The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-05
FIERCE RACE RIOT In HARLEM
POLICEMAN SLASHED WITH
RAZOR AND BRUTaLLY BEATEN.


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strength Of the Harlem police to subdue
started last night In the belt between Fifth
and Eighth avenues in the neighborhood
of ISsd street. where the police raided .
number of alleged disorderly houses a
short time ago.
Ever since the police made those raids
there has been much bitter feeling in the
district. This was shown particularly last
Tuesday night. Bicycle Policeman Genet
went into the disteict and arrested one
Paul Langham Of es2 East lseth street for
disorderly conduct. Langham yelled for
help and a large crowdo Of negroes swsrmed
out from the houses on the block and went
to his assistance. Genet was badly beaten
and trampled upon before he was rescued
by other policemen. who thereupon beat up
the colored man. The colored people were
much incensed and threats we're freely
exchanged.
The white people Of the district were also
accused Of urging the police m and many
residents of the neighborhood received
threatening letters and were told TO leave
the vicinity.
The bicycle squad which is stationed on
Lenox avenue was told to keep an eye open
for possible trouble after the Genet incident.
Bicycle Policeman Conrad heard SHOTS last
night along Lcnox avenue and rode hur-
riedly TO the place where the reports wers
coming from. He found a colored man.
William Henry Brown. of 81 West l33d street
walking up and down the avenue shooting
a revolver into the air and terrifying sn
who attempted to pass on the sidewalk.
Conrad approached Brown and told him
TO put up his revolver. Brown replied by
cursing the policeman and Conrad dropped
his wheel and went over to arrest him.
Brown started to fight and Conrad grabbed
him by the coat collar.
As the policeman was heading his prisoner
toward the station another neexo. who
had heard Browns calls for help. ran up
behind the bluecoat. The negro reached
over Conrad's shoulder and with a razor
slashed the policeman's ears. nose and
face until il was cut into ribbons. He
then drew the razor down Conrad's back
and also across his shoulders. Conrad
was calling for help all the time and also
fighting with Brown, who was attempting
10 get away.
A crowd of nearly 1000 negroes poured
from the tenements near by and attacked
the policeman. Conrad was pounded and
kicked until he fell to the sidewalk. dragging
his prisoner with him. He managed to
draw the negro over him 30 as to protect
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The white people OF the neighborhood had
also heard the shouting and fighting. and
they turned out. When they saw hat it
they joined the fight and went for the
negroes. Meanwhile two other policemen.
Mara and Brennan. heard Conrad's whistle
and came to the scene.
The fight then became a general mixuT
between the whites and the negroes.
Enough whites turned out TO give the police
a chance to search for Brown while the
fight was in progress. They traced him to
the house at az West i3Sd street. In a fat
on the third foor they found Brown and a
woman named May Robinson. The man
was overcome after a fight n taken back
to the scene Of the fight. Conrad was able
TO identify him, but said that he was not the
man who had slashed him.
As soon as Police Headquarters got word
OF the riot orders were telephoned to the
East i28th street station and the West
l25th street station to turn out the reserves
and hustle all the available men up to i33d
street and Lenox avenue.
Two patrol wagons got to the corner a.
quickly as possible and dumped the two
sets of reserves squarely into the fight.
With the reenforcements there were about
fifty policemen on hand and they jumped
into the mixup without wasting any time.
Some of the negroes had pistols in their
hands and one or two shots were fred lust
as the reserves got there. Others were
brandishing razors and cursing the few
policemen that were trying to arrest the
men who had attacked Conrad.
Conrad, with eight deep slashes over his
head and shoulders, had been carried into
a drug store on the corner by half a dozen
white people. who had nerve enough to
get into the fight and face the angry blacks.
A surgeon from Harlem Hospital examined
him and found that he was also injured
internally from kicks in the abdomen and in
the groin.
The fifty policemen formed solidly and
drove the negroes up Lenox avenue, calling
on them to dispense m get to their homes.
A few at a time they were shepherded into
the side streets and into their houses, and
except for a few shots owe the policemen's
heads, which did no harm and a lot Of swear
ing they made little resistance.
Detective Kuntze OF the West l25th street
station had trouble with a big young negro
named Carroll Amos. who said he lived At
1871 West l3ith street. Kuntze ordered
him to behave himself and get intoe his
Amos swore at him, reached into
his pocket and pulled a pistol. Kuntze
promptly drew his own gum. fired two or
three times over the negro's head aud
then batted him over the head with the
butt end Of the revolver. He was subdued
in short order.
The negro that slashed Conrad mana ged
to get away in the confusion while the police
were charging the rioters up Lenox avenue.
They also arrested John Sims. coiored. who
said he was a messenger employed at the
Brooklyn navy yard and lived at III West
l3Sth street; Charles Williams Of II West
Ninety-ninth street, Tilgman Trettin Of
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