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JERSEY STRIKERS LOSE FIGHT THAT BSTTWDLNES © ae? ae Sheriff's Men Now Try to Identify Slayers Among Thirteen Suspects. ‘The strike of the coat handiers on the| Susquehanna and Western docks @hadyside, near Edgewater, N. Which flashed into murderous energy on Wednesday and brought two Men and wounds to nine others, nal been completely smashed, Manage the railroad company and Under arent | Heath concurred to-day in the state- ment that the trouble was over and that the strikebreakers would continue fm their places at the coal docks un- hindered, Early to-day Heath took to the Hack- ensack jail a number of the detectives engaged in the sanguinary fight of ‘Wednesday in the hope that they would ‘be able to identify some of the thir- teen suspects who were rounded up last night and lodged in the county prison. All of the detectives whom he took over to the county seat were engaged at! cluae quarters with the foreign rioters, | and Under Sheriff Heath ts confident that he will be able to lodge murder charges against some of those now under arrest. GEEK SLAYERS AMONG STRIK- ERS WHO COME FOR PAY. Beginning at noon to-day another Process of picking those responsibie for | the Killing of the two detectives and ‘wounding nine others was undertaken. Last night notices were posted through- out ettlement of the striking coul | handlers that the railroad company would pay off all striking laborers for their time from last Friday until Mon- day, the day the trike was called. ‘The paying off was done in vhe corri- dor of the municipal building at Edge Water. The Under Sheriff and a « of his deputies were there, ostensibly to insure order, but their real purpose Was to try to spot some of the men who could be recognized as having been | participants in Tuesday's and Wednes- ; day's disorders. ‘The foreign laborers, evidently acent- Ing @ trap, were chary about appearing 4 person and tried the subterfuge of sending their women and children to ro- ceive pay envelopes for them. But this Procedure was quickly stopped, It was aid by the railroad paymaster that al) applicants for pay envelopes must ap- pear in person. BOY OF TWELVE MAY IDENTIFY TWO SUSPECTS, Among the prisoners heid in the a. ‘ty jail ia @ twelve-year-old boy w aid to have identified two of the under arrest on suspicion. Fe at Tor) death to} that ho will be intimidated if reteaned, | Heath has ordered his retention until tho cases of all the other prisoners come up for a hearing. and de f the Pails a and the pt the scen are and discarded ferry: re have ng their dike the # outrage. ‘They are be- fled to hiding piaces in hy Brooklyn and Materson, (THEY'LL BE MARRIED IN A FURNITURE STORE TO GET BEDROOM SET ltt Will Be Manhatian, P rooiekct 's Wed- aan eae OFFICAL SWEARS HE TOOK NO GRAFT IN ATLANTIC CITY DEAL’ Councilman ‘Dock’ Dougherty | Contradicts the Diclagraph Testimony of Burns’s Men. (Spectal to The Krening World.) MAY'S LANDING, J., Dec. 12, Councilman Harry Dougherty, who ad vertised himself as “Dock, the Working man’s Friend,” during his successful campatgn for ® seat in Atlantic City's governing body, was called to the stand to-day to continue teatimony In his ow ‘| witness in the trials of the Members of Council ¢ y, growing out ding Gift to Pair His rdwalk" deal, which Brother Weds. Dougherty had begun hits test s just before court adjourned last nigit Marcus Miller, a brother trate Harry Miller, hi ing goods store on «Jae maica. He was talking with @ number ot friends there last night when his brother, the Magistrate, walked in, “Now,” said Marcus, “if 1 only haa & couple that were willing to get mar- ried here, my brother Harry could per- form the ceremony and I would give them a set of bedroom furniture as @ | wedding present. 1 1 would have Bob MeMahon, Ma’ Tuohy and James Constantine as rs.” Charles Mastrocola, a jent of Ja- maica, who was in the store, remarked! that his daughter, 1 was going to be married In a few days, and he Md not see why the ceremony #hould not take place there and then. He got into communication with his daughtey on the telephone and ehe and her flance, Dr. | Ernesto Marro of Jamaica South, @ licensed graduate druggist, soon arrived at the furniture store jeclared thelr Willingness to be married at once. They took thelr places before Magis- trate Miller and all the others present were grouped around them, when the magistrate asked whether the young ‘couple had red a license. They had not yet got a license, so the ceremony jhad to be postponed, but it will take place in the store this evening, and Mr. Miller says he ts going to give the new- ly wedded pair one of the very best acts of furniture in his place. Cos Roberta Succeeds Platt. Directors of the United States Express Company to-day elected D, I. Roberts President of the company to succeed the jate Thome: C. Platt. Since Mr. Platt's death in March, 1910, the office! of president has been vacant. Mr, Roberts holde the position of general manager of the Quebec, Montreal and "| pay from the Burns * Southern Railroad. As @ director Mr, | Roberts succeeds the tate A. G. Hack- t voted for the because of any yntractors,” but as a “swap” with James Lane of the self-confessed boodiers for his sup- port of @ mercantile ordinance which Dougherty was booming The witn having recet vote, contra’ Stenographer Stem, who swore hi down the notes of the conversation as it came to him over the dictagraph from the “bribe” room in Mallas Hotel on April 17. Smiley, @ Burns operative, has teiti- fled he pald Dougherty $500, the first in- stalment on $6,000 promised each Coun- cilman when the ordinance was passed. | He #ald “Dock” was the second official to appear and “collect During the cross-examination by At- torney-General Wikson to-day Dougherty was asked to tell what happened on the day when he was summoned to the Marlborough-Blenhetm by Burns. “He accused me of taking a bribe,” said the witness, “and started to read some dictagraph testimony concerning ft. I told him I had no statement to make to him. When he grabbed me by the arm I said: ‘You'd better take your hands off me, mister, or we will he on the mat right this @econd.’ He let go and: 1 went home.” Tt was Dougherty’s attitude, Burns says, that made him show his hand publicly weeks before he had things fully arranged to spring the trap, ——- ROBIN BEFORE GRAND JURY. Joseph G. Robin, wrecker of the Northern Bank and the Washington Savings Bank, testified to-day before the John Doe Grand Jury which is in- vestigating the management of the Tombs prison and the machinery of the Department of Correction. Robin was questioned concerning his quarters in the Tombs and the priv- ilegea which have been given to him by declaring he had boardwalk ordinanc ‘THE BVENING Wor iBOY SLAYER’S EMPLOYER GRINS AS TRIAL CLOSES. 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