Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-05
MURDER AND
RIOTABOUND
THOUSANDS FIGHT MADLY IN
STREETS OF NEW YORK
ANOTHER WOMAN ATTACKED IN
A FIENDISH MANNER
Men Accused of Making Advances to
Little Girls Are Set Upon by
a Mob and Terribly
Beaten
BY Associated Press.

| BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4-Another murder
Gus assault was added to the police rec
ord of recent crime against defenseless
women and girls. Tonight's victim was
Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman of middle
age who was attacked in her apartments
| in the Bronx, cruelty beaten and left in a
helpless state.
| The woman was removed to hospital,
where it was found that her skull had
| been apparently 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 i'm
mediately learn from her she was sur
prised by a smooth-faced stranger. per-
haps 40 years of age. He was coatless
and wore an outing shirt and dark trous-
ers. He escaped.
Just before Miss Ellen Bulger was as
saulted George Kustner, Russian,
charged with assault upon an S-year-old
girl. was set upon by crowd of men
and all but killed. His clothes were torn
from his body and he was taken to a
station house wrapped in a blanket.
Another mob set upon Hylo Soda, an
Indian palmist, who was similarly ac-
cused, and only the timely intervention
OF tne ponce saved MIN from summary
punishment.
Riot at 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 preju-
dices again today, this time to settle a
baseball dispute. and when the argu-
ment was ended fifty persons required
medical treatment and of that number
two will probably die. Probably 5000 per-
sons took part in the fight, but the 800
policemen who dispersed the mob after
every one was fought out, got only nine |
prisoners. and two of these are women |
John McCue, a truck driver, 80 years |
of age, and Matthew Murtha, aged So |
years, an ice peddler, sustained fractures |
of the skulls and were removed to a hos
pital in dying condition. The injuries
of the others ranged from broken ribs to
serious razor cuts.
The trouble started at a ball game in
which white man and a colored man
had made a wager and subsequently,
over the sum. The sight of a
white man and a colored man fighting
started a general row, the crowd being
about equally divided in color Every
sort of weapon was used. and for blocks
the constantly augmenting mob surged |
while the police reserves from eight pre-
cincts hammered away with their clubs to |
breatk the tangle. Occupants of homes /
along the lite of battle were not content II
to be spectators only of strife, and from
windows and points of vantage on the
roofs every piece of crockery and furni-
turture that could be spared was hurled /
down upon the heads of the rioters with |
reckless impartiality. Even women and |
children Joined the fray.
Battle for T,uo Loure
It was two hours before the police con- /
trolled the situation, and eight patrol !
wagons and ambulances picked up those I
who were too seriously worn out 70 get /
away. Those most harmed were taken to /
hospitals and the prisoners were locked |
up, charged with melting to riot. Several
hundred policemen patrollled the disturbed
neighborhood.
Louis ConconceIa. q years of age. was 1
a victim of the blind fury Of rioters to-
night, and will probably die of his inju-
ries. He was in front of the wron gdoing, II
but fell before a crowd determined to have Il
revenge on some one. The dangerous
temper of the people, particularly in the II
foreign quarters. who have been aroused
by the reports of attacks on women and
girls, was exhibited tonight in repeated
instances. A cry that a stranger had
approached a child with familiarity was
enough to start mob.
Try to Lynch Russian
Sadie Hamburger, aged years, playing
in the hall of her tenement home in East
Ninety-ffth street this evening cried out |
that man had seized her The child's
father seized George Knisher, a Russian
by the throat.
The excitement attracted 800 men and |
women, who fought with each other to
get a chance at the Russian. Thirty po-
licemen rescued the Russian, bleeding
from a score of wounds and when all his
but his shoes had been torn from
him. The police wrapped the prisoner in
a blanket and hurried him away.
Sadie's sister corroborated the story of
the attack and the father says that he
saw his daughter in the grasp of the
Russian.
About the same time IIilo Soda nearly
lost his scalp in Thlrty-fourth street He
was accused of having given pennies to
girl u years old. The father wanted to
know why and Soda showed fight. He
slashed about him with a penknife and
then knocked down policeman. A crowd
of perhaps thousand persons attempted
to reach Soda, but the reserves beat them
back and took Soda to the station.
Louis Conconcella was the victim of
A man and wife quar-
relied in One Hundred and Seventeenth
street and their youthful daughter went
out to the sidewalk and wept A passing
boy slapped her and ran away. The girls
cries and the running boy aroused the
neighborhood and they chased the lad.
The boy escaped and Conconcella, who
had outfooted the other pursuers, was
mistaken by the mob for the girls as
sailant.
Overtaken at last, Conconcella was set
upon. knocked down and kicked until
nearly dead. The police rescued him after
he was dangerously injured.