Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1907-09-12
Two Thousand People Storm
Jail and Form a Triumph
al Procession After She Is
Released on Bond.

The fool policemen of Spokane and
the idiotic city "reform" administra-
tion has broken out in new place
and attempted to put an end to So
cialist street speaking.
Saturday evening, September Z, Mrs.
Hazlett was addressing a crowd Of
5000 people on the street. She had
spoken for an hour and a half without
any molestation. There was not the
slightest disturbance, the crowd stand
ing remarkably still in a compact mass
during that time. Just as she had
announced her collection and was be-
ginning to sell her books and subscrip-
tion cards, policeman in plain clothes
came up and said, she was obstructing
the sidewalk. She said she was not
obstructing the sidewalk as she was
in the middle of the street, but asked
the crowd to open up passage, which
it Immediately did. She then told the
policeman that il was his business 10
keep people off the sidewalk and not
hers. Whereupon he jerked her down
from the box and placed her under ar
rest. The vast crowd began a most
vigorous protest, shouting and sham
ing the policeman and even threatening
to use force.
As the policeman started toward the
Jail with Mrs. Hazlett, the crowd form
ed procession and fell in behind,
shouting and raising a din that was
heard all over the city. Comrade Tam
blen mounted the box to continue the
speaking, but everybody ON the streets
was headed towards the Jail. A body
of policemen joined the first one and
Mrs. Hazlett proceeded under heavy
guard. She took the matter cheer
fully through and bowed and smiled
as hats were lifted and cheers went up
whenever she came in sight.
Many women followed all the long
distance of about a mile TO the Jail.
The crowd never ceased heaping abuses
and maledictions upon the police, who
looked utterly amazed and stunned at
the unexpected storm they had evoked
IL was as tho volcano had broken
forth in all its fury from ground that
was supposed to be solid and substan-
tial.
AS the heavy doors changed behind
Mrs. Hazlett the fury of the thousands
of people who had gathered outside in
creased. The police grabbed one young
man and hauled him in too.
Dozens were on hand with offers for
the cash bond, which was demanded.
One business man said they could put
him down for $500. A young lawyer
by the name of Kirby, who was not
socialist at all and was a stranger
to Mrs. Hazlett, offered TO go her bond
with u check, but was told cash was
required, and he Immediately left to
procure it. Mrs. Hazlett was taken
inside the cage while the bond was
fixed up. She was then cited to ap-
pear for trial on Monday at lao p. M.
On emerging from the Jail the cheers
and greetings of the crowd were tre-
mendous. Comrade Lichty stepped TO
one side of her, and Comrade Mrs.
Wilson to the other, and they started
towards the Central Rooming house
where Mrs. Hazlet was stopping. The
crowd fell in behind in such dense
mass that it was necessary to take the
middle of the street. Even so the
street was blocked for two blocks, and
the street ears, carriages and teams
were brought to halt. As block after
block was passed, the people lined the
sidewalks and cheered as at a Fourth
of July celebration. The crowd never
stopped cheering for an instant.
When the rooming block was reach
ed, the nearest friends crowded into
Mrs. Hazlett's room, while II seemed