The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-13
(Associated Press Dispatch


(Associated Press Dispatch
HaverhiH, April A trail of broken glass
the only visible evidence today of the disturbance
of last night when mob held the city in it's
power for several hours and smashed windows at
will. The fury of the crowd finally spent
and before daylight the streets deserted.
The local militia company which had been called
out to aid the police, then returned to the armory
No arrests made. Several persons in
jured by flying MISSILES but seriously
hurt.
residents to the granting by the city government
of permit to Thomas A. Leyden, of Somervle,
to deliver address in the City Hall sectaran
questions, particularly regarding State appropria-
tons for sectaran schools.
An immense crowd formed about the building
and became SO threatening th~t the meeting
abandoned The crowd then began throwing
stones at windows in the City Hall while portions
of the mob went to other parts Of the city and
attacked the residences of persons who had as
sisted in arranging for Leyden's address.
The local militia company, summoned by Mayor
Bartlett, surrounded the City Hall, cleared nearby
streets and kept the mob at bay. The crowd then
gradually dispersed.
So, you see, the Romanists in Massachusetts
will not even allow discussion of the sub
ject of State aid to Catholic schools.
They are getting the States money for the
pope's Schools and they mean to keep on
getting it.
They do the same thing in Georgia, but
have not vet tried to murder us for discussing
the subject.
According to the Boston Journal, the Cath
Ollie mob acted as follows:
Corporal Thomas Payne was hit in the hand by
a piece of glass thrown through the air, his fingers
being badly cut. Private Frank Woodsum was
roughly handled in the charge made by the
crowd, at a time when the mtiamen not in
military formation.
DR.. Leyden was hanged and burned in efigy
early today and crowd of 800 paraded through
the streets singing Marching Through Georgia"
The militamen kept the crowd moving and grad
ually the ill-feeling died down somewhat. The
! streets fairly clear
Adjutant- General Cole reached the city at
o'clock this morning by automobile and immedi-
ately conferred with Major Harry B. Campbell,
commanding the battalion OF the Eighth Regi-
ment, to which the local company is attached, and
Captain Charles e. Morse, of Company F.
The outlined the action they had taken and
assured him that they believed things had queted
down and that there little fear Of continued
disorder.
Scenes of the widest disorder Haverhll has
ever Witnessed involving the stoning Of many
buildings in all parts of the town and consider
able violence to persons in the streets, eliminated
tonight in the calling out Of the militia to protect
DR.. Thomas E. Leyden, of Somerve, the anti
Catholic speaker whose attempt to deliver lee
ture in the City Hall nearly cost him his life
Mayor Albert e. Bartlett, after the Police De-
partment had proved itself utterly inadequate to
cope with the mob of 10000 Infatuated citizens
who choked Court Street between the Police Sta
ton and the City Hall, summoned the militia.
Ring IL False Alarms for Fire.
Fully dozen public buildings and private
homes we're attacked by the mob, conspicuous in
which, according to persons who witnessed the