The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-13
Deputy Sheriff and Special
 Policeman Alleged to Have 2 Beaten Women
LABOR LEADERS MAKE STARTLING DIscovERx
Declare Mass. State Employ ment Bureau Is Used AS
 Strike Breaking Agency
7(By Our Stan corrsspondent.j

(By Our Stan Correspondent
 Sheltons Jan. 13-Frormad complaint was lodged today with Joseph ShaDiros prosecutor of fl1e Shelton toNn court, calling for the arrest of William Don ovan, deputy sheriff. and John Dono- van, a member of the She1ton police force, for beating women in connec. ton with the Shelton strike
 Attorney Patrick O5SuIIfvan. coun- seI for the strikers, laid the nan-r of witnesses, with his formal coU- plaint, before the Shelton prosecutoe Included in the statements in th1 hands of the aGsrfeved Wom1r'e friends is a. certificate from pr. lT A- ParIato, of Derby. who attended ono of the two women
 The charge involving William Doro- van is made by several witneeseo. a1 well as the woman herself IL is claim ed that four women were sfandfnr r1 Howe avenue and Cornell street. lagt Friday afternoon, when Bcmnv@u, Che deputy, ordered Sem to mc The did not move fast enough to p1eaae the officer. They claim that Donovan struck one of their number Chres times. Dr. M. A ParIato to vhou the women's friends took her, ia am thority for the written statement that the woman is in bed as the result of her experience and that she fs fn a delicate condition.
 The charge against John Donovan relates to a happening of last night It is szclaimed that he clubbed a wTo.- man. She hastened to the office or Attorney O,Su1livans where. with dis- colored eye, battered hat. and cIothsr covered with dust. she accused the officer of manhandling her
 The information of the several wit- nesses was laid before Shapiro lu a formal manner by Attorney C'suilfva-n today. But before he had been called into the incident of last Friday. a their complaint. It wac reported that Shapiro called Donovan into tha gathering, and put up to the oHceE the statements of the several WftnesE- es. Donovan discIained responsibility. said he had not 1na1treatgd the v7o- man and Shapiro the striker say. told them he had reason to believe that Donovan was an honest. careful officer. that he would not be guilty of the misconduct alleged E'riendg of the sheriff, who Is widely known in Ansonia, Derby and. Shelton. de- his identity. for they say Ils reputa-- ton is such that it is hard for them to believe he would be guilty of th8 conduct alleged.
 John Donovan the special police man, is an empIoye of Sidney Blt1n-
  the police force. He is a dyer. but since the recent labor trouble deval-
 ad there have been few dysrs In the plant.
 Attorney yo'suIlivan also asked Shapiro to issue warrant for the arrest of Frank Pinto whose brufai- ity to an elderly farmer is detailed in other despafches from Shelton
 The lawyer assured the prosscutoE that he had in his possession the frag- ments of the pool cue that Pinto had smashed on the skull of the old man
 Tn Bridgeport. this afternoon, San Beardsley. the Socialist leader and la bor advocate, held a conference wfth Attorney Ernest Berger, who has rep resented several of the strikers in the court cases His object was to learn from Berger what were the duties of the prosecutor, also to see what ac- tion could be taken in regard Co Eev- era1 merchants who, he claims sought to effect the discharge of a man be- cause he was strike sympathi1er.
 That the State Employment bureau of Massachusetts is being used as e made openly in Shelton today Tho declaration Is made by labor 1eadsrg. not involved in the BlumenthaI serii-e. that at least five men have come tp the Shelton strike factory from Bo1 ton. through the agency or the statf employment bureau.
 Investigation of this fact has hseu instituted by the Central Labor Onion of Boston, Mass. whose Boston of1er is conducted by Harry .Dunderda1s. who is also the assistant secrct1rT o1 the Boston Central body
 We expect to Tegister a formal protest at the next reRular nneetinE of che Central Labor Union nere. On Jan szEsl a the lapoF f'1dsefi sIIr towns. this afternoon.
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