The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-10-22
Unions Light and
Wafer System
Grace Men Passed.

citizens whose votes had been chal-
lenged. He was stopped at the door
by the policemen on watch there.
| Only Grace men were passed." the
| deputy asserted; az saw Wingate.
Frank Hogan and others allowed to
enter. Chief Cantwell called out to
the men (the challenged Hyde vot-
ers), Come in, you towards, don't be
scared to come in heard several
pistol shots in the room. l saw
man come sliding down pole. When
he got to the bottom Policeman
Quinn and several other police off
GERS took hold of him and clubbed
him. l asked who the man was and
was told it was Max Goldman.
George Renters took hold Of
Goldman and tried to protect him
from the policemen. Renters said,
Don't strike the man. but the police
raised their clubs. | interfered and
Policeman Dawson abused me, but I
drew my pistol and showed him my
authority as deputy. Goldman was
pretty badly beaten and was bleeding
about the head"
Goldman's troubles seem to have
rooms, from which he departed by
way of window, a balcony and
telephone pole. One of the Hyde
watchers, John j. Healy, said he was
standing in the doorway between the
two rooms ordered everybody out ex-
cept committeeman.
RENTERS came out" Healey said,
with Max Goldman behind him.
Willie O'Brien started to strike Gold
man and Renters told him he was too
small for him to strike"
G. Simms Mcdowell "saw a man
jump from one of the windows, hug
pole and slide down." "Just as soon
as he struck the ground" Mr.. Nc
Dowell said, 81 saw a policeman i'm
uniform beat him with his club on the
head several times"
Saw the Clubbing.
G. jeff Mcdowell, general agent For
the Southern States Life Insuran,.
company-a former resident of CO.
lumbia-was also a witness to the
clubbing of Goldman by policemen. "I
saw Goldman come out of the window,
without his hat" Mr.. Mcdowell said.
"He jumped from the veranda to a
telephone pole and came down to the
street. In a few seconds there was
large crowd of policemen holding
their hands and clubs in the air in
position to catch him as he came
down. Several policemen dubbed Mr..
Goldman numerically. 1t was tn.
most disgraceful manhandling of a
citizen / have ever seen. He was
clubbed and jerked about and carried
off by the policemen"
Still another eyewitness to the mis-
handling of Goldman was the rector
of ST. Luke's Episcopal church, the
Rev. Louis G. Wood. Standing at
King and George streets, Mr.. Wood
heard the shooting upstairs. "Immed-
lately afterward," he said, zone man,
in escaping, climbed down telephone
pole. Before he reached the grouno
he was seized, and, am informed,
badly beaten. The crowd was so dense
and the confusion so great that |
could not see the man when he was on
the ground, but / saw club raised
while he was being pulled from the
pole, as if to strike him."
John McCrady, civil engineer, who
was in attendance on the meeting as
witness, also beheld the Goldman
incident. 81 saw Max Goldman stand
ing on the little balcony" Mr.. Nc
Grady said. "Soon afterward | saw
him climbing down telephone pole.
Before he reached the bottom he was
seized by two policemen. He was se>
verely beaten over the head with
club and was bleeding freely"
George Renters, who had shielded
Goldman from O'Brien in the commit
tee room, was taken outside under ar
rest and reached the street in time to
see Goldman dubbed. " Isaw Maxy
Goldman climbing down a pole," he
said. 81 saw a policeman knock him
in the head with his club as he came
down." Renters declares O'Brien at
tempted an assault on Goldman sew
eral night ago in King street.
Carried to Station.
Goldman was bundled into a 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,
sinecure he had held for year and
which it is understood on all sides was
in part reward for political services.
w. E. Wingate, "Big Wingate,' has
been for some time regarded as an
unofficial bodyguard to the mayor.