The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-17
Policemen Also Took Part in the
Chase md Clubbed N Few
ColOred Men.
SEVERAL SERIOUS AFFRAYS
LAND OFFICE BUSINESS BY "TEN-
DERLOIN" HARDWARE SHOPS.
Revolvers and knives i'm Demand
Many Arrests Made-Cnpture of
Patrolman Thorpe's Slayer.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-There was a lull
i'm the race war to-day, but tonight it
| broke out afresh and many colored men
Iswere wounded. In& ctor Thompson. with
100 policemen, in addition to the several
hundred regular men in the precincts af-
fected, was on the ground in the riotous
district before nightfall. and he kept his
| men on the move. They had orders to ar
rest any man-black or white-who evinced
the slightest disposition toward riot. The
danger spot was recognized to be around
the West Thirty-seventh-street station. In
Thirty-sixth, ThIrty-seventh, rty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth streets are many large ne
gro tenements. Everybody was kept on
the move.
Early in the evening the patrolmen be-
gan to bring in prisoners. William Elliott,
colored twenty-one years old, was arrested
for buying a revolver. He declined TO sur
render the weapon and was arrested. On
the way to the station he resisted and the
policeman used his club. When Elliott was
brought into the station he was bleeding
from two scalp wounds and was hardly able
to talk.
HardIey johnson. a negro porter. was
seen with a loaded revolver in a trolley
car Policeman Gaynor jumped on the car
and ierked Johnson out of it. The negro
tried to use his weapon. but Gaynor beat
him with his stick until the fellow begged
for mercy. He had a four-inch cash In his
face when locked up.
FIGHT ON A STREET-CAR.
Inspector Thompson was near Eighth
avenue and Fortieth street, when he no.
ticed a tumult aboard an Eighth-avenue
car He ran with couple of men to in
vestigate, and found that a negro passen-
ger was the cause of the trouble He had
not done anything, but several white men
tried to get in a punch at the
black man, and 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
car window and lay the negro out with
stunning blow on the head. Louis Swartz,
eighteen years old. threw the stone. He
was arrested. On the way to the station
Jacob Gombel undertook to take Swartz
from the policeman and was arrested.
Many fights between whites and blacks
resulted tonight. Vincent A. Streets. col
ored and James Shane, white began a
row and both were arrested. Alex. Robinson.
a negro, and colored friend were on a
rty-fourth-street car. Some one set up
a shout as the car neared Eighth avenue
that the two negroes ought 10 be lynched.
man with clothes line appeared from
somewhere and the two negroes were pulled
or the car. The rope was thrown around
Robinson's neck and with fifty men and
boys pulling. the mob started for lamp
post squad of police appeared before the
mob had gone far and with much clubbing
dispersed the crowd. The two negroes got
away.
Every pawn shop in the "Tenderloin" did
a thriving trade in small arms to-day. A
leading pawnbroker said to-day that he
knew of FIVE shops that had sold out every
thing from black jacks TO Colts forty-fours
Most Of the purchasers. he said. were ne
groes.
Word reached the West Forty-seventh-
street station tonight that a large mob
was AT Eighth avenue and Forty-second
street The reserves were run out and
dispersed the crowd. which numbered over
1000 persons. A second alarm sent the re-
serves 10 Forty-ninth street and Tenth
avenue. but not more than fifty persons
were there. They ran before the policemen
AT SAN JUAN HILL"
A mob was reported at Amsterdam ave-
rue and Sixty-nrst street, better known as
san Juan Hiil.' at 10 o'clock A squad
went there and found a crowd OF about 1000
angry men. who were dispersed. The police
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