New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-09
One Rioter Is Killed in Manhat.
tan and Two Policemen
Are Shot in
Brooklyn.
CHERRY HILL IN UPR0AR
Spanish and Greek Oilers Centre
of Wild Throng Following
Fight in Sailors Board
ing House When Strike
Breakers Appear. IL,

| Striking Seamen ana strike breakers
participated in revolver battles on each
side of the East River last night. In
the waterfront district in Manhattan
man was killed and patrolmen had to
| face a fierce revolver fire In Roosevelt
street In Brooklyn a striker who had a
fight with another man afterward shot
two patrolmen, and one will probably
die. He was captured after he had been
shot in both legs.
Brooklyns waterfront has had little
trouble since the strike began, but last
night the first real shooting occurred
Patrolman Kenna, of the Hamilton ave-
nue. station, saw two men lighting at
the corner of Hamilton avenue and
Inlay street and pursued one Of them
through Inlay street TO Bovine and to
Van Brunt Here the fleeing man, who
was Alexander Sabanno. turned and ran
almost into the arms of Patrolman WILL
| Jams, who, in turn, ran after him.
| At the corner of Rapelye and Van
Brunt streets Patroman Hannelly ran
up to help Williams. but Sabanno turned
and shot Hannelly through the left
lung The patroman dropped but WILL
Jams chased the man further on, and
finally cornered him at a lumber yard.
where Sabanno hid behind n tree. =,
Policeman and Striker Shot. /
| He had a revolver in his hand and
was pointing IT directly at Williams.
| The policeman fired twice at Sabanno.
| he Ia
OF the revolver. The Spaniard was shot
/ in both legs. but wounded Williams in
the left kneecap.
| Finally Sabanno who lives at No. IL
| Conover street, was captured He and
| the policeman were taken to the Holy
| Family Hospital Annitto Gonzales. OF
the steamship Granada, with whom sa-
banno had been fighting. was locked UP
as a witness.
| The strikers have headquarters at No.
| Il Hamilton avenue, and there is
crowd of fifty or sixty men always hang
ing about the place. but the police have
held them in check until this time. Most
Of them are from the New York ana
Porto Rico Steamship Company's fleet
The first trouble began In seamens
boarding house and bar at Cherry ana
| Roosevelt streets. Feeling had been
running high all day. and the striking
men had watched for the substitutes
and in several instances sent them home
with aching heads.
| Patrolman Doherty, of the OAK street
station, was on post near the ooaroihs
house when a group Of men croWdeu OUT
into the streets and suddenly began 10
beIabor each other. In the light ara
shadow Of the arc lamp bottle cleaned
as one man smashed 1t on aho'herS
| head.
| That was the signal. Revolvers were
brought into play, and the police say
half a hundred shots were fired whie
| the brick walls OF the houses rattied
with the echo Doherty ran over ana
Patrolmen Jones and O'Connor. OF the
same station, came 10 his aid. one
proup of men-thought TO be the strikers
-pursued the other crowd down Cherry
street and around into James Slip
| where the flight led to the waterfront x
Bricks Are furieo' =
On the way the three patrolman peeah
firing In the air. but the men tney Pur-
sued turned and. crouchng In the
shadows fred at the policemen, who had
to seek shelter in a doorway. Some ono
| telephoned for reserves, and they cams
from the Oak street station in charge OF
Lieutenant Barry. Bricks were being
thrown right and left when they got
there.
Afterward a man was picked up shot
through the head in the areaway OF an
other sailors boarding Joint, at tho
corner of James Slip and South street.
IJeutenant Kinney had arrived with re-
serves from the Old Slip station, and ne
and Lieutenant Barry went through tho
house and took all OF It's occupants 10
the Oak street station to find out what
they knew of the wounded man. They
declared stoutly when arrested that
policeman had shot the man.
DR.. Savage hurried this victim TO the
Volunteer Hospital, but he had hardly
been placed on the operating table wnen
he succumbed TO the effects Of the nasty
bullet wound in the back OF the skuu.
There was nothing on him to identity
him. Curiously enough. he had printed
identification card In his pocket. but had
never filled out line Of 1t.
Thirty seven Are Held.
Thirty-seven strikers were cornered by
the police in a seamen's boarding house
at No. 81 James Slip. They were taken
to the Oak street police station. When
the rioting was at its height reserves
were present from the Oak street, the
Madison street. the Old slip and tho
Delaney street police stations.
This is the first trouble for some time
in the neighborhood. Captain Bourke or
the Oak street station has cleaned up
the notorious old section. and Father }.
p. Curry Of St. James's Church, has
done a big part in the work. The patrol
men usually have things well in hand.
and dashed into the middle OF the re-
volver firing last night with all the con-
fdence necessary to quell a mob OF any