The evening world., 1909-03-20
TAMMANY HALL
RIOT ENDS BALL.;
DANCERS cLUBBED
Farm Animals, Police Re,
serves, Tom Sharkey and
5000 Others in Battle.
PISTOL SHOTS FIRED.
Many Women Faint While
Night Sticks Are Oue!l-
ing R;o,,"l,

There was riot In Tammary Hall n
o'clock Ms morning which was part
cipnted In by sheep, logs, chickens, tur
keys, two calves. members Of the Pocor,
Fishing Club, their friends and enemies
1900 strong; Tom sharkey, n former
prize fighter; Sharkey's saloon MANAGER
Andy Osborne; all the available police
in the neighborhood ard the police re.
serves from the Eas; Twenty-s econd
street station.
When the smoke cleared half dozo-
young women he'd tainted and abou,
Loo others had mountci chairs and
with skirts md voices raised, begged
protection from those awful parHya:
animals which were ycoo;."g cu,c: tie
dancing floor.
The Iocono Club is composed largely
Of men from the C'r-Housc district,
where one Charles - Murphy has his
domlcie. While the ball was in prog
ress about the only thing that had TO
do with fishing was water On the side.
A Masked Affair.
The hall was n masked affair. and
the hall was dressed up to look like a
barn or country fair. In pens about
the dancing floor were the poor, tired
chickens aid turkeys, the grunting hogs,
bleating sheep and crying calves, Here
and there we're piles Of straw and hay.
Everything was lovely until man
with a blackened face and in the guIse
OF cornfeld negro stepped up 10 a girl
and asked for dance.
Tom Sharkey, because OF his ability
to hit, and lis saloon manager. Os.
borne. who has some hardness Of fist
also, were committee on order. These
two saw a man rush to the dancing
floor and heard him yell:
MY girl can't dance with that coon"
The real interesting part OF the bal
began without delay. The man whose
girl was dancing with the negro"
started TO fight. Sharkey and Osborne
tried to preserve order in no gentle way,
They were Joined by Detectives Cahill
and Coolidge, nom the East Twenty.
second street station. no had got a
tip that the Jimmy" Kelly gang would
attempt to make things exciting.
Set the Animals Free.
At the last dance OF the Jimmie"
Kelly Association, Kelly was shot three
times by members Of the "Humpty"
Jackson gang, and the Kelys have been
hiding their time since to get even.
Most OF the Jacksons are members Of
the Gas House gang.
While Sharkey was using his fists and
'he detectives their clubs, some one
broke down the pens and the animals
skated out to the floor.
The fight became general. Every man
hit the nearest man to him. one man
drew a revolver and fired four times
Women began dropping unconscious
from fright.
The police reserves came on a run
They swarmed into the hall and with
nightsticks restored order. except among
the frightened animals.
A man who gave his name as R.
Carroll and his address as Sharkev's
saloon was arrested, charged with
disordery conduct and CARRYING con.
cealed weapons. A revolver with four
empty chambers was found in his
pocket.
Doctor Aids Women.
man who said he was DR.. La
France, but who refused to give his
address, began reyiving the uncon.
scious women. A drink or two NJ
Fourteenth street liquor had the de.
sired effect on all except a young
woman who was said to be Miss Nav
Russell, Of No. Pa East Fifty.third
street She was insenslble when
taken to cab, which took her to her
home.
When the hall was cleared of fight.
ers tine police attempted to catch the
animals.
1t was about the hardest JOB those re-
serves, many OF them fat men and some
PIGGY. have had in years. They caught
the calves and they caught the pigs
and overrowered them, but the chickens
and turkeys took to wing, and It was
long after ! o'clock when the barn yard
was rounded up.
Altogether the fishing clubs ball was
a most successful affair.
Carroll was arraigned later in tho
Yorkyille Police Court before Magis-
trate Moss. He declared that wb.r
the unknown shooter began firing
making purposed target Of Osborne
Carroll flung up the markman's re-
volver hand and wrested the weano,
from MIN. In this statement the de-.
PENDANT was corrobUrated by Osborns
Magistrate Moss then discharged Car.
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