The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-06
NO ARRESTS FOR
BLOODY FIGHT AT
The Mill TODAY
Complete Investigation First,
Attorney VeaIe States.
All Persons Held This Morning
Have Been Released.
BOTH SIDES TO BLAME?
Official Says They Must Recover
Wits and Senses.
"NOnuniOn Men Have No Busi-
ness Carrying Guns"
Complete Investigation First
Attorney VeaIe States.
All Persons Held This Morning
Have Been Released.
BOTH SIDES TO BLAME?

| Until a complete investigation is
made there will be no warrants issued
as a result of the bloodshed at the Is
mert-Hincke mills this morning and
Tuesday afternoon resulting from
trouble between union pickets and
non-union employees who mixed in a
revolver and first fight at 7:45 o'clock
this morning. That was the statement
today by Tinkham Veale, acting coun-
/ ty attorney.
Following a gruelling examination
of Z. w. Sigmand, superintendent of
the elevator at the Ismert-Hincke
/ mills, Veale announced that it is prob
! able no warrant would be issued by
his office unless a third party swore
to the complaint. All persons arrest
ed have been released
Meantime" said Veale. "it Is up to
both sides to recover their wits and
act sensible. Our office represents
neither side. 1t represents the public
and the public. believe. wants to get
at the persons who started the trou-
Bile. That's the, aim of our investiga-
ton. The non-union men have no
business carrying guns. The union men
have no business molesting them or
dragging them from automobiles while
they are on their way to work. If
union leaders know that a member
of their organization did strike nom.
union men, they should play square
with the public and turn him in. If
{ nOn-unlOu men Know Oh OtuerS carry
| ing guns, they also should play square
and turn them in.
Get After All Parties.
"We're going to get the fellows on
| both sides who started the trouble.
| 1t behooves the union to conduct an
orderly strike in the future and it. will
pay the non-union men and employ
ers to disarm themselves and avoid
further bloodsheG."
Keller Out of Danger.
: E Keller, 1928 North Van Buren
street, the man most seriously wound
ed, was reported to be out of danger
| this afternoon. Complications, how
ever. are possible at this time, at
tending physicians stated. An X-ray
picture of the mans back was taken
at noon in an effort to locate the bull
let which pierced him under the left
shoulder blaze.
Chief of Police George c. Hannah
and other officers. accompanied by
! J. Anderson, a non-union mill hand,
| spend the morning examining pickets
at the various mills this morning In
an effort to identify a union picket
whom Anderson declares pulled him
from an automobile this morning and
beat him. Anderson is an employe of
the Ismert-Hincke mills. He declares
| that before the trouble broke out be-
] tween Sigmand and the union men
he was pulled from an auto at Tenth
and Railroad streets and beaten by a
man whom he says he doesn't know
by name but whom he can identify.
"Our officers will be near the mills, "
said Chief Hannah. And we're going
to see that both sides quiet down and
behave themselves"
Sheriff Hugh Larimer stated today
that union men and non-union men
wanted should warrants be issued
later will be on hand to answer to
charges.
Both sides have acted sensibly con-
cerning the trouble" said Larimer
land We don't anticipate any trouble
In making future arrests in connec-
ton with the affair"