Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-08
ALLEGED RACE RIOT
JUNCTION CASE IN
JUVENILE COURT TODAY.
Arrests Made Of Boys Under Sixteen
Years-Row Of Large Pro-
portions.

About forty white boys and men and sew
eral hundred colored men and women
clashed near Chesapeake Junction, at the
District line, about 9 oclock last night AS
a result of the riot. which lasted for about
half an hour, George Hayes. Carter Davis
and Joseph Coleman, white boys, sixteen
years> og afe, were arrested by the police
of the ninth precinct. The trio was ar
raigned in the Juvenile Court this afternoon
on a charge of disorderly conduct and
Coleman on an additional charge Of as
sault on Venerable Brown, colored. Judge
DeLacy dismissed the charges
venerable Brown, who claims to have been
assaulted, told of his part in the affair and
said he was struck across the back with a
big stick in the hands of Coleman Police
men Thomas and Giles also testified re-
sarding the rioting, and of the calling of
the police reserves of three precincts to
quiet the crowd.
Guns, Stones and Sticks.
Guns. stones and sticks are said to have
been used. A concert at Deanwood Park,
near Chesapeake Junction, yesterday after
noon and evening. attracted large number
OF coiored men and women to the resort;
and to take the cars back to their homes
in the city the crowds focked to Chesa-
peake junction about o'clock Trouble
had been brewing during the day between
certain white residents living near there
and the crisis occurred when the crowd of
ton.
Just after a car for the city had pulled
out 1t is declared. gang of white boys
and men. whose ages are said to range
from sixteen to forty-five years. suddenly
surrounded the crowd of colored persons
and began throwing stones and sticks OF
wood, regardless of who was struck or
what the consequences might be.
pn1
precinct was detailed to the station in citi-
zens clothes. and when the clash occurred
he started for the patrol box, fifty yards
away. The white crowd, he says. saw the
tack, stones and even bullets being sent
after him to prevent him from getting near
the patrol box.
Bullets We're Whizzing.
Afraid of the bullets which. he says, vert
whizzing around the patrol box, Policeman
Thomas turned and ran in the direction OF
the office of DR.. Jones. about two squares
away He was soon at the telephone in
that office, and he called to the ninth pre-
that riot had been started. Reserves from
the second. sixth and ninth precincts were
sent at once to the scene
Meanwhile Policeman Thomas returned
and found the crowd still there. He pulled
his revolver from his pocket. and with that
he forced the crowd back across the Mary
land line and he could go no further. He
was able to hold back the crowd until the
reserves arrived .
Five minutes after Capt. Daley and his
men appeared the crowd had been dispersed,
and the three young men were taken into
custody. having been pointed out as leaders
In the rioting.
Attention Given the Injured.
Attention was next given to the injured,
and three were removed in street cars to
the Casualty Hospital. The injured were:
Addison Lawrence of Deanwood at Cas-
uaity Hospital. suffering from scalp
wounds. bruises of the body and a fracture
Of the nose.
Robert West of Cottage Hill. D. c., at
Casualty Hospital badly beaten about the
face and body.
Jasper Fink at his home. near Berryville
d. c., suffering from a knife cut on right
arm.
Several others suffered minor injuries.
1t Is declared that much of the riotine
occurred on the Maryland side of the line
and that the prosecutions will be taken I'D
in that Jurisdiction.