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Show SLAIN J3Y STRIKERS STREET CAR CREW MOBBED BY MASKED MEN.. Police Officers Killed, ' Motormjin ; Wounded and Conductor Pounded Into Insensibility by Striking Street Car Men of Water-' Water-' bury, Con. Violence in,' Its worst ' form has broken out anew in, Waterbury, Conn., as a result of the high feeling in com-nection com-nection with the strike of the motor--men and conductors of the Connecticut Railroad & Lighting company. Policeman Police-man Paul Mendelsohn was killed Sunday Sun-day night; John W, Chambers,' a nonunion non-union motorman, was hurt and Conductor Con-ductor George Webernodorfer was pounded into insensibility. The scene of the crime was at Forest park, the terminus of the North Main street lin.e. The spot is isolated, and the car reached the end of the line and the crew made preparations for the return re-turn trip. Immdiateiy after the conductor con-ductor turned the trolley and the motorman mo-torman reversed his levers eight masked men sprang from the bushes by the roadside, entered the car and discharged their revolvers, every man being armed. Officer Mendelsohn fell at the first report, and as a later examination showed, the first shot was fatal, having hav-ing pierced his heart. The motorman was also hit and leaped from his car with a cry of pain. Some of the men followed him, while the remainder turned their attention to the conductor. He was thrown to the floor of the car and pounded and kicked until he' was unconscious. |