Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-02

since he has been here. He is one of the
men going about in plain clothes,
Q. Feldman? A. would Ike Feldman
to come ever closer here. l would like
TO SEQ him. Yes, Fcldman.
q. Murphy? \. Murphy, yes. ! seen
Murphy. but Murphy was dressed just the
same as he is. He was not dressed up the
way the other men We're.
q. He was in plain clothes? \. He was
in plain clothes. So We're the other men,
In plain clothes, but they looked more
Q. Hayden? \. Yes, sir
Q. You know him? a. Yes.
q. VIII you state the events Of the day
before election. of the evening before cleo
tion, that you saw at the Finletter club?
A. Well that evening, | guess it was about
quarter TO six, I came out of Magistrate
Harrgan's office into the club. and usu-
ally go home to dinner about O'clock and
just recall my niece calling UP. says
Uncle Jim, come to dinner" | left the
clubhouse, went over to see Mr.. Stern Mr.
Stern lives on Spruce street east Of Sixth
Q. That is Isadore Stern? \. Yes.
Q. Very well. a. His house is on the
east side of Sixth, the lower side OF
Sprucea nd the clubhouse is 623 Spruce
street SO Mr.. Stern and ! and Mr. Marks
who is a constable in Magistrate Harrl-
gan's Office. walked up Spruce street, and
as I walked up | saw crowd of men
standing on both corners men in citizens
clothes, on the southeast corner and sew
eral men in uniform two or three, who
could not Identify. OF course / am a little
nearsighted. But | did see this man Tram
standing there with several other men with
slouch hats on. l walked right past them
and walked into the clubhouse. Well we
stayed in Mr.. Stern's house / guess up until
about half-past seven or quarter after
seven. We went to the clubhouse. The
meeting was called for o'clock, and my
men were coming In, About five minutes
Of eight, | said, Call all the members"
.. Not what you said. A. Well the
members Of the committee all went to the
second-story front where we held our meet
ing. While we We're there, of course | was
instructing the men what to do and, of
course, ] made few remarks to them.
O. You made a speech, A. \ speech
Well, II wasn't a speech. Then. after the
speech was over I went in the back room
ADJOINING the front room there and called
both members of the committee from each
division. ! guess | reached about the third
division when | heard somebody-no
guess while we were going on there there
was some noise and one of the members
put his head out of the window. and / said
Puh your head in out of the window
Don't cause any excitement" Well, there
was something going on. Somebody hal
looed. They are breaking in so / kept
on and kept them cool. We We're up there
all the members of the committee. said
iNSep NoOl Ion lose your neau. lnen
l heard the crying of murder and women
hallooing on the streets, and / still held the
meeting together. We sat there, and two
or three mer went up the stairs-"Oh, they
are breaking in, They are coming up"
"All right, let them come. Don't get eX-
cited, Try to hold them down" We'll,
didn't know anything. l remained there
until ! guess about half-past twelve.
Q. Did you see the breaking in? A.
No. ] was on the second floor
Q. Then you did not see what occurred
on the first floor? A. No. sir.
Q, Was there any disturbance at that
meeting where you were? A. Absolutely
none.
O. Now, I will bring you down to election
day. Please tell us what occurred, particu-
larly with respect to yourself A. DO you
mean just at the time | was assaulted or
previous to that? Q. Yes.
A On election morning I arose at half.
past five, called for a machine. Mr. Marks
and ] were together. We left our house
and went TO Mr.. Stern's house Mr. Stern
got up and came in the machine Mean
while, constable was called I'm our house,
and he called up my sister and said he was
on his way up to meet us. The four of us
got into the machine We went to the
Tenth Division, Fifth Ward. A crowd OF
men were with Deutsch, I guess ten or If
teen were there, some seven OF whom l
HNNNf ehA hAO ilaJoiAAg 1 ulu not KNOW, so
we waited. Mr. Michael represented the
committee in that division and he was there,
and he told his election officers TO protect
them until they got In. Everything seemed
apparently all right and we left there
had got information that there might
be some trouble in the Third Division. That
Is the division live In myself. Before
went 70 the Third Division went to the
Twelfth Division. went TO all the divisions
around the Twelfth Division. and finally /
| went IN to the Fifth Division. I got into The
Third Division and looked around and waited
for while, making preparations to start the
election Somebody rushed in and said they
arrested cllfer, Of the First Division. As
heard that, / junped IN the machine. Mr.
stern and / and Mr.. Maurer. the three oi
uH, and we went TO the station house and
went In the station house and asked for !
copy OF the charge. The sergeant gave n,
the COPY OF the charge We remained thers
for one hour, to the best OF my Judgment
about enc hour I guess they arrested. 4
me best of my knowledse over thirty d
feIiy men,
y Who were tafy9 A. Active uortsr|
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