The sun., 1916-09-23
4 INDICTED IN WAR
ON STRIKE RIOTING
Names withheld Because of
ShOnts's Memo to Grand
Jury Members.
10 HURT IN ACCIDENTS
Night Service on Third and
New York Railways-Lcss
Violence in City.

-Four indictments returned yesterday
constitute the latest phase Of the COM
paiGn against disorder and violence In
the traction strike. Fines and work.
house sentences In the Magistrates Courts
have failed to check the outbursts OF in
d%ividuals. although the police for the
last two nights have been able to break
up organized attacks on cars and their
passengers.
The indictments may not he LEGAL. 1t
was limited yesterday In the Criminal
Courts building, for President Theodore
=. Shonts. president OF the In,erborough,
sent to each of the Grand Jury a memo
randum containing information on
crimes committed and now threatened
to be committed in New York county by
members OF the A~malgamated Associa-
ton OF street and Electric Railway En-
ployees and their sympathizers."
Judge Wadhams of General Sessions.
who swore In the September Grand
Jurors. commented pointcdly upon Mr..
Shonts's activity. saying to the jurymcn /:
"The District Attorney OF the county
and the Judge who sworc you in are the
only persons who can advise members Of
the Grand Jury. I AVE glanced over
this paper n | direct you to report to
me at IL A. VI. Monday, when | will
give you proper Instructions in this
matter"
shonts says Tie Has Right.
ON this criticism all Mr.. Shonts had
to say was that he believes any citizen
has the right to bring Il matter to the
attention of the Grand Jury.
OF his pamphle, Mr.. Shonts said /:
1T was meant III the best spirit. Alb
solutely no ~discourtesy nor anything
else Objectionable was intended. He
sides this. 1t was written under the adj
vice and supervision Of one former At
torney-tienerai and iivc former Dis
,rict Attorneys of different counties"
Neither District Attorney Swami. the
jurors nor Judge wadhams would give
the names OF the men mentioned in the
indictments. II IL not likely hat their
identity will come out in court until the
legality OF the indictments Is established
II became known. however. that the
Grand Jury spent all h morning dis
cusslng eighteen strike cases which had
been brought into the magistrates
courts. and from these had cuiled four
which were believed to show felonious
intent.
since none Of the important labor lead
ers has been arrested thus far and AR
raigned before II magistrate, II was
argued that the -four men involved are
not union heads. and that Shonts's cant
palgn aga!ns, the officials Of the Anal
gamated. begun publicly on Thursday.
has not succeeded as yet.
Both the Third Avenue and the New
York Railways companies continued their
night service on the cro<stown ines last
might. and had hfty-seven cars going. or
twelve more than on Thursday night.
Once more the elaborate system Of police
protection served to prevent riots after
dusk. The cars were pu, back In the
barns at midnight or a little later.
Throughout the daylight hour the
green. red and blue cars In Manhattan
and the Union Railway cars in Tho
Bronx were seen In greater abundance
than at any time since the strike started.
and the elevated and surface lines did
not slacken their service to any apprc-
clablc extent.
Every day produces another new
scheme 20 hinder traffic and keep pas
sengere on the surface cars and tho clc-
waited and subway rains Yesterday the
explosion OF torpedoes at Tweuty-frst
and Broadway On the car tracks
frightened women II children and
caused n crowd 10 gather and jeer AZ tho
strike breaking crews
From hoOting al tho motor'nen and
conductors the crowd proceeded to
throwing gravel and sand into the cars.
II didn'. take long for 5000 persons 20
gather in the vicinity. The reserves
from the East Twenty-sccond street po-
lice station. aided hy several motor pn-
,rols. finally cleared the ~neighborhood.
Three men Ner' arrested and taken he
fore Magistrate Frothingham in the
Yorkville police court. where they were
re,nanded to prison until tomorrow.