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 Infud-
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 I'm the
Bronx. cruelty beaten and left In a
helpless state. The woman was re
moved to a hospital where II 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 10 a station house
wrapped In a blanket
Indian Palmist BADLY Beaten.
Another mob set uDon HylO Saioda,
an Indian palmist, who was similarly
accused and only the timely interven-
tion of the police saved him from
summary puuisnfneiu.
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 preiudices again today
this time to settle a baseball dispute
aud MI tha argpFppuf 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 everS
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
R.zors 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. Pre'-
emily the sight of a white man and q
colored man fighting started a genets
row. the crowd being about equa Is
divided In color Every sort of weu
on was used and for blocks the coa-
stantly augmenting mob surged, while
the police reserves from eight pre-
cincts hammered away with their
clubs TO break the tangle. Occupants
of homes on the line of battle hurled
crockery and furniture from windows
and points Of vantage with reckless
imparilality, women and children
Joining In the fray.
II was two hours before the police
controlled the situation.
Tonight several hundred officers
patrolled the disturbed neighbOrhood |
Innocent Victim of Mobs Fury.
Louis Conconella, 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 i
was enough to start mob
Sadie Hamburger. aged eight years. /
playing in the hallway Of her tene-
ment home in East Ninety-fifth streOt /
this evening. cried out that a man /
had seized her. The child's father 4
seized George Keshner. a Russian
bookbinder. by the throat The ex-
citement attracted 500 men and wom-
en-. who fought with each other To
get a chance al the Russian. Thirty
policemen rescued Keshner. bleeding
from a score Of wounds. and when an ]
his clothing had been torn from him.
Sadie's 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. lie was accused Of
having offered pennies 10 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
ao"n a policeman. A crowd Of per-
haps thousand persons attempted 90
reach saloda. but reserves beat them
back.
Innocent BVstander Gets His.
Louis ConcOnella was the victim 81
~, ~, umstanees. A man and wife quar-
REED and their youthful daughter
"eh' OUT 10 the Sidewalk and wept
= passing boy slapped her and ran
way The girls cries and the run
hlhg BOY aroused the neighbors. who
c. CHASED the lad. The boy escaped. and