New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-15
Police and Detectives Fight $50
, Italians on Estate of Will
lam T. DemareSt, in
Mamar0neCk.
OFFICERS PUT TO FLIGHT
Warning Body Part of a Force
of 1000 Men Who Quit
Work on State Road
and at Westchester
County Homes.

The country home Of William T.
Demarest, a New York business man,
on the outskirts Of Mamaroneck. was
the scene yesterday morning of a
pitched battle between three members
Of the Mamaroneck police force. assist
ed by five private detectives of New
York detective agency, all under COM
mand Of Captain James O'Neill and 100
Italian strikers.
one Italian was killed and upward
of twenty were wounded on both sides
six Italians were arrested.
After an engagement that lasted
three minutes the police were forced 10
fee for their lives in the town fire hose
cart. their ammunition having given
out The police left one OF their num-
her. jeremiah l.. cody a private detec-
tive. wounded on the lawn behind :hc
Demarest home. Cody was felled 10y a
stone that broke his leg.
Wher the Italians found that the bul-
let's Of the foe had slain Rafaelo Pino.
q sympathizer. who marched with them
from Harrison and who lay with a big
hole in his forehead on a 1ower bed on
the Demarest place, they wreaked their
vengeance on Cody, several of them
plunging their knives into his body.
Declared Strike on State Road.
The Italians were almost all members
of Local No. 10, of the General Labor
ers' International Union. which declared
new state road that is designed TO sup
Jlant the old Boston Post Road. The
strike was ordered Thursday. when
most of the 800 men employed quit to
compel the contractors to observe the
law. which provides that eight hours
shall constitute a days employment on
all state work. and to get better pay.
The body of Italians that battled the
police and detectives was one Of four
similar bodies, which marched from
different parts Of Westchester at s
o'clock yesterday morning, according
to q prearranged plan to force out all
laborers employed on private estates in
Westchester County.
In many cases they succeeded. and
Sheriff William ]. Doyle and other
county officials estimate that at least
1000 laborers are out in various sec
tions of the county. from the New York
City line north TO the Connecticut State
line.
The strikers have terrorized West
chester County, and many wealthy
New Workers who have large estates
there armed their chauffeurs, garden
ers, coachmen and some of their farm
hands, to repel a possible night attack.
In Rye. Port Chester, Yonkers,
Mamaroneck. Harrison. New Rochelle,
White Plains and places not so well
known the police forces. augmented
by private detectives and special dep
uty sheriffs. remained up all last night,
ready for any emergency. Special fear
was felt for the contractors on the
state road. who received threats
against their lives and property
Prevented Rockefeller Invasion.
Cnly the presence of mind Of Sheriff
DOYLE prevented body of three hun
dred Italians from marching to John
d. Rockefeller's country home at Po-
cantico Hills in an endeavor to force
the laborers there TO strike.
Sheriff Doyle received word when he
reached his office AT White Plains yes
terday morning that $50 strikers from
Port Chester had just forced about fifty
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