Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-17
NEGRO CAVAlRYMEN
AND WHITE MEN IN
hEAR-BlOOOY RIOT
Fight Between Bootblack
and Citizen Leads to
Trouble with Soldiers
POLICE STOP BRAwL

The timely arrival Of Special Off
Ger Lorenzo Wright at the head Of
Brewery avenue, Sunday night. about
10 O'Clock prevented a battle between
tweny negro eayalrymen OF he Ninth
regiment. portion Of which is sta
TONED at Warren. and about zoe Of
white race nationalities. The negroes
We're armed with rocks and the white
men were similarly prepared
The negro soldiers were innocently
Involved in the almost near riot.
The beginning OF the trouble was a
hight between an American and a
negro civilian over a division of side
walk space. Four negro troopers hap.
pened TO be in that locality when the
white man was being carried away
bleeding. and the crowd augmented
every minute by fresh recruits lump
ed to the conclusion that the negro
soldiers had attacked the white man
and they started TO throw rocks at the
four troopers.
Soldiers Notify Comrades
The four soldiers took TO their heels
going further up the gulch where they
told their companions of their treat
ment at the hands of the whites The
negro soldiers numbering twenty, thon
armed themselves With stones and
started down the gulch to the place
where whites were making threats
against them.
While the two forces were gather
ing, call was sent into police head
quarters for an officer and Lorenzo
Wright, street superintendent, who
was serving as a special officer for
the day. responded. He met the TWEEN
~ armed and angry negroes coming
dewn the gulch and halted them. He
parleyed with them and after argu-
ing with them for a quarter of an
hour or more he succeeded in making
them throw down their rocks and ac-
company him to police headquarters
The result of the paTley stamps
Wright as an officer of ability, cour-
age and discretion.
Taken Safely to Headquarters
IL was novel sight 10 see the Of
ficer, who is short OF stature but
heavy in weight, marching the negro
cavalrymen down Brewery gulch TO
police headquarters. As he passed
the mob of white men they ranged
themselves along the both sides of the
street so that the officer had TO march
the twenty negroes through two lines
of white men. Subdued threats were
heard from both negroes and white
men but the officer successfully
threaded the needle of trouble and
safely arrived at police headquarters
with the soldiers, where he kept them
for half an hour pending the arrival
of City Marshal Bassett Watkins, who
placed them aboard a street car and
sent them to the patrol camp at War
rem.
Officer Wright handled the situa-
ton remarkably we'll Had his arrival
been delayed a few minutes the two
gangs would have met and fatalities
would without doubt have resulted.
The troopers had absolutely nothing
10 do with the quarrel that started
the riot
Sidewalk Quarrel The Cause
The fight that almost caused the
riot was between Harry Moore,
white man, and Ralph Carey. a negro
!Gootblack of Brewery gulch The
fight grew ont Of their inability to
arbitrate division OF the sidewalk.
Carey said that Moore iostled him
alter he had given up half the walk
He attacked the white man with a
pocket knife and inflicted wounds
on Moore's head, the left hand and
left knee, none of which was serious.
Moore was laid up at his room at
the Star rooming house yesterday.
When Officer Wright halted the
squad in the gulch they reminded him
how they had put il over" on the
-
piled that they were not in Douglas
and added a few words of sage adj
vice, which was needed by the ne
groes. Last night a number OF negro
soldiers, singly and in twos and fours,
approached officers and asked for pro-
lection.