The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-08-22
a NEW YORK MOB
Makes War on Negroes for the Kill.
ing of a White Policeman

makes w al ou NeS1Oes 1o1 LuS DILL
ing of a White Policeman
A mob Of several hundred white per.
sons formed at II o'clock Wednesday
night in front Of the home Of Police
man Robert j. Thorpe, in the city Of
New York, to Ereak vengeance upon
the negroes Of that city because one Of
their race had caused the policeman's s
death. Thorpe was stabbed and bruised
last Sunday night by several negroes
when he was attempting to arrest a col
ored woman. Tie man Who inficted
most of the injury is said to be Arthur
Harris, negro who went to that city
several weeks ago from Washington.
In few moments the mob swelled to
l 500 people or more, and as they be-
came violent the negroes fed in terror
into any hiding place they could hod.
The police reserves from four stations,
numbering 400 in all, were called out.
The mob of white men. which grew
with great rapidity, ranged through the
district and negroes, regardless Of age
or sex, were indiscriminately attacked.
Scores were injured. 1t took the COM
bined efforts Ct the reserves with as
many more policemen on regular patrol
duty in the four precincts to restore or
der. Clubs we're used until the police
men we're almost exhausted. Rsvolvers
were emptied into the air aud in one
or two Instances fired at the upper sto.
ries of the negro tenements from which
the negroes defensively fred bricks,
paving stones and other missiles.
The policeman's body was brought to
his home Wednesday night in Ninth
avenue between Thirty-sixth aud Thir-
ty-seventh streets. At once the house
became sort Of shrine, and from a.!
over the vicinity men aud women called
to Pay their respects. Many carried
handsome forsl offerings. As the.
night grew on the feelings against the
negroes seemed to grow. The fact that
the many saloons roundabout were
crowded doubtless had its influence on
the rising tide Of anger.
A few minutes before II o'clock
woman under the influence OF drink
came out Of the place. She set up a
howl and began to recite the virtues Of
the dead policeman. She said the ne
groes ought to be killed. Just then a
young negro walked by. The white
men made rush for him and he was
quickly surrounded. He was beaten
and kicked and was rescued with great
difficulty. If there had been careful
ly arranged plot and this had been the
agreed signal the outbreak could not
have been more spontaneous. Men
and women poured by the hundreds
from the neighboring tenements. Ne
groes we're set upon wherever they
could be found and b1utslly beaten.
lhe blacks at first offered resistance,
but they we're so soon outnumbered
that they aed without delay.
For the next hour the streets were
filed with rioting, surging mob. 1t
was a scene on very much the same
order as that which was witnessed
few days ago in New Orleans. New
York has seldom had its equal. The
shouting of men, the shrieking Of the
women, the lamentations Of the chill
dren, the shooting Of re7olvers, the
crashing of EindoWs-sll made per.
feet pandemonium. Chief Devery was at
his home right in the heart Of the bat
tie ground, but did not take charge Of
the place at once. He finally took
personal command.
The police said the Negroes we're
rapidly arming with revolvers and
knives. They say that nearly all the
prisoners had weapons Of some sort.
The police did a great deal of the
clubbing of Negroes, some Of whom
were roughly handled. Many Negroes
we're hauled into the west Thirty sew
enth streets station for protection.
None had escaped without some kinds
of injury, and some Of them we're bleed
ing from half dozen cuts.
The crowd that surged into Broad
way. Sc, med uglier than that farther
west. There we're at one time more
than 5000 persons in Broadway up and
down, mo and out of the hotels and
saloons, through Herald square and
side tracks, the mob surged and rushed,
looking for Negroes. Any unfortunate
black was set upon and beaten. Up to
l o'clock Thursday morning not q
single white man had been reported
under arrest. Chief Devery said he
would take every precaution for pre-
venting repetition of the outbreak.
John B. Mallory, young Negro, a
student in civil engineer class, was
going home from the colored engineers
club with Goodwin Jones another stu.
dent about his age. The gang jumped
on them at Thirty-seventh street and
Ninth avenue. Mallory was knocked
down. 4 policeman heard him yelling
and managed to get him on an up.
tom car He told him to 60 to hos
pitai. Just then another policeman
ran up, pulled Mallory from the car
and began to club him. The passen-
gers on the car cried shame" and the
policeman stopped his assault.
When the police charged through
Thirty-seventh street and were driving
the mob before them the Negroes in the
tenements began to FIRE things at the
mob and police. The policemen at once
fired into the upper windows and drove
the black heads into hiding. Whether
anybody va: hit by the bullets or not
is unknown.