The chronicle=news., 1913-10-14

noon Governor Ainmons was notified
and Instructed his scrrctnr, to make
nm Investigation. Major Lee with
undnrshnrif Zok. Martin nnd deputy |
~ Mccartney left for Ludlow In mn
automobile in bring about tn. re-
lease oi the women, They were as- |
.urNd by tho miners officials that the
women would he delivered on III. e. |
, and : depot platform last night. Mc-
Lehman and John u Lawson went |
cut to tho tent colony and according |
to statements made by IcLcnnn las; |
night. h" brought the women In. |
When they did not arriv. on the
e.. and =. train fnirohiids became |
alarmed and demanded OF vice prc.i- |
dent HAYES and Mci."nnan that the
women ne produced. Late last night |
fairchiics to the house. ON, Eas.
Main street where he said he had
taken tn. women. Mci.-nnnn return |
cd tn Gown after ,ts. Npspmabii- had
s'op'rd ssrr II: hofsssSd the wom-
en- wsr" no, located. Fair,hiids aud
lee left the cit, very much provoked.
Before departing Eaiichilds de-
sIarcd that he believed the governor
would take Immediate action In the
matter and would not tolerate the
action of N" strikers in holding the
women IN captivity.
John M.i.cnHan uaif last night
u hack at Ludlow or In any way mo-
icatcd. lie snid that they had gone
to pclasun to see their husbands who
were Mt work aud had been refused
entrance by coal company guards and
that they went to the Ludlow colony
of their own accord. The women this
morning verified the story ms report
cd here yesterday afternoon.
Passengers Of the hack who claim
to have been stopped and aftcrward
,permitted to continue the journey
! after the women had been taken
! away were Ioc ncndttti. Henry King
y deputy state coal mine inspector.
W. ~ Cunningham. superintendent
of the AEuiiar water works and Ed
= McNulicn. chief engineer NJ Hast
inrr.
Last nigh, aud again today Inter-
d, national vice president Frank J..
Hayes OF the United Mine Workers de
-, MED that he mad received any kind
:. OF u communication from Governor
Ammons in regard to the Ludlow af-
. fair or from Adjutaut General John
>, Chase. ordering him to deliver the
women to their husbands by nine
o'clock this morning.
The women state that they had
been sen; for hy their husbands at
Belayua and were on their way Ia
that camp when the strikers took
them In charge. They were badly
frightened. THEY welcomed the on.
portunity to he brought back to thi-
4, city last night.
That the strikers are active in in
timidnting the men at work at So.
pr.s was learned today. II mas beer
reported that Yesterday Jesse Shaw
"a neutrality-suspicious. Of the Sopri.
local miners union. started a demon
stration at the saloon of Tony vi
cclli. There had been n meeting O
tho Siivio Pellico. a secret organiza.
ton of Italians. and n number o
~ strikers belonging to the order were
about the place Shaw IL alleged tt
have abused NiCholli by calling hin
names and was backed up by a crowt
of strikers. A few minutes Later
passing the place again Shaw Is al
legged to have abused Mrs. Vichcll
and to nave threatened to blow NJ
4 tho place within thirty days.
cr A warrant for the arrest of Shaw
Id will probably he issued today.
81 John Torrcsino who conducts n sa
loon at Sopris is also reported t.