The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-08
DEATH MASK HEADS !
ROCKEFELLER MARCH
Black ROBBED I. w. w. 'MOurner'
Seized and Sent to
WOrkhOusc.
AVENUE TRAFFIC BLOCKED
AgitatOrs Threaten TO Repeat
Fantastic Parade Before
House To-day.

Tho l. w. w silent mourners" who
have been paradng In front Of the home
Of John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. at 10 West
Fifty-fourth street for several days. were
headed yesterday afternoon by n young
man attired in a black robe of the Ku
klux Khan variety.
The innovation drew a big crowd and
caused the police to arrest the mas
Querader. In the night court Magistrate
Levy sentenced him TO two months in the
workhouse.
The self-sty,ed mourners began their
daily march In front of the Rockefeller
home at o'clock. All OF them but the
man In the lead. who said his name was
Albert Turner, wore mourning bands on
their arms
The neehborhood had become accus-
toned to the marchers, but Turner's rig
drew a crowd Immediately. Turner called
the costume a death mask The black
robe covered his head and face. 1t was
thin enough for him to see through. IT
was short enough to display the bottom OF
hts trouser legs and indicate his sex.
Crowd Jams Fifth Avenue.
AHc utiteatol i'il bNNhue
elevated road at Fifteth street and Tur-
ner put on the robe there In the street
Sixth avenue was crowded with home.
goers and hundreds OF these turned and
followed the agitators up TO Fifty-foGrtt
street and across to Fifth avenue. BY the
time Fifth avenue was reached the crowd
was 80 big that 1t cut Off all traffic fol
between ten and twenty minutes. or until
the police had taken Turner in tow anC
had chased the crowd away.
a traffic policeman at Fifty-third stree
and Fifth avenue first saw the crowd
block to the north and went up TO investi
gate. lie was Joined in a minute or tw,
by Detective Ward. two other uniformed
policemen and second detective. TIL,
marchers had made half dozen turns III
and down in front of the Rockefeller hom
when Ward grabbed the black hooded
leader and led him to the East Fifty-firs
street police station.
The others followed. They were Davi,
Sullivan. Max Appel. Nathan Messman
Arthur Caron. Marie Chatlouke. Saral
he was secretary of L tailors' union. an'
tnree or Tour OtneiS lney appeared eis
In night court as witnesses for Turner.
Free silence Man Speaks.
Arthur Shay. who said he was secre
,ary of the Free Silence League appeared
in court as a witness for the defendan,
, lie said that the demonstration was con
Quoted under the auspices OF the Colorad
Silent Protest Committee. He said tina
the committee had paid the fares OF tn
marchers up town, but that that was al
the committee really deNoting its own at
tention to the demonstration in front O
IS Broadway. The parading In front O
the Rockefeller homes, he said, was don
BY volunteers. He said that no violenc
wss intended.
Nicholas stanton, caretaker for Nj
Rockefeller. ST., testified that the march
ers had created a disturbance In front @
the Rockefeller home for the last weel
The Magistrate listened to most OF tn
I. W. w. agitators who wanted to tai
until Max Appel started to make
speech charging the police with roug
conduct. Then Magistrate Levy shut o
the steam and pronounced sentence o
Turner.
Appel said afterward that in spite {
the workhouse sentence given to Turns
the "death mask" as the marchers terme
the black robe, would be continued
front of the Rockefeller home this aftel