The St. Louis Republic., 1900-04-16
Crowd DiSarmS Policeman Huify
and Beats Him Into inS"n>i-
biliiy on Olive Street.
BATTLE IN KERRY PATCH.
Oscar llrllman. a Whit" Boy. SrS'
iainS Il Fracture of the skull
James DUNCAN .\lSu
injured in Melee.

y hand of negro larad",s which travorS"d
IA, nlTai section uf III" city yesterday
iisuf'i III w" exciting ARRAY. in which Il
.'.''rrua. WIS kiuciscd down. beaten .'rl
dis,,rn."i ana two littl.. h,y~ were Iuiure'i,
one of them probably fatally. Robert DUTY,
Il ratrolfnau # III" Eighth District. was
he officer assaulted. In attcmrtin.; to duell
u aisiurbarc" and rl,r, a man under -
r,s' u crowd "t negroes -, upon him and
h,.I him into tnSrnsitliiy. He WIS r.
viy'd shortly II, 'rwaIds and resumed his
duty oscar !lcmau of No. 2}g6 Wash
street. Il boy i years OLD. was struck in the
head with ston" thrown 10y oue "f the
paraiers and his skull fractured. 1t ~
feared that he cannot live. An operation
Is considered necessary to remove he
s;,lint,rei hrle.
The fist disturbance occurred about I
O'Clock al Giiv" and beaumont streets. Po-
iicrmtn pnttv reached tho conner rs the
VAN If th procession came an. \ band
WIS playing ami a. either si,i. Il th. street
a stra@c!in- 'r"wd nf negroes wcr" lined.
- ur heerilS abreast "ith the ;il:lrH hers.
others following in ,hc rear. ou.. OF IN.
front men in The linz told Duffy that a
drunken negro was following the process
sion ami creating a disturbance Duffy
which h" replied ne would. Al that IN
-tani IL" Troublesome negro came up.
swearing a. tn pdra'!cfS.
Duffy placed him under arrest where
upon he proceeded TO resist ticrrrly. Duffy
ierl.ed him To the ground in order 10 SUBJ
due him crowd of eight or ten negroes,
who We're with the nhstrepcrnus negro.
Jumped on Duffy and struck him in the
fac" and others kicked him. one of them
took the officers revolver and ran away.
while three ar four Others GrigS d him
Hsr he s1,..yr v,rS;a
n" dealt thu officer u blow on he chin.
''nd at The same time he received 4 bow
on the back of thr head with a club. rem
fe'ins him unconscious. he parade
marched ahead and the crowd that had
assaulted the policeman also lcsumed its
march.
Several rassers-hv picked the policeman
up AMI carried him into Eeffa's saloon at
the corner, whcr' h" was revived by means
OF r'st"iati.eS. huliy return d To his hea;
as soon as his strength returned. He says
n" can identify number Of tn" negroes
VII" assaulted him. The revolver taken
from fufy WAS afterwards recovered by
Policeman Siarnon from Robert Rice OF
No. ifli Morgan street. iitce said he
bought il from Walter Brown. a n"gr". for
- cents. buffH had previously :tated that
Brown was one Of his assailan:S
About AN hour ana a half later when the
para'i" reached Tw"nty-thrd street and
franklin avenue" there WAS another StruS
gle. " hilc the procession Was marching
down FRANK in avenue the boys of the
ueishburhood gathered 20 give v.nr to their
rdicnation of this violation al an anti
quat..l law Of Kerry Patch-thst TO uecr.
procession should invade it, precincts. At
Twsuty-tliiG street the boys began To
lombard tho rnarrEers with stones and
various missiles which they could pick ;lp
from the streets
y Hegr. about Is years old picked up a
rock and hurled it al the crrwd of white
boys whc stood on the corner. Il struck
little Oscar Hellman in the side OF the
head. knocking him down. and RENDERING;
him unconscious. The negro made his es-
cape in the crowd. Charles Lawson al No.
2-S7s franklin avenue picked oscar up and
carried him To hi. hums. Doctor CirlIid-
mann Of No. 1893 North Jefferson avenu.
was called and found that Oscars skull
fractured and that ro was suffering
from conclusion OF the brain. He said the
injury probably would result fatally. oscar
was taken home.
Tie other hoy who was injured is James
DUNCAN. IL years old. of 80. 2a!n Dickson
street. He waS struck "u the head with a
rock in the same disturbance in which
oscar Hcliman was injured ana received
= Sigh, scalp wound. II was dressed by
Doctor So:aghan of No. 20l cass avenue.
The police did not ascertain who gave the
procession.