The Washington times., 1901-07-08
ANOTHER SCENE OF RIOT.
The Aid of the Police Reserves
Needed at the WOrkhOuse.
Removal of the Edwards Girl 10 st.
EIizabcth's Asylum Accomplished
with DiGIcu1ty-The Surgeon and
Two HIuecoats Slightly Injured.

with DiGicuIty-Thc Surgeon and
Two BIuecoats Slightly Injured.
Riotous scenes were repeated yesterday
at the workhouse before Esther Edwards
co!ored. nineteen years OF age, was I'm
ally removed to St. ELIZABETH s Asylum
for the Insane. There occurred a repeti-
tion Of The trouble of Saturday afternoon
when an effort to take the girl from the
institution led to a free-for-aH fight be
tween guards and inmates. The police
were summoned to qleI the disturbance
and two policemen and the physician at
the workhouse were slightly hurt.
4 strange code Of honor or bond of sym
nathy led inmates Of the wCrkhouse TO
establish guard about the Edwards girl
They anticipated a second attempt TO re-
move her from the institution, and many
women slept in the barred corridors out
side their cells all Saturday night. Early
yesterday morning al ambulance arTlE-
ed at the workhouse TO convey the slTl
to St Elizabeths. The guards went Tor
the prisoner, but at the doors Of the cor
ri,Iors were forced back by bowling mob
of negresses. intent on protecting the Ed
wards girl and preventing her removal
from the place.
In her cell stood Esther, wildly gesic-
ulating, and encouraging in other ways
the women about her. lntendent
Stoutenburgh, Father Mcclure, and Dr.
Manning, the worShouse physician, made
an attempt to enter the corridors, and
every mode of persuasion was adopted to
paeify the excited women. No effect was
produced. and word was then telephoned
for police assistance.
Sergeant Wright. Of the Ninth precinct,
and Sergeant MulhaIl of the Fifth pre-
FrRrr laiT
respective stations to the workhouse in
patrol wagons The bluecoats were met
by threats, groans, and Kisses as they
entered the institution and came within
view of the fifty-odd women lined up IN
battle array in the corridors. Oaths and
invectives Of every kind were hurled at
the policemen by the women, especially
when the corridors were invaded by the
guards, supported by the police.
a fierce struggle ensued. Sergeant Null
hall and his men pressed into the cOrri-
doris from one side, while guards and the
Ninth precinct reserves drove the women
before them from the other. The ne
crosses showed fight, and were only
subdued by clubs and sheer force; others
fell headlong into their cells, or were
pushed and jammed against theirsfeIlOw-
prisoners as the police advanced.
Intendent Stoutenburgh, with several
guards and Father Mcclure, made his
way after a while to the cell occu-
pied by the Edwards girl BY this time
the corridors had been cleared after
fashion, and the police stood guard before
the doors ot cells into which the women
had been driven. IntenGent St0uten-
burgh secured the Edwar1S girl. and
with others took her out Of the cell
through the main corridors and 10 the
Office of the institution Meanwhile the
police kept back the angry women. One
OF the leaders Of the revolt, however,
slipped by the Gordon OF police and es-
capped from the corridors. She secreted
herself in another part Of the building,
but was afterward discovered by the
guards and returned TO her cell.
AS soon as possible the Edwards girl
was placed in the ambulance and re
moved to St Elizabeth's Asylum For a
tine the police remained on duty at the
workhouse but on the removal Of the
girl the women appeared to quiet down
considerably. Sergeant Wright had al
ready taken his men from the institution
when il was discovered that one Of the
women had escaped from the corridors.
With the aiu OF the guards, she was
discovered and again locked up.
II was during the first onslaught of the
freuZied women that Dr. Manning and
the policemen were hurt. Il piece OF
crockery was thrown by one Of the
women directly at the physician as
he advanced with Inteudeut Stouten-
burgh into the corridor. DR. Manning
lodged the missile, but II scraped his
head. causing an ugly laceration near
the temple. Sergeant Mulhall and one OF
his men were also slightly cut by flying
glass
Esther Edwards was sent to the work
house a month ago on conviction Of
petty offence She had been there before
aud knew a number Of women inmates
For a time she was confined 70 the hos
uftaI OF the institution and suffered from
peculiar faucies which led 10 the sus-
picion that her mind might be Affected
1t had been determined by the authorities
IA her To q j
pending an examination Of her mental
condition. DR.. J.. Percy HickliHg. one Of
the visiting physicians Of the wOrkhouse,
gave the necessary certificate for her re-
TnovaI to- the asylum several days ago,
but the attitude OF other inmates led to
some delay in securing thS transfer.