Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-16

pltal. Just then another policeman
ran up, pulled Mallory from the car
ard began to club him. The passen-
gers on the car cried Shame" and the
policeman stopped his assault. Nal
lory managed to drag himself aboard
the car and got to Roosevelt hospital
He was a pitiful sight. His condition
is serious.
seventh street and was attacked. The
policemen on the corner charged the
crowd, and by firing their revolvers
into the air rescued the negro.
In charging through Thirty-seventh
street and driving the mob before it
the negroes in the tenements began
to
Fire Things at the Mob
and police. The policemen at once
fired into the upper windows and
drove the blackheads into hiding.
Whether anybody was hit by the bui-
lets or not is unknown. A fusilade
vas fred.
Spencer Walters, "a years of age, a
negro Of No. SO East Fifty-sixth street,
was alleged to have tried to shoot
Thomas ]. Healy in Th.rty-seventh
street. Walters was wreck when
placed under arrest. He was danger
cusly hurt. Richard Williams, "a
years of age, negro. OF No. 2lS East
Thirty-sixth street, was charged by
John Gill with having pulled revolv-
er on him. The crowd believed Gill,
for they tried to kill Williams. They
almost succeeded.
Policeman Kennedy, of the West
Thirty street station, was
stabbed in the arm and breast. A ne
gro named Lloyd Lee was arrested for
the stabbing. Lee and another negro
named David H. Tarr, were near the
corner where Kennedy was stabbed.
The crowd set upon Lee, who drew
revolver and knife In self defense.
When the policemen saw this and
somebody had shouted that Lee had
stabbed Kennedy, the policemen them
selves attacked Lee with their clubs.
Lee got out of the tangle somehow and
was chased to a nearby roof, where he
was
dubbed Into Submission.
He was taken to Bellevue more dead
than alive. Later a policeman called
at Bellevue hospital, and identified Lee
as the man who stabbed Policeman
Kennedy. Tarr was also arrested after
he got a severe drubbing.
Joseph Locket, a negro cigarmaker,
during the riot. The crowd
set upon him and his face was literally
cut into ribbons. Chief Devery was
at his home right in the heart of the
battle ground, but did not take charge
of the police at once. He finally took
personal command.
The police said the negroes were rap
idly arming with revolvers and knives.
They say that nearly all the prisoners
had weapons Of some sort.
A negro riding up Broadway on BIZ
cycle was pulled from his wheel and
severely beaten. The mob then took
the wheel and smashed it.
Many negroes were hustled into the
West Thirty-seventh street station for
protection. None had escaped without
some kind of an injury and some of them
were bleeding from half dozen cuts
The crowd that surged into Broadway
seemed uglier than that further west.
There was at one time more than
Five Thousand PersOns
on Broadway. Up and down into and
out of the hotels and salons through
Herald Square and the side strets the
mob surged and rushed loking for ne
groes. Any unfortunate black was set up
on and beaten. Up to l o'clock this
morning not a single white man had been
under arrest. Chief Devery said
he would take every precaution for pre-
venting a REPETITION of the outbreak