The San Francisco call., 1906-09-10
MISSION ROUGHS
MOB OFFICER.
Patrolman With Prisoner
Seeks Shelter in
Undertaking Parlors
FRIGHTENED BY SHOT

Several hundred men and boys.
drunk with Sunday liquor and out
lawry, and after a policeman, would
have wrecked the undertaking
Mission street at o'clock last even
ing had not three men stood in the
doorway with drawn revolvers and by
firing a shot forced them from their
grim purpose. But before the place
was safe the entire glass front of the
establishment had been shattered by
bricks and stones, and Charles McPher-
shot, had been knocked to the floor by
a brickbat thrown through the broken
glass door.
At the time of the riot there were
three bodies in the mortuary chapel in
the rear of the parlors.
The mob's riotous purpose was to ef-
feet the rescue from Policeman j. T.
Gallagher of George McKenna, a press
man, 80 years of age, living at 1880
Tenth street, Oakland, and to punish
Gallagher for beating the prisoner in
making the arrest. McKenna had been
fighting on the streets, says Gallagher,
and the patrolman stopped the COM
bat by knocking the men apart with his
hand. McKenna's opponent escaped.
McKenna resented the policeman's
technique and turned on him. Then
Gallagher drew his club and beat the
man about the head severely. The riot
followed.
THREE UNDER ARREST.
Before it was over K. Sullivan, a
teamster, employed in a coal yard at
I'll Ashbury street, and Walter Cliff
ford, boy of IS, working as a car
penter and living at 1928 Nineteenth
street, had been arrested, the former
charged with melting a riot the lat
i
weapon. McKenna was also booked at
the Mission station, with the men who
are said to have fought for him, after
the surgeons at the City and County
Hospital had finished with his head.
1t is usual thing, the police say
for crowd of young hoodlums of the
Mission to congregate on Sunday
nights at Mission and Twenty-second
streets, which two theaters and many
saloons have helped to establish as the
center of sidewalk society in the dis
trict. In the gang are to ~e found
priceless fighters and wayward youths
seeking to emulate them in toughness.
Last night the usual gang was there.
According to Gallagher, who was the
only policeman on hand at the incipt-
ency of the struggle, McKenna was
fighting on the street when he inter-
vened A club was necessary to make
McKenna stand for the intervention,
and he did not accept the clubbing in
a proper spirit but called loudly on his
gang to rescue him. Missiles began to
fly. A brick struck Gallagher on the
head, breaking his helmet. another hit
him on the left ear, causing it to bleed.
Stunned by the blows, the policeman
hurried under fire to Bunker & Lunts
undertaking parlors, where he knew he
could find a telephone on which to call
for aid. He expected. not knowing the
caliber of the toughs and hoodlums
with which he had to DEAL that they
would show some reverence for the
mortuary chapel. But there was little
reverence at Mission and Twenty-sec-
ond streets last night. No sooner had
Gallagher and McKenna got inside
than the stones were hurled through
the large plate-glass windows Sulli-
to have called on the crowd to force
an entrance into the place of the dead
and lynch Gallagher
SHOT FRIGHTENs MOB.
c. H. Kent. manager for Bunker
& Lunt, and L. Maison and Charles Nc
Pherson, employees, hustled the wound
ed officer and his prisoner to the rear
of the store and stood with drawn re-
volvers within the threshold while
stones thrown with savage velocity
sped by them and fell among the
panoply of the dead.
A brother of NICK emma, who was with
him when the fight started, came to the
front of the store and pleaded with the
ruffians to be quiet. But that was not
what the hoodlums wanted. They
wanted to hurt some one. The pres
ence of three dead bodies in the build
ing they were storming did not even
disconcert the fowdies.
A rough aimed a brick at Mcpherson