Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-26
BOY SINGLES OUT
/ STRIKE DEPUTIES
| AS MEN WHO SHOT
Fifteen-Year-Old Edward Con-
lon Identifies Nine of Men
/ on Trial.
Special to the Evening star.

NEW BRUNSWICK, May 90
Nine of the ten former deputy sher-
iffs on trial here for the murder Of
two strikers at Roosevelt last winter
were identified today by Edward
Conlon, fifteen-year Carteret
boy, who used to be the office boy in
the williams & Clark plant of the
American Agricultural Chemical
f Company, in front of which the
shooting occurred.
Conlon picked the deputies out
4 calling some of them by name. The
others, he said, he did not know by
name, but he recognized them as
L men who had marched out of the
plant with guns over their shoulders
ion the morning of the fatal riot,
and had then marched back and
stacked their rifles in the office.
The former Office boy first picked
out James Bavier Then he singled
out Fred Mullen, William McLaugh-
aln and Robert j. Wallace. These
lwere the only ones of the ten now on
trial whose names he knew. He
identified five of the others, how
ever.
Conlon said he saw the deputies
every day. and got acquainted with
them. On the day of the riot he
was standing 100 feet away from the
gate and saw the deputies march out
Z sof the plant and fire under the train.
when the firing started he went into
The office Soon, he said, he saw
the deputies come back and put their
guns away. ~,
aWhere did they put them?" he was
asked
replied.
sHad YOU seen guns in the Office
.before the day of the riot?'
aI had always seen rifles and re-
.volvers and ammunition there"
Former Attorney General Robert ii.
Mc(arter. of Newark, associated with
Toseph d. Stricken, of Perth Amboy,
as counsel for the defense, tried to
shake the boys testimony. His ef-
forts, however, were of little avail.
weren't the strikers armed
asked Mr.. McCarter
aSome of them had clubs and others
iron pipes, but | didn't see any guns
replied the boy. -.
nass stand yesterday afternoon, was
asked TO look about the court room
and see if he recognized any person
in the audience as having peen
sanonp those who fired upon the
strikers. He was unable to do SO.
THE trial was continued this morn
ling before Justice James j. Bergen,
with seventy witnesses yet to be
bcalled by the State.
y Didn't See His Assailant.
Frank Kocsis, one of the strikers,
testified to having thirteen buckshot
in one of his legs. He didn't see the
one who shot him. He had made a
statement before Justice of the Peace
ICharles w. Sedan in which he said
he did not know who were In the at
tacking force.
tshot In his legs Steve 10th had
.both of his legs from his knees down
Iflled with shot. He declared the
deputies, whom he called buns,
lrame from the Williams d Clark
plant and had threatened to throw
some of them into the sound Upon
the first volley being fired he started
TO run and did not wait for the sec
ond one. He was shot while run
ming. John Gall saw 10th fall when
shot.
Former Recorder Jacob Levinson,
.of Roosevelt, said he was about 200
VaTuS away Wntn Ail0 SlooNllib w
! CURED. About fifteen men did the
firing, which was kept up four or
five minutes almost continuously. He
saw Alesandro Desidiro lying on the
floor in Oplott's barber shop badly
wounded. He was sharply cross
examined by Attorney Robert Nc
Carter as to statement made by
him and signed before Justice Sedan
in which he said he was 400 yards
away. Levinson said he made that
when everything was all excitement.
''But this was signed March 20, and
there could not have been much eX-
citement them replied Counselor Nc
Carter
"I made another statement on the
day of the shooting to some one from
3 the prosecutors office" said the wit
ness.
/ Levinson finally admitted that the
statement before Justice Sedan was
correct, he thought. In this he said
{ he saw some sparks and heard the
( shooting, but was not acquainted
with the details sufficiently to tell
\ much about it.
/ Justice Bergen declared much un-
1 necessary questioning of witnesses
2 was being made.
1.-THE case is in a very narrow
compass" said the. court. 1.-THE ques-
! tion is whether the men who came
I out of the Williams e Clark plant
{ shot this man to DEATH"
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