The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-12
TERRIFIED GIRL
CHASED BY MOB
Mayors Lack of Power" Almost
Results in Night Riot Oh
Broad Street.
THREE OFFICERS GUARD HER
Rowdics Driven Back Until Vic
tim Could Be Put on Car
With Policemen.

PURSUED by yelling crowd OF hood
lums, numbering al least 1000 men. wo.
men. boys and girls, white and black,
"a fashionably Gowned hut panic
stricken girl whom the mob took to
be tho woman upon whose head there
is q reward offered by tho Evening
Journal. sought refuge and safety in
tho arms of Police Sergeant Sherry a:
Eighth AMI Broad Streets last night
The small squad of police present had
difficulty in keeping tho rowdies back
The more persistent ones formed q
ring about the big officer and girl
while tho policemen held them at bay
with threats until she was placed sa fc .
~ upon a wcstbound Laurel Street car
amid boots and .jecrs from the rabble
Ran to Capitol Square.
4 The young woman was awaiting her
brother at Eighth and Broad when she
was singled ont.bas the IN ySterious
person the mob Is seeking She at.
tempted 70 find a place of shelter. but
as She moved away the crowd, CROWNS
larger each instant, followed until she
had been literally forced down to
Ninth street Reaching that point she
made another effort to escape by GO
Ing down Capitol Street. hut this ave-
nue was cut off by lie mob Quickening
her steps she returned 20 Broad street,
hut har haste merely added to the Inn
preston OF tho crowd that she was
the girl wanted
More aggressive men, mainly youths.
Street oginG women and causing the
police no end OF trouble, picked and
pulled at tho girls clothing.
Ran 10 Officer.
With the crowd still at her heels she
passed Eighth Street and midway OF
the. block. between Seventh she saw
Sergeant Sherry standing In the centre
of tho street and rushed up TO him for
protection.
BY this time the police had taken in
the situation and attempted to break
UP the crowd. but it was not dispersed
until the young woman had been placed
on car that the crowd dis.
persed. merely to gather few seconds
later when other prey was found Three
officers got on the car With her and ac-
companied her uptown.
Had the brother OF the young wo-
man been present she said. there would
undoubtedly have been serious trouble
Could Not Protect All.
|. With the crowds scattered along two
blocks 1t was impossible for the police
to protect all women, but they arrest
ed Robert Bennett, at Broad and Eigh n
for accosting a young girl.
When Bennett was arrested and
taken TO the patrol box on Seventh
Street. n crowd OF several hundred
hoys and loafers followed officer ana
prisoner and hung around until Ben-
nett had been taken away The OH.
Ger was hootcd and ieercd, some of the
,die youngsters yelling: Lets mob
him Lets mob him" Others sug-
Eested that they ought to rescue Ben
nett: but the officer calmly stood his
ground. while another officer, WORKING
alone, ATTEMPTED to keep n course clear
through the hooting mob. B,,t Il was n
hopeless effort Men and boys jnmnied
themselves against the walls OF the
FIRST REGIMENT Armory packed tho
siocWaik TO the curbng Tho officer
pleaded and oNhortcd in vain. They
laughed al him
One Of the editors Of tho Evening
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