Evening journal., 1922-07-25
MARYLAND COPS
CAUSE TROUBLE

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After this the officers returned to
the Maryland side.
In the crowd there was also a taxi
cab containing several men from
Salisbury, one of whom said he was
a reporter for a Baltimore news
paper and 1t was claimed that those
in the taxi had come in with the
Maryland police. At the direction
of Mayor Thorington men said to be
Rodney Jones, Jr., and Charles
King, of Salisbury, were placed I'M
der arrest charged with carrying
concealed deadly weapons and were
held under $500 bail for the Sussex
County Court.
All Of the eighty shop employees
Of the Delaware Division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
here went on strike July 1 and are
still out. The shops are on the
Delaware side. Two or three men
living in this vicinity have been en-
ployed and the company has brought
in some men from other places but
not enough to fill the vacancies.
Alleged action by the railroad Of
ficials in going over the heads of the
Delmar authorities to have deputy
sheriffs sent here when It is said
there was no necessity or need for
such deputies has been resented by
the citizens of the town in general
and has won many over TO the side
Of the strikers.
When the strike first started the
railroad officials appealed to the Del
mar authorities to call in deputies
from Sussex County and from
Wicomico County. Nd, but this the
local officials refused TO do seeing
no need for such deputies.
After this refusal on the part of |
local authorities to call in the depu-
ties the railroad company succeed |
ed in having the sheriff of Sussex |
county with six deputies come here. |
There was no disorder at that time |
that could not be easily handled by |
the local officials, 1t is claimed, and |
they went to Georgetown and pre- |
vailed on the sheriff to recall his |
deputies which, after understanding /
the situation, he did. Efforts have
since been made to have these dep |
uties sent back, but the sheriff is !
said to have stated that they will
not be sent back unless the Delmar
officials ask for them.
The railroad has about rs of its /
regular officers and special deputies
here to which no objection is made
by the citizens of Delmar, as long
as they remain within the law in
their actions. There has been no
trouble whatever with these Of
hcers TO date.
Mayor Thorington and other Of
acials of Delmar said today that
they felt the town authorities were
fully able to take care of the situa-
ton and that no trouble was an
ticipated unless Maryland officers,
who have no right here, return or
deputy sheriffs are sent into the
town when they are not needed.
There have been reports of shoot
ing several times during the strike
but no one has been reported injured |
ard it is nos thought by the author
tics that anyone has been deliber-
a.eiy shot at. What H.. disturb
ance there has been has been caused
nv boys n =. ost ins.sIce
IL was .sported yesterday that
an attempt had been made TO hS,d
m two men who took the place OF
strikers. while they were returning
to their home near town in an auto
mobile yesterday and that shots
were fired at them. Another report
was that the man running the car
tried to run over former railroad
men when they were stopped and
asked not to work in the place of
the strikers.