Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-08-11
HE WAS MURDERED
By G.. F. AlfOrdson

Inc importation OF gunmen, mugs
and dissolute characters has at last
born it's legitimate fruit in the COM
mission of one of the most dastardly
and cowardly murders that the peace
loving, law-abding citizens Of New
ark have been called on to witness.
On last Friday, August 4th, at
about $40 P NJ, four shots in quick
succession rang out in the air. The
writer was standing on First street
conversing with the crossing watch
man and could hear the reports of the
gun, which appeared to be at the
crossing Of the Pennsylvania and B. &
O. tracks. After a short time the
writer started in the direction Of the
crossing and was met by another man
who stated that two men had been
shot, and to notify all members to go
to headquarters at once. After COM
plying with the suggestion he then
went to the scene of the crime. The
wounded man, Pasqual Susi, had been
removed to the Sanitarium, but John
Kalman, the dead man, was still lying
there waiting the arrival of the cor
oner and undertaken who finally ar
rived and took charge of the body.
Proceeding from there to head
quarters where meeting was held
by the shopmen who decided it best
to have some of the city and county
officials present. A committee of two
was appointed to request them to at
tend and in short order they returned
with Sheriff Bryan, Police Chief Jas.
Sheridan and Safety Director Sher-
burne, who stated that they would
go according to law and see that the
law was obeyed, which sounded very
good. But when asked about the guns
carried by these strikebreakers they
stated that it would be impossible to
find gun on one of them if they went
to the shops and made a search.
Does this look fair to the law abiding
citizens of Newark? Hardly, for this
murder that occurred Friday was
hardly over with when another man
named Taylor was out with a gun
which he snapped several times but
failed to shoot, or there might have
been another murder.
Do the taxpayers have to support
a police force and county officials to
protect such thugs? 1t begins to look
that way. That the B. & o. Co. has
got lot of these gunmen is an un-
doubted fact. They have a Negro
who bears the cognomen of "Shine"
working on passenger coaches at the
depot, who did time at the county
jail for the illicit manufacture of
whisky and it is also alleged that he
stole the coil copper from the B. &
O. R. R. Co. Now they give him
the glad hand. If it were not for
this strike he would hardly be allowed
to cross the tracks.
Are our wives to be made widows
and our children orphans to help out
the greed of a few railroad officials
1t certainly looks that way when
there cannot be found law or an
ordinance to stop the importation
and harboring Of such characters.
Had our city council done it's duty
and taken steps to stop these Grim
inals from having so much liberty the
sad events of last Friday need not
have happened. But through its hap
pening it has shown that the Fed
Grated Shop Crafts are the law abid-
ing citizens that they have claimed to
be. In the language of Thomas
Payne, "Its the times to try mems
SOULS" but thank providence, we can
wait for the law to take is course,
AND IT'S COURSE MUST BE JUST.
The citizens of Newark should be
proud to think they have labor leaders
and men who are willing to listen to
them, and act accordingly. For after
seeing the agony of the poor widow
and her two orphaned children, it GER
tainly made the blood boil in all true
men and want satisfaction for this
heinous crime. There is law to get
the man who fired the gun, and there
is also law to get the railroad exc
cutives and operating officials who
brought him here, and according to
my personal belief these officials are