Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-06
RIOT At BOSTON.
Sticks. Stones and RevoIyers Used-One Man
Killed and Many Hurt.

this vicinity.
On account of the bad blood stirred up
by the parade, one man lost his life, an
other lies at the city hospital unconscious
and several others were painfully though
not seriously injured. -.
The Eame Of the man who lost MS me
is John w Wills, and he lived on Web
ster avenue, East Boston.
John Ross and Harold G. Brown arc
held as prisoners, charged with firing tho
shots that killed Wills.
The killing of Wills did not happen TILL
after the parade was finished and the par
Elephants had been dismissed.
Michael Doyle had his head split open By
a club and now lies at the city hospital;
a Young man named Stewart had his nose
cut off with a saber in the hands of one OF
the paraders; Patrick Kelly sustained a
severe scalp wound, whether from CLUB
or bullet is not known, and Officer a. 3
Bates was hit in the mouth by brick
thrown by an unknown person ana LOST
several teeth besides suffering from severe
decorations.
1t Is claimed that the trouble resulted
from the persistence of those VINO man
aged the parade in introducing as feature
a float representing 1.-THE Little Red School
House." which, from its association as the
emblem of the American Protective asso-
Citation, has become obnoxious to those
who do not sympathize with the A. p. A.
movement. The Fourth of July COM
mittee refused to permit this feature to
appear in the parade, and those desiring
to present it tried to have an order passed
by the board of aldermen, but failed. s..
Thirty Thousand Loo}ers-On. 80.
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 special squad of $50 men, under the
direction of Deputy Superintendent Pierce
and Captain Irish in addition to the East
Boston force, on duty, but they marched
at the head of the procession.
At several points the feeling of the
crowd was given vent in misses at the
1900 paradcrs and the schoolhouse,
but no further demonstration was
made until the rear of the parade had
reached Putnam street, when the crowd
tried to overturn the last carriage. Word
was sent to the front for police assistance,
and squad of 20 officers was sent back.
A skirmish followed between the crowd
and the officers, and Michael Doyle re-
ceived fractured skull. He was taken to
the city hospital A man named Stewart
had his nose cut off by saber in the
hands of Albert e. Andrews, private il
the Roxbury Horse Guards, who was in
full uniform and who went to the assist
ance of the occupants in the carriage.
Killing of Wills.
The feeling of the crowd was intensified
by this incident, and when the parade
broke up and those who had participated
were proceeding in companies to the ferry
in order to reach the city, a group of be-
tween 60 and 20 persons were surrounded
on Border street by a crowd, who COM
mcnced hooting and throwing stones.
1t is said that number of the paraders
became frightened and a dozen revolvers
were drawn, and in response to the fusi-
lade of stones eight or nine shots were
fred. The firing of the revolvers brought
large body of police to the spot, and the
mob was soon dispersed. The officers
found John Wills dead in the street with
bullet hole in his right side and Patrick
A. Kelly lying seriously wounded about
the head. 1t was learned later that sew
eral other persons had been slightly in
jured, all of whom We're taken away by
their friends.
The police arrested Harold Brown and
John Ross as the principals who, it is
alleged, did the shooting 1t is claimed
by six witnesses who were taken to the
station house that Brown did the shooting
which killed Wells and wounded Kelly
Ross is said to have injured several others,
who were taken away by their friends
Willis, the murdered man, was laborer
by occupation, and leaves widow and
six children. Kelly is single man.
There is much deep feeling over the affair
throughout the city.
| Deputy Superintendent of Police Pierce
who had charge of the police escort at the
| parade, said: ''The trouble on Border
street happened half a mile from the pa
rade. 1t had nothing to do with it at all
| The procession itself was we'll protected
and nothing occurred inside the police
| line 1t was an entirely different affair
| down there"
John Ross and Harold G. Brown, I'M
der arrest for alleged killing of John M
Willis, were arraigned in the East Boston
district court, today, charged with murder
Their cases were continued and they were
held without bail.
Michael Doyle who was dubbed on the
head in the riot at East Boston, yesterday
passed comfortable night at the City
hospital. His skull is slightly fractured.
but he seems 10 be doing we'll
| The second race in the series for the in
ternational challenge cup OF the New York
Canoe Club was sailed at Bath Beach, L.