The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-05
MURDER RECORD IN
NEW YORK GROWING
A Woman Assaulted and
Left Half Dead by Man
Entering by Roof.
RACE RIOT ADDS
TO CRIME REIGN
Whites and Negroes Fight Two
Hours at Ball Game-Man De-
tending Child Set Upon aid
Wounded by Excited
Mobs-Othcr Out
breaks.

NEW YORK, August 4.-Another
murdcrous assault was added tonight
to the police record Of recent crimes
against defcnscless women and girls.
Tp-night's victim was Mrs Ellen Bul-
ger woman of middle age, who was
attacked In her apartments In incl
Bronx, cruelty beaten and left In
hel pless state. The woman was re-
moved TO a hospital, where it was
found that her skull had apparently
been fractured. her face and head lac
Grated and her body otherwise bruised
There was evidence that the woman
had made courageous fight. From
what the police were able to immed!-
ately learn from her, she was surprised
BY a smooth faced stranger, perhaps
forty years OF age. He was coauess
and wore an outing shirt and dark
trousers. He escaped.
Just before Mrs. Bulger was as
saulted George Kestner a Russian.
charged with attempted assault upon
sn eight-year-oid girl. was set upon
By a crowd Of men and all but killed.
his body and lie was taken to the
station house wrapped in a blanket
Man Came Through Roof.
When John Buiger returned to-nlghtl
TO the fiat lie and his widowed mother,
Mrs Ellen Bulgcr, occupy, according
to the story he told the police, heI
found his mother lying UNCONSCIOUS on
the floor. He revived her, and shel
told him that She had been assaulted
by an Italian, who had escaped. Mrs.
BuIger said that she was seized from
behind by man, who she thought
bn This
man. Mrs Bulgcr said, knocked her
half senseless and attempted to as
sault her Noise in the fiat below
frightened him, and he fed. Later 1t
was said that the woman would prob
Ably recover
Whites md Blacks In Riot.
The nghting element among tn.
whites and blacks in the vicinity Of
oae Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street
Gnd Fifth Avenue lined up. according
to their racial prejudlces again to-day,
t,l:s time 10 settle baseball dispute,
and when the argument was ended,
fifty persons required medical treat
lnent, and Of that number two will die
Probably 5000 persons took part IN
th-. fight but the 800 policemen who
dispersed the mob after every one was
fought out, got only nine prisoners. and
of these. two were women.
John McCue, truck driver. thirty
two years old. and Matthew Murtha,
aged thlrty-five years, an Ice pediar,
received fractured skulls and were re-
moved to a hospital in dying condi-
tion. The injuries of others ranged
from broken noses to serious razor
cuts.
Started at Ball Ga me.
The trouble started at ball game.
white 81 r0lnred
bad made wager and subsequently
uuarreled over the settlement. Present.
~ the sight of white man and a
colored man fighting started general
row, the crowd being about evenly d.
Nidcd In color. Every sort of weapon
was used. ard fer blocks the. constantly
augmented MOB surgcd, while the po-
lice reserves from eight precincts ham
mered away with their clubs to break
She tangle. Occupants of homes along
the lines of battle were not content
to be spectators only OF the strife, and
from windows ana points of vantage
on tho roofs -.7ery piece of crockery
or furuitutn that could be spared was
hurled down. uroa the heads of the
rioters with reckless impartality
Even women and children Joined the
fray.
Fought for Two Hours.
1T was two hours before the police
controlled the situation, and then pa
troll wagons and ambuances picked
mp those who We're too seriously worn
out to get away. Those most harmed
were taken to hospitals. and the
prisoners were locked up charged with
inciting a riot. Tonight several hun.
dred officers patroled the disturbed
neighborhood.
Louis Conconela twenty-one years
old, was the victim of the blind fur!
of rioters Tonight, and will probably
die Of his injuries. He was innocent
OF wrongdoing, but fell before
crowd determined TO have revenge OF
someone.
The dangerous temper of the people
particularly in the foreign quarter:
who have been aroused by the report
of attacks upon women and girls, wa
exhibited tonight in repeated in
stances A cry that a stranger had ap
preached child with familiarity wa
enough to start a mob.
Chased by Another Mob.
Sadie Hamberger aged eight year
playing In the hallway of her tene
ment fomc, in East Ninety fifth Stree
this evening" cried out that a man ha
seized her. Tho chld's father seize
0eorge Keshner. a Russian bookbinde
Oy lle lHFodt Ille ohGltcilleHL ~
tracted 500 men and women, WI
fought with each other to get chnnt
Mt the Russian. Thirty Policemen re
cued licshner, bleeding Srom, a scol
of wounds, and when all his clothir
but his shoes had been torn from hi,
Tho police wrapped tho prisoner In
blanket and hurried him away. Sadie
sister corroborated the story OF n
tack and the father says that he sa
his daughter in the grasp Of tho Ru
sian.
Wanted to Scalp Another.
III About the same time IIylo Salot
n nearly lost his scalp In Thirty Four
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