New-York tribune., 1900-08-17

sertien and nag 3o no Witnesses to prove his as
enth-aye entt az an emp9ye Of he Union League Club,
This case was also set fSrward John F Nolan
with his head bandaged he said he had beeP in his
own house and he had threatened Magts-
good behavior.
CORNELL DENOUNCEs WHITE TRASH"
Spencer Walters. of No. So East Fifty-sixth-st.
the negro who. according the police. started the
trouble on Wednesday night. fined SO Rich
ard Williams, another in the row.
held without bail. Albert Smith. identified by
james ]. Rice the negro who shot him,
similarly held. James Wilson. another prisoner,
charged with disordcrly conduct. Wilson said
he was clubhed at Thirty-seventh-st. and Eighth
ave. and that he neither drunk nor fighting
Magistrate Cornell discharged Wilson saying:
"It the white trash of the Twentieth Pre-
cinct set upon the negroes last night TO avenge
the atrocious murder of Policeman Thorpe by a
bad negro. Some innocent persons evidently
very much il-treated. I should like have before
me some of the white persons who participated in
this riot. l have had just white boy up. and
him I took pleasure in putting under $1,000 bonds
for his good behavior" This boy was Frank Mana
kue Of No. 255 West Thirtieth-st
Joseph Lockett, a negro. and his wife were
charged with disorderly conduct by PatroIman
Ohm. Lockett was also charged with carrying a
pistol The stained with blood from head
to waist, and had his head bandaEed and a great
cut under his left eye. He held in 500 on the
charge Of carrying concealed weapons. The wife
was fined s..
eff the accounts true" said Magistrate Cor
nell some white men acted last night like beasts"
Professor W. 5 Scarborough of Wilberforce Uni
versity Ohio, a coored man, said in this city
yesterday:
The rioting last night shows that the race Preju-
is strong in the North as it IS in the South.
me rgseclapie Wllte nan IN He SCUM i dS no no n
element in the South that makes all the trouble,
the acts of violence.
T. THOMAS FORTUNES STATEMENT.
T Thomas Fortune. Editor of The New-York
Age" the organ Of the colored population of this
city. said:
No good citizen would for moment Justify
dnct Of tb@ nan Who provoked the inception Of
f9le the dsturbahces @ last night Those two people
were violators Of the law, and 1t was the business
and give the legal machinery an opPortunity 10
deal with them as the law provides Black Grim
criminals by the officers Of the law.
have we led large number of coored people to
seek refuge here and in the other large cities OF
bad people but only in the proportion that W@n.
forced from home under similar conditions;
The police of late have had more trouble with
the Afro,Amercan population on in the Tender.oia IN
all natural. and they have the same trouble with
the other elements of the population similarly cir
Yorke1 ~ Ra the paGe should have taken part
with the mob in chasing all the black men that
appeared numerically clubbing them and then
locking them up. These black people dldh coh-
stitute the mob; they were simply seeking to de-
We had this same conduct on the part Of the
police in the Hell's Kitchen business II Is .apout
time TO find out how far the police are going to
continue this sort of business. If we can get an
answer to that question easily determine
whether to be ruled by the mop III New
York are in the cities of the South
DEVERY PROMISES PROTECTION.
Chief Devery and other police officials said yes
terday that the police would not be permitted TO
encourage the bounding of law abiding colored
| men in the West Side district. The officials heard
| that many coIorcd men buying revolVers ana
| ammunition at pawnshops but they said there
would be such a strong force of police in the as
| trict last night that serious disorder would oe
| In the city ordered be held in readiness lor a
| possible outbreak, and he sent many polcerlen
from other precincts 10 perform patrol GUY p ~
| the Nineteenth Twentieth and Twenty-second Pre-
| cincts last evening.
Lewis williams a good looking. we'll dressed
| colored man. twenty-siX years old, was arrested
f3road way Squad. at Broadway and TWenty-elghth n.
| 81 Williams charged with carrying conceale ed
weapons. Williams had just come out of sporting
| goods store when a citizen, following him, told
| the policeman that Williams had Just bought o
| revolver and several boxes of cartridges. The
| citizen had heard the coored boast that nc
| Daiy stopped Williams and asked him IL he car,
| ried revolver. The negro replied that II he dld
| Tenderioin station and bag that he carried was
| onened 1t revealed a .44-calibre Colts Army re-
| voIver fourteen INCHES long In the bag were hall
| a dozen boxes of cartridges. They were taker
! hv the police and Williams was locked up. 1t 1:
| tbouPht bv the police that Williams supplying
| other negroes with ammunition.