The sun., 1909-11-05

protectionT The officer replied. How
do know yon are not a dirty ilarv
Yesterday morning a plain clothes
officer ordered one OF the girls who had
plant. Before the officer started OF with
the girl and the picket some one near py
said to the girl, She threatened to Kill
you The officer took that person along
too, but the person refused TO testify.
The girl, however. evidently acuns
upon the suggestion and nearly hyster-
ical, swore as to the picket: She threat
ened to strike me. She threatened 10
split my head open.
That was too much for the Magistrate:
He looked at the picket, gentle and
refined looking woman, laughed ana
Have YOU been arrested. Miss Cole'-
the reporter asked
mo. | have not been, but i would
endure arrest: l would 60 to prison II
necessary to bring about reform IN
this manner OF police freshmen IN un sucn
dark, / was on picket duty there and
had one Of the locked out girls on either
side of me. A uniformed offioer came
up. raised his hat and said; Not three
abreast. please. it's against the law
walked along single file until we met
some Of the girls we wanted TO talk with.
I told my companions to speak 70 the
girls, but the officers head was right
over my shoulder and they were AFRAID
One OF them did whisper: Say, girls,
SO l said distinctly: Girls, may l speak
to you a moments?
Hold on, there said the officer.
with his head over my shoulder, none
of that. you know Oh. I'm not doing
anything unlawful l replied. Il am
not attempting to influence these girls
by acts expressing or implying threats.
intimidation. coercion or force. That
ia Mr.. Justice Blanchard's language.
you know. and it must have had sort
Of court room sound 20 the officer. for ne
backed of a little. muttering: Well.
you know now. none Of that. young
My own experience, you see, has not
been much to complain OF, although. OF
course, was interfered with when was
not doing anything illegal, but there is a
very serious state Of affairs there-serious
beyond anything l have yet spoken OF.
Here is a case that ought to make any
manly mans blood boil. A young man in
sympathy with the locked out girls was
standing on the sidewalk opposite the
Triangle shop. Near him were twenty
eight Of the locked out girls. There were
lounging about the shop entrance some
thugs, one OF whom crossed the street
and struck that man standing with the
girls. Naturally this drew all the girls
around him. and at that moment a
number Of uniformed officers rushed up
and from only around the corner a police
patrol wagon drove up and all those
twenty y-"i~ht giri7 ere hustled on to a
pclice s-~.-.oL In me wagon. OF course
the whole thing was planned. II was a
device to arrest a great many OF the girls
at once. part OF their programme 70
frighten them. Another case: A young
man named Joe Zeinfield. one Of the locked
out workers. was set upon on Monday
night by "A man known as Johnny Spanish
who. am told is a member of a notorious
gang. Zeinfield was frightfully beaten
there's his photograph il you want to look
at it. bandaged in his hospital cot-and
Spanish made his escape. The next day
some of the girls who had witnessed the
assault saw Spanish in the neighborhood
OF tie shop. They cried out that there
was the man who had assaulted Zeinfield
A policeman who heard them strolled
across the street and whispered to Span
ish. who walked away unmolested. These
are some OF the things we hope to induce
Commissioner Baker to listen to-"