The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-06
Two Alleged COnspiratOrs in
Jail; Others to Follow.
Theodore ShOnts Branded for
One of the Victims.
mother" JONES INCITES RIOT
Mine Strike AgitatOr
EXhOrtS Women.
They Rush Out, Wreck Car and
Fight Police.

New York. Oct. 6.-The police
promised more arrests today in con-
nection with an alleged plot to Kill
President Theodore P. Shonts of the
Interborough Rapid Transit company,
and Frank Hedley, manager of the
New York Railways company. TWO
men, said to be striking subway
guards. arrested early this morning
were held on charges of ston1ng ele-
waited trains. The police declared they
had evidence that these men were IN
yolved in the supposed conspiracy. but
refrained from bringing such a charge
against them until others were ar
rested.
According to detectives one OF
them, who posed as a striker, got ev1-
dence ten days ago that plans were
being laid to kill Shonts and Hedley.
The two traction officials were warn
ed and given permission to carry
pistols.
The two men under arrest were
closely watched until last night when
they were seen taking part in an at
tack upon an elevated train. Tne
prisoners who gave their names as
Oscar Wallace and John J. Sheeran,
were questioned for several hours to-
day, but the police said that to reveal
the result of this examination might
hamper them in continuing the in
NeSllSdllOI
Tells Wives to "Play He'll"
Mother Jones's instructions to
striking carmens wives to play hell,
showed net results today in appearance
in police court of three men and six
women arrested after one of the
fiercest melees the traction strike has
yet developed. Charges were made
today that police dubbed some of the
| women in the mob that rushed from
| the hall where Mother" Jones spoke
and with her burning injunction fresh
| in mind attacked a surface car al
Eighty-sixth and Second avenue
smashing all windows and almost
wrecking the woodwork. In fact, one
| patrolman exhibited splintered c1ut
! he had welded on the maddened
| women.
Don't think too much of being
ladies', was Mother" Jones's ad-
vice. I'D rather be called that ole
! she devil as some of the capitalists
call me, than to be called a lady. I've
I looked out of the bars in many bull
| pen and I'm still able to raise hell
Now, you women, help your men"
The spirit seemed to creep into the
women's blood. Many of them with
the hall They seized bricks, chunk.
of asphalt - anything and Wen
ahead. They fought like mad. Off
GERS engaged in quieting them said
! the crowd was the worst they ha6
ever handled.
! Strike Too D-d Quiet for Mrs Jones
! New York, Oct. 6.-"New York's toe
t id quiet. This traction strike is
too much like a picnic. I'm going to
stir 'em up and I'm going to do il
| thru the women"
Eighty-siX years old Mother
Jones, angel of the mine camps
who stirred women to the riot stage
I last night, commented thus today
pr Omising ct the same time that the
/ metropolis would see some fire
works" before she was done. WITH
every sentence she pounded her fist
on a table.
This labor trouble in New York is
just the start of a social revolution al
over the country" she said. Il had
! hoped that it wasn't, but it is. And
it's really the women who count ir
any nation"
Just then the telephone rang A
man at the other end informed Moth
err that two of the women rioters ha6
been held fer the grand jury.
-'Oh, that's all right" she replied
It'll all come out all right"