Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-28
A RIOT At The HUB.
Italians Try to- Rescue a
Countryman.
BRICKS ARE FREELY USED.
Police Officers and Citizens Require
the Services of Surgeons.


Ne riot yesterday afternoon. Three cti-
xens were severely cut while Assisting
officers, three slans nad th, ir heads cut
by the officers clubs, and score of per-
sons were more or less battered One
Italian is under arrest for assault with a
knife and two fIr attempted rescue of
prisoner.
Frank Saggese, big, burly Italian, who
is we'll known to the police of the first
precinct, got on a spree yesterday and at
tempted, so the police say, to kick up
disturbance at the corner Of North and
Richmond streets. Pstrolman Look hap
pened along and attempted to arrest him.
He started in TO give the officer battle,
and Raphael Scarm LA aud Manuel For
ciette rushed To the assistance Of their
countryman.
A hot fight ensued, but Patroman Look
clung TO Saggese and called upon a
passer-by for assistance. This passer-by
proved TO be an eX-Oilic'r of the Cam
bridge Jail. He start d N TO help Patrol
man Look, as did also James Wright, the
propr etor f n furniture store near by,
and then there was "A lively time
Five Hundred In the Mob.
A mob of over 500 persons soon gathered,
and sticks, stones and bricks were hurled
at Patro man Look aud his assistants by
the infuriated Italians
A citizen ran TO station and told Cap
tain Cain of the trouble. and that officer
dispatched Sergean mt Rosetti and a half
dozen of patrolmen to the scene. Drs.
Elliott and Dunn were al so summoned to
the station house TO dress the wounds Of
the injured.
When the patrol wagon reached the
scene the infuriated Italians attempted TO
stop il, and the policemen were obliged to
Jump over the heads of the crowd to get to
the assistance of PatroIman Look, who
was being driven back by the mob, but
who still refused to release his hold on
Saggese.
There were more than a thousand pres
ent on the scene by this time, and the en-
ragged Italians were calling upon each
other to kill the policemen.
The latter used their clubs effectively,
and, after ten minutes hard fighting, sub
dued the mob sufficiently TO be able to
take Ssggese, Selrmela, Forciette and
Dominica Alfonzo into custody.
Doctors Were Busy.
The men were taken to the station
house and two hours were occupied by
Drs. Elliott and Dunn in dressing the
wounds of the injured
Ex-Oflicer FairEan fired the worse, he
getting bad cut just below the right hip,
which nece,sitated three or four stitches.
The wound is alleged to have been in
ficted by Alfonzo.
Dennis Sullivan and John Heury were
also among tn ,se who rushed to the AS
sistance of the Officers and they were
badly beaten by the Italians, who drove
them down North street at the points of
their knives. Sullivan sustained bad
cut on his neck, as well rs an injury to
his leg.
James Wright also received bad cut
in the neck, and the four prisoners, all Of
whom had scalp wounds, resulting from
their heads coming in contact with the
policemen's clubs, had their wounds
dressed.
wouidn't Give Up.
During the storm of missiles that were
hurled at Patrolman Lo k, he never once
released his hod on his prisoner, and he
never once drew is revolver. An eye
witness of the affair said last night that he
would have been justified if he had used
that weapon.
Patroman Looks uniform was badly
torn during the riot, aud he was also
badly scratched aud bruised, and it may
be few days before he will report for
duty again.
Saggese ~ well known in the Italian
quarters a pretty tough customer and
the police s,a that this l. not the first
time he has given them trouble He Is -
years old, aud weighs nearly POO pounds,
and is big, strong fellow. Saggese, so
the police say, was the ilstigator and
leader Of the hg rio. by Italian laborers in
| Framingham several years ago.