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his lower jaw fractured, a contusion of the skin of the face, and indications of great pain in the region of his back. He was removed to the Washington Park Hospital that night, and though he indicated that the pain continued and was excessive, he seemed nevertheless to be gaining, until about ten days later, when pneumonia set in, and he died on the 27th day of April, just two weeks after the assault. An autopsy was first conducted by the coroner's physician of Cook County and revealed the broken jaw, but no other mark or disfigura tion to indicate violence and the pneumonia. A second post mortem examination was deemed advisable and three weeks after his burial Carlstrom's body was exhumed from Oakwoods Cemetery and taken to the county morgue for a most minute examina tion. This autopsy was conducted by -an eminent pathologist, Ludwig Hektoen, as sisted by Doctors Harold Moyer, Harlow S. Roby, Carl Young, and by Doctors Lewke and Rheinhardt of the coroner's staff of physicians. Very little in addition to the discoveries made at the first post mortem were found except that an extra vasation of blood was noticed at the base of and inside of the spinal column, which by the physicians was said to be attribut able to violence. On the night Carlstrom was assaulted Mr. Meckel was notified of the crime and at once communicated with Inspector P. J. Lavin, of the Police Department, who to gether with Captain John Mahoney, Offi cers Thomas Sheehan, Guy Biddinger, John Howe, and Thomas Kane immediately started to find the guilty party. On May 8, 1905, on information obtained by the police, Charles Gilhooley, Marcus Looney, and Edward Feeley were arrested and locked up at the Thirty-fifth Street Station. On May i3th, just one month after the assault upon Carlstrom, Henry Newman, George Miller, and Charles Casey were arrested and taken to the Harrison Street Police Station. Within ten minutes after

his incarceration Henry Newman, Financial Secretary of Local No. 4, asked to see In spector Lavin, which permission was granted him, and to the inspector in the presence of Mr. Meckel, Attorney Louis Heile, of the Manufacturers' Association, Officers Sheehan and Biddinger, he told in substance the following story: "On the afternoon of April 7, 1905, Charles Casey, business agent of Union Local No. 4, was standing at Twen tieth Street and Wabash Avenue where a strike was in progress in connection with the Woods Motor Vehicle Company, when he was approached by Charles Gilhooley and Marcus Looney, who said that they wanted work, that they had done work for the Woodworkers' Union, and that they knew that Casey and other members of the Carriage and Wagonmakers' Union Local No. 4 were known to the manufacturers and that they would be arrested for making any assaults or interfering with the men at work, while they (Gilhooley and Looney) could whip a man and get away and not be caught. Casey replied that he had no power to hire the men, but that if they would report at union headquarters on that night he would take the matter up with the ex ecutive committee and see what could be done. On that night Casey and I ( Newman) attended the executive-committee meeting of Local No. 4, where were present George Meller, president of the union, Edward Shields, secretary of the executive commit tee, Charles Deusch, George Mullen, John Heiden, and Frank Novak, members of the executive committee. Casey there re ported that he had a committee outside who were willing to do some slugging for the union, that they had done some work for the Woodworkers and could do as much for them. A motion was then made, seconded, and carried, to appropriate 850 to pay the committee for its work and a. list of eight names was made out of the men the committee were to get, the first name on the list being that of Carlstrom. After the executive committee had appropriated