The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-26
SHOOTING IN BOSTON.
Riotous Scenes Enacted ThcIc Today
 Police Kept Busy.
Isnecia1 from limited Pres,

l Police Kept Busy.
 1 Especial from United PressD l Boston, Feb. 26-Riotous scenes in
 which one man is believed to have
 been shot, scores injured and 50 ar | rests of men and wom men made oc- cured today followins a shooting af- fair in Common street, in the Italian district. The police version of the
 affair is that a. squad of 25 special
 police was passing when a tenement holding a A Colt stuck out. A shot was fired and another window was raised and a hand thrust forth holding a revolver. A second shot was fired and the special police began shoot | ing at the windows.
 | Fifty or more bullets rattled against the doors and windows.
 Carmelow MilaZ, a striker, was shot | in the back as he ran from the scene. | Three of five men, all strikers, who were standing in an alley from which MiIaz could not possibly have been seen, were arrested and charged with murder. All three had chacked heads when they were thrown into cells at police headquarters. The police say Salvatore Bruno, one of the prisoners, had a smoking gun in his hand when taken. Two of the crowd got away: A crowd of nearly 10000 gatho G d as if by magic at the sound of the shots. Many persons had gone to the station early, having been told another attempt would be made today to send children to Philadelphia. The , crowd was composed of men and Wo- men strikers.
 The excitement in Commerce street having subsided, the strikers turned toward the street toward North Sta tion and thence to Essex street. All They resembled a great crowd turning out for a gala event, except when scores of police dashed recklessly in and out of the crowd when they were booed and hissed, the hissing being followed by a peculiar sound as II made by thousands of bees.
 The strikers, still singing patriotic airs and keeping far enough apart so as not to block the pavement and street totally, reached Jackson street without molestation. Here were standing 75 members of the Metropolt- tan State police, gray uniformed and swinging wagon spokes. As the head of the advancing singers reached Jackson street and, at a signal the raining blows on heads and hands and shoulders, regardless of sex, charged the crowd As the gray coats charg- ed, 100 or more bluecoats who had dashed up in autos, Jumped to the street and joined the attack, about 50 yards from the corner. From the point where the bluecoats rushed in to where the leaders of the crowd were on Jackson street, men, women and young girls were beaten by brute force to turn into Jackson street and head toward the Common. By this time, more paraders had congested at the corner and nearly surrounded the police, who beat a hasty retreat. Climbing into the machines, they rush ed to the next corner.
 Tere they reformed several flying wedges and, when the crowd reached them again, they again flew at the crowd, smashing and tearing clothing and curSing them openly. For the men, the police gave blows where blows could be most quickly landed. The women were beaten about the hips and breasts as much as was pos sib!e. AS the police charged they could plainly be heard to shout, "Get the men anywhere you can hit them. Hit the women on the chests or hips"
 During the entire time the strikers, mei1, women and children, continued singing. After each savage attack by the police, they would reform without apparent leadership and as if they had forgotten completely they were the ob- jects of attack, would calmly and without disorder continue their march up Essex street, singing-always sing ing-p2triotic and national airs.
 After each attack there would be from five to 10 arrests. These peo- ple would be clubbed into a dazed state Women with their dresses torn nearly off were everywhere. That the attack of the police on the crowds this morning. unjustified, say the leaders Is shown by the strict orders
 
 was to be lifted against the police or militia, no matter what happened. That these orders were carried out by the beaten and mauled women, girls and men, to the letter, was plain, ly seen at each attack by the police So fearful were the strike leaders of bloodshed, today. following Saturdays and yesterdays indignities suffered at the hands of the municipal authori- ties. that they abandoned plans to send away children 10 Phila delphia, al though prominent legal advisers told them the authorities could not legally prevent this.
 No incident in the strike which has dragged flor seven weeks. has so en- ragged the strikers as the events of the last three days when women have been cIubbed and terribly beaten.
 The result, however, of these latest outrages has made the ranks of align ment of the strikers. stronger than ever.
 Several facts regarding Saturdays riot leaked out. today. despite extra precautions by the municipal authori- ties to keep the details secret. It de veloped. today. that three of the wom- en arrested. Saturday, have been ever since and are now locked up with ba- bies less than IS months old at their breasts under the legal age for holding d child in a cell. One girl a 16 year old striker injured in Saturdays at tack by the soldiers on the mothers and children at the depot. weS per mitted to receive friends today at the hospital. where she is under treat ment., She has a frightfuIIy lacerated cheek and temple. where she was struck with a heavy instrument, pre- sumably a blackjack. So badly swol- len is her temple and cheek the phy- sicians say it will be several days be. fore they can find if the sight of the left eye is gone.
 Inquiry a the city poor farm, where the children arrested Saturday at the depot developed, today. the fact that they are charged with being paupers