The sun., 1908-08-03
PICNIC FLIES THE RIOT FLAG
~ FIGHTS FOR ONE LITTLE
DEPUTY SHERIFF TO STOP.

He says the Drunks Tried 20 Throw Him
Overooard. but He Weuidnt Go-Poiics
FIetilia Races to the Rescue and Brinst
or Three Jerssymen a. Prisoner
Policeman Ryan. ON duty at the recre.
alton pier ss i2eth street and the North
River. heard Q tremendous whistling shortly
after o O'Clock last night. Gazing seaward
he cav tug towing huge barge. The
barge's hsg was upside down. the sigma
Of distress, and the people aboard wers
manifestly excited.
Ryan rang up Police Headquarters
Headquarters called the Harbor squad
at the Battery. and the Patrol. socon-
panied by Launches O and d. set ssil
up the North River 10 meet the tug and he1
tow. On the way the three police boats
raced. to the interest Of passing boats and
folks along the shore. Sergt. Billy Morris
In Launch o won the race by about ten
feet. The tug and distressed barge were
met Oh the foot Of Twenty-third street.
Tho Patrol had her Gatling gun un-
covered to fire shot across the tugs bow
provided abe did not stop. but the tug.
the Virginia jackson. stopped gladly. and
the harbor police. forty in number. pre-
pared to board the big barge Empire.
The polioo were met at the starboard
gangway by little sawed OF man in what
was described a. the Uniform OF special
deputy sheriff Of Essex county. N. J..
He greeted the police with open arms.
end told them that be was Charles Shorter.
special deputy as aforesaid. and had come
very near to being thrown overheard.
The excursion was that Of the Bloomfield.
n. J.. Fife and Drum Corps. and their low
ing friends. The thousand men. women
and children aboard had left tho dock at
the foot OF River street, Newark, at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning. The little
pesoe. On bis uniform coat hs wore an
impressive badge. but aside from that he
had no weapon other than his good right
Many times; said tho deputy; be had
wished he was taller and weighed q couple
ited Hudson Grove up the river, and many
Of them bad become unduly hilarious and
others plain drunk. No less than twenty
one fights had arisen among the passengers
and the little deputy had etopped them all
armed. not even with . blackjack. SO
when he stopped tho twenty-frst fght
several gentlemen pitched into him, PIN
ioned his arms behind his back, kicked him
IN the STATS and announced as they dragged
him kicking and struggling toward the rail
that they proposed to give him to the fab.
Shorter was agile and wriggled away from
bis asssilants three or four times. Once
they had him half over the rail, but the
girls screamed 90 loud that the drunks re-
laxed their hold for q moment and Shorter
sl!pped away. He was about played out
when the patrol hove In sight and every one
aboard suddenly decided to be good.
Lieut.. Dwyer, Sergts. Mulhall and Morris
and their men swaImed aboard the barge
and went through her fore and aft while
the little deputy pointed out the man he
bad been trying to arrest for fighting when
set upon, two Of the men who had been
most active in attempting to throw him
overheard and Ave witnesses who bad
helped him get free. There was another |
Of his aasailants, a light haired fellow,
whom the deputy could not fnd.
The three prisoners and the hye wit
nesses were piled on board Launch
D by Sergt. Mulhall and hurried TO the |
harbor precinct at the Battery. The Patrol,
Under Lieut.. Dwyer. escorted the tug and
barge into New Jersey waters and left |
New Jersey to mother them after that.
At the Battery the man arrested by the /
ieputy for fighting said he was William |
Structi, q Russian weaver. The deputy's
wo assailants said they were Frank DAILY, |
! halter Of Orange, and John Brennan,
Iuck driver Of Orange.
At the night court Magistrate House
ined Daily Sa and discharged the others.