Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-03
CLARK RESUMES STAND;
TELLS OF HAPPENINGS
ON DAY OF THE PRIMARY

JAMES l. CLARK, recalled, and direct
examination resumed.
Questioned by Mr.. Gordon the witness,
after telling of a squabble over watcher
I'm the twelfth division. Fifth Ward, on pri-
mary day. said:
Two other men came up to me, and he
said, How about voting?" We'll" / said,
"where do you beonG?" 'T don't belong
in the ward he said, but they are giving
a dollar a crack for votes" said II
can't help you in that" l said, where
do you voter He said, "In this division,
and right in this other division on the
corner ] said, who vouched for you?"
He said, THE big fellow standing over
there" 1 said, what big fellow?" And
there was Officer O'Brien from the Central
Station here standing in front of the poll
ing house. and he said, There he Is, stand
ing there now" SO ] Just throwed him
aside. That was ridiculous I knew moth
ing like it would occur. because that man
wouldn't do nothing like that. l know
that l throwed him aside, and finally
they stood right opposite, and I thought
TO myself Here"
O. Not your thoughts. Did you go back
10 the clubhouse? A. Yes, went back to
the clubhouse.
q. Who did you meet there? A. (After
q pause) No, had not arrived at the club
house yet. l started to walk up Sixth
street, and ! was going to inform the offi-
GERS about this fellow, and thought "Oh,
pshaw I will not bother with it, and In
about flfty--well, judge about ffty-feet
from Pine street a lot of people came rum
ming down Sixth street, and 1 could see up
Sixth street where others were running up
the other way. Then l heard a shot. There
m ght have been three or four shots,
don't know, but / heard the first shot, and
people running in all directions and holler-
ing.
He says, We'll there is two or three men
been blackjacked and one man shot around
there. aud I learned that a man ran In
here" So they passed out. I says, ct don't
know" They went up the stairs and they
looked around, and Murphy was coming
downstairs again. At the bottom of the
stairs again he kicked my foot The Oh
Ger that was with him sayN why, we are
going to pinch this whole Mace" 1 says,
"All right. They passed out. at any rate.
There was colored man came running
into the c-uo then and says, Jimmy, all
them people around here in the sixteenth
division has got guns in their Clothes" and
he says, "They will kill somebody"
says, Who has got guns in their clothes?"
He says, Somebody come with me and
j will show them to them" He says, 81
am afraid to be around there" He says,
you know me- Jimmy; have passed
through whole lot of stuff but I cannot
stand this" With that two officers went
you"
@. Who went with you? A. didn't go
around. The officers went around.
Q. Whom did they take with them? A.
They took this colored man with them.
BLOOD ON MAN IN BATHROOM
Q. Who else? A. Officer Murphy, he went
out with this other plain clothes man.
Didn't know the other man, whether he
was an officer or who he was. Finally Mike
McDonoff came to me and says, That fell
low ran in here Where is he?" / says
"Upstairs." He opened the bathroom door
and there was a man with blood on his
shirt I says, MY God, this thing won't
do" and went down the stairs and walked
TO the station house.
Q. What was the man doing? A. He
wasn't doing anything; he was standing
there walked out of the clubhouse and 1
went down to the station house and they
had three or four men in the sergeant's
office. They were searching them and there
was about twenty-five or thirty more. The
office was crowded 1 couldn't see in the
door of the sergeant's Office leading from
the entrance of De Lancey street, and went
around to the other door and Met an officer
there, standing there by the name of Charles
Stevens. / says, What is the mAtter,
Charles?" He says II don't know, Jimmy.
emit say what II is" one man standing
BY, he says, "They are taking revolvers from
those fellows" But didn't see revolvers.
Nobody could see there on the outside
Finally Mike Sullivan came along and 1
says, Where is the lieutenant at?" He
says. "Het is not in" l stood there for
about five or ten minutes and Mike says,
Somebody shot around there in the Six
teenth division" 1 says, shot? Who is
it?' He says, II don't know" says,