Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-05-08
Mine Guard Thugs Shoot Up Trades
Assembly Meeting At Huntington
Hatfield Does Not Jail Them
Especial .SerYice.l

Huntington, w. Va.-At a mass
meeting o the citizens of Huntington,
held Monday night under the auspices
of the Trade and Labor Assembly, the
browning outrage by Baldwin Feltz
thuggery IN West Virginia was con-
ssummated. The audience. which was
composed of hundreds of women and
children as well as men, was fired into
by some three or four men afterwards
by some three or four men afterwards
discovered to have been Baldwin de-
tectives sent here from the coal mines
for that purpose. w. R. Taylor, aged
so years, highly respected citizen
living on Twelfth avenue. was hot in
the head and is probably fatally wound
ed. Dozens of others in the audience
including many women and children
narrowly escaped the rain of bullets
fired Unfortunately into the crowd by
the human shaped hyenas for whom
burning at the stake would be too
merciful punishment. The mass
meeting was arranged for by. the Hunt
ington Trades and Labor Assembly at
its regular meeting held Monday,
April %, and it's object was to draft
resolutions protesting against the sus
pension of constitutional guarantees
in West Virginia and to request the
national government to institute an
investigation in regard to the state
of anarchy and military dictatorship
now reigning in this commonwealth.
The meeting which was held at the
corner of Fourth avenue and Seventh
street, was called to order about 8 rs
O'Clock, and it was announced that the
principal speakers, with whom the
committee had made arrangements,
had failed to arrive on account of de-
Iayed trains and George w. Gillespie,
a member of the Trade and Labor
Assembly, was introduced and began
to address the gathering, numbering at
this time about 5000.
Attacked Crowd.
Mr.. Gillespie had only spoken few
minutes when Vo1ley of bricks and
other objects were hurled from the
darkness on the outside edge of the
crowd into the group gathered around
the speakers stand. Several persons
were struck by the missiles and one
woman was severely injured. Those
ON the outer circle of the audience
located the four men doing the throw
ing an effort was made to find police
man to quiet the rioters. However,
the closest search of the territory
within four blocks surrounding the
scene failed to disclose an officer. This
led to the claim by some that the po-
lice department was in collision with
the disturbers.
Finally the assaults continuing, the
committee on arrangements decided
to themselves stop the nuisance, even
if they were compelled to arrest the
culprits and deliver them to the city
authorities. The committee approach
ed the men who Immediately took to
their heels, pausing at intervals to turn
and fire into the crowd. During one OF
these volleys Taylor was struck IN the
head by flying bullet.
The pursuers crowded the would-be
murderers so closely as they fed into
the darkness out Seventh street that
one dropped his coat and another a
small black bag which he carried
These articles are now in the hands
of the police.
| From the papers found in the coat
| it was discovered that one of the
thugs was a Baldwin -Feltz detective
by the name of Mayfeld Several per-
sons in the crowd also claimed that
they knew Mayfield and recognized
him as one of the men who did the
shooting. Others claimed that they
also recognized Bob Newkirk, Bald