The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-13
NEGROES RIOT; ONE SHOT DEAD
WHITE ATTENDANTS AT SUFFERS
PARK BADLY MAULED.

women the Cause Of Two Fierce Fights
Policeman Brings Down Man WhO
Had Knocked Out Tricky RiVal-A
slap started Fuss At Picnic Of BeIImen.
A little scufhe between two negroes. a
man and a woman. at one Of the tables that
rim the dancing foo Of the ballroom OF
Suffers Harlem River Park shortly ate
midnight yesterday morning and the conse-
uuent interference Of a special pc liceman
started a fight between the blacks and the
few white attendants about the park. There
was q good sized not going on in a few min
utes The Ill feeling at-the dance was the
direct cause Of trouble later down In the
San Juan Hill district and this resulted
in the shooting and killing Of q negro laborer
named John A. Harris by Pstrolman Charles
DAILY Of the West 81 xty- eighth street police
station.
Over 1000 negroes. their wives and sweet
hearts, started for Suffers on Tuesday eve
ming to attend a ball given by the
Beneficial Association. which Ia mads up OF
many Of the negro walters OF New York, as
well as the bellhSps. All the men seemed
TO be well supplied with money and as soon
as they arrived in the park sought out the
tables around the ballroom. There wa
much ordering Of beer and a consequent
rise Of spirits early in the evening.
What caused the quarrel between the
young negro and his companion at one
of the tables could not be learned, nor
are their names known. Those who saw the
beginning OF the trouble could only tell
afterward that they saw the man slap the
woman, and that the blow was seen by
Special Policeman Dooley, who fastened
TO her assistance. Dooley struck the negro
assailant with his club, and almost instantly
all the other negroes turned upon the white
policeman.
The mob was entirely too big for Dooley,
and he turned and ran toward the kitchen
for safety. In the kitchen he found two
German cooks, Emile Schwartzkopf and
Ernest Schmidt, and the three white men
tried to make a stand against the swarm
OF blacks who had followed Dooley n
were now beginning to throw beer glasses,
bottles and chairs.
One fyinR bottle struck Schmidt on the
nose and broke il. A beer glass landed on
soh~wartzkopf's head and cut his forehead.
The racket brought Special Policeman
Gus Sulzer-a cousin Of the park owner
and William Hagan, and two walters named.
James Newman and Max Zeller, TO the as
sistance Of Dooley and the German cooks,
and ali Jared badly Hagan had his front
teeth knocked out by a brawny black fist
in the mixup and Suffers cheek was slashed
with a knife or razor so badly. that hve
stitches were necessary to close the wound
The tNo white walters, Newman and Zeller'
came out of the fight with heads and faces
severely cut and bruised. While the fracas
was at its worst Dooley managed TO escape
Somebody sent word to the East l26th
street police station that there was a race
hot In progress and a few minute later
R~oundsman Austin and twenty reserves
trotted into the park. By planting night
sticks where they would do the most good
the police soon scattered the lev negroes
who had not ned when the brass buttons
gIinted at the park gate. When the dust
settled IL was found that only one negro
youth had been arrested. =,
Tho prisoner gave his name az Oswald
Deverney and his address as 107 West
i34th street. As there had been ave shots
Rred while the uproar was going on young
Deverney was Afrisked' Tor a revolver
as soon as he was seized but none was found
on him. He was taken to the East 10th
street station house for the rest OF the
night and later arraigned before Magis-
trate Finn In the Harlem court, charged
with assault by Special Policeman Sulzer.
Deverney was bound over for a further
examination this morning. In the mean
time the wounded white men had been
cared for by DR.. Ginsberg Of the Harlem
hospital.
II was shortly before ? o'clock yesterday
morning when John Harris OF 23S West
Sixty-second street got into a fight with q
negro named James Johnson at the corner OF
Amsterdam avenue and West Sixty-second
street. Harris had been waiting for johnson