The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-17
l]OBS IN NEW YORK
KEEP POLICE BUSY
Riot Calls Bring Out
the Reserves.
!. ATTEMPT LYNCHING.
One Negro Had the Rope Already
Around His Neck.
WAS ONLY SAVED BY THE POLICE
Many Fights Between Blacks and
Whites Occurred and Police We're
Forcel to Charge Crowds and
Use Their Clubs Ireeiy-The
Negro Harris arrested
in Washington.
WAS ONLY SAVED BY THE POLICE:
Rx Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, August 16-Such q 1urlous
ebullition OF race hatred as touni vent III
the rioting that occurred here last nlsnt'
the outgrowth of the murder lew days
ago of Policeman Thorpe by negro
named Arthur Harris, has not been equat.-
ed in New York III many years. As Il te
suit of the disturbance Which iaset' ito.i
midnight until 3 o'clock and burst out IN
a hama of passion and violence at inter-
walls until davbreak, there were about ffty
nersnns injured by pistol balls, raZors or
knives. rocks or clubs. OF these, one
negro. I.Iovl Lee, may not recover, ana
Policeman Kennedy is also seriously IN
iured. Lee is alleged to have made threats
against the life of Kennedy because ne
was the particular friend and associate
of Thorpe, the murdered officer
Forty or more arrests were made. four
being white men. All of the prisoners,
except Lee, were arfaisned in the West
Side Court to-day.
4 majority we're fined $40; a few were
held in bonds to keep the peace; several
were discharged, and Carr was held to
await the result of the injuries Of Officer
Kennedy.
FAIR TRIAL.
The magistrate stated in advance that
ali prisoners before him should have a
fair trial.
At 2 o'clock this morning the police had
the riot in hand, although there was a
feeling that danger was far from past, ana
a heavy police guard was mounted.
Wherever there were negroes collected to-
getner they were swearing vengeance,
Fortunately about o'clock there was o.
heavy down-pour of rain, and it is tie
opinion of the police that this did more
to dissipate the mob and quiet the riot
than a thousand men would have been
able to do.
At 4 o'clock. when it was thought all
was over Policemen Hughes and Jflif, of
the West Thirtieth-Street Station, We're as
sauled with a shower of bricks and stones
thrown by negroes from the roof of
house. The crowd on the street rushed mp
the stairway. but by the time they reached
the roof the assailants hal descended
through scuttles and had disappeared. Two
negroes were later pulled from under a
bed. They resisted until dubbed over the
head ana ona hal his nose broken. The
men denied that they were on the roof.
The reserves of the station, which had
been on duty nearly all night were called
in during the morning, and after o'clock
all was comparatively quiet.
KEPT on THE MOVE.
Inspector Thompson, with one hundred
policemen. in addition to the several hun
dred regular men in the precincts affected.
was on the ground in the r.otous district
before nightfall. and he kept his men on
the move. They had orders to arrest any
man. white or black, who cvinced the
slightest dispos ton towards riot.
Early in the evening the patrolmen be-
gan to bring in prisoners. Will:nm Elliott
(coloredD, twenty-one years old. was ar
rested for buying a revolver. He declined
to surrender the weapon, and was ar
rested.
INSPECTOR Thompson was near Eighth
Avenue and Fortietn Street when he no.
ticed turnult aboard an E!ghth-AVenue
car. He ran with a couple of men to N
vestigate. and found that negro passen-
ger was the cause of the trouble. He had
not done ANYTHING, byt several white men
tried to get n punch at the black man.
ana TWO women tried to stab him in the
face with hat-pins. Inspector Thompson
arrived just in time to see paving stone
crash through the cur window and lay
the negro out with stunn- ng blow on the
head. Louis Swarts, eighteen years old,
threw the stone. He was arrested
WAS NEAR DEATH.
Many fights between tn blacks resulted
ssSssht Alexander Robbins, a negro,
and d colored friend were on a Thirty
fourth Street car. Some one set Up q
shout as the car reached Eighth Avenue
that the two negroes ought TO be lynche6.
y man with clothes line appeared from
somewhere and the two negroes were
pulled off the car. The rope was thrown
around Robbins neck, and with fifty men
and boys pulling, the mob started for a
lanlp-post. i squad of police appeared
before the mob had gone far, and with
much clubbing they dispersed the crowd.
The negroes got away.
Word reached the West F'orty-seventh
Street station tonight that large mob
was at Eighth Avenue and Forty-ssc-
ond Street. The reserves We're run out and
dispersed the crowd which Numbered over
1900 per.ons.
A mob was reported at Amsterdam
Avenue and Sixty-frst Street. better
known as san Juan IiIl'' al 10 O'Clock.
4 SQUAD OF men wsElt there and found
about .00a men who We're dispersed.
A r!ot-ca!I was sent in from Thirty
seventh Street and Eighth Avenue at IL
O'clock Chief Dev&rey ordered Captain
cooney to take a large squad and dis
persed the crowd. Cooney found several
hundred men and boys at the corner
mentioned and they We're acting very
ugly. The mob was charged and many
were cIubbed. Patrolman Powers was
arrested tonight on the charge of being
drunk and disorderly and hourishlnS a
revolver to incite the crowd TO riot.