Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
EIGHTEEN SILK
STRIKERS FREED
first Lot of |. w. w. Workers
Arrested to Escape Convic-
ton at Trial.
IspeclaI % the Newark star.I

Especial to the Newark start
PATERSON, N. J., June 25.-A
spoke was thrown today into the law
mills that have been steadily grind
ling out convictions in the labor war
sof the silk workers.
Eighteen strikers, accused OF IN
lawful assembly, were found not
guilty in Judge Klenert's court. The
cases of a score more were put over
until Friday
! "unless we can prove something
more definite against those said
Prosecutor Michael Dunn to an Eve
ming Star correspondent, 1.-The charges
against them will be dismissed
The prosecutor seemed to think
that some of the witnesses had told
weaker stories on the stand than
thew had to him before the trials.
While the machinery of the county
eourfs came to a halt in the strike
cases Eve men were acquitted in the
recorders court. thus making 1t
memorable day for the strikers
Flynn Trial Monday.
on Monday, however, the biggest
of the strike trials will begin. Miss
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn will be the
first to face jury chosen from spe-
cial yenire of Hudson county cltlzehs'
! rhen the cases of big Bill Hay
wood. head Of the Industrial Workers
5 Of the World; Adolph Lessig, Carlo
Tresca and Frederick Sumner Boyd
will follow.
Miss Flynn will go on trial first
) Prosecutor Dunn said today, but we
have not yet decided upon the order
I'm which the other cases will be
taken up"
sixteen men and five women were
found guilty of unlawful assembly
; late yesterday and they were SEN
: fenced by Judge Klenert to three
months in the county Jail. They were
then told, however, that they would
mot have to serve out their sentences
: as long as they refrained from further
disorder.
MANY other strikers have been
found guilty on the same grounds.
Convictions have almost invariably
resulted in Police Court cases, and in
ahe two biggest trials that have
been held so far. those of Patrick
Quinlan and Alexander Scott, the YER
dict was guilty. Today for the first
time the strikers witnessed a COM
plete reversal.
Girls Are stoned.
! AS an aftermath of a riot in Sixth
avenue last night. five strikers were
'arraigned before Recorder Carol and
tried on a charge of stoning two girls.
The men were acquitted since they
proved that they had not taken an
active part in the fight.
The riot in which they were made
prisoners threatened to be one of
the most serious of the strike. Re-
volvers and stones were used by the
combattants.
The two girls, Miss Nellie and Miss
Bertha Botbyl, about whom the fight
oentered, are employees of the Weld
mann Silk Dyeing Company, in the
Riverside section Since their fathers
death they have been forced to work
In order to support their widowed
mother With two clerks as guards,
they started along Sixth avenue last
night toward their home at the cor
ner of Sixth avenue and East Six
aeenth street.
The crowd of pickets was content
with "booing" when they first APP
peared and Sergeant Fitzpatrick and
his command of bluecoats did not in
terfere.
BY the time the girls and their
guards had reached River street,
mob was at their heels and they had
Just arrived opposite their home when
stones began to shower upon them.
One of the deputy sheriffs drew his
revolver and fired repeatedly into the
air. He was beaten back, however,
by the forward surge of the mob.
Motorcycle and mounted policemen,
patrolmen on foot and reserves IN
the auto patrol rushed to the scene
from all sides. Some of the strikers
had drawn revolvers, but the speedy
arrival of the small army of police
men so dismayed them that they
scuttled away through cellars and al
leyways.
The policemen formed dragnet
and trapped I'VE Hieh' aSo'iAot NM
of whom, however, could case be
made out.
Frederick Sumner Boyd, who was
formerly employed by a Socialist
newspaper, is in the county jail to-
day following his arrest on six
iweeks-old Indictment charging him
with having advocated the destruc-
.tion of the property
1t is alleged that he instructed the
strikers at mass meeting to make
use of the weapons of sabotage If
they should be forced to return to the
mills.
Z Although detectives have been
watching for him for weeks, he was
mot arrested until last night when
he came to Paterson to address an
l. w w. vacant lot meeting in
Water street and to explain about