The age-herald., 1900-08-16
NEW YORK MOB
 AT TER NEGROES Repetition of the Recent Riot in New Orleans, MANY BLACKS BADLY BEATEN Some of Them Are Not Expect
 ed to Live.
 OVER 5000 MEN IN THE MOB I Marched Down Broadway Looking for Victims Caused by the Death of Policeman Who Was Stabbedby Negroes
Some of Them Are Not Expect ed to Live.
OVER 5000 MEN IN THE MOB

l New York, Aug. 15.-A mob of several l hundred persons formed at Il o'clock to- 1 night in front of the home of Policeman | Robert J. Thorpe, Thirty-seventh street and ! Ninth avenue, to wreak vengeance upon the | negroes of that neighborhood because one l of their race had caused the policeman's l death. Thorpe was stabbed last Sunday 1 night by several negroes while he Was att tempting to arrest a colored woman. The man who is said to have inflicted most of the injuries is said to be Arthur Harris, negro who came here several weeks ago from Washington.
 l In a few minutes the mob tonight swelled | to 1,50O people or more, and as they became l violent the negroes fled in terror into any hiding place they could find. The police serves from four stations, numbering 400 in all were called out.
 The mob of white men, which grew with rapidity, ragged through the district and negroes regardless of age or sex were ndis- criminately attacked. Scores were injured. It took the combined efforts of the reserves 1 with many more policemen on regular duty in the four precincts to restore order. Clubs were used until the policemen were 1 almost exhausted, revolvers were emptied l into the air and in one or two instances, l fired at the upper stories of the negro ten- l ements from which the negroes defensivly l thrw bricks, paving stones and other mis- 1 sels.
 l The trouble grew out of the death of Po- liceman Thorpe of the West Thirty-seventh street station, the result of a murderous sault by a negro early Sunday in Eightt avenu- and Forty-frst street. The polit -- man >...s attempting to arrest nesress when Arthur Harris and another negro at- tackled the officer with razors. He died to- day.
 The polieemans death aroused the white residents of the district. Open threats against the negroes were made and the blacks replied in kind.
 The polceman's body was brought to his home tonight. At once men and women from all over the vicinity called to pay their respects. As the night grew on the feeling against the negroes seemed to grow. A small group gathered about the policeman'S home, and Captain Cooney OF the West Thirty-seventh Street Station, sent a small squad of men. Trouble was not anticipated, however and the squad
 was more in the nature of a guard Of
 honor for their dead comrade. A few minutes before Il o'clock an Irish woman under the influence of drink, came out of the place and said the negroes ought to be killed Just then young negro walked by. The white men made rusn for him and he was quickly surrounded. He was beaten and kicked. and was res cued with great difficulty. If there had been carefully-arranged plot and there had been the agreed signal the outbreak could not have been more spontaneous. Men and women poured out by the nun dreds from the neighboring tenements. Ne groes were seized wherever they could be found and brutally beaten. The blacks at first offered resistance, but they were so soon outnumbered that they fled without delay.
 Streets Filled With Rioting - fba eli with a rioting surging mob It was scene of very much the same order as took place a few days ago in New orleans. New York has seldom had It's equal. lhe shouting of the men, the shrieklng or the women, the lamentations of the chlidren' inc shooting of revolvers, crashing Qf wih- dows, all made a perfect pandemonium.
 The policemen did much clubbing, btt the injured men were all negroes, iiosu Lee of Thirty-seventh street and seventh avenue was shot in the cheek, received scaln wound and a broken arm. He sald a noliceman had shot and clubbed nm.
 John Mallory young negro student II, a civil engineer class, was going to the Gngineers' Club with Gordon Jones, ait- other student about his age. The gang jumped on them at Thirty-seVenth stree. and Ninth avenue Mallory was khocke1 down. A policeman heard hlm yeihhs an" rnanayed to get him an uptown car. Ue told him to go to a hospital. Just then another policeman run up, pulled Mallory from the car and began to club him The passengers on the car cried 'shame anu inc policeman stopped his assault
 Mallory managed to drag himself aboard the car and got to Roosevelt Hospital. He was pitiful sight. His condition is seri- ous.
 A negro got off the Eighth avenue car at Twenty-seventh street and was attack ed The police at once counter charged the crowd and they fired revolvers into the air and rescured the negro.
 Negroes Threw Bricks
 In charging through Thirty-seventh street and driving the mob before them, the negroes in the tenements began to fire things at the mob and the police. The po- licemen at once fired into the upper Win dows and drove the black heads into hfd- ing Whether anybody was hit by the bullets or not is not known. A fusilade was fired.
 Spencer Walters, 24 years of age ne- gro of No. 6 East Fifty-sixth street, was alleged to have tried to shoot Thomas Healy in Thirty-seventh street. Walters was a wreck when placed under arrest. He is dangerously hurt.
 Richard Williams, 24 years old, negro of East Thirty-sixth street. was charged