The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-31
RAIDED ANARCHISTS IN RIOT.
EMMA GOLDMAN ARRESTED AT
CZOLGOSZ MEETING.

Julius EueisOn Paints Assassin as q Martyr.
Then Detectives Charge on Platform
Women Scream, Scratch IND Fight
n Cops. VINO Clear Out East side Hall.
A meeting Of anarchists was raided and
broken up by a large force Of policemen
about 10 O'Clock last night at Manhattan
Lyceum, 90 East Fourth street. The widest
kind Of a riot followed when the police
stormed the hall. Women screamed Down
with the poIicelF Kill the oppressors!'
and a few other such things.
When the men qusiled the women them
selves led a charge on the cops that was
hot while it lasted. Many OF tho officers
we're badly scratched.
Ten OF the anarch lists 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 continuation Of the
one chat the police broke up oil Forsyth
street a week ago. This meeting, like the
former one, was called to discuss Czolgoez
and praise him as a martyr. Julius Edelson
had hired the hall and called the meeting
and he was the principal speaker.
just a. he took the platform fifteen Gen.
tral Once men under the lead OF Detective
Sergeant Braun slipped into the hall and took
up places at various points. Roundsman
Book and several plain clothes men from
the Eldridge street station house were near
the door and Capt. Shaw with twenty-five
cops In uniform marched up in front Of the
building to await developments.
Edelson began IN this way, according to
Sergt. Braun:
Il have many things TO say, but first Of
all ! 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 hat is prescribed by law. The
time will come when we will throw away
the ballot boxes and take things in hand
ourselves
According to Sergt. Braun, Edelson
went OH to speak then Of Czolgosz. He
spoke at considerable length and pictured
the slayer Of President Mex inley asa 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
10 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 OF
them cried out TO the men to kill the police
and a mob surged toward the Central Office
men.
Word had been passed to the street and
Capt. Shaw and the twenty-five men in
uniform anne up TO the hall in a jify. The
police had a difficult time in clearing the
hall NJ uaunap anl khat oNOnnAazl
nearly half of the audience, few 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. 20 years old. a Russian living at IO4
East Fourth street. She pitched into every
cop that came near ncr. Finally she oen-
tired her activity on Policeman Morris
schwartz. and he was a sorry looking sight
when other cops dragged the frantic woman
way and 10 the street.
Emma Goldman was arrested by a cop
who recognized her. She made quite a
struggle but was hustled down the stairs
and to the station house. Edelson was
hurried out Of the hall after Lena Sweet.
Then the uniformed police under Capt.
Shaw struggled and yanked tho mob about
until they had forced all hands down to
the street.
During all this time there were repeated
attempts to fight hack and seven Of those
who tried il were corrslled and taken 10
the station in a patrol wagon. OF the eight.
four were women. mostly Young woman,
One Of those arrested gave her name as
Annie Pastor Of 90 ST. Marks place. Some
one started a story that she was related to
Mn. J. @. Phelps Stokes, but this was
denied.
When taken to the station house, Emma
Goldman described herself "a a publisher,
and said she was IS years old and single.
Edelson il 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 81 900 bail.
Another Of the prisoners was Rebecca
EdelsOn, 4 pretty sixteen-year-o old girl and
a sister Of Julius. Morris Berkowitz, a well
known East Side agitatoT, was one Of the
men arrested. 1t was learned that Emma
Goldman was slated to make a speech fol-
lowing that Of Edelson.