The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-13
BEATEN BRU TALLY BY BARTENDER Pool Cue Smashed to Bits on Skull of Innocent Farm Hand. ECHO OF STRIKE
 AT SHELTON MILLS Visitor to Derby FouIly Assail- ed When Some One
 Casts Stone.
(By Our Staff Correspondents )


 got through sewing up the scalp of Alex Havrillas and binding up his many wounds, last night, he said he didn't think much of Shelton.
 Alex was a stranger in town. He hadn't ever been in Shelton, and hay ing stopped in Derby to visit friend, over night he decided to spend the early evening in g, scrutiny of the town. He knew nothing of Q strike, in the Blumenthal mills, or of the presence of the O'Brien guards in the town, else he might have remained on the east side of the Housatonic, far out of harms way.
 About o'clock he wandered down Howe avenue, past the saloon of Louis Pinto. This is block south of police headquarters, and for some days members of the strong arm squad of Blument11aI guards have made it a sort of uptown headquarters when they are not in the Blum enthal plant itself. They have the run of the saloon and it's upstairs apart ments, and it has come to be general ly known among the strikers that they may be counted on as being in the saloon. About o'clock, asq the elderly farm is 57-was walking past the saloon four men, one of them of unusually small stature, passed the place. and one of them threw a stone through the door into l the saloon.
 Frank, a brother of Louis, the pro- prietor, dashed out of the place with l a pool cue. There was considerable shouting, for the street was alive with l people and dt was seen that a clash was imminent. The peace loving | farmer took to his heels, but not be- l fore the quartet, one of whose mum Der hurled the missile, had vanished | by devious courses.
 l Havrillat started to run towards the canal that skirts the Blumentha1 1 property. Frank Pinto was in hot pursuit with his pool cue poised for action. 3es | Several bystanders shouted at him l that the man he was chasing was not 1 the mischief maker. But Frank, who :! Is young and 1.-the quickly overhauled l the old man and brought the cue down on his skull with a sickening l thu6f. The man collapsed in the gut | ter under rain of blows that shat tered the cue into a half dozen pieces, 1 and as he lay in the gutter the attack continued. Two O'Brien guards who I had run from the saloon in the wake ] of the bartender laid violent hands on 1 The old man and dragged him. stream ] ing with blood, through the street in l to the Pinto saloon.
 I Then Patterson, one of the super 1 iors of the O'Brien men, arrived on the scene. He tried to get at the bottom of the matter, but couldn't i get anyone to say that this was the man wflo- had thrown the stone. SThe l guards-whos have no police powers
 of any sort and who are armed with out aithority-forced the man, who i was now near collapse, into a, chair l at a table in front of Pinto's bar. Half a dozen men, all strangers to j the old man, protested in angry ef a 77aa n' at nd I eral of them shook their fists menac- i ing1y at-tfle guards. They quickly re- inforced by others of their crowd
 drew their clubs and prepared for l violence. I Patterson then hastened out to get he turned over the man, who was arrested as 8 rioter.
 Chief Robbins of the Shelton police Il at once ordered the man sent to the ! office of Dr. B. J. Finn. The doctor 1 made an examination and found the one long, jagged wound on the right
 side of the scalp that required four stitches. On the other side of the head was tear laying bare the skull. This needed six stitches.
 Both of the mans forearms were 1 bruised His right ear was swollen l twice it's normal size. His right shoulder was disfgured, either from his fall into the gutter or from a | blow. He was weak from shock and 1 loss of blood.
 After the doctor had stimulated him and dressed the wounds, the man allowed to depart on his own recog- | nizance Up to noon today he had not been seen and the case against the guards is likely to be dropped. John winterbottom, of Pleasant
 street, and James Carney, 72 MaItby Fl iIx T CTS, were eye witnesses to the stone | throwing. They told The Farmer cor respondent that the old farmer had
 nothing to do with the disturbance, and apparently took to his heels when
 he saw the others running, for fear of becoming involved in trouble.
 1 Louis Pinto. owner of the saloon
 where the guards and strike breakers
 have been accustomed to congregate, l when questioned about the outrage, | at first refused to talk, then volun- | teered to give the same treatment to
 brother, Frank, silenced him, and l Frank himself would not admit any complicity in the affair.
 Louis Fortier, whose home is a | block from the B1umenthal plant, and 1 who has witnessed many outrages of the guards and special authorities to- wards the strikers and other residents of the town, was close to Pinto as he belabored the farmer.
 The crunehing of the pool cue | against the mans skull sickened For tier. But he had presence of min d 1 to snatch up the fragments of the
 cue as Pinto's victim was dragged
 away by the guards. These he turned over to Attorney Patrick J. O'SulIivan,
 who has so successfully defended
 many of the strikers and number of
 men, not connected with the strike,
 haU foT Nv 11a entha1 guards, and the Shelton police.
 s'I never saw Shelton before,' said
 Havrilla, when the doctor had done
 with him. fI'm never coming here again. I wanted to see what sort of a place it was. I'm satisfied