The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-27
ALMOST AN ANTI-BOXER RIOT
CHINAMEN CHASED THROUGH THE
STREETS By IN EXCITED MOB.

The Trau BILE started by a Drunken Man
at the Chinese Rendezvous at rs Union
Trouble Averted by a Detail of Police
men PIucky Chfnaasien Showed Fight
in Face of Overwhelming Numbers.
| An anti-Boxer demonstration in the
upper end of the Sixth ward yesterday
| afternoon came near ending in a serious
riot, and it was only by prompt and
vigorous action by the police that they
| disturbance was quelled before serious
trouble ensued. At rs Union street is
a Chinese grocery and laundry kept by
Lee Sing. The place is faVorlte meet
ing one for the Cinnamon of the city,
and every Sunday they gather there by
dozens and in little back room play
their fan tan games and enjoy them
selves in their own way
Lately the Sunday gatherings have
been devoted mainly to discussions of
the troubles in China, and 1t has been
rumored about the neighborhood that
the crowd which meets there is compos-
ed of Cinnamon who belonged to the
Boxer organization when they were in
the old country, and that they met to
gloat over the nassacres of Christians
by their compa triots in China and that
they We're planning 70 defend them
selves if the Mclean" retaliated on
them, which according to their ideas
was very probable.
This is the talk that has been going
about the neighborhood and yesterday
afternoon James Cashlon a resident OF
the locality, who had been imbib-
ing pretty freely turned these things
over in his beer-muddled mind and de-
cided that II was time to act. He en-
tered the joint at rs Union street and
began swearing a Joe Lee, who hap
pened TO be in the front room Of the
laundry and called him a Boxer After
having cursed Lee roundly Cashiou
sailed into him and had badly used him
up before the other Cinnamon in the
place came to Joe's assistance. When
the crowd OF yellow boys advanced to-
wards him in threatening manner
Cashion turned aud ran out the door
The Cinnamon followed yelling In their
jargon and in an ugly mood Cashion
fled out Union street to Wooster street,
down Wooster to olive, and through
Olive street to Grand avenue
Men and boys on the street seeing a
white man pureuad by Cinnamon
thought there was Boxer outbreak |
right here in New Haven, and they
Joined in the race, urging Cashion on |
faster and kicking and striking and |
throwing stones at the Cinnamon The |
latter were yelling to each other in their |
own strange tongue. and nothing daunt- |
ed by the big crowd pitted against |
them kept up the chase All along the |
crowd was augmented, and by the time
the corner of Olive street and Grand |
avenue was reached the crowd number
ed several hundred men and boys.
Foremost in the crowd OF CAinamen
Cashion was Lee Joe, with the
blood streaming from his face, and |
about twenty-five feet behind him were
the other Chnamen engaged with the
crowd. At the corner Of jeff rson street
and Grand avenue Cashion and Lee Joe
ran into the arms Of Patrolnan Me-
Queenay. BY that time the crowd num-
1ered fully a thousand men Threats
began to be muttered through the crowd
2f lynching the Chinamen, but Me |
Queeney managed TO take Casfliou and
Lee to the corner of Grand avenue and
Franklin street without serious inter
erence with the crowd, whose sylnpa-
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