The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-07
MODS FORM UPON
SLIGHT PRETEXT
East Side New Workers Vent
Their Fury Upon Several
innocent Citizens.
CRIMES NOT EXCEPTIONAL
POPULAcE INFLAMED BY GROSS
EXAGGERATlON

New York. Aug. 6.-More of what have
come to be known at police headquarters
as near crimes against girls were fol
lowed by "lynchings" today. Out of the
score of complaints that reached the po-
lice A half dozen demanded serious at
tention Whether the number is extraor-
binary is disputed. but certain it is that
never before has mob vengeance so fire.
quently attended attacks upon children.
Led bv a woman. who, alternately i'm
Italian and broken English, cried "avenge
my daughter" a reckless crowd Of 2OOJ
persons tonight stormed the Fourteentn
street car barns of the Metropolitan StreeL
Railway company, where a policeman ha1
sought refuge with a seriously pummeled
prisoner.
Peddler's Mistake.
Paul Sorgerato a Greek peddler, 80
years of age. had made the mistake, so II
is charged. of kissing Grace JOsco, an
Italian of II years. A shrill cry from
the girl and an imprisoned appeal DE
the mother put the foreigners OF the
neighborhOOd in a rage, and as the Greek
took to his heels a crowd pursued. Nhen
3 block had been covered Sorgerate
stumbled and fell and the mob was upon
him Kicked nearly senselesS, the GIeetN'
a powerful man, nevertheless gained ms
feet only to be knocked down again. by
this time someone had snatched a clothes
line from the window of a grocery store
and the rioters attempted 10 put q moose
over the offenders head. only the over
eageTnesS of each rlOter TO nave a hanu
in the lasooing saved the peddler's neck.
Rescued by Policeman.
During the confusion a policeman ar
rived and dubbed his way to the endan-
gered man. For a moment tEe cEoWu Ieli
back and within that time the officer had
dragged his man to the nearby car barns
COncealing his prisoner in car the OIL
Ger waited assistance. while the rioters
threw themselves against the doors IN an
effort to force an entrance
Police reserves stood off the mob while
the Greek was hustled into a patrol
wagon Through a crowd that cried XIII
their way to the nearest station house
SOrgerato was in bad shape. but II was
thought inadviSable to attempt his re
moval to a hospital during the excite
ment His eyes were blackened, nose
broken. scalp torn, face lacerated and his
body black with bruises.
Workman Badly Beaten.
Cheated of their man. the crowd vented
its fury on CASTOR Kerisl1eu, an unof-
Tending workman hOmeWard bound. As
he was passing the rioters a boy pointed
him out. at the same time yelling: THAT 5
the mans friend. He was there, too.
KeriskeU was pounded until he was I'M
got the injured man and removed him to
q hospital.
Edward Pratt. a millwright. 46 years
old, had a somewhat peculiar experience
late this afternoon in West Fifty-seventh
street. Nellie and Helen Farrell, each
about ten years old. accused Pratt of
improper remarks. He was frightfuiiy
mauled before rescued from mob by
the police.
Not a Crime Wave.
There is not any crime wave said
Superintendent jenkins of the Society Tor
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to-
DAY. I mean by that that our statistics
show no increase in the number of actual
assaults committed upon girls under six
teen years. Our clerical force has just
examined the records to make sure
whether there is or is not any warrant
for published assertions that this phase Of
crime shows a marked increase.
1t is very easy for a mother or father
To take alarm at perfectly innocent
careSS bestowed by a grown person upon
a child and to infer a criminal motive
AT this season there is always rela-
tive increase in the number of assaults
and attempted assaults upon girls under
sixteen. They have not, however, in
creased relatively to the increase of pOpu-
lation There are about the same number
TO date this month and last that there
We're in July and August of 1905.
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