New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-24
STRIKE DEPUTIES
MAY BARE PLOT
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Sheriff Houghton to-day insisted that
he had administered the regular oath
20 the deputies. This oath consists OF
two queries: Are you a citizen. OF
/ New jersey" Answer, "Yes."
Second-Do you and each Of you sol.
EMMY swear TO obey the Sheriff OF
Middlesex County TO the best of your
skill and understanding. so help you
God? Answer-Yes.
Federal Action Planned.
Subpnnas in the possession Of gov
eminent agents in Roosevelt to-day in
dictate that federal action will follow
RAPIDLY that which the Middlesex
County authorities beagn last night.
/ The federal agents claim that in bar
ring them from the Liebig plant OF
the American Agricultural Chemical
/ Company Yesterday, while the initial
steps in the arrest of the deputies were
being taken, a deputy guarding the
gate remarked:
ITO hell with the government" 3,
Government representatives reported
the incvident TO Chairman Frank walsh
Of the United States Commission on
Industrial Relations, at whose order
they are investigating the shooting
| Notice was sent to Prosecutor Florance
of Middlesex County by Attorney Cen
eral John W. Westcott that his I'M
pression is that those who fired the
/ fatal shots into the crowd OF strikers
/ at Roosevelt last Tuesday are guilty OF
! q capital offense, and not only tnoss
/ who did the shooting should De heIu
/ without bail. but all accessories pom
before and after the fact should DC
/ likewise held.
The Attorney General says the case
should be pressed with the grea'eS'
vigor and thoroughness.
Mr.. Westcott declared tnat ne wa.
ready TO do everything IN ms power
ga The chief civil and criminal prose-
",,+ing oficer Of the state to aid the
| Middiesex County authorities IN orlhs
/ inc iustice in the Roosevelt affair.
O'Brien Defends Deputies.
Among the visitors TO the county
seat TODAY was Jerry O'Brien, of New
ark. head of the agency through which
Sheriff Eoughton obtained the special
IDENTITIES sworn in TO guard the Roose-
volt plants. For the first time since
the shooting occurred O'Brien, who
/ had previously held long conference
with sheriff Houghton, discussed the
situation. Addressing the newspaper
men, he said:
81 do not think that have ever had
among all my men single deputy VINO
would shoot down human belhg uh1
| less actually compelled to DO IT, 1
\ have been doing business IN Newark
/ for wears and have done this KIND OIL
business FOR big corporations. l
wouldn't do anything crooked or wrong
/ for anybody"
the names and addresses OF all the
agents engaged by him..
"Sure. / did" he replied.
"Rut the addresses of some Of them
have proved 20 be vacant lots, re-
porter insisted.
"Well. / will tell you boys, ! might
not know every one OF them, but
knew in a general way who they were,
and "a fast as ] found out they were
not right / weeded them out;
O'Brien was asked how II happened
that The deputies were armed with ball
cartridges. He replied THE men
were up against tough proposition.
He insisted many Of the strikers had
been carrying revolvers since the rod-
0'e ayou cant 20 after those fellows
with popguns." he remarked
Strikers Honor Their Dead.
Roosevelt. y. j., Jan. 29-Despite a
steady downpour of rain one thou-
sand strikers turned out to-day 70 honot
the memory of their two comrades, De
siderio Aleosandro and Carmsn Patty'
who we're killed in the battle with the
deputy sherfFs at the Williams O.
Clark plant on Tuesday.
A Joint meeting az which six hundred
nersons crowded into Van Ness's HAIL
mile half as many more stood OUTSIDE
unable TO gain admittance, followed IN
J;,';dual services for the two strikers;
A. & o'clock a requiem mass was SAID
10 Father NJ. ]. Hsggerty, In ST. Jo-
se,b,s Roman Catholic Church Tor
a.. upsosordro. while his body was
s,iiI living in Martins morgue'
~ Elizabeth. The corpse arrived three
hours later. and the pastor blessed J,
n NJ making any reference 70 the
.rogedv of a few days ago. lie merely
sd,sonished the handful OF strikers
%bo had come to psy their respects, ~
,;me nm 10 the laws OF the lano as wen
as those Of God. ~. ,;,,,.
u.nnayisn Reformed Church 81
,eiasI After the singing OF several
91,;.n chants the Rev. ). CsepSe,
! nun WsnShridge. delivered the funeraI
OF While strikers and their wives
sern,ggmii ;rto the building. A circle OF
p.tty,s closest friends sto9a s sis,rv.
,bs coffin. weeping. wnile lne he
nan smoke. lie chose TOT ms I'll. az
sentence from ii llmo,nSr .vs An