Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-30
POLICE DISPERSE RIOTERS
TRY TO BREAK
UP CATHOLIC MEETING.
Young Italians Hold Up Gathering of
Italian Societies-Clergyme
Wait Long for Hearing. 4

NEW YORK. September 30 A group of
young Italians tried TO break up the mass
meeting held by the Federation of Ita an
Societies in Cooper Union yesterday after
noon. The meeting was called to register
a protest against the recent outrage upon
members Of the Catholic clergy ia italy
The hail was packed with prominent Ital-
ians and their families. and sevcuty-five
members of the Catholic clergy occupied
seats on the platform There wer, 800
Italians in the street WHO had been unable
TO get n.
The Trouble Makers
From the beginning OF the meeting at 3
O'Clock a group of about thirty yuur4 men
in seats to the right of The stage was
making trouble. When DR.. Lorenzo lilo.
the chairman, opened tine meeting these
young men began shouting rather uupyas-
ant bits of slang that shocked those ON
the platform, among whom We're Mgr MI
ChaeI j. IaVele, rector of the cat nedral,
Mgr. kearncy of Old ST. Patrick s. Mgr.
Mclean of St Peters, Mgr Edwards OF st.
Josephs, and Mgr MuIthu, formerly Of
the American College at Rome, and now
rector OF the Church of the Immaculate
Conception.
When DR.. Isola began to speak the dis
turbance became such as to threaten to
break up the meeting and to frighten the
women present. The group of trouble maxi
ers jumped up and shouted all sorts of
insults at intervals. One of them shouted
in Italian:
AS long as one Of us remains alive you
will not carry through this meeting
Police Get Busy.
AT this stage of The trouble Capt. William
Shaw and squad Of policemen from the
9TH street station got busy. AS fast as a
disturbers head popped up the police made
for him and hustled him out of the hall.
Many of the dtsturoars fought back ana the
police were rough with them.
Inc group soon saw that to stand up and
shout would mean to Land on the sidewalk
more or less damaged, and they contented
themselves with shouting while seated.
Then the ushers were sent down the alsles
OF the trouble zone and fast as a dis
turber was spotted he was pointed cut to
the police and thrown out of the place
During speeches made by Alessandro
Caccia, Civil Justice George +. Roesch and
others the shouting and insulting language
were kept up and the process of iminat on
by the police continued. Capt Shaw sum-
mOned about twenty-five policemen, all told,
and eventually established complet order.
The disturbances delayed and annoyed
the various speakers that the meeting
was not concluded until after o'clock.
Culprits in Court.
The police put many men out of the hall.
but only those that resisted were arrested.
Seven of these were arrested, and later in
the evening were fined by Magistrate Crane
in the night court the price of a couple of
theater tickets each for disorderly conduct
On charge of disturbing a meeting which
Is a misdemeanor, they would have Leen
triable in special sessions.
An eighth disturber Jacobo Jarkino, of
q Hancock street, was found to have n
loaded revolver in his pocket. An add-
tional charge of carrying concealed weapons
was entered against him, and he was locked
in a cell to await arraignment in the York
vile police court this morning.