The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-08-06
REIGN OF CRIME
UNABATED IN Nh NJ. YORK
IURDEROUS ASSAULT MADE
UPON DEFENSELESS WOMAN.
Tight Between Negro and White Man
Starts Trouble Between Races in
Which Five Thousand Par
ticipants Engage.

ticipants Engage.
New York, Aug. 4.-Another muir
/ ierous assault was added tonight to
the police record Of recent crimes
against defenseless women and girls.
! Tonieht's victim was Miss Ellen Bull
ger, 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 re-
moved to a hospital, where it was
found that her skull had apparently
been fractured. her face and hands Ia
eerated and her body otherwise bruis-
ed. There was evidence that the wo-
man had made a courageous fight.
From what the police were able to
Immediately learn from her, she was
surprised by a smooth faced stranger,
perhaps 40 years Of age: He was
coatless and wore an outing shirt and
dark trousers. He escaped.
Just before Miss Bulger was as
saulted, George Keshner, Russian,
charged with attempted assault upon
an eight-year-old girl, was set upon
BY crowd Of men and all but killed.
The clothes he wore were torn from
his body and he was ta'''> to the
station house wrapped in blanket.
Another crowd set upon Hylo Sa-
loda, an Indian palmist. who was
similarly accused, and only the time
ly intervention Of police reserves saw
ed him from summary punishment.
Small Race War.
The fighting element among the
Writes III and blacks IN the Vicinity OF
136th street and Fifth avenue lined
up according to their racial prejudl-
ces again today, this time to settle a
baseball dispute, and when the argu-
ment was ended so persons required
medical treatment and of that num-
Der two will die. Probably 5000 per-
sons took part in the fight, but the
300 policemen who dispersed the mob
after every one was fought out cot
only nine prisoners and of these two
were women.
John McCue, a truck driver, 81
wears old, and Matthews Murtha, aged
IS years, an ice peddler, received
fractured skulls and were removed to
hospital in a serious condition. The
injuries Of others ranged from brok-
en- noses to serious razor cuts.
The trouble started at ball game
where a white man and colored man
had made a wager, and subsequently
ouarreled over the settlement. Pres
emily the sight Of white man and
a colored man fighting started gen.
eral row. The crowd bding about
evenly divided in color. Every sort OF
weapon was used and for blocks the
constantly augmented mob surgec
while the police reserves from elght
precincts hammered away with their
clubs to break the tangle. Occupants
of homes along the lines of battle
were not content to be spectators only
of the strife and from windows and
points Of vantage Oh the roofs every
piece of croekery or furniture that
could be spared was hurled down up
on the heads Of the rioters with reck-
less impartiality. Even women and
children Joined the fray.
It was two hours before the police
controlled the situation and then pa
troll wagons and ambulances picked
up those who we're too seriously worn
out to get away. Those most harmed
we're taken to hospitals and the prs
oners we're locked mp, charged with
melting a riot. Tonight several nun.
dreds officers patrolled the disturbed
neighborhood.
Victim of Rioters.
Louis Conconela, 81 years old, was
the victim Of the blind fury OF rloters
tonight and will probably die of his
injuries. He was innocent Of wrong
doing but fell before crowd deter
mined to have revenge on some one'
The dangerous temper Of the peo-
pie. particularly in the foreign quar-
ters, who have been aroused by the
reports Of attacks upon women and
girls. was exhibited tonight in repeat
ed instances. \ cry that a stranger