New-York tribune., 1900-08-27
MORE ATTACKSO ON NEGROEs
SHOOTING OF A MESSENGER BOY
AROUsEs TOUGHs TO LAWLEsS-
- NEsS-POLICE PREVENT
SERIOUS TROUBLE.
SERIOUS TROUBLE.


John Davis. alias "LampIIghter." a nepr,
shot John Brennan. +wenty years old. a white
messenger boy In the abdomen in front OF No
BOB West sixty-second-st.. at II 30 O'Clock Sat
urday night. The negro escaped. Brennan wa,
taken TO Roosevelt Hospital and DR.. Brewer
the visiting physician. yesterday performed the
operation OF removing the bullet from the young
mans stomach. Brennan's condition is critical
Directly traceable 20 this shooting were a NUM-
ber Of race fights which broke out YESTERDAY
near the place where the boy shot Several
Of them gave promise Of serious trouble but ths
police suppressed them. A number on arregts
were made.
Early yesterday morning James Arnold a
negro. ffty-hve years Old OF No. 30 West
Sixty-fourth-st.. was passing slxty-fourth-st
and AmsteFdam-ave. when a gang OF white men
attacked him. XIII the black nlggerr' one of
the men shouted. Another declared the negro
was the fugitive "LampIighter' and nothing
more was needed to excite the gang 70 a hleh
pitch. They beat Arnold shamefuIly A police
finally arrived and drove the crowd away
Arnold seemed as much afraid Of the policeman
as Of the mob. and declined 10 wait FOR An
ambulance. An hour later he appeared AZ
Roosevelt Hospital. where a surgeon put N
half hour dressing his wounds Then he
went home.
a
Balentine. colored. thlrty-two years old OF No
21S West Sixty-second-st.. as he passed An
sterdam-ave. at sixty-second-st. He. too was
badly beaten. and was sent TO Roosevelt Hos
pital. In neither case were arrests made
At 9:30 a. m. Frank McPyke, twenty-one years
old. OF No. 23S West sixtieth-st gathered
gang OF white toughs and proceeded 70 the five
story negro tenement house at No. 24T West
sIxtieth-st. to clean the joint out" as McPyk.
boldly admitted later. They had about de-
molished all the windows ana incidentally
cracked head OF two when the police swooped
down on them. McPyke was arrested He
boasted that he was de leader OF de gang" and
said that even II he did not get back from d
island for six months" he proposed to do hk
share in annihiIating the negro population Of
New-York- "Aint got no love for niggers. and
no white man what's white has" was his way
OF describing his sentiments.
A couple Of hours later the police arrested an
other member Of McPyke's gang. He proved n
be Henry Schubel twenty years old. OF No so
West Fifty-sixth-st. He. too. boasted OF what
he had done. McPyke and SchubeI were as
sured by their friends that they would be bailed
out quickly. and moreover that II was too close
to election for any Magistrate TO send them
up" John H. Pierson. the negro janitor Of ths
tenement house. made complaints against both
men. He Immediately went into hiding. assured
by score OF whites that vengeance would b
wreaked on him IL he remained there. tn
thought he will move.
At 1:3O o'clock in the afternoon Joseph Doyle,
eighteen years DID, OF No. 2OT West Sixty
second-st, filed his hat with stones and took
his stand at Fifty-ninth-st- and EIeyenth-ave.
Ito do a few coons' as they passed He had
done" two by irficting scalp wounds when
Policeman Thomas Brady arrested him and
fO Fha afe-p,sy
tion. He was charged with disorderIy conduct
Policeman John J. CIeary arrested William
| Hopson. colored. twenty five years old, Of No
70 West Sixtieth-st., at Fifty-ninth-st. and
Eleventh-ave. Cleary says HOpsOn declined
move and got sassy" He was promptly
arrested. He fought the policeman. so Cleary
says, and the latter used his locust. He IL
dertook TO take his prisoner TO the station
through West SixtieJh-st That street between
West End and Amsterdam aves.. is densey
populated by negroes. Half a dozen C0lOrsd
men thought they would release Hopson- Cleary
used his club first and then drew his revolver.
BY threatening to shoot he held the crowd at
bay until other policemen came 70 his aid
They arrested George Meyer. cOlOred twenty
eight years old. OF No. 22T West Sixteth-st
Cleary said Meyer started the attempted rescue.
Meyer resisted all the way TO the station. and
when he got there he had several scalp wounds
II is thought. also. that his skull is fractured.
said he could not tell definitely for twenty-four
hours whether the mans skull was fractured.
When Cleary was asked how his prisoner lad
been so severely injured he said:
He fell down his way 20 the station and
struck his head on the sidewalk"
William Rapp, white, twenty-fOur years Old
OF No. % West End-ave, and his brother Henry,
twenty-six years old, were locked up on com
plant OF Adam Johnson, a negro. twenty-four
years Old OF No 100 West Sixtieth-st John
son charged them with throwing stones at him
They denied the accusation. and said that some
body threw stones from the other side OF tbs
street because Johnson walked too sassy 70
suit folks
Andrew Williams a negro OF No. 2S6 West
Thirty-siXth-st.. arTaignsd in the West side
| Court yesterday by Detective Armstrong on
suspicion OF knowing something about the shoot
ing Of John Brennan, was held in $1,000 bail
for examination to-day.
Last evening there was more trouble near the
tenement house at No. 24I West SiXtieth-sL
Several white men were assaulted near there
and one Of them, James Langtry. a lab0Ter, q
No. fl West End-ave.. was struck On the head
with brick a policeman saw a COlOred man
run into the hallway OF the house with a brick
In his hand and arrested him The negro said
I he was Herbert Brooks. Of No, 242 West Forty
seventh-st-
SAYS 1T SHUT MOUTHS OF SOUTH HATERs
The Rev. Len G. Broughton. OF Georgia. IN Ms
sermon in the Hanson Place Baptist Church. tn
Brooklyn. last niSht. touched on the race riots n
this city. He said:
When I read the account of that mob I said that
this is enough TO shut the mouth Of every Souta
hater in the North. In all the dlSgracelul ri9.s
In the South never knew OF one marked by "
to get this lesson from that mOb-that the dsstru:
tou OF persons because OF their color is the sreat
l stand as the champion OF the coloret man
say that the colored man has the same right W
enjoy every right under our nag that Wl'"
man has.
TROOPS on THE WAY westward.
Leavenworth Kan. aug. s6-The FL Battalion q