The sun., 1895-02-06
THE POLICE WAKING UP.
TWELVE STRIKERS ARREsTED m
THREE MEN nv ONE ROW.

A Cross-town Carl Held UP il Greenpo,nt
and the Mob Tried 20 Xiii the Special
Policeman Boys Arrested stonirg Cars
Say They Were Paid 10 DO It-soms
Other Vioience-More Accidents Than on
ANY Dny Yet-Two Funeral Parties
St-uct by Trolley Cars Judge Gsynor's
Letter 20 the state Hoard or Arbitrn.
tior Twelve Policemen Arc Dismissed.
The trolley car strikers In Brooklyn rested
yesterday until afternoon. The city had had
\ ght made disgracefu by violence. In a dozen
places, between dark on Monday and daylight
yesterday. scenes were enacted any one OF
which. IL IL occurred Mt time when the public
mind was not duled by constant repetition of
lawless acts, would raise camor which would
frighten the authorities. Indeed IL appeared
from the Incomplete reports the police received
that Bobby Connell's explanation of his own
wickcdnes was literally true.
Robbie is a ten-year-old urchn who had been
picked UP for throwing stones at car. He was
in tears when he appeared before the Judge in
court. When the Judge demanded sternly.
" What did you do IL for ?" Bobby blubbered,
Please sir, trowed stones cause every body
else trowin' stones"
The Judge discharged him and fined the next
prisoner, who was non-union motorman, SO
for carrying revolver
ne sympathy WnlCn some people IN brooklyn
have with this sort of thing can hardly be
shown better than by telling the story of the
case of William Bogenschntz. Bogenschntz
has been out OF work for some time. He boards
with his aunt, Mrs. Frances Cornell,
at 81 Commercial street, Greenpoint and
John Dugan and Bernard Hapin are
two other boarders there. Late Monday
night all the boarders were assembled In
the parlor. and somebody started the
81, .olIa all
said in a joking manner not meaning what he
said, that he guessed he'd get job as motor
man. Dugan and Halpin not railroad men
and had no personal interest in the strike, yet
the suggestion so angered them that they left
the room in high state of Indignation, and, a
few minutes afterward, when Bogenschrtz
went out, he was set upon and beaten into in
sensibilty with soda water bottles. He cried
out before he fell unconscious, and his cry was
heard by his aunt. When she ran to his as
sistance she was assaulted and her eye black
ened The police got Ialpin and Dugan, and
the appeared so plain to the Judge before
whom they arragned that he held them in
$500 bail.
1t may not be sympathy with the strikers alto
gether that brings about such occurrences as
this. 1t may be hatred of the railroad corpora
tions, which is unquestionably very general. but
the result to the beaten victims is just the same.
RIOT IN GREENPoINT.
The violence which occurred yesterday began
late in the afternoon. The first case, one of the
most brutal of the whole strike. well as being
the first occurrence in week in which the po-
lice have done credit to themselves, happened
at briggs and Leonard streets. About $50
o'clock in the afternoon car LOB of the Flush
ing avenue line of the Brooklyn Heights Com
pany, loaded with passengers, stopped at the
corner to let off a woman. About fifteen
minutes before this "a gang of men had gathered
Just around the corner. They were strikers and
were bent upon mischief. The car in charge
OF Special Policeman Theodore Binder. He was
on the front platform with the mOtorman, who
had been working for the company about two
weeks. When the car reached the corner the
crowd numbered about fifteen lust as it came to
a stop half dozen pieces Of iron were thrown
Iy men in the gang and many windows
were broken. The passengers We're expecting
nothing. The iron crashed through the glass
and hit some OF them. The women screamed
and the men leaped for the door to escape.
Binder is man of nerve. When the voley of
iron was thrown he had seen one of the men in
the crowd with his hand uplifted in the act OF
throwing. He unlocked the gate. made a dash
for this man, and got him by the neck: but be-
fore he could do anything he was seized by the
mob and thrown down. He called for help, and
the gang yelled XIII him. damn him. kill
him." The passengers who had been in the
were all out by this time. and We're flying up
the street, many screaming at the top of their
lungs.
The houses along the street seemed to be filled
with people who sympathized with the mob
Windows were thrown up, and people yelled
from them encouragement to the mob women
and men alike. Binder pinned down by the
mob. Some of the men in it had clubs the size
and shape of the night sticks the policemen
carry. They beat him with these whenever
they could get crack at him. The crowd had
In creased to more than seventy-tve, but the
first twelve were still the active ones in it.
Policeman Behlin of the Seventh precinct was
two blocks down the street. He was in citizens
dress. He heard the yells, saw the mob and the
surrounding crowd, and ran to the spot as fast
as he could. Binder still on the ground. and
the men with the clubs were hitting him. Behlin
shouted at them and pulled his pistol. A part of
the crowd made for him. and he pointed at them
and fired three shots. He must have hit some OF
them, though not man fell. Some in the front
ranks turned and fled, but the greater part of
the crowd rushed at him. He dubbed his revol-
Yer and sailed into the fight.
The moments diversion enabled Binder to get
to his feet. and he began to use his club. The
crowd was around him close that he could
not draw his revolver. The three shots were
neard by Policeman Bdow. VINO was on post
where the row was going on ana ne rushed up
valiantly. The mob fought back with despera-
ton. but the long night sticks of the policemen
tight lasted about three minutes. When it
was over all but nine had fed. -Four Of these
nine were lying in the gutter, knocked out by
the clubs OF the policemen. and the other five
were too much used up TO make a very spirited
the Grsenpont s station. NM The motorinan and
conductor OF the car had fled with the passen-
gers and before Behlin had arrived TO assist
Binder those of the mob not engaged in at,
tempting to kill the special officer had smashed
every window, and done all the damage they
possibly could.
Inspector McKelvey is in charge of the Green
point station during the illness OF Capt; Rhodes.
and when the policemen got in with their pris-
oners and he heard their story he compimented
the men on their courage and made up his mind
TO capture the rest of the gang II it was posi-
BILE thing. Although Binder was all over
from tho beating he had got, he volunteered,
camp of the strikers and try 10 pick out men |