The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-23
STUDENTS FOUGHT POLICE. DISGRACEFUL SCENES AT TEE BIG
 FIRE LAST NIGHT.

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 Students Cut Fire Ropes and Interfered
 With Police-Three Yalensians Arrested
 PatrOllnan Ahearn Injured = Several
 Thieves Arrest d.
 The students at Yale made them selves conspicuous by their presence at the fire last evening. and as a result of their freshness" three were compelled to spend a portion of the night in the lookup at police headquarters, and more ought to have been. The three who were arrested gave the names of Har- old Johnson, Arthur W. Ewell and Alexander Middleton. All the names are believed to be fictitious. The first two are charged with interfering with officers and were arrested by Officers Flynn and Cooney, and Middleton, who is charged with obstructing the side- walk, was taken in charge by Officer Grant.
 At the fire the students acted in most disgraceful manner, and inter- fered with the patrolmen and firemeu in every conceivable way. There were several hundred students at the scene and they completely surrounded the apparatus so that at times it was ab- solutely impossible for the firemen to get near the engines, etc. This state of affairs continued for several minutes and 1t was only by the united efforts of the squad of, police that the students could be forced back.
 After the place had been cleared an attempt was made to stretch the fire lines, but as fast az line was stretched some students would cut the rope. and the whole crowd be in again on top of the hard working firemen. Not content with cutting the ropes they fought the officers and stubbornly resisted all eff forts to put them back. They also smashed two plate glass windows in one of the neighboring stores.
 At this point in the proceedings Off f1cers Cooney and Flynn singled out one of the ring leaders and attempted to place him under arrest. He resisted, and through the interference of friends succeeded in making his escfpe, but not, it Is said until he had received two slight Hove taps" on the head from from the end of patrolman's stick. Johnson and Ewell, who were also ring leaders, were arrested and locked up.
 While the crowd of students were fighting the patrolmen Officer Michael Ahearn received an injury which will probably lay him up for several weeks. One of the unru1y students pushed against Ahearn, causing him to step suddenly backward, snapping a tendon in his right thigh. He was immediate- ly sent to police headquarters and Dr. L. J. Gaynor summoned. H. ordered Ahearn. who by this time was unable to walk, to be sent home and he was sent there in hack.
 Later in the evening all three students were released under bonds of $100 each. When Ewell and Johnson were arrest- ed crowd of students followed them to police headquarters and congregated upon the sidewalk and in the building. Superintendent Smith instructed Offl- cer Grant to clear the building and side- walk, and while he was doing so Midi dleton refused to move on, and com signed the officer to a warmer place than New Haven was last night. He was arrested and locked up, charged with obstructing the sidewalk. The police also arrested three clothing theieves yesterday. Charles Carroll stole new suit of clothes from his roommate, James Coyle, and was arr rested by Officer Hyde. Walter Wilroy, who is well known to the police, stole 8 new overcoat from in front of the store of A. IT. Sizer < Co, and was arrested with the coat in his possession by Off1- cer Grant. Wiroy denied the theft and said he had bought the coat, but in one of the pockets was found the tag which had been torn off the overcoats and he, too, was locked up.
 Later in the day Officer Grant gath cred in Henry Reuter-, and he was locked up, charged with theft He went on board the brig Pearl" lying al Long wharf, and stole a new suit of clothes valued at $16 from John Christensen, who Is employed on the boat. All three will be arraigned in the city court this morning.