The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-12
PISTOLS TOAWE CAR ROWDIES
SPECIiL POLICEMEN HiIE 10
FIGHT ~ ~ nv ~.
E:iEhi iounE RsuEhs Arrested VINO ESiSi
Malicious Mischief In Trains
Woman 10 Year OId suffers nj the
Hands Of some Of the Worst Of Al

subway rowdies gave the Interhorough
special police "A hard time Yesterday
and sorely tried the temperS ~ passen-
gers who had to use the underground
To and from the pleasure places. There
wer" seven arrests Ia one instance
the special police had to draw pistols
and then To- lock their prisoners in a ticket
booth until the arrival 81 the patrol
wagon
Most Of the trouble was started by
! homecoming gangs from Van Cort-
landt Park At Dyckman street a crowd
81 touGhs 10 and II years old began toss
ing about the burrs they had gathered
in the woods At first they used the
cookies as ammunition IA an impromptu
hattie.
The rowdies soon were attracted by
the terror of the women and children
and began the diversion 81 rubbing the
burrs into the women's hair. One
woman became hysterical and left the
train with her two children. her couture
a tanRle
Other women elected 10 put up with
the annoyance, apparently hoping that
their tormentor- would tire or that a
policeman or some one masculine would
intervene
Of this crowd - roughs Special Police
men Brown and Fletcher arrested Joe
RIA, egno. - wears old. Of ~ Marcy avenue.
Brooklvn August tazazza. 10 wears
Old. 81 W. Prince street. and LOUIS Spaldo.
II yeats old Of ~ Beach street The
, bows wer" taken from the tram at Ninety
sixth street and were later fined SO apiece,
by Magistrate Corrlg gan IA IN" night court
! After leaving their prisoners IN the
/ lOnth street station Brown and Fletcher
went back to NinetN-sINth street and
B found another tram IN an uproar Twenty
/ five or thirty baseball players coming
down from the Bronx Wsre smashing each
other with mIts. CathCers pads and other
appurtenAnc'-~ 1T the game Several
/ wer" hghung IN earnest The crowd
! laug hed when the policemen ordered
! them 20 cease Or be arrested
4 VotHan about 20 wears old got up
and pointing AZ four men with her um-
brella. sad - Brown Those men are the
/ ringleaderS They ought Ia be- arrested .
William Wailaud. - years old. Of
~ Amsterdam avenue. knocked the UNI
hrella from the wumans hand LOUIS
NaIl-u. - wears. Of I6i West Sixty
second street. stamped on ~ and broke
! ~ As the train stoppd at Seventy
second street Brown grabbed four 81 the
rioters. but the crowd took on. prisoner
away and put up such effective interfer-
enos that Fletcher could not reach the
other policeman.
} They fought out onto the platform both
Brown and Fletcher drawing their pistols
and threatening ~ shoot Resides Wal
land and Nail-n they took the latter :
brother William
By hOu-IuhinR their pistols Brown and
Fletcher managed 20 get their pri~on-rS
UP IN" station steps Holding hack the
crowd they thrust the three INTO the
ticket sellers booth and sent a guard 10
IN" West SlNty-eighth street station for a
patrol wagon In fhe night court Wailand
and Louis Nailen W.r. sen, Ia the CITY
Prison for thre'. DAYS and William Nailen
was fned so
Special Policeman Corbin az Ninety
sixth street arrested John Cullen. - years
old IL sS1 West Fifty second street and
James Conf - years old % "a Ninth
avenue They were taken 10 the. West
tooth street station charged with juvenile
delinquency and will be- RrrsIgned in the
children = court this morning
John Peterson Of ~ sherman avenue
The BronN Was fined SlO. Peterson was
asleep IN train when y reached South
Ferry and started back uptown again.
George IumaliuS Of ala Pacific street
Brooklyn. commented on the sleeper
Peterson arose and smota Zumalius
Tn" trouble quoted but broke ont again
after the tram left BROOKLYN Bridge Al
Fourteenth street the pair were on the
floor. Iumaluz on top.