Word: troopers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried to run. A keeper named David Winney had dodged the bullets by falling down and rolling through a doorway. He had sent the alarm to the gate by the only telephone the conspirators had overlooked when they were cutting wires. Now at the gate Captain Stephen McGrath, State trooper, held Sullivan's ultimatum between his fists, wondering how he could take the responsibility of ignoring that scrawled postscript signed with Warden Jennings' name...
After a bit the trooper came back. "He says, 'Go in and get them. The warden will have to take his chances...
Three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 17), Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, their Day of Atonement. On the eve of Yom Kippur, in Massena. N. Y., Barbara Griffith, 4, disappeared. Her parents asked policemen to find her. At about this time, someone remembered the legend of the sacrifice. A State police trooper named H. M. McCann summoned Rabbi Berel Brennglass to headquarters where, in accordance with an arrangement previously made with Mayor W. Gilbert Hawes, he questioned the rabbi as follows...
...there they talked bigger than their strength. They started marching up Main Street. The State Police fell in beside. At Seventh and Main, the policemen diverted the march from passing the court house, where sat the Commission. Out of the "Wobbly" ranks stepped a ragged man and shot a trooper in the groin...
...prepared to set the oil afire. The detectives surrendered. Seven men were killed and 20 to 30 wounded. The state government sent troops and put the Homestead Steel Works district under martial law. That broke the strike, but not before eleven strikers and spectators were killed and many a trooper and civilian was stoned or clubbed. Bitter and bloody as the strike was, it brought wisdom to all steel employers and eventual benefits to the employes. In the battle Mr. Schwab had been a hard-bitten fighter for the Carnegie Steel Co.; in the peace his natural bonhomie...