawrence and had threatene,
to arrest the children and take then
away from their parents and to plac
them in public institutions.
Miss Comitta told of visiting tn
homes of the Lawrence children I
make sure that the parents understood
about their going away.
Congressman Berger presented to tn
committee a telegram received b
Samuel LipsOn. the strike leader VIII
testified yesterday. 1t read:
The last outrage by the State polio
committed on Italian women. Mrs
Regcnayolin was beaten by guards an
thrown down Jail stairs to basemen
dungeon. Mrs. Harry BOzah was take
from Jail to the hospital
Doiudavtnr Efforts