New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
One of Nine Indicted
Strikers Still at Large
Eight Arraigned in Brooklyn
ON Charge of Murder Are
Being Held Without Bail


Transit Company, accused Of stoning a
.Sca Beach train near the Fort Ham,
kiton station and thus causing the
death of Frederick Friedman, seven
teen years old, of 211 Sixty-fourth
Street, Brooklyn, a passenger on the
train, were indicted for first degree
murder in Brooklyn yesterday. Eight
of the accused men were arraigned be-
fore Judge Reuben L. Haskell in Part
of the County Court. The ninth
man is at large.
The men arraigned were accom-
panied by their attorney, Jacob NJ.
Peyser, and pleaded not guilty. The
defense asked for an extension of five
days to consider whether the plea
should be withdrawn or the indictment
challenged.
The men arraigned are:
James L. del Papiai, twenty-five years
cid, 1902 Sixtieth Street.
Sylvio Orisino, twenty-five years old,
same address.
Frank Mariana, twenty-three years
old, same address.
Michael Collucio, twenty-three years
old, 1880 Sixtyfourth Street.
Paul Antonelli, twenty-seven years
old, rs Bay Fourteenth Street.
Simon Cohen, twenty-five years old,
1884 West Twenty-second Street, Coney
Island.
Michael Freeman, seventeen years
cid. 1923 Park Place.
Amilo Spracco, twenty-five years old,
1852 SiXty-sixth Street.
Cohen is a striking conductor of the
Sea Beach line and the rest are former
GU ds.
Early Trial Promised
District Attorney Lewis, Of Brook
Ign, said he would place the accused
men on trial within few days.
The eight strikers were remanded to
Jail. A close guard is being kept upon
che witnesses, one of whom is being
held under $4,000 bail.
The men were indicted on two counts.
The first alleges that they willfully and
feloniously struck and killed Fried
man with malice aforethought. The
second alleges that while they were en-
gagged in the stoning of a railway train
in operation they caused the death Of
Friedman.
Should John W. Fairbanks, the motor
man of the attacked train, who is seri-
will be indicted again. Physicians at
the Kings County Hospital, where Fair
banks is confined, have given up hope
of his recovery. He suffered a frac-
tured skull.
A band Of strikers attacked the train
on the evening of August 81. They
lined up on top of concrete wall along
the cut between the Fort Hamilton
Avenue and New Utrecht Avenue sta
tions and showered the cars with
stones. Many windows were broken
and more than dozen women tainted
and became hysterical.
Paraders To Be Prosecuted
Investigation by the police disclosed
that the strikers assembled heaps Of
missiles along the wall.
employee, gave the police information
and the accused men were arrested
within few days. Wilkie is the wit
ness held in $4,000 bail.
United States Attorney Ross in
Brooklyn announced yesterday that B.
r. I. strikers who wore United States
army uniforms in the Labor Day riot
at Prospect Park Plaza will be prose-
cuted in the Federal courts. Mr.. Ross
was informed by Major General Rob-
ert Lee Billiard, commanding the de-
partmsnt Of the East, that the men
violated Federal statute by wearing
their uniforms on Labor Day, whether
they were ex-service men or not.
Thirteen men were arrested and &C
cused of being implicated in the riot
Two Of them wore army uniforms.
Ernest Russo, twenty-five years old,
OF II Garnet Street, and Edward Dowd,
twenty-five years old, of 2S5 Eighth
Avenue, were held yesterday in $500
bal. each by Magistrate O'Neill, in the
Fifth Avenu- Court, accused of intimi-
dating Mrs, Anna Berry, Of All Tween
tieth Street, Brooklyn, wife of B. r.
I. conductor, mo had deserted the
ranks Of the strikers and returned to
work. Mrs. Berry testified that while
she was walking near her home the
Two men approached ner and said that
they would get her yet" She notified
policeman.