Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-31
ANARCHISTS IN A RIOT
EMMA GOLDMAN ARRESTED AT
CzoLGosz MEETING.
Louis Edelson Points to Assassin as O
Martyr and Detectives
Charge Platform. =

dispatch from New York saws a meet
ing OF anarchists was broken up by a large
force OF policemen about 10 O'Clock last
night. at Manhattan Lyceum, 60 East 9Th
street. The widest kind of a riot followed
when the police stormed the hall Women
screamed Down with the police XIII the
oppressors." and few other such things
When the men quailed the women them
selves led a charge on the cops that was
hot while II lasted. Many of the officers
were badly scratched.
Ten Of the anarchists were arrested,
among them Emma Goldman. who tackled
a cop and was making good until other
officers rescued their battered fellow-raider.
The meeting was a continue ton Of the
one that the police broke up on FORSYTH
street a week ago. This meeting. like the
former one. called TO discuss Czolgosx
and praise him a martyr. Julius Edelson
had hired the hall and called the meeting
and he was the principal speaker
Just as he took the platform fifteen GEN.
trail office men under the lead OF Detective
Sergeant Braun slipped into the hall and
took up places at various points. Rounds
man Book and several plain clothes men
from the Eldridge street station house were
near the door. and Capt. Shaw with TWEEN
ty-five cops in uniform marched up in front
OF the building to await developments.
Two Kinds of Anarchy.
y, u
Sergt Braun: y
Il have many things to say. but first OF
all I wish TO explain anarchy. Now. there
are two kinds of anarchists. One class de-
sires peace, while the others are felons.
But all anarchists do not want the kind OF
peace that Is prescribed by law. The time
will come when We will throw away the
ballot boxes and take things in hand our
selves"
According to Sergt Braun. Edelson went
on to speak then of Czolgosz. He spoke at
considerable length and pictured the slayer
of President Mckinley as a martyr and a
man that had been wronged.
Sergt. Braun then decided that the new
law enacted to cover criminal anarchy had
been violated, and he called upon the cops
to get busy. The central office men leaped
to the platform and grabbed Edelson.
In an instant there was a great uproar-
The women made the most noise. One or
them cried out to the men to kill the
police and a mob surged toward the CEN
trail office men.
Word had been passed to the street and
Capt Shaw and the twenty-five men in uni
form came up to the hall in a jiffy. The
police had a difficult time in clearing the
hall. The women, and they comprised
nearly half Of the audience. flew at the
policemen, scratching and tearing at them,
at the same time shouting that the cops
should be killed
The greatest trouble was made by Lena
Sweet, twenty years old. Russian living
at 104 East 4th street She pitched into
every cop that came near her. Finally
she centered her activity on Policeman
Norris Schwartz. and he was a sorry-look-
ing sight when other cops dragged the
frantic woman away and to the street.
Emma Goldman Arrested.
Emma Goldman was arrested by a cop
who recognized her. She made quite
struggle, but was hustled down the stairs
and to the station house. Edelson was hur-
ried out of the hall after 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 time there were repeated
attempts to fight back and seven OF those
who tried II were corralled and taken to the
station in a patrol wagon. OF the eight,
four were women, mostly young women.
Annie Pastor of 80 ST. Marks place. Some
one started a story that she was related to
Mrs. ]. G. Phelps Stokes, but this was de-
MED.
When taken to the station house Emma
Goldman described herself publisher,
and said she was thirty-eight years old and
single Edelson is the cause of all the
trouble. according to the police. He was
arrested for being concerned in the affair
of last week and was out on s.. 600 bail.
Another OF the prisoners was Rebecca
Edelson, a pretty sixteen-year-old girl and
a sister Of julius. Morris Berkowitz, a
well-known East Side agitator. was one of
the men arrested 1t was learned that
Emma Goldman was slated to make q
speech following that of Edelson.