Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-27
SHOT AND BEATEN,
THEN DEPORTED.
MOYER CHARGES
Miners Head Says Mob of
Hancock Citizens Entered
Hotel Room.
SAYS HE AND TANNER
WERE THROWN ON TRAIN
Shows BIood-Stained Berth to
Reporters-DecIares He
Will Return.

CHICAGO, Dec 27.-Charles H.
Meyer, president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners. who says he was
beaten. shot and run out of Hancock
Mich, by a mob last night, arrived
here this afternoon. He was taken
to hotel, but later in the day will
be removed TO hospital, where a
surgeon will probe for bullet in the
muscles of his left shoulder.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec PIT
was attacked by about twenty-five
men in my room at Scott Hotel in
Hancock, Mich, last night at about
S:35 O'Clock, struck over the head
with the butt of a revolver, shot in
the back, dragged through the hotel
and streets and put on a train and
told to leave that country forever"
said Charles Fl. Moyer, president of
the Western Federation of Miners,
during his stop here on the train
while en- route to Chicago.
Mr.. Meyer was confined to his
berth and his pillow and bed linen
were soiled with blood from wounds
in his scalp and back. He was good
natured despite his wounds, and said
that after he got "healed up in Chi
cago he would return to Calumet and
fight those mine owners to the last
ditch"
AT $3.50 o'clock last night Sheriff
Cruise and about fifteen other men
came to my room to ask me about
arrangements for the burial of the
poor persons who met their death in
the Christmas catastrophe. They re-
NAMED about fifteen minutes and left
i h|1I 4ol Il 4 a.. w
ern Federation of Miners and the
labor organizations of the country
could and would care for it's own un-
fortunates.
Break Into Hotel Room.
Within four minutes before the
committee of citizens could leave the
Motel fifteen ruffians burst into the
room. ! was standing at the telephone
at the time and was putting in call
Charles III. Tanner, of California,
travelling auditor for the Western
Federation of Miners, was with me.
Several grabbed hold of me and
held me while another man came up
from behind and struck me with the
butt of his revolver on the head Then
there was report of gun and / felt
a piercing sensation in my back.
% not think that any one shot mc
deliberately. think that the gun
used in hitting me on the head was
discharged during the action.
Then two men got hold of my arms
and dragged me out OF the hotel
Down the street we went. When two
men became tired two. other huskies
took hold of me, and although / was
on my feet part of the time, yet for
blocks / was dragged.
1T is little more than a mile to
Houghton. where the mob took me.
All the while they were pulling me
along the others were yelling Lynch
himi' and Hang him. and calling me
the viiest kinds of names.
when we reached the station James
McNaughton, general manager and
vice-president of the Calumet and
Heela mines, drove up in an automo-
bile. He rushed up to me and said:
You get out of this country for
ever. If you ever come bck, I'll hang
you!
Then he continued to abuse me in
the vilest manner. When the train
left / was thrown bodily upon it. Two
men, who claimed to be deputy sher-
ifs, then got on. They took me intb
the sleeper and soon after Mr.. Tan
ner was brought in. He too, had
been assaulted in the room and for
chilly taken to the station.
"One of the deputies handed the
conductor our tickets and said that
we were going to Chicago The depu
ties stayed on the train until we had
passed over into Wisconsin.
Somewhere on the trip a doctor
was called to dress my wounds. He
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