A Case Of Habeas Corpus

During a charge! of the tronps yesterday strikers were dnven into Odd Fellows' ball and loeked in. Wheu the charge was over tho men demanded fco be roloased, but tho doors of the building were kept locked and the men kept in eonfinemont fer several hours. A writ oí hubeas corpus was imniediately applied (or and made returnable at 3 p. m. Beforo the time arrived when General McLeer was to make an auswer in the supreme court before Judge Gaynor tho men were released, and the writ was randered inoperative by this manoeuvre. When the case was cal led at 4 o'clock u statement was read on behalf of General McLeer in svhich a denial was made oí the allegation that he had locked up the 'M) men or had ordered thab thcy be locked up; lurther itwas snid upon learning of the imprisonment of the men he had orriered thoir iinmediate release, wiiich or der had been compliod with, and that the men hail thuruupun departed to their Several homes. Upon this explanation Judge Gaynor dismissed the proceodings. The man (not loy) Ahnes who was shot by the troops Tuesday is dead. His wife called at the hospital only to llnd his corpse. Another man was shotyesterday so badly that his life is in danger. As a oompany of the Twenty-third regiment was escorting a Hicks street car Thomas Kearney is said to have thrown a number nf bricks at it from a roof. Some of tho Holdiers were hit by the missiles and one of their number took delibérate alm and shot Kearney in tho side. Kearney was at work on the root at the time and was ftttrackxl to the edge by the excitement of the erowd below in oonseqaenoe of the passage of the lirst iar through Hicks street. Kearney denios throwing anything. There were a larger number of alleged rioters arrested than probably on any prevlous day ot Che strike, and tho soldiers were becoming more vigorous in the use of their anns, the result belng quite a list of people who havo been olubbed with musksts and bayonetted for refuslngto "move on" when ordered. There were also a number of accidente on the llnes resultIng elthèr f rom ínejtporience or nervousneijs on the part of the new motormen. Fifty-uiiu! cars In all were run out of thu Kast New York depot, thirty on the Kulton street and twenty-nine on the Kroadw.iy icutes. At. ti o'clock in tho evening as the cara began to come in they were held in the depot for the night. Quietnesa prefailed at Kklgewood at 7 p. m. The car.; hud at that time stopped running. About 7 o'clock last eyehlng men of the Seventy-flrst regiment had a breeze with a mob of 150 men who had suuished tho Windows of cars of the Ralph Avenue line at Kalph avenue and Stimpter street. Colonol Green, of the Seventy-iirst, lxaring the rampas, telephoned to Captain Keek, who was stationed ncar the disturbanoe, and the latter with twanty men hurried to the spot and jabbed and butted the crowd away, so that tho cars resumed their way, acporapanled by tho troops. On the return trip a crowd was at the place of the previous trouble but another detachment clearud the way. At Ridgewood last night William WendHnt, P. J. Mackoy, .7. Martin anj Fredericfe Ivrieg. special polioumen, walked intothe Bashwick avenue company'a office and surrendoring their ■bielde refused to work ,-my langer.