New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-18
POLICE USE CLUBS AGAIN.
BIG CROWD IN A BROADWAY SQUARE
WHEN HOTEL PORTER rs STABBED.
RUFFIANs ENTER FLAT-oNE MAN PER
HAPS FATALLY HURT IN HIS ESCAPE
RACE TROUBLE SUBSIDIES.


While the intense feeling between the whites
ard the blacks On the West Side appeared yes
terday to have subsided beyond the danger of
any further outbreak. incident took place
last night which showed that it would not take
much to fan the embers Of smoulderiEg flame
again. Long Acre Square came very near to
being the scene of more disorder. and strangely
enough no negroes whatever were concerned in
exciting the multitude. That however, did not
keep the crowd that gathered from thinking so.
and while the jeluson lasted 1T looked as II
some serious trouble might call for the pres
ence of large force of policemen in the streets.
Joseph Riley, fifty-one years old. a boss car
penter, living at No 1,175 Madison-ave-, went
into the Cadillac Hotel and acted in such dis
orderly manner that the clerk decided he was
drunk and asked him to leave the place. Riley
said he guessed not. and Joseph T. Murphyn of
No All West Forty-ffth-st., a porter, was
ordered to throw him out. Murphy thinks moth
ing of carrying heavy trunks, and 1t looked easy
to him to handle Riley. The carpenter knows
thing or two about fight, however, and when
Murphy caught hold of him there was hard
scufle Both men fought into Broadway, and
crowd began to gather.
Riley managed to get a rattail file out of his
pocket, and he jabbed this into the porter's neck
back of the ear An artery was severed and
have been almost any color. in the
crowd yelled "One of them Cadillac niggers
is gettin' done, come on" and then the excite
ment began. Policemen Walsh Decker and
Gibson got into the crowd and knocked men
down right and left. They managed to drive the
crowd away and separated Riley from Murphy,
who was almost helpless from loss of blood The
injured man taken into the hotel and cared
for by DR.. Holmes. the hotel physician. Later
+oIya +oI How
locked UP.
RUFFIANS DRIVEN FROM A FLAT.
Chief Devery and Inspector Thompson were
both on hand early last night at the West Thir-
ty-seventh-st. station. Chief Devery said that
practically the same police arrangements
those of the night before would continue. He
thought there were about four hundred patrol
men available. All the precinct detectives in In
spector Thompsons district, the thirteen men Of
the Inspectors personal staff and men from
other precincts were in the station.
Miss Elizabeth Gotthart. of No. $50 West Thr-
ty-ffth-st.. called at the station and complained
that a gang Of rowdies had broken into the
apartment on the top floor of the number given,
where she and her father live She said they
were even then abusing her father. Inspector
Thompson sent about six of his staff to the
place. They arrived in time to a run
out of the place and climb down fight on the
fire escape. The police say the fellow then fell
to the yard. When he was picked up he was
mass Of bruises and was unconscious. He
proved to be Francis Hughes twenty y-fve years
old, Of No. 436 West Fifty-seventh- He was
taken to Roosevelt Hospital under arrest He
may not recover. Mr.. Gotthart said the gang
had shamefully treated him. They had heard
the police coming. and all got away over the
roofs except Hughes, who stopped to give the
old man final choking
BOYS GATHERED UP BY POLICE.
Fifteen reserve policemen attached TO the
Bicycle Squad were kept in the West Thirtieth-
st. station last night so as to be ready in case of
an outbreak. At late hour it was said by the |
police that everything quiet in the district |
and that outbreak was feared
"Zeb' Robinson, colored, who works in bar |
Der shop at No. so West Thirty -ninth-st, who |
was chased by crowd at the time of the out |
break on Wednesday night and 1t is said was |
struck on the head, taken in an ambulance |
to Roosevelt Hospital last evening and later
transferred to Bellevue. 1t is thought he is |
insane. Yesterday morning he began to act |
and last night was again seized with
attacks Of insanity.
The West Thirty-seventh-st station patrol |
wagon, which early in the evening went out
with eight policemen in civilian clothes returned
at about 1870 o'clock with ten prisoners, OF
whom nine were boys and one was man. The
bows were caught ir Eighth-ave., between Thir-
tv-second and Forty-second SITS They are
charged with disordery conduct. Among them
Continued second pnge.
r.cTrB THAN EVER TO CAIIF0RNTA