The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-04
ONE MAN AGAINST MOB
Of ZOO STRIKE RIOTERS
kearny's Iron Gray Chief Of Po-
lice. With skull Fractured.
Drops Two Of Them.
ONE RIOTER LIKELY TO DIE
Twcnty-six Arrests After Chase
With Autos and on Foot
in Newark Suburb.

AbOu 20 striking NaIian IaborerS,
said by the police to he affiliated with the
Industrial Workers of the World. invaded
kearny. y. j.. yesterday and set that
little Newark uburb into wild excit sment.
The Chef Of Police stood OF the gang
until h was felled wi h stones. He
managed to d op two Of the rioters be ore
he was taken away in an mbu anoe.
Business men in aut mobiles helped round
up twenty-six of the strikers.
William Guenthe Public Service
railway in pector. dropped OF a car in
front Of the white building with a gold
inverted oil can for dome hat harbors
Kearney's police at o'clock yesterday
morning to say that he had seen a dis
% DERBY mob coming over tn ackson
avenue bridge into Kea ny. They carried
picks and shovels and wer. apparently
looking or ouble uenther had hesrd
that they had kicked up ow in Nswark
and had been scattered by tle mounted
cops there. They were eI avators on
strike for more pay and they have b cen
making trouble all through that part
of Jersey. att smpting to drum up recruits
keany's Chief o Police Is William
Toen. man we'll advanced in years.
the father Of light childr n, with u de.
served reputation as a fir t ciass fighting
man. He lent an ,ar to Guenther and
said he'reckoned he d take a walk along
the line. He called Polio man Bell and
the two set out on kearny avenue, the
chief in plain clot hes They had walked
abourfour blocks from the station house
when they came to tn brick High School
building and the men they were looking
Tor.
On the north side Of the High School
there is en- excavation for q new house
about three feet deep. we'll fillei with
sizable stones. where six Italians were at
work, They welded their snovels and
picks in studied indifference to the 100
agitators who stood above them directly
under the High hool windows urging
tn m to join in the strike. Tolen and
! Bell strolled mp and listened to the loud
talk for moment and then the chief
piucked one Of the strikers by the arm
and suggested that he be on his wav.
In moment the chief whose authority
had not been recognized. was the centre
Of a shouting. showing mass Of excited
Italians. From the corner Of his mouth
he told Bell TO get on telephone and
get the reserves out. Then he jumped
down into the pu stood in front Of the
six workers and faced the crowd with a
revolver in his hand. There was tense
silence as the two hundred glowsred
at the iron gray man in the dirt beneath
them. or sudden some one in tho
rear sang out. a husky fellow in a red
shirt stopped and n stone struck the chief
on the side of his head. As he reeled
back another stone hit him.
The blows sent the chief to his knees
He was below the level Of the street and
he pulled himself over to the little bar
ricade made 10y the flung up earth at the
eXca vation's edge. steadied his pistol
hand on the dirt and began firing. At
the fash of the first shot the Italians
wavered n bit. A man in the front row
turned to run and went writhng up> in
The air and down on his face as the chiefs
bullet caught him in the base of the spine.
Another laborer clspped a hand to his
arm and screamed
The smoke from the chiefs gun had
hardly cleared the pit when the deep
toned hell on the dome Of the town. ha
began booming out a riot call This was
summoning the reserves, tho volunteer
fire department and the regular fire
fighters. You can hardly ride three
blocks in Kearny without passing n fire.
house.
Sergt Bailey. on the desk at the police
station. had heard Bells calls for help
for his chief and was laundering at the
reserves in the rear room. and the men
Of five fire companies with their appa ratus
were heading for tho High School
In the high school itself there was great
excitement. Some of the children had
seen the chiefs battle from the windows
and the girls ran screaming The teachers
managed to quiet them, but they couldnt
get the boys away from the windows
back to the ferreting out OF the exact
location OF Loachapoka until the last
Whit of powder had driftad awav.
| The hang Of the chiefs revolver and
The tollinR Of the bells we're too much for
tho Italians. They went ducking away
from that excavation and its hidden
terror just as the reserves painted up
with swinging clubs. Three cops fell
on the two that the chief had knocked
over and the remaining seven went after
the rest
nearly everybody in Kearny out. and
along with the fire apparatus had hooted
several automobiles driven by residents
ready for a fight. The automobiIists
called to the cops to get In and right
away first class chase began
Down side street would scurry a scared
Italian and right behind him came a
screeching automobile with a COP on the
running board ready to FIRE II necessary,
and all along the street were women at
windows shrilling directions to the pur.
suers. In vacant lots. up blind alleys,
down roads leading to the Passaic River
the pursuers collared their men, with a
little clubbing thrown in when It seemed
necessary.
While this was going on Chief Tolen
was sitting In Dr. i. n. Goldberg's drug
store, where he had been half carried by
Michael Mclaughlin Of 81 Clay street.
There DR.. Walter X. Rieck sewed up two
long cuts on his head and assisted him
/ into the town ambulance which took the
Chief to the German Hospital in Newark
, in spite Of his protests that he was all
right but very gloomy over the fact that
he didn't get another Of the strikers.
Alessandro Carmine OF So Jefferson
street. Newark, whom the chief shot in
the back. went 10 ST. Michaels Hospi-
tai in Newark and II was said last night
| that his condition was serious Peter
Denia, the other wounded Italian, shot in
the left arm. was kept in the station house
together with twenty six Italians who had
been taken in the roundup. Peter
didn't get all the sympathy he clamored
for from the weary cops, who begged him
caa ~ hiS "bullDllD WailnO