New-York tribune., 1905-07-18
NEGROES AGAIN RI0TlNG.
MANY SHOTS FIRED.
Several 4rrestS Made-Policeman
Badly Injured.

Trouble between negroes and the police broke
out afresh after 1913 a. m. to-day on the West
Side Policemen David Roche. Everett Fayer
Benjamin Couners and McKneisch were return
ing to the West 6Sth-st station, and while
passing the saloon at No. 236 West 62d-st. were
jeered at by crowd of twenty negroes who
were on the stoop. The policemen turned, and
just then one of the men threw brick which
struck Roche on the head. knocking him sense
less The three others charged with their night
sticks and We're met by fusillade Of bricks
thar had evidently been Eathered IN the hallway.
Jther policemen came from Amsterdam and
West End aves., and dash was made into the
saloon in the rear room of which more than
twenty negroes were found. The negroes
,,pened fire with their revolvers. and their fire
was returned by the policemen. Then the crowd
ed and were pursued to various houses in
he block.
The police captured Arthur Moody, of No 23S
West 62d-st. who is said to have been the man
who threw the brick at Roche and who when
cornered on the roof put up strong fight with
bricks which had been piled there ready for use
against policemen.
George Foster proprietor of the saloon who is
better known as The Duke" was also arrested,
with eleven other colored men. Roche was re-
moved to Roosevelt Hospital where it was
feared that he had a fractured skull. He *Eas
placed at once on the operating table. Ihe rlot-
ing spread to 61st-st in a saloon at No 2S4. The
fight started among the negroes and when
the police entered two shots were fire at them
After a long struggle the police succeeded in ar
resting four men and three women. They were
taken TO the West GSth-st station house.
BY that time Captain CoOney, of the 6Sth-st
station had arrived with all of the reserves
and after the last colored man had been driven
TO the street the riot seemed to be at an end for
the time being. There were forty men on duty
in the district at , o'clock this morning
1t was IN front of Fosters saloon where Roche
was attacked last night, that Roundsman Walsh
was attacked and severely injured during the
riotine of Friday night.
After the prisoners had been taken to the
station it was found that Moody, the alleged as
eaiIant Of Roche had been shot in the back
Robert christopher, of No 224 West 62d-st,
had been shot in the leg and the bone broken,
and John Fernando, of No. 213 West o3d-st'
Roosevelt Hospital where it was said that their
condition not serious.
There was a lively fight earlier in the day
downtown in the Helrs Kitchen district which
might have proved serious had it not been for
the early arrival of the reserves of the Tender
Ioin West 4Ith-st. and West 6Sth-St. stations
The fight started with the attempt to evict
Josephine Tompkins, burly negress, from her
three rooms in the double tenement mousse
Nos 412-414 West 39th-st
on the arrival of the reserves the whites and
blacks who had been waiting for trouble be-
gan to seek it. Small boys and women threw
stones from the windows and egged the crowd
on but the police finally dispersed the mob
with their nightstcks before anyone was badly
hurt.