Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-19
Strike Breaker Victim
Of Desperate At
tack While Work
ing in Harrison.
ASSASSIN ATTEMPTS TO
MAKE ESCAPE IN AUTO
Losing Hat in Flight, Man
Steals Trainman's Headgear
and EIudes Police at Lack-
awanna Terminal in Hoboken.

A gunman, lingering his automatic
pistol, opened the door of the neclSs
tie factory of Aaron sosis. 739 HarT
son avenue, Harrison, today, stepr
inside, looked over the employees
pumped three bullets at Morris Aek
The wounded workman toppled OF
on the table his blood squirting ove S
the gaudy fabrics among which h5
had fallen.
Louis Sosis, the nineteen year-old
son of the proprietor. had witnessed
the shooting. The words a man rep
resenting himself as a union delegate
day flashed over him. They were.
"We'n send somebody out here to-
morrow to organize your shop or do
something worse
It struck young Sosis that this was
what their visitor of the day before
had hinted at He sprang from his
place and hurdled the distance be-
tween the work table and the door
But the gunman had slipped out too
quickly. BY the time Louis was In
the street the other was running over
vacant lots toward Seventh and Ann
streets. where an automobile was
waiting.
Escapes without Hat.
houiS, WHO StdTlBu III PURSUIT., saw
the man stumble and his hat fell off.
He recovered himself and sprinted
on, hatless. But the machine moved
off before he reached it. BY the time
his pursuers reached the place both
the car and he had vanished.
few minutes after the shooting
Joseph Lynch, stationmaster for the
Backawanna railroad at Harrison.
saw bare-headed man pant up the
steps just in time to catch New
York train that was pulling out.
| Lynch called up the police. who
Immediately recognized his descrip-
ton of the gunman.
steals Trninman's Hat.
The Hoboken police were notified
To meet the train. Detectives wsre
rhs1eol GO the terminal and ordered
to arrest any bare-headed passen-
ger. But there was none. Not ten
minutes after the last passengers
had filed to the ferries. and the tube
the baggageman on the train dis
covered that his hat had been stolen
! between Harrison and HobolSen.
! The police have a good description
of Aegan's assailant because he looked
/ in through the window of the shop
/ this morning while Patroman John
4 Ward was in the place talking TO the
proprietor.
Look at that man. said Sosis.
Ward turned and saw the gunman,
who, upon seeing the policeman
turned and walked away.
Not five minutes after Ward had
left the shop the gunman returned.
Sosis had meanwhile gone to the Har-
rison station of the Lackawanna to
take a train to New York--the same
train on which the gunman escaped.
He heard of the shooting. however,
and returned.
: Aegean. who is twenty-four years
old and makes his home at the fac
tory. was removed to ST. Michae1's
Hospital this city. One bullet had
entered his right side just above the
hip and had emerged from the f1eshy
part of his thigh. Another had en-
tered his back The third had gona
wild. The physicians say that Aegean
will probabl yrecover.
Sosis has had no little trouble over
/ his labor. He moved to Harrison
| from New York about three weeks
ago. bringing with him a number of
non-union workmen. Among them
was Louis Wagman, who was seated
beside Aegean when the shop was
shot up.
''They have been threatening me
with trouble If ! didn't stop hiring
what they called scab labor" said
Sosis to the Harrison policeman. II
| think the gunman must be man
named Fuchs from his description.
He Is used for jobs like this"