New-York tribune., 1915-01-23
FEDERAL PROBER
BARRED AT PLANT
Guards Put in Jail to Pro
tect Roosevelt, n. j.,
and Foil Bail Plot.
VICTIMS FUNERALS
TAKE PLACE TO-DAY
Nv. VI. Gets Rebuff and Strik.
ers Are Jubilant Over New
Arrests in Shooting.

Arrests in Shooting.
Csrteret y. J.. Jan. 22.-Thirty-on.
s,ru.ies we're taken from the Liebir
{ Co. plant here tonight on warrants
,.srgine thcm with murder. bundled
,-,o fourteen automobiles, with police
-sn 8, thsir sides. and rushed twenty
rns, 20 New Brunswick, where they
were srrrsigred before Judge Daily and
committed % the Middlesex County
Isn
This seton, instituted by Prosecutor
v. Edwin Florsnce, and executed by
tysrty-foor pstrolmen from neighbor-
inr cities, followed an Identification in
the Liebig ward, when twenty witnesses
marched before line Of one hundred
deputies and picked out the men they
recognized n Tuesdays shooting. One
vitness-Vito Lorusso, Of Chrome-was
arrested on complaint of deputy and
lodged IN the Csrteret jsil, charged
With having q concealed weapon on his
person, Tuesday. He obtained bail late
last night.
Prober Thrust Aside.
Patrick T. Gill, an investigator for
tie Federal Commission on Industrial
Relations, now sitting in New York, and
Dsnisl 7. O'Regsn. an attorney for that
bcdy, visited his town to-day. When
u. lstter approached the gate Of the
nsb;g plant he handed his card 70 Dsr
sni.h. nsutenant Of Jerry O'Briens
strike breakers. and asked that he be
,noQed % enter 20 obtain facts for the
Investigation. Smith refused. "But ]
r.rresent the government" O'Regan
protested. "To hill with you and the
rovsrnment, replied the deputy, bump
ing the attorney with mis- shoulder to
force him from the property, "and when
tie witnesses begin 10 come IN here,
you 60 out
Murder Charge Is Made.
The srrests we're made upon sfidav-
is and identiheations secured by Chief
% Police Henry Harrington Of Roose-
vel, from the Nv. ity witnesses, fifteen
strikers and s~e who had seen the
shooting. on the strength Of which
Judge Peter T. Daily consented 20 issue
tn,h warrants charging the defend
sna with murder. The chief signih-
ara o. the new charge lies in the
is,t 1st !t constitutes an unbsilabie
ss,ae, 20 that there is little lke!l-
issi Of the accused deputy sherifs be-
iigpermitted again 70 return to koose-
v.lt
!; was after an investigation under
taken this afternoon by Chief Hsrring
;on and Prosecutor Florsnee that the
arrests occurred. The former early IN
n. day notified Mr. Florsnce that ne
lad secured additional eyewitnesses 10
The shootirc
Immediately the County ProsecutoI
buried 10 Roosevelt and notiheo lIs
american Agricultural Chemical Co"
suy that nc desired 20 be aoh''.
With the voluntary witnesses 10 lhs
Williams Clark plant, and reques.e"
nat the deputies stationed IN the "a
ief mill should be drawn up IN Ilhe 'V'
in'peeton.
Then. according TO Chief Hsrringtoh'
Mere ensued an apparent ehort on N
pari Of the compauy's ofhclals 20 mar
ne task Of the witnesses as dlnlcu4I a.
possible.
Foil Plot TO Shield Guards.
q was told 70 take the witnesses 70 70
ne Williams l. Clark plant" sad ChleI
harrington. "and ! did so. When we
arrived there we we're informed that
ne force Of deputies in charge OF the
Property had lust been taken IN iSFee
motor boat 10 the Liebig plant, nan d
nile away. When we reached the lal
tf mill and were admitted we lou,lu
nat the entire corps OF guards OF the
'So plants. l62 in number, were drawn
v n long line. linz
The witnesses passed down the llne
Iolviduslly and we're not gwen o"s
ss,Snce 10 communicate with each o'nv -
ne first witness passed down 70 the
-.oole o. the line before ne Plcheu III
ah hrs. man. This particular guar
sss one Of the original twenty-five a.
tested.
We did not make any arrests eHcepi
the case Of guards who were accuse acc'i
y several witnesses Of having partle.
psieo IN the attack upon the SUI rlHsl ,St >
.ae who were positively identiheo. '.. nv
isiek action OF the county proseculo'
collecting his squadron OF autonIo
Aes and posse Of imported ponce "S0
-e 70 the fear that some OF Ine o.
.saed deputies might attempt 10 ieaFe
"xn In order 20 escape arrest. 81.
Relieving the arrival here OF CatIy
sieses, Italian leader Of the lndus1iias
eerkers Of the World. the members "
~ Chemical Fertilizer Union o.
.afome, passed a set Of resoiuliiOI'o .
.sNng that they would have nov "e
" 90 with the order ne represented .
Arrangements for the iuuei"i' %
penoerio Alosssndro and "a rfl"n
.tny. who died as 8 result OF iues-
syt struggle with the deputies. Ne.e
1Lpieted BY the union IN Van Ness
cA' IN Chrome. this afternV,Vh.
asteh services for the former VIII ,'s pe
rs p ST. Josepn's Roman Catho!iio &
eiufehl tomorrow morning, wniIe
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