The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-05
TRAGEDIES ON THE DAY
Many Murders Mar independence
Day Festivities.
A BLOODY RIOT IN EAST BOSTON

An American Protective Association EN-
blem Leads to the Killing of One Man
and Serious Injuries to Several Others.
The Days Tragedies in Other Sections.
Boston, July 5.-The Fourth of July
parade of the patriotic societies of Boston
and vicinity, at East Boston Yesterday
afternoon, ended in a pitched battle be-
tween some of the paraders aud the spec
%tators, in which sticks, stones and re-
volvers were used with fatal effect. John
w. Wills, a laborer of East Boston, one
OF the spectators, was shot and instantly
killed; Michael Doyle, of East Boston, had
MS head split open by a club, INT now lies
dying at the city hospital; a young man
named Stewart had his nose cut off with
q saber in the hands of one the paraders;
Patrick Kelly sustained a severe scalp
wound, whether from a club or a bullet is
not known, and o hicer A. S. Bates was
hit In the mouth by a brick and lost sew
ernl teeth, besides suffering from severe
decorations.
1t is claimed that the trouble all resulted
from the persistence of those who managed
the parade in introducing as a feature a
float presenting "The Little Red School
House. which from its association as the
emblem of the American Protective asso-
citation has become obnoxious to many
persons, especially those who do not sym
pathize with the A. p. A. movement. The
Fourth of July committee refused to per-
NIT this feature to appear in the parade,
and those desiring to prevent it tried to
have an order passed by the board of al
dermen, but failed.
So great was the interest excited by this
controversy and the expressed determine
ton of the paraders to display the school
house that fully 10000 visitors gathered at
East Boston. The police officials in an
%ticipation of any hostile demonstration
had a special squad of $50 men, in addition
TO the East Boston force, on duty, but
they marched at the head of the process
sion. At several points the feeling of the
crowd was given vent in Kisses at the
/ ,500 paraders and the school house, but
no further demonstration was made until
the rear of the parade had reached Put
mum street, when the crowd tried to over
turn the last carriage.
Word was sent TO the front for police
assistance, and a squad of twenty officers
were sent back. Askirmish followed be-
tween the crowd and the officers, and
Michael Doyle received a fractured skull.
A man named Stewart, of Brooks street,
had his nose cut off by a saber in the
hands of Albert E. Andrews, of Everett,
a private in the Rosebury Horse GUARDS,
who went to the assistance of the occu-
pants in the carriage. By this incident
the feeling of the crowd was intensified,
and when the parade broke up and those
who had participated were proceeding in
companies to the ferry, in order to reach
the city proper, q group of between sixty
and seventy was surrounded on Border
street by a crowd, who commenced boot
ing and throwing stones.
A dozen revolvers were drawn, and in
response to a fusillade of stones eight or
nine shots were fired. The firing of the
revolvers brought a large body of police to
the spot and the mob was soon dispersed.
When the street was cleared the officers
found John Wills dead in the street, with
a bullet hole in his right side, and Pat
rick A. Kelly lying seriously wounded
about the head. 1t was learned later that
several other persons had been slightly
injured, all of whom were taken away by
their friends.
The police arrested Harold Brown and
John Ross as the principals who did the
shooting. 1t is claimed by six witnesses
that Brown did the shooting which killed
Wills and wounded Kelly. Wills, the
murdered man, leaves a widow and six
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