New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-26
OIL OFFICIAL
AND 80 BAYONNE
GUARDSARRESTED
Sheriff Acts After All-Night
Bombardment of Homes
of Strikers.

Refusal of the armed guards at the
Bayonne oil plants to obey Sheriff Kim
kead's instruction that they keep out
of sight resulted yesterday in the ar
rest of Samuel H. Edwards, general
superintendent of the Tide Water Oil
Company plant; P. Leo Bergoff, labor
adjuster or strike breaker, and thirty
of the men who have been terrorizing
Bayonne at night by their lombard
ment of the strikers houses.
The Sheriff took this action immedi-
ately after an inspection by him of the
houses which had been under the rife
fire of the guards all night long. He
had told Mr.. Edwards that if the gar
rison of the Tide Water plant continued
unruly he would be arrested. Yester-
day he made good his threat.
At the Courthouse the superintend-
ent was released in $500 bail. Berg
off, member of the firm of Bergoff
Brothers, of 12O Liberty Street, whose
business it is to furnish armed assist
ance to capital in distress, furnished
81 900 bail His thirty men were taken
TO the Hudson County jail, in Jersey
City, where they will remain until their
arraignment, ten days from now.
Church Rectory Hit.
Sheriff Kinkead arrived at Bayonne
at $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning. He
attended mass at the Polish Catholic
Church, at the end of which Father
Sigismund Swider informed him that
the rectory of the church had been
fired on during the night, two rife bull
lets penetrating the building.
After asking Father Swider to tell
his congregation, most of whom are
strikers, to keep off the street, Kin
kead proceeded to the house of John
Sudimak, at 2l1 East Twenty-second
Street He found this building and
the one next to it-213-had been un-
der a heavy fire all night. After in
specting the bullet holes in the
structure the Sheriff passed on to 213,
and was on the second floor of this
house looking at the damage done by
the guards rifles, when, looking from
the window, he saw three of the Stand
ard Oil plants garrison parading be-
fore the buildings, guns in hand.
This was in direct defiance of the
order issued by Kinkead forbidding the
guards TO show themselves for fear of
starting more trouble. The three were
placed under arrest. As they were
being led away another of the guards
appeared at the gate OF the Tide Water
plant and aimed his rife at the Sheriff.
He dropped his weapon when Kinkead
ordered him TO. When the gun was
picked up il was found loaded and
cooked. Eight more of the guards were
then placed under arrest by the Sheriff,
whose anger was rising.
Arrests Head of Plant.
Before his ire was brought entirely
under control Kinkead sought out Mr..
Edwards and arrested him. The gen
eral superintendent argued, but the
county official was firm, though polite,
out that his orders were being
deliberately disobeyed, and that Ed
wards. through his countenance Of this
disobedience, was himself melting 70
riot.
The Sheriff offered 10 take the
TO the courthouse in his
car, but Edwards having no desire 10
be seen passing through the strike dis
trict went in the company OF deputy
aboard a boat, was landed at the foot
of Broadway and reached the court
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