The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-28
GREEKS DRIVEN TO
 SHAY BY TAUNTS OF
 HOSTILE YOUNG MEN
That Is Belief of Police In- vestigating Court Street Riot.

That the knife and club yielding young Greeks who figured in the riot in Court street at 2 o'clock last night endurance by crowd of young men who frequent the vicinity of Main street and South avenue, and Main street and Railroad avenue, is the be- lief of the police who brought two of the Greeks into the city court today and arrested a third too late for ar raignment. William Byrne, the most seriously wounded is believed now to be out of danger.
 and George Donus, who came here from Nashua, N. H., two weeks ago, the former a laundryman at the Stratf1eld hotel, the latter unemploy- ed; and Nicholas Poppas, laborer for the Crane Valve Co.,, living at 40 Gregory street. Poulious and Donus, who the police say were the ring were held in bail of $5,000 for hear ing Saturday on the charge of as- sault with intent to kill, and Poppas was locked up on the charge of breach of the peace and held with out bail for arraignment in the city court tomorrow morning.
 The police are looking for three more fugitfves,s one also a laundry man at the Stratfield, said to have started for Rhode Island, and the others said to be laborers The vic- ti1ns of the stabbing are William Byrne, IS, 643 Fairfield avenue, son of the we'll known custom shoe deal CT, who is at St. Vincent's hospital with a deep stab wound in the left breast, penetrating perilously near the heart; Bartholomew Fennick, 20, PIT Warren street, and Joseph French, 21, of 2S5 Ogden street.
 At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon four men of Slovenian extraction called at police headquarters seeking been stoned and pursued by a crowd of young men who attacked them from the viaduct as they walked through Railroad avenue. One of them had been struck in the head with stone. This sort of thing, the pq1ice say, is responsible for the stab ping affray of last night.
 The investigation made by the po- lice has disclosed an encounter about o'clock at Main street and South avenue between a trio believed to be the same as figured in the stabbing, and Joe Casey, 391 Main street, Hugh Kiernan, ASA Broad street, and George Allen, ATT Broad street, and others. The Greeks started for Casey and his comrades, and they fled.
 Later the hostile forces encounter ed further up town and again they fled before the Greeks, seeking re- fuge in Eckler's cigar store. Here Byrne, Fennick, French and others were gathered. They started out to treated slowly until they had attract ed their adversaries to a dark sec ton of Court street near the stage entrance to Jackson's theatre.
 The Greeks claim one of the crowd seized Poulous by the necktie, start ing the battle. Poulous is alleged then to have drawn a dagger with a which he did all the slashing, putting all to flight The victims made their way one by one to the Emergency hos pital. Byrne was so badly wounded that Dr. Krause had him removed to St. Vincent's hospital. French need ed four stitches in his left arm. and Fennick required seven in the nose, which was all but cut off, four in the left cheek. five in the forehead, and a dressing for an incised wound in the left arm.
 At midnight Poulous and Donus were arrested in South Norwalk, where they asked a policeman directions to the railroad station. Warning had been sent out to all neighboring cities to apprehend the men. This morning Detectives Fox and Hall located Pap pas. Early today the police found a murderous looking blood stained dag ger and a club at the scene of the riot.
 Poulous wore a light suit last night that made him conspicious in the riot. This he had exchanged before fleeing, and when brought back he wore dark clothes. Attorney c. H. Shapiro ap- peared in the city court today in the interest of Donus. He says the Greeks had been driven to desperation by the hostility of the American youths in the South End. The Greeks have a little coloEy at the big boarding house at 40 Gregory street, many of them being employed in the Burns x Bas- sick Go. as buffers. Tn this boarding house were the belongings of Poulous, but he did not room there.