New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
TWO ARRESTED FOR
JERSEY SHOOTING
Police Force Their Way Into
Room in Roosevelt Street
Tenement House.
WILHABER TELLS OF PLOT
Man Held for Attack on Labor
Leader Accuses Delegate OF
Hosting Engineers
Tries to Escape.

Police OF the Oak street station, under
ply, were actively engaged all day yes
;erday in running down the two supposed
thugs who, together with Ernest WI
ilaber. are responsible for Thomas Con
roy, a labor leader, being in Christ's Hos
pital. in Jersey City. with gunshot wounds
which may yet prove serious.
Detectives Moore and Dundaro forced a
door in a small apartment on the frst
floor Of a tenement house at No Il Roose-
Welt street early in the afternoon. having
been informed that Big Slim" and "hid
Dynamite" We're hiding there. While the
officers were trying to get in the room
several of those inside escaped by jump
ing out OF a rear window. They arrested.
however. Two persons who answered the
description OF the men wanted.
An attempt made later TO connect
The prisoners with the shooting of Conror
by lining them up for the purpose Of
Identification failed. John W. Burke. the
nan who is believed TO have been The one
sought by the hired gunner, and Frank
Weber, Of No. l02 st. Faul's avenue.
Jersey City, witness of the shooting.
we're unable TO identify the prisoners.
Rendezvous Of Cooke" LENDS.
detectives is said to be a rendezvous Of
cooke" fiends. II IS in such a place,
the police believe. the men are now hid
ing. Their attentions are being centred
on the Buffalo Cafe. at No. James
street. where Ernest Whitaker. who was
held by Judge Butler. in the First Grim
hal Court in Jersey City, without bail,
told the police he and his pals We're hired
to do the lob
According TO the police. the saloon is
the hang OUT of the usual Chinatown
habitues. The manager of the saloon, an
Italian known as Rocko. denied he knew
the men for whom the police are search
ing. The police say Big Slim is unknown
to them, but that kid Dynamite is well
known to the uniformed force Of the Oak
street police station. They are positive
he is one of the patrons of the saloon
1t is only a matter of a short time. they
declare. when they will have him under
arrest.
The men arrested gave their names as
Edward ]. Westermayer. of No. % Rose
street. and Rudolph Schwartz, of No. IS
Clinton street, Newark. " j. II is not
known whether or not the men who made
good their escape were the men wanted.
The causes which led to the shooting
were learned yesterday through state
ment made 10 the Jersey City police by
Burke. who is member of Tie Hosting
Engineers Union.
Il am sure it was me the three mel
were after" he said. Il was about -
expose a prominent member Of the Nea'
York branch OF the Iron Workers Union
for grating. | had been tipped off that
he was going to hire mugs TO beat me
up so that couldn't be present at the
next meeting OF the New York branch
Describes Saloon Brawl.
when | walked into the saloon at NJ.
4s2 Hoboken avenue | wasn't surprised
when the man described as the 'Dyna-
mite Kid walked up to me and called me
a namc that no man with req blood In his
veins would stand. He punched me, ami
] punched him back
THE Kid is some acrappcr, and Con-
roy came TO my aid. No sooner did the
KID see ne was laol~ 10 DC beaten ny
than he pulled his gun and fired three
shots. think he meant TO Kill me. I'll
get the man that started this-wait and
see
From the description given the police
Nv Whitaker il is evident that Conroy is
not the man who was 10 have been tho
victim of the gunner. lie is married
and lives with his wife and three chill
dren at No. % Court street. Ccnroy said
10 Captain Lee. of the Jersey police: "It
God let's me live I'll settle this in my own