Marshall County independent., 1900-08-24
MOB NEGROES IN NEW YORK.
Angry Citizens Attack Blacks on
the Public Streets.
100 COLORED MEN BEATEN.


race riot of a most serious char
acter suddenly broke out in the negro
district Of the west side of New York
at $3.50 o'clock Wednesday night. The
police reserves were called out. and
at midnight 400 officers were patroling
the streets where the trouble was the
worst From Twenty-siXth street to
Fiftieth. between Ninth avenue and
Broadway, every negro who showed
himself on the sidewalk or on the sur
face cars We're badly beaten Ne
groes were dragged off the cars, kicked
and stoned. On every corner mObs
formed along Eighth avenue for a
dozen blocks north and south of Thir-
ty-ninth street. the center point of the
trouble. When a car came along bear
ing a negro passenger the crowd at
one corner would yell TO that at the
next. The car would be stopped. the
mOtOrman prevented from turning on
the current, and in a jiffy the unfor-
tupate colOred man would be dragged
Of, punched kicked rolled In the
street, and pelted With stones. It is
estimated upwards Of 100 negroes were
thus treated The trouble started at
p. m. on the sidewalk in front OF The
house at 4S1 Ninth avenue. a wake
was being held there over the body of
Policeman Robert J. Thorpe. Thorpe
on Sunday morning last started to ar
rest a colOred woman. May Emo At
Ninth avenue ard FOrty-first street a
young colOred man. Arthur Harris.
approached the policeman and asked
him what he meant by placing the
woman under arrest Before Thorpe
could reply Harris pulled a knife and
stabbed the policeman three times in
the stomach. Thorpe was taken to
Roosevelt hospital and died there on
Monday Since the death of Thorpe
there has been much ill-feeling be-
tween the whites and the blacks in the
West Thirty-seventh street precinct.
Thorpe'S body was removed TO the
home of his sister at 4Sl Ninth avenue.
and there has been much talk among
the neighbOrs about wreaking VEN
SedHce upon the negroes.
Wednesday night two white women
stopped in front of the house and.
looking up at the rooms of the dead
pOliceman's sister. one of them said:
There is where the body of poor Po-
llceman Thorpe is. Just at that mo-
ment an intoxicated negro. Spencer
Walters. passed the women and heard
the remark. Walters was in an ugly
mood, and in loud voice cursed and
swore at the whites. He pulled re-
volver out of his hip pocket and the
two women ran off screaming Just as
Walters was raising the revolver Thom-
as j. Healy knocked the pistol into
the gutter and followed it up by giving
the negro a tremendous thrashing The
negro showed more fight when Police
man Kelly ran up. and Kelly beat him
on the head with his club until Wal
ters yelled for mercy. Then he took
the prisoner to the station house. Like
wildfire the news spread all over that
a negro had tried to murder two white
women. The white people. already
infiamed by the killing of Thorpe.
poured out of their houses The
rough element took instant advantage
of the situation. and mobs walked up
and down the streets inhabited by ne
grOes and drove them into their houses.
On every street corner for a mile along
Eighth avenue gangs of young rOughs !
gathered. Every negro who passed up |
Or down the street was beaten and !
kicked