The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-04
First Row Started by Little Black
Boy Who struck a Man on the
Neck with an Apple Core.
NEGREss, HATPIN AND RAZOR
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SECOND OUT
BREAK OF THE AFTERNOON.
Crowd Wanted to Lynch the Woman,
and Also Tried to Mob Her
Husband Later.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-An apple core
thrown by a colored boy which struck
William Kohles, a white man, caused
small riot between whites and blacks I'm
West Forty-eighth street this afternoon
which was quickly quelled by force OF
patrolmen. Kohles is vender. This after
noon he was driving through Forty-eighth
street when he passed crowd of small
colored boys and was struck in the back
of the neck with the core of an apple. The
man was stabbed in the neck week prev
ious by a colored man, the cut requiring
several stitches. The vender became very
angry at the boy and after catching him
slapped his face number of times. A col
ored man finally struck the vender in the
face. knocking him down. The exchange
of blows attracted a crowd and threats
were made against the colored population.
1t is alleged Kohles drew a revolver and
threatened to shoot the first colored man in
sight. The coored boy entered the resi-
dence of Charles Brooks, colored. This at
tracted the mob to the building. Brooks.
who had been i'll with typhoid fever. was
taken to the police station despite the
pleading of his wife. who explained that he
had been i'll and that a relapse might fol-
low. He was afterwards released.
In the meantime William II. Petilo, COL
ored. and his daughter, Ruth, seven years
old. were passing through Forty-seventh
street when a crowd of white men started
after them. The little girl ran away and
escaped. Her father and two other negroes
ran into the saloon of Lee Springle, near
by. The crowd started to follow the col
ored men when Springle drew his revolver
and threatened to kill the first white man
who entered. He stood in the doorway and
defied the crowd. A policeman finally dis
persed the crowd.
About the same hour that this occurred a
colored woman, armed with a hat pin and
a razor nearly caused another race riot on
Ninth avenue. She was taken in charge by
a policeman and followed 10 the West
Thirty-seventh-street station by a crowd
of three hundred men and boys who wanted
to lynch her. A man who said he was
Michael Grannin. was standing at Thirty
ninth street and Ninth avenue when the
woman approached him. They exchanged a
few words and the woman attempted To
stab Grannin with hat pin. GrannIn sue
ceeded in dodging. Then the woman drew
Finally policeman caught the woman and
secured possession of the razor. Before he
reached the station house the crowd had
increased. and there were cries of Lynch
her" a half dozen policemen finally
rushed up and kept the mob at distance.
After the woman had been taken in the
police station her husband appeared on the
scene. Threats were made 10 lynch him
also. but a large number of policemen
finally succeeded in driving the mob away
row in which only colored people be-
came involved. started this afternoon in
a fiat house on West Sixty-third street. AS
a result Charles Daniels, coiored. the jani-
tor of the apartment house. is dying at the
hospital He was shot by Benjamin Car
ter. twenty-eight years old. also colored
janitor. Carter has also been arrested. The
cause OF the trouble Is not known. but Il is
said that Daniels and several coIored men
endeavored 10 enter the fat despite the
protests OF the residents therein.