The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-10-21

ne got 10 the potion HOllcemdn
Quinn and several other police Off
GERS took hold of him and dubbed
him. l asked who the man was and
was told it was Max Goldman.
George Renters took hold Of
Goldman to protect him from the po-
licemen. Renters said, Don't strike
the man. but the police raised their
clubs. l interfered and Policeman
Dawson abused me, but I drew my
pistol and showed him my authority
as a deputy. Goldman was pretty
badly beaten and was bleeding about
the head"
Goldman's troubles seem to have
started before he left the committee
rooms, from which he departed by
way of a window, balcony and
telephone pole. One of the Hyde
watchers, John J. Healy, said he was
standing in the doorway between the
two rooms and ordered everybody
out except committeeman.
"Rentiers came out" Healy said,
with Max Goldman behind him.
Willie O'Brien started to strike Cold
man and Renters told him he was
too small for him to strike.''
G. Simms Mcdowell "saw man
Jump from one of the windows, hug
pole and slide down. Just as
soon as he struck the ground" Mr..
Mcdowell said, 81 saw a policeman in
uniform beat him with his club on
the head several times"
Saw the Clubbing.
G. jeff Mcdowell, general agent
for the Southern States Life Insur-
ance company-a former resident Of
Columbia-was also a witness to the
clubbing of Goldman by policemen.
II saw Goldman come out of the win
dow, without his hat Mr.. Nc
Dowell said. *'He jumped from the
veranda to a telephone pole and came
down to the street In few seconds
there was a large crowd of policemen
holding their hands and clubs in the
air in position to catch him as he
came down. Several policemen club
bed Mr.. Goldman numerically. It
was the most disgraceful mainland
ling of citizen I have ever seen.
He was dubbed and jerked about
and carried off by the policemen
Still another eyewitness to the
mishandling of Goldman was the rec
tor of st. Luke's Episcopal church,
the Rev. Louis G. Wood. Stand
ing at King and George streets, Mr..
Wood heard the shooting upstairs.
Immediately afterward,'' he said,
zone man, in escaping, climbed down
a telephone pole. Before he reached
the ground he was seized, and, am
Informed, badly beaten. The crowd
was so dense and the confusion so
great that I could not see the man
when he was on the ground, but /
saw club raised while4he was being
pulled from the pole, as if to strike
him.
John McCrady, a civil engineer,
who was in attendance on the meet
ing as witness, also beheld the
Goldman incident. 81 saw Max Cold
man standing on the little balcony
Mr.. McCrady said "Soon afterward
I saw him climbing down a telephone
pole. Before he reached the bottom
he was seized by two policemen. He
was severely beaten over the head
with a club and was bleeding freely"
George Renters, who had shielded
Goldman from O'Brien in the commit
tee room, was taken outside under
arrest and reached the street in time
to- see Goldman dubbed. II saw
Maxy Goldman climbing down al
pole,'' he said. 81 saw policeman
knock him in the head with his club |
as he came down." Renters declares
O'Brien attempted an assault on
Goldman several nights ago in King
street.
Carried to Station.
Goldman was bundled into patrol
wagon and taken away under arrest,
but was released after giving bail
and having his scalp wounds dressed.
A wild clangor of fire bells gave
numbers of Charlestonians their first
intimation that the half expected riot
had occurred. Somebody in the ex-
citement turned in an alarm.
Harry L. Wilenski, one of the men
injured, was reappointed by Mayor
Grace only the night before the riot
to the position of meter inspector, a
sinecure he had held for a year and
which it is understood on all sides