The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-16
RAGE FIGHT IN NEN YORK
MOB SEEKS TO AVENGE POLICE
MAN MURDERED By
NEGROES
WILD TIME ON THE STREETS
Many Blacks Brutality Kicked and
Beaten by Infatuated White
Men and Nomen-POIice
Were Helpless.

NEW YORK, Aug. ia mob of sew
J eral hundred persons formed at II
o'clock tonight in front of the home of
| Policeman Robert j. Thorpe, Thirty-sev-
enth street and Ninth avenue, to wreak
vengeance upon the negroes of that
neighborhood, because one of their race
p, had caused the policeman's death.
Thorpe W. s stabbed and bruised last
Sunday night by several negroes while
he was attempting to arrest colored
woman. The man who inflicted most
of the injuries is said to be Arthur Har-
ris, negro who came here several weeks
ago from Washington. In a few mo-
ments the mob tonight sWelled to 1900
people or more, and as they became VIC
lent the negroes fled in terror into any
hiding place they could find. The police
reserves from four stations, numbering
400 in all, were called out.
The mob of white men which grew with
great rapidity ranged through the dis
trict and negroes regardless of age or
| sex were indiscriminatelY attacked.
| Scores were injured. 1t took the COM
bined efforts of the reserves, with as
many more policemen on regular patrol
! Clubs were used until the policemen were
/ almost exhausted Revolvers were
emptied into the air and in one or two
/ instances fired at the upper stories Of
| the negro tenements from which the ne
! groes defensively fired bricks, paving
/ stones and other missiles. The trouble
| grew cut OF the death OF Policeman r b.
| ert ]. Thorpe, of the West Thirty-seventh
! street station, as the result of a MUIR
! derous assault by negress late on Sum
! day on Eighth avenue and Forty-frst
/ streets. Thorpe was attempting to ar
! rest a negress when Arthur Harris and
another negro attacked. the policeman
! with razors. He died the following day
The policemans death aroused the
wrath of the white residents included
! from Forty-first to Fifty second streets
and Eighth to Sixth avenues. Open
threats were made by the whites, and the
blacks replied in kind. While not de-
Tending the attack on the officer, they
! said he was only one man, and the race
| ought not to be blamed for the action
! The poHceman's body was brought to his
! home tonight on Ninth avenue, between
| Fifty-siXth and Fifty-Seventh streets. Al
once the house became a resort Of sor-
row, and from all over the district mer
/
Many carried flowers and wreaths. As
night wore on the excitement seemed t
grow. The fact that many saloons round
about were crowded doubtless had it's In
f1uence on the rising tide of anger. A
small group gathered about the police
mans home, and Capt Carey, of the
West Fifty-second Street station, SEN
a small squad of men Trouble was no
anticipated, however, |and the squad wa!
more in the nature of guard Of honor
for their dead comrafle.
BEAT AND KICKED THE NEGROES
A few minutes before II clock an Irisl
woman, under the influence of drink
came out Of the place. She set up
howl and began to recite the virtues O
the dead policeman. She, said the negroe
ought to be killed., Just then a youna
negro walked by. The white men mad
a rush for him and he was quickly sur
rounded He was beaten and kicked, AM
was rescued with great difficulty. If Their
had been a carefully arranged plot an,
this had been the agreed signal, the out
break could not have been more spontane
Gus. Men and women poured by tn
hundreds from the nkighbering tene
ments. Negroes were set upon whereve