Evening journal., 1900-09-04
nENN WAAETnTEN
hAUE IhVUbhEN
STIR GOTHAM
COlOrcd Boy Starts a Riot by
Striking Vender
APPLE CORE WAS THE MISSILE
Act Followed by the Gathering Of a
Mob and Loud Threats Of
LyRching

New York, Sept Am apple core
thrown by a colored boy, which struck
William kohles, white man. caused
a small riot between whites and blacks
in West Forty-hfth street yesterday
afternoon, which was quickly Quelled
by force OF patrolmen.
Kohles is a vender. He was driving
through Forty-eighth street when he
passed a 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 "A week
previous by a cOlored man. the cut
requiring several stitches. The yender
became very angry at the boy, and
after catching him slapped his face a
number Of times. a colOred man final
ly struck the vender i'm the face knock
ing him down. The exchange Of blows
attracted a crowd and threats were
made against the colored population.
II is alleged that Kohles drew a re-
volver and threatened TO shoot the
first colored man in sight The col
ored boy entered the residence of
Charles Brooks. colored. This at
tracted the mob to the building.
Brooks, who had been III with typhoid
fever, was taken to the police station,
despite the pleadings Of his wife, who
explained chat he had been III and that
a relapse n.SSht follow. He was after
wards released.
In the meantime William II. Pettilo,
colored, and his daughter, Ruth, z
years old, We're 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, nearby. The
crowd started TO follow the eolored
men. when Springle drew a revolver
and threatened to kill the first white
man who entered He stood In the
doorway and dehed the crowd A po-
liceman finally dispersed the crowd.
About the same hour that this oc-
Cured a cOiored woman armed with a
hatpin and a razor nearly caused an
other race riot on Ninth avenue. She
was taken in charge by a policeman
and followed to the West Thirty-sev-
enth street station by crowd OF 300
men and boys, who wanted to lynch
her.
A man who said his name 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 a hatpin. Grannin succeeded in
lodging. Then the woman drew a
razor and attempted to slash Grannin.
Finally a policeman caught the wo-
man and secured possession OF the
razor. Before he reached the station
house the crowd had largely increas-
ed, and there were cries Of lynch her" F."
A half dozen policemen finally rushed
up and kept the mob at distance.
After the woman had been taken to
the police station her husband appear
ed on the scene. Threats We're made
to lynch him also, but a large number
of policemen finally succeeded IN driv-
ing the mob away.
A row in which only colored people
became involved started yesterday af-
terno0n in a fiat house on West Sixty
third street. AS a result Charles Dan
iels, colored, the ianitor Of the apart
ment building. is dying in the hos
pital He was shot by Benjamin Car
ter, % years old, also a colored janitor.
Carter has also been arrested The
cause Of the trouble is not known but
it is said that Daniels and several col
ored men endeayored to enter the fiat
despite the protests of the residents.