The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-02
EAST SIDE JEWS MOB NUNS.
PELT SISTERS OF ST. DOMINIC
on RIDGE STREET.

Minute Battle Before Convent-Mob
Leader Caught, Gets on With eS Fine
The Sisters Of the Order Of st. Dominic,
who live at 1928 Ridge street and conduct
a Roman Catholic parochial school, are
having serious trouble with their jewish
neiehbors and two detectives Of the Union
Market police station had a hot fight with a
riotous crowd in attempting to defend some
Of them late Saturday afternoon.
The sisters say that for years they have
been accustomed to annoyance. Not only
the children, but some Of the older people
living around them have frequently In
suited them and teered at them. The gafb
Of the order Is entirely white. with the ex-
ception of a black hood, and 1t makes them
conspicuous when they appear on the
street. They say that whenever they have
zone out Of their house they have always
been the object Of offensive remarks.
This they did not mind, but things took 9
turn for the worse two weeks ago. II Is a
custom OF the order for a certain number
Of the nuns stationed at this point to visit
the mother convent In Brooklyn every
Saturday afternoon. AS they were return
ing to the house on Ridge street on Satur-
day, March II, they were saluted with q
volley Of rotten eggs and the clothing OF
several Of them was bespattered.
This was too much. The Mother Superior
notified Capt. Cooney of the Union Market
notice station, and on the following Satur-
day he detailed two detectives to escort
the sisters to and from their car. which
thew took at the corner OF Delaney street.
Nothing happened that day, but the captain
continued the precautions last Saturday. 4
Detectives Michael Wall and John r.
Baxter were assigned to the duty. All
went we'll on the outward trip. On the
return Journey the policemen walked a
little distance behind the nuns Nothing
happened until the latter were ascending
the steps of their house. Then, without
warning, a small boy ran up and hurled
a decayed orange at the sisters, striking
one Of them Upon the head.
Wall bounced upon the boy instantly.
The captive squirmed and tussled and
howled with all the strength OF his lungs,
but the policeman dragged him into the
convent. There he was questioned, but
refused obstinately to give his name or tell
anything about why he had made the at
tack. At last the policemen started to
take him to the station mouse
While they were inside an excited crowd
Of Hebrews had gathered in front Of the
convent. The the detectives
emerged they we're greeted with shouts
and Kisses, and a shower Of more or less
unpleasant missiles was hurled at them
and at the windows and doors Of the con-
vent. Decayed vegetables and fruit and tin
cans struck the men from all sides and
strewed the steps around them.
When Wall and Baxter descended the
steps. the mob. which. they say, numbered
by this time fully 500 men, women and
childre closed in about them and began
hustling and striking at them. Wal and
Baxter struggled hard to hold OF to their
prisoner hut he WAS taken from them by
force and in a minute was lost in the surging
crowd. The policemen were thumped and
pummeled from head to foot and it was all
they could do to keep their feet.
In the middle Of it all they both seized
upon Jacob G~ainshurgh, ~ years old, of
1870 Ridge street. Wall says Gainsburgh
struck him a ava &c blow over the head
with a club and was generally speaking
one Of the leaders of the riot. One of them
grabbed him on each side and held on for
dear life
The arrest was the signal for a new at
tempt at rescue, but the detectives flung
their prisoner down tho steps of a blind
c%ellarway and closing the trap doors over
him stood on them and kept the crowd at
bay by hard fighting.
The combat lasted twenty minutes and the
two policemen were becoming exhausted
when some way or other word got around
to the station house that a Jewish mob was
trying to kill two men on Ridge street.
Capt. Cooney guessed at once what was
the matter and turned out the reserves in q
hurry to the rescue OF his men.
The uniformed cops began operations
on the outskirts Of the crowd, and the
suueals that their gentle methods evoked
drew the attention OF the entire mob in that
direction. Then the trouble was over.
The sight Of the uniforms on a dozen men
was enough and the rioters disappeared
inside Of forty seconds In the Railways
of the neighboring tenement houses,
Gainshurgh was tai en- to the station house
and locked up all night. In the Essex
Market police court yesterday morning
he was accused Of riotous conduct and at
lacking a policeman, but Magistrate Walsh
let him CT with a fine Of S..
The detectives say that they have the
portrait Of the Young orange thrower very
wildly fixed in their minds and they expect
TO PICK MN up on tue stIeeL IN tne neht udy
or two.
The mother superior, when seen at the
convent yesterday, expressed great regret
that the situation had taken on such an
acute phase. She said she was sorry
that any publicity had heen given to the
petty persecution that she and the sisters
had suffered, as she feared that it would
only make conditions worse. 1t was said
at the convent that %annoyances had been
so persistent of late that no member of
the community dared show herself either
in the street or in the rear court Of the
convent which is overlooked by the windows
of the adjacent houses.
As a way Of showing their displeasure
at the events Of Saturday. it was said,
the n~eighbors had thrown all sorts Of
filthy refuse into the court. The sisters
said they would give up their Saturday
pilgrimages to Brooklyn for some time
until the acute hostility Of the people has
subsidized. There are about thirty MEM
bers of the order at this place and they
conduct a parish school with an attendance
OF about 400 pupils.
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