Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-05
Fifty Wounded and Nine In.
Jail When Dispute Over Base
Ball Game Is Threshed Out In
Gotham.
CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
CONTINUE UNABATED
Suspects Roughly Handled by
MobS; Thirty Policemen Res
cue One Victim From Infuri-
ated Women.

lBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire ]
New York, Aug. 4.-Another muir
derous assault was added tonight to
the police record of recent crime
against defenseless women and girls.
Tonight's victim was Mrs. Ellen Bull
ger. woman of middle age. who was
attacked in her apartment in the
Bronx, cruelty beaten and left in a
helpless state. The woman was re-
moved to a hospital, where it was
found that her skull had apparently
been fractured, her face and hands
lacerated and her body otherwise
bruised. There was evidence that-the
woman had made a courageous fight.
From what the police were able to
learn from her. she was surprised by
smooth-faced stranger, perhaps
forty years of age. He escaped,
Just before Miss Bulger was as
saulted George Kestner, a Russian,
charged with attempted assault upon
an eight-year-old girl, was set upon
by crowd of men and all but killed.
The clothes were torn from his body
and he was taken to a station house
wrapped in a blanket.
Indian PalmIst Badly Beaten.
Another mob set upon HylO SalOda,
an Indian palmist. who was similarly
accused, and only the timely interyen-
tion. OF the police saved him from
summary punishment.
Race War Over Ball Game.
The fighting element among the
whites and blacks In the vicinity of
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street
and Fifth avenue lined up according
to their racial prejudices again today,
this time to settle a baseball dispute.
and when the argument was ended
fifty persons required medical treat
ment, and of that number two will
die Probably 5000 persons took
part In the fight but the policemen
who dispersed the mob after ever5
one was fought out got only nine
prisoners, and OF these two were
women John McCue, truck driver.
thirty-two years of age, and Matthew
Murtha, aged thirty-five years, an Ice
peddler, received fractured skulls and
were removed to a hospital in dying
conditions.
RaZOrs Used In Melee.
The injuries of others ranged from
broken noses to serious razor cuts
The trouble started at a ball game
where a white man and a colored man
had made a wager and subsequently
quarreled over the settlement. Pres
emily the sight of white man and 2
colored man fighting started a gener.
row, the crowd being about equa ~
divided In color. Every sort of wea. ?
on was used and for blocks the con-
stantly augmenting mob surged, while
t..l.A
cincts hammered away with their
clubs to break the tangle. Occupants
Of homes on the line Of battle hurled
cr0ckery and furniture from windows
and points of vantage with reckless
impartiallty. women and children
Joining In the fray
It was two hours before the police
controlled the situation
Tonight several hundred officers
patrolled the disturbed nelghborhood.
innocent Victim of Mob's Fury
Louis Conconela. twenty-one years
of age, was a victim OF the blind fury
of rioters tonight and will probably
die of his injuries He was innO-
cent, but fell before a crowd deter
mined to have revenge on some one.
The dangerous temper of the people.
particularly In the foreign quarters.
who have been aroused by the reports
Of attacks on women and girls. was
exhibited tonight in repeated In
stances. A cry that a stranger had
approached a child with familiarity
was enough to start a mob
Sadie Hamburger, aged eight years,
playing In the hallway of her tene-
ment home In East Nlnety-fifth street
this evening. cried out that a man
had seized her. The child's father
seized George Keshner a Russian
bookbinder, by the throat The ex-
element attracted 500 men and wom-
en- who fought with each other to
get n chance at the Russian. Thirty
policemen rescued Keshner. bleeding
from a score OF wounds. and when all
his clothing had been torn from him.
Sadlea sister cOrrobOrated the story
Of attack. but the father says he saw
his daughter In the grasp OF the Rus
sian
About the same time Hylo saloda
nearly lost his scalp In Twenty
fourth street He was accused Of
having offered pennies to girl
twelve years OF age. The father
wanted to know why. and saloda
showed fight. He slashed about him
with a penknife and then knocked
down q policeman A crowd OF per-
hapa thousand persons attempted to
reach sal0da. but reserves beat them
back.
Innocent Bystander Gets Ills.
Louis cGnconella was the victim Of
circumstances man and wife quar-
relied and their youthful daughter
went out TO the sidewalk and wept.
A passing boy slapped her and ran
away The girls cries and the rum
ming boy aroused the neIghbors, who
chased the lad. The boy escaped. and
conconella, who had outfooied the