The Washington herald., 1906-10-31

New York. Oct. S0.-A meeting of
anarchists was raided and broken up 10y
a. large force OF police about 10 O'Clock
tonight at the Manhattan Lyceum, @
East Fourth street. The widest kind of
% riot followed when the police stoTmed
The haH. Women screamed Down with
the police XIII the oPpressors.'' and
few other such things.
When the men quailed. the women
themselves led Il charge on the police that
was hot while it lasted Many OF The
officers were badly scratched and
punched.
Ten Of the anarchists We're arrested,
among them Emma Goldman, who tackled
o. policeman and was making good until
osher officers rescued their battered fcl-
low-raider.
The meeting was q continuation OF the
oac that the police broke up on Forsyth
street a week ago. This meeting. Ike
shat one. was called TO discuss Czolgosz
and praise him as a martyr. Julius Edel-
son had hired the hall called tho meet
ing, and was The principal speaker.
Policemen Enter Hall.
Just Is he took the platform. central
Cfice men. under the lead of Detective
Sergeant Braun, slipped into the hall and
look up places at various points.
Roundsman Book and several plain
clothes men from the Eldridge street sta
lion were near the door. and Capt. Shaw
with twenty-five men in uniform marched
up In front of the building 10 await de
NelOpmentS.
Edelson began in this way. according
to Sergt. Braun.
! have many things to say. but first of
al / wish 20 explain anarchy. Now,
there are two kinds OF anarchists. One
class desires peace, while the others are
ielons. But all anarchists 90 not want
the kind of peace that j. prescribed BY
law The time viii come when we viii
throw away the ballot boxes and take
things in hand ourselves
Calls CEolgOsE a Martyr.
According TO Sergt- Braun. Edelson
went On to speak Of Czolgosz- He spoke
at considerable length. and pictured the
slayer Of President Mckinley Us a martyr
and man that hsd hceu sron kcd-
Sergt Braun then decided that the new
law enacted to cover criminal anarchy
had been violated. and he called upon
the officers TO get busy. The central Of
nee men leaped to the platform and
grabbed Edelson-
In an instant there was a great uproar
The women made the most noise One
% IF them cried QUITO the men 20 kin the
police, and a mob surged toward the cen
tral Office men. Word had been passed
10 the street, and Capt. Shaw and the
twenty-five men in uniform came up TO
She hall in jiffy.
The police had difficult time in clear
ing the hall The wonderland they com
Prised nearly half Of the audience-ficw
az the police, scratching and tearing at
them, az the same time shouting that the
rolicc should be Killed.
The greatest trouble was made by Lena
Sweet, twenty years old, "a Russian. She
pitched into every cop that came near
her. Finally she ceutered her activity
on Policeman Morris Schwart, and he
was sorry locking sight when other
police dragged the franif woman away.
and TO the street
Emma Goldman Is Arrested.
Emma Goldman WAS arrested by an
officer who recognized her. She made
quite struggle, but was hustled down
the stairs and 10 the station. Edelson
vas hurried out Of the hall, as was
Lena Sweet. Then the uniformed police,
under Capt Shaw. struggled and yanked
the mob about until they had forced all
hands down to the street.
During all this there were repeated at
-empts 10 night back, and eight of these
offenders Vere c0TIalled and taken to the
station in patrol wagon. OF the eight
four We're women, mostly young. one CT
those arrested gave her name as Annie
Pastor. Of 81 s.. Marks place. some one
started 4 story that she was related to
Mrs J. G. Phelps Stokes, but this was
denied
When taken TO the station house Emma
Goldman described herself as q publisher,
Salc Shc was thlrty-eight years old. and
single Edels0p is tho cause Of all the
trouble. according 30 the police. He was
arrested Tor being concerned in the affair
Of last week, aud was out or s.. .0Oe bail.
It was learned that Emma Goldman WAS
slated to make a speech follo wing that Of
[delson.