New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-02
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TARRYTOWN RI0TINC
Invasion of ROckefeller'S
Town by Hundreds Is
Now the Programme.
JAIL TERMS FOR TWO;
HUNGER STRIKE IS ON
Sympathizers BraWI Outside the
Lockup-Villagc Police Ready
for AgitatOrs' Rush.

Three months on the Island for one
offender and a thirty-day sentence for
the other was the outcome Of the trial
OF two OF the fifteen Berkmanites and
l. W. W. followers who invaded larry
town. John ID. Rockefeller's home village,
Saturday and Sunday. and insisted upon
their right to make speeches attacking
the oil king and his son.
Meanwhile, in the jail at White Plains,
Becky" Edelson and ten Of her follow
crs inauguratcd hunger strike. A dele
cation OF eight men and women VINO
came to visit them were refused admit
lance during the. afternoon, and had to
be threatened with arrest before they
would leave the jail grounds.
Yesterday Leonard ID. Abbott, president
OF the Free Speech League. precipitated
himself into the struggle. and plans are
being made to fill Tarytown with agi-
tators and to keep the authorities busy.
The latter announce that they are pre-
pared TO deal with as many as arrive, and
have called upon the fire department to
aid them with their hose in case the
/. W. W. and their friends descend in
too great numbers.
In company with W. Shstton, RUS
sian anarchist, Abbott secured an inter-
view early last evening with f. r. Pier
son, president of Tarrytown. His de-
mands for free speech in Tarrytown
were met with absolute and fiat refusal
and the result was a call for a meeting
at the Ferrer School last evening to make
plans for carrying on the fight.
Mayor Mitchell and Commissioner
Woods are civilized men," said Abbott.
"but Pierson and his chief of police are
just like the Russians Never in my life
have | met so pg-headed man as Pier
son."
The fight is just beginning, according
TO Abbott and Westminster County will
be compelled TO Jail several hundred men
and women II it wants to prevent free
speech
The two men convicted Yesterday after
noon were OF the second instalment OF
disturbers who, with Berkman. invaded
Tarrytown on Sunday. The prisoner
given the three months sentence refused
10 give his name but it is believed to be
Joe Bosa. He was tried under the name
of John Doe. Handsome Dave" Sulll-
van, one of the leaders Of the movement,
received thirty days.
The men will be taken to the peniten-
tiary on Blackvells Island this morning.
Harry Wilks, the third Of those arrested
on Sunday, demanded that the grand jury
act on his case, and was taken TO White
Plains TO join his comrades In the Jail
there.
The intention OF the prisoners TO at
tempt a hunger strike was expressed at
breakfast time, when all but one refused
nourishment There were then twelve
prisoners, including Becky" Edelson
Arthur Caron, Maurice Rudome and nine
others who either would not give their
names or gave fictitious ones.
In the middle OF the morning the dozen
started TO sing the "Marseillaise,' and
succeeded in disrupting jail discipline 10
such an extent that ten OF the singers, all
EXCEPT Becky and the non-faster, were
taken 10 a room in distant part OF the
Jail.
In the afternoon a crowd Of eight, in
GLIDING two women, arrived from New
York and were insistent upon seeing the
prisoners When refused they succeeded
IN locating the cell In which their friends
were imprisoned and were holding con-
yersations with them from the outside
when Sheriff Doyle informed them that
they would have 10 leave.
The eight refused, and told the Sheriff
70 co ahead and arrest them II ne wanted
TO- The Sheriff summoned his deputies.
wbereupon the eight thought better of it
and left.
Anticipating that the I. W. W. cases
might come before the grand jury for
action. Judge Arthur 5. Tompkins. in
charging the June grand jury Yesterday
morning, took occasion 10 refer TO the
offenders in strong language.
A debate on free speech and Colorado,
TO take place not far from John d. s home,
is on the programme for Saturday after
room at o'clock. The debaters viii be
the Rev. j. l.. Gates, OF st. Paufs Metho-
dist Church, North Tarrytown, and Alex
ander Berkman.
/ Meanwhile, the Rockefeller and Colo
RADIO matter threatens TO split the Social
fist PARTY wide open. Morris HIillqut and
William English Walling, both vel
known Socialists, are quarrelling violent
IL, and Wallng has declared that il would
be better for all concerned II Hilquit re-
signed from the party