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Show SLAIN BY STRIKERS STREET CAR CREW MOBBED BY MASKCD MEN. Police Officers Killed, Motorman Wounded and Conductor Pounded Into Insensibility by Striking Street Car Men of Water. bury, Con. Violence In Its worst form has broken out anew In Wntcrbury, Conn., as a result of tho high feeling In com. ncctlon with tho strlko of tho motor-men motor-men and conductors of the Connecticut Ballroad & Lighting company. Police-man Police-man Paul Mendelsohn wns killed Sun. day night; John AV. Chambers, a nonunion non-union motorman, was hurt and Con. ductor Georgo Wobornodorfor was pounded Into Insensibility. Tho scene of tho crlmo was at Forest park, tho terminus of tho North Main street line. Tho spot Is Isolated, and tho car reached tho end of tho lino and the crew mado preparations for the re. turn trip. Immdlatoly after tho conductor con-ductor turnod tho trolley nnd the motorman mo-torman roversed his levors eight masked men sprnng from tho bushes by tho roadsldo, entered the car and discharged their revolvers, every man being armed. Officer Mendelsohn fell at tho first report, and as a later examination showed, tho first shot wns fatal, having hav-ing pierced hla heart. Tho motorman was also hit aud leaped from his car with a cry of pain. Somo of tho men followed him, whllo tho remainder turned their attention to tho conductor. Ho was thrown to tho floor of tho enr and pounded and kicked until ho wns unconscious. |