The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-17
A RIOT IN WALLINGFORD
LAW AND ORDER MEN ATTA CKED
 WHILE MAKING 4 RAID.
Mob of n Thousand People Stone Them and Besiege Them in n Barn Compelled to Run Gauntlet for Half Mile-Attempt to Call Out the Militia -Ringleaders Known and Governor Will be Asked to Act.

Mile-Attempt to Call out the Militia
 -RingIeaders Known and Governor
 Will be Asked to Act.
 The serenity of the usually quiet lit- tie borough of Wallingford was yester- day forenoon disturbed by full-fiedg- ed Sunday riot, said to be the only af- fair of the kind that has ever occurred iI Connecticut. Between 500 and 1000 people participated and all the disturb ance occurred over a raid made by Law and Order league officers from this city. Certain Wallingford people say that the officers were mobbed because the townspeople were indignant that New { Haven men should make raid in Wal lingford, while the Law and Order men say that the mob was composed almost entirely of drinking men who want to patronize Sunday saloons are in the habit of doing so, and took offense at the raid, knowing the local officers could do nothing and thinking that the Sunday business would continue un- molested.
 Secretary Thrasher of the Law and Order league stated last night that for months citizens of Wallingford have been complaining of Sunday law viola tions in that borough. Some time ago number of these citizens held meet ing and appointed committee from their own number interested in the well fare of the borough to see that the Sunday liquor law was enforced. A member of this committee called on Mr. Thrasher about four weeks ago and re- quested him to act in regard to the matter agreeing to furnish the money to meet necessary expenses. It may be remarked here that MT. Thrasher stat ed last night that Law and Order league detectives never go into any town in the state to make raids except at the written request of citizens or officials of the town. MT. Thrasher states that in addition to the request from a member of the citizens com mittee, he also received at least two appeals from officials, who said that the local authorities couldn't act be- cause they were so closely watched by the law breakers
 Acting on these requests, MT. Thrash CT sent men to Wallingford and they found the condition there even worse than represented as to violation of the Sunday law. The situation was re- ported to the interested Wallingford citizens and they requested that war rants be issued and warrants made. The matter was laid before Dwight W. Futile, prosecuting agent for the Wallingford district who made out | complaints and presented them to Judgs Judd of the borough court. Warrants for search and seizure were duly issued by Judge Judd and placed in the hands of Agent McClaire of the Law and Or der league. He. with the assistance of Deputy Sheriff Beach of North Haven took charge of the raiding party, which consisted of seven men besides McClaire and Beach.
 1 Yesterday morning the raiding party left New Haven about o'clock in two double seated wagons and Deputy Sheriff Beach's light wagon. They ar rived in Wallingford about clock, in tending to raid three places. After arr irving in the borough they saw evidence that the tip had been given to two of the places, where a warning had been i SIN Vll III llIIIc LO ScI CuSlOlucTS OuL OlN i the place before the officers arrived. In the opinion of the officers sufficient traces were found of business having 1 been done to warrant arrests.
 At the third place visited, Rogers ] saloon, at the corner of Center and Colony streets, a regular Sunday tenn porary bar was found in full blast in a back cellar and Bartender Doody serv- i ing out drinks to six men. All the men l found in the cellar were placed under arrest and one of the Law and Order league men went to get Judge Judd to take bonds for the appearance of the ! prisoners. The judge went down to the i cellar and placed each one of the ar rested men under $25 bonds to appear l before him tomorrow morning at 10 1 o'clock This occasioned considerable delay. The taking of bonds having been completed, the raiding party start- ed to leave the place and found it sur rounded by a mob, estimated by one of the Law and Order league men to number 1,500, but which really consisted | of 700 or 800 persons. The crowd was 1 angry and some one attacked one of | the Law and Order league men who was in charge of one of the wagons | The assailant grabbed whip from the
 wagon and with the butt of the whip
 struck the detective on the head, then ! stepped back and began to stone him,
 assisted by dozens of others In self
 defense the man in the wagon drew a
 revolver and the crowd then drew back
 The mob then started to get into the
 cellar, where the rest of the detectives | were with their prisoners. A plank | was secured and one of the doors was rammed through. But in the meantime
 the detectives had slipped out of the
 cellar and into a stable owned by Dep
 uty Sheriff Booth, where they closed
 the doors and barricaded them. Depu-
 ty Sheriff Booth attempted to quell the
 disturbance and urged the mob to dis
 perse, it having by this time surround
 ed the stable. The mob stayed, how ever, and began to Lombard the stable l with stones and tried to break in. Dep uty Sheriff Booth then got out book
 and read the riot act to the mob, com-
 manding it to disperse. The mob only
 hurled the more insulting epithets at him and then the deputy sheriff tried to call out the militia. He managed to
 send a messenger to a telephone with i fo 11rfre Sovarn0r CooLra fof.