Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-02-06
26GUARDS TO
Be TRIED FOR
TWO MURDERS
Grand Jury Finds Presentments
Against Deputies at Roose-
veit Strike.
Special to tho Evening. STAR

Special to the Evening STAR
NEW BRUNSWICK, Feb. 6.-Su-
preme Court Justice James ]. Bergen
will sit here on Monday to set a date
for the trial or trials of the deputies
indicted late yesterday afternoon for
the murder of two strikers at Roose-
welt on January 10 last and the
wounding Of a score.
The indictments win be presented
to him ny County Judge Peter u.
Dely. to whom the jury handed them
There are indfctmef1ts for first degree
murder against twenty-five OF the
twenty-sevef1 DEPUTIES who have been
In jail here for the past two weeks,
and another one against Fred Liv-
ingstone, one of the deputies who
served In the Roosevelt strike, but
who Is still at large.
Besides the murder Indictments
bills for atrocious assault and bat
terry were handed in against each one
of the twenty-six former deputies.
This count covers the wounding of
the twenty or more strikers.
Sheriff Edward r. Houghton was
completely exonerated. The jury took
this action because he has been the
object of criticism by people all over
the country as the man who hired
the deputies and swore them in with
out investigating their credentials
and characters. The Jury, in a FORMAL
statement, said he had acted accord
ing to precedent and in a most ef-
f1cient manner.
The jury's exoneration, however
did not silence the criticism. It was
announced today that labor. organi-
cations in Middlesex county will ap-
peal to the legislature to have him
impeached.
All the indicted deputies were hired
from the O'Brien Detective Agency
In Newark Those besides Livingstone
who were indicted and who have been
in jail for the past two weeks are;
Harry Patterson, John Gordon. Carl
Smith, Thomas Murphy. Robert J..
Wallace, James D. Williams, Frank
Rick, Fred Mullen, Edward Gillen,
Michael Manning. Harry Cone, Will
lam Erving, Henry Gilmour, John
O'Mara, Alexander Drummer, Harry
Terrill, Harry c. Tiller. James Bavier,
Walter Bedell. William Mclaughlin,
Tony Simone, Walter ]. Patterson.
John Mulvaney. Frederick Living,
ston, John c. Moran and John Smith.
The presentment stated that the
grand jury unanimously agreed that
Sheriff Houghton acted in the most
rational manner In the strike, and
that his conduct was such as laid
down by precedent; that in main
tanning his authority he had acted
in a most efficient manner, ana
should be absolved of all blame for
the shooting of the strikers. 1t
further stated that .the body Of the
county on which Justice Bergen had
advised the sheriff to call on such
emergencies was an antiquated form
of protection, and strongly urged that
state constabulary should be Gre
ated.
The two deputies In jail, but not
indicted, were Frank Coyle and John
H. Nolan. They were discharged from
custody.
Both men were at the Liebig plant
when the shooting took place. It
occurred at the Williams & Clark
plant, "a mile away.
The grand jury's presentment did
not mention Mayor Joseph A. Her
mann, of Roosevelt. or the officials OF
the American Agricultural and Chem
icsl Company, at whose plant In
Roosevelt the rioting took place The
Jury adjourned until Wednesday
morning, February 10. 1t was init.
mated that further indictments would
then be considered.
addresses, which. upon investigation.
proved to be fictitious. The addresses
as they gave them are as follows:
Patterson, 4s7 Broad street. Gordon,
81 Beacon street; Smith, 1t2 Orange
street; Murphy, 1b6 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.; Williams. 1ae Plane street; Rick,
l57 Plane street: Mullen, 444 High
street; Gillen, Essex street: WAL
lace. 2sl Plane street; Erving. "a Bank
street; Manning, 40 High street: Gil
fnour. 146 Washington street; O'Mara,
S36 Sussex arnenue; Drummer, $40
Badger avenue; Terrell, 1896 Halsey
street: Teller, Jacob street: Nc
Loughlin. 40 PesEine avenue: Bat
terson. % Jay street; Mu1vaney, 90
Centre street.
The atrocious assault and battery
indictments cover the woundiug of
the twenty or more strikers at the
time Alesandro Desederio and Car
men Patty were fatally shot. Both
died in the Alexian Brothers Hos
pitaI, Elizabeth.