The record-union., 1896-06-11
HARVARD STUDENTS
START 4 RIOT.
College Boys Have a Conflict With Cam
bridge Policemen.
The Result of Exuberance Over a
Baseball Victory.
Several of the Students Receive Sc
we're Bruises i'm the Fight Which
Followed the Arrest of One OF
Their Number and Several Officers
Are Nursing Severe Wounds.

BOSTON. June 10.-A riot took place
In Harvard Square tonight, and as a
result several Harvard students have
severe bruises and several of the Cam
bridge policemen are nursing wounds
1t all happened as a result of the stu
dents exuberance over the victory the
Harvard Baseball Club secured al
Princeton. Three students were locked
Up, and one was SO badly cut about the
head that a physician was summoned
t. the Police Station. Twelve stitches
were taken in the wound. He is Arthur
Il. Pilling, a sophomore. The other two
students are Goldthwait H. Darr, a
junior, and Clay Briggs, special student
Patrolmen Corcoran, Murray, McEl-
roy and Dynan were roughly handled
and the coat of the first-named was
stripped from his back. The others were
struck in the face with fists and sticks
This all occurred after the officers had
attempted to arrest Briggs on the
charge of discharging firearms on the
street.
Early in the evening the news was
received of PrincetOn's defeat, and hum
dreds of students were standing around
the crimson Office awaiting the news.
Immediately upon its receipt wild
cheer arose. and the students in their
joy threw their hats in the air and gave
the college yell many times. Chief
Cloyes had many policemen on duty at
Harvard Square and vicinity. Fire
crackers and other fireworks were ex-
ploded. but there appeared no concerted
action agreed upon until one student
shouted that there would be a parade.
Chief GLOVES cried at the top of his
voice for the students to enter the col
aege yard. Absolutely no heed was paid
to the warning, and through sheer force
OF numbers the parade was formed and
the men began to march down Massa-
chusetts avenue to Putnam Square.
Fifteen abreast they marched and there
Were fully 1000 of them, headed by
students playing on horns, comets and
drums.
Constantly the noise of firearms
could be heard, but the police were I'M
able to detect who had the revolvers.
The students returned to Harvard
square without incident, where the
yelling was continued. Then the parade
started again, but in an instant all
was uproar. Patrolmen Corcoran and
charging a revolver, and they made a
grab for it. Briggs fought with all his
might to retain the revolver, but it
was wrested from him, and the two pa
trolmen started with him to Station
no. /, about 900 feet distant
With cries and yells the students
and the other persons in the parade
rushed for the officers, while other po-
licemen fought their way through the
crowd to their brother officers rescue.
When the arrest of Briggs became gen.
orally known about 300 of the students
formed themselves into a veritable foot
ball wedge and ran down Brattle street
at a tremendous rate. Officers Stevens
and Corcoran had hold of Briggs by
either arm, while Officers McElroy and
Murray were in advance attempting to
open a path, and the other officers Were
acting as a body guard
When in Brattle square Student Darr
with his clenched fist struck Patrol
man McElroy a terrible blow in the
face. He was grabbed by other Off
GERS, and then the crowd became even
more frenZied than before. Darr was
hustled along the street, and the two
officers We're surrounded by a hun
dred students, and in an instant they
were upon the ground, and hundreds
of persons were apparently on top of
them. The officers were kicked and
pounded, their clothes torn and their
faces scratched, but they hung to Darr,