Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-20
.UNSEEMLY RIOT
SHOCKS SPIRITS
DREADFUL SCENES NOTED AT
SP00K COLONY
ATTENDANTS AT DANCES SADLY
WANTING IN DEcoRUM
Sober Residents of Glendale SILVER
Over Sound of Revolver Shots,
and Whisky Drinking Is
Scandalous
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declare that hoodlums come to the
dance in droves and get off the car on
the Glendale Glendale line, whooping
and yelling.
Night after night, they claim, these
same hoodlums and other bad men
have left the dance hall and gone to
the car yellin~ and firing revolvers.
AS many as ten shots have been heard
In night, according to one of the
Spiritualists.
Last Saturday night, as several who
were present at the dance declare,
bunch of rowdies came to the dance
| from Glendale and were so drunk they
could not navigate without lacking
across the floor. But Floor Manager
Ward, it is alleged, did not bar them.
The men attempted to dance Bowery
style, and, thinking their actions had
gone beyond previous limits, Deputy
Sheriff Thorne ordered them away
This started the rumpus and before
anybody knew what was going on a
half dozen of the rowdies, according to
witnesses, had jumped on him. He
was given an unmerciful beating, but
succeeded in giving several of his as
sailants a black eye and other marks
of greeting.
Thorne emerged from the melee COW
cred with blood and bleeding profusely
from deep cash above the left eye:
yesterday was heavily wrapped In
gauze and cotton, but he refused to
make any statement for publication,
| beyond saying
II have seen Sheriff Hammel and
there will be several arrests"
| Asked if fights and drunkenness were
not a common occurrence at these
dances. he replied:
Il don't care to discuss it. I have
bear1 rauI1ested to keen still"
Spiritualists at the park yesterday
said Kennedy had been talking TO
Thorne, and the park management was
making every effort possible to quiet
the matter
1t was stated that on one occasion
President Hale of the Anti-Fakers' So
ciety was shot at three times after
| leaving the dance hall.
Not the First Offense
| Deputy Sheriff Thorne admitted tn
the reporter that "once before there
had been a melee very similar to that
of Saturday night" but as previously
he had come out victorious he might
never have mentioned it, The treat
ment he received at the hands of the
rowdies Saturday night, however, was
too much, and Thorne probably cannot
| be induced to keep quiet this time
| longer than is necessary to locate and
affect the arrest of his assailants
| 1t is claimed by the bona fide spirit
ualists that disgraceful scenes have
been enacted at the dance hail. The
policy of the present trustees in control
it is said, is to run the thing for graft
THEY are seeking the privilege of grant
ing licenses at so much per to al
psuedo- mediums and clairvoyants WHIT
want to put up tents and hang out
single i'll the park. 1t is their inten'
ton to run q regular camping grounc
and amusement resort made up of fake
mediums and the like, declare the dis
| contented stockholders, who live on the
| hillsides above the dance pavilion.
The president of the state associa-
ton, Mrs. DIR. Patterson, aided by
nearly all the other bona fide spiritual
lists, has entered vigorous protest
with the county board of supervisors
and It is promised that the present pol
icy of the park will have to change or
| all licenses for the park will be revoked.
The next meeting of the stockholders
of the park association will be held IN
| August, when it is expected they Will
elect a new board of trustees and put
in men willing to conduct the semi
tropic spiritual park according to the
wishes OF those who favor orderly
dances and select crowds.
| Under the new regime II installed
there will be no liquor tolerated on the
ground, and no one under the influence
can get through the gate. Whooping,
Yelling and Bowery dancing also Will
be barred.