| Show TROOPER OH ON DUTY AT CHESTER Si SHOT IN III LEG BY STRIKE SYMPATHIZER Traction Company Enabled to Run Cars in the Day Time but Made No Attempt After Dark Chester Pa Ps April 17 HAs As a culmination tion of ot the bitter feeling engendered by the mobilization of the tha state con constabulary constabulary here In connection with the strike Marshal Crawford a member I of ot troop B was shot In a skirmish with Thomas and Nicholas Barger on the Darby pike near about two 1 miles outside of the city tonight One Oneo oJ o 0 the other troopers horses was shot and Crawfords steed ran away in the direction of ot Philadelphia Crawford received a bullet in the leg and will be laid up for a a time Cause of cf the Shooting The shooting formed an exciting in incident Incident lp In the days daye events here After a s detachment of troops had been put puti i on guard at the car r barns bam and power powerhouse p powerhouse nver house of ot the Chester Traction com corn company company c pany troop A and troop B tonight I started out on the road toward Leiper yUle VIDe When the troopers passed the Barger home the two brothers came out ut on the front porch of ot the house houfe and began a harangue One of ot the Bar BarBers BarIt Bargers Bers gers It Is declared flourished a are re revolver volver at the mounted policemen and vile vUe epithets were flung at them Lieu J I I Ih J h I r f tenant Adams ordered Sargeant Mey Meyers Meyers ers era to dismount and arrest the man who was flourishing the revolver Mey Meyers Meyers ers era jumped from his horse and at tempted to capture the man when th the theother theother other brother rushed into the house and upstairs From there he fired two shots from a revolver one of ot which struck Crawford and another a horse The troopers drew their carbines and fired tired several shots Under cover of the shots several of the police ran ram into the house and arrested both of the fJ Bar Bargers Bargers gers gem who were brought to the city hall hail here Rioters Ridden Down Under the protection of the state po lice the traction company ran five cars during the afternoon The first car was run out by W Borgmann F who ran the first car out of the barns in San Francisco in the face tace of the strUt ing employee The car had not gone far when some som of the strikers or their sympathizers began throwing stones and shouting at atthe atthe atthe the men In charge of ot it ft Time The troops rode the men down and arrested six of t them The company made no attempt to op operate operate erate erato cars after atter nightfall r r f |
