Evening star., 1937-07-03
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Criminal prosecution OF members
OF the Chicago Police Department
who can definitely be linked with
the Staying Of 10 steel strikers last
May 80 was under advisement Of
counsel for the Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee today az the
Senate Civil Liberties Committee ad-
journed Its inquiry into the battle
The open hearings Of the COM
mittee ended at 8 o'clock last night
as four Chicago police officials reap
peared briefly to maintain their stolid
insistence that they and their ON
GERS were justified in killing 10 Of
the crowd Of marching strikers,
permanently disabling eight others
and inf1icting less serious injuries on
approximately 100 more
Although Senator Thomas Demo-
crat, of Utah said the evidence in
dicated extreme police brutality"
neither he nor Chairman La Toilette
indicated what further action their
committee might take.
Committee employees said they prob
ably would publish a full report Of
the shooting and leave the rest to
the people Of Chicago"
The final day OF the committees
hearing was packed with drama from
the beginning TO end as pictures,
verbal testimony. the reports OF the
Chicapo coropor opd yo,,po S,rooo,,,.
analysis of the fatalities were crowded
into the records.
Surgeons Testimony Damaging.
Most damaging, perhaps, to the
claim OF the police that their gun
fire and clubbing attacks were en-
tirely in self-defense were the motion
pictures and stills displayed during
the day, but OF telling effect also
was the detailed testimony early in
the evening OF DR.. Lawrence Jacques,
young Chicago surgeon, who testi-
fed In detail on the causes and
circumstances Of the deaths and the
injuries.
Holding aloft rag doll swathed in
tape, the medical man punctured it
1nnumerable times through the back
and head with an ice pick as he de-
scribed the course of bullets which led
to the deaths.
One by one he called the roll of the
dead: Earl Handley, who died of
hemorrhages because his wounds were
not treated soon enough: Alfred
Causey. who had four bullet holes:
Lee Tisdale, who died of blood poison
ing from a bullet entering the rear
OF his thigh: Otis Jones, whose spinal
cord was severed by a bullet in the
back; Anthony Tagliori, who died also
from 4 bullet in the back: Kenneth
Reed. who bled to death in a patrol
wagon after a bullet had torn through
his back and into his abdomen: Leo
francisco, shot in the back: Sam Pop
ovlch, whose skull was 80 badly shat
tered by clubs and q bullet that he
was identified with dificulty; Hiding
Anderson, who died of peritonitis, and
Joe Rothmund, who was shot low in
the back.
Emphasizes Shooting in Back.
Dropping his doll. the doctor stepped
to 4 series of charts to show that not
one OF those killed had been shot from
in front and that OF 40 gunshot cases
treated, scarcely q half dozen had
bullet wounds with points of entrance
In frontal parts Of their bodies. For
all the rest, he said, it was the same
story-shots in the back.
1t was DR.. Jacques who presented to
the committee the recapitulation list
ing eight more of the strikers as
permanently disabled.
Just before his appearance on the
stand, one Of these eight had testified
With one eye removed and the other
virtually useless, Harry N. Harper,
young steel worker who did not belong
to the strikers, was led to the stand by
his pretty wife. For three days she
had escorted the near blind man in
and out of the hearing room. Yester-
day she led him to his chair before the
committee and rested = hand on his
knee As he told in choking voice how
he had gone to the plant In An effort
to see 4 brother still at work inside,
how he had been refused admission.
then had been beaten down when the
hostlllties suddenly began, how he had