The Washington herald., 1914-03-05
mob, sT0RMING
CHURCH, JAILED
L. W. W. Army of 200 Unem-
ployed Arrested Inside
Edihce.
ONE HAD $500 in POCKET
Frank Tannenbaum, Leader. Held on
5000 Bail. Says Organization
Will Back Him Up.

New York, March L-Frank Tannen-
baum and more than 80 OF his hungry
followers were arrested tonight after
storming and taking possession of st.
Alphonsus' Catholic Church, in West
broadway.
In the sodden, -lotley crowd there was
one woman, Miss Gussie Miller, who has
lately Joined the /. W. w. agitator
cabinet and Hyman Finklestein, for
lorn looking tailor in whose pocket was
found 500 in bills of large and smai de-
nomination.
The mob-riotous, ragged and on the
verge of fighting the eighty policemen
who came to the church. was taken TO
McDougal street and Beech street police
stations, where an assortment OF weap-
ons was taken from them. Razors, sung
shots, ssandbags, iron bolts, bits OF jagged
glass, tshears, huge knives and cast-lron
nuts on strings were among the CON
fiscated weapons. A good-sized basket
full of like weapons were gathered from
the floor of the church after the capture
Against Tannenbaum and the leaders
of the mob were preferred charges of
inciting TO riot, unlawful entry and dis
turbing the peace.
Tannenbaum was ripe for just such an
outbreak. This afternoon he declared
that ]. W. w. officials had told him that
he might carry out his ideas with full
assurances that there would be money
and lawyers to help him.
".something Doing" He Says.
There will be something doing" said
Tannenbaum. A picturesque horde of idle
men assembled in Rutgers Park at $50
to follow the youthful agitator wither he
might lead.
Tannenbaum aroused them by his fiery
of al lane
Est, who loudly declared herself a
militant suffragette followed Tannenbaum
and the crowd roared approval of her
forensic pyrotechnics. Fully 200 men
followed Tannenbaum over Spring street
At Allen street the mob assailed double
team when the driver refused to halt
to let them pass.
At West Broadway Tannenbaum with
Miss Miller at his side turned north. De-
tective Capt. Gilday and Detective Lieut..
Geegan told Tannenbaum he would be
arrested if he made any attempt to enter
a place unbidden.
We take no orders from the slaves of
capital was his reply.
The usual Lenten evening service was
in progress in St Alphonsus- The mob |
swarmed up the stairs of the church. |
They swept into the lofty ceiIinged. |
dimly lighted auditorium. They rushed
up the stone floor taking in all three |
aisles. They clamored over the pews
brushing aside women who struggled to |
get out or seek safety near the altar rail. |
Bring on the eats." yelled a gigantic |
youth
LESS noise, boys" cried Tannenbaum. |
Remember, this is a church,
Gilday and Geegan grasped Tannen-
baum by the arm and whirled him around |
Tannenbaum was hustled into the priests |
house, where he and Miss Est and half |
dozen reporters awaited Geegan, who |
went for Rev. Schneider. pastor.
Tannenbaum was debonnair when |
Father Schneider appeared with Geegan. |
Tannenbaum's demand for food and shell |
ter in the church was refused. This led |
to a harrangue against the church and |
society, and finally Tannenbaum and |
Miss Est were taken back to the church.
One LIS "MiIIionaire."
Tannenbaum, beginning to realize the
fact that he was a prisoner, began TO
calm. He bade Miss Est to be less noisy
and shouted to his fellows that they
should observe order and do what the
police told them to do.
Then began a strange scene. Down
the steps of the church. two at a time,
the captured followers of a boy, on whose
face there is neither sign nor promise
Of beard, were hustled into patrol wag-
ORs.
Tannenbaum gave his age as twenty
one; his occupation, a waiter. He de-
clared that he had no home, but later
declared his parents lived on a farm in
Sullivan County. n. Y.
The first prisoner to be docketed was
Lyman Finklestein. He declared himself
n machinist. He is twenty-nine years
olO. When the huge mass of bills-more
than SO0-was found in his breast pocket,
a murmur arose from the mob behind
him.
You're a millionaire" declared the
lieutenant. why are you pan-han-
ding? Why are you hungry? Where
did You get that?"
"Oh. I'm on the level" answered
II saved it while I was
I will not spend it. 1t is
not for me to spend my money when
there are others with so much more"
Miss Est made heroic efforts to be
She even went so far as
to Chamber upon the steps of one of
the patrol wagons. But a policeman
showed her aside. She loudly protested
against such discrimination" and de-
ciared that she would go to the court
and demand that she be treated as are
the rest. Tannenbaum was held in
$1,000 bail for hearing today.