Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-23
NEGROES FROM
SOUTH CAUSING
WARD TROUBLE
City Detective Chief Says
Strong Repressive Measures
Will Be Taken
COME HERE TO WORK
Robberies, Assaults and At
tacks on Women Put Police
on the Alert

/ Following two raids last night and
early this morning by the police in
South and North Seventh streets, in
which thirty persons were arrested
/ William L. Windsor, Jr.. head of the
city detective bureau. said this morn
ing that much of the crime in "the
ward" including robberies, brutal as
saults and attacks upon women. are
committed by a class of negroes. who
came from the South to this city to
work in the various industrial plants
here.
The worst element of the Southern
negroes are coming to the Eighth
ward" Windsor went on TO say,
They are unknown and are causing
an outbreak of crime in the ward,
which will require strong, repressiVe
measures on the part of the police to
! queil the disturbances. / am deter
mined 10 break it up il | have to fill
| the Jail. Last night in the South
street house the officers found eigh-
teen colored men and women in one
room, not moer than 10 by IL feet.
Six of the fifteen men in that room
came from the South"
Trouble which kept the police busy
all night started yesterday afternoon
when several negroes started q fight
/ with George Brock. colored, because
he was paying attentions to Lena Ben
ner white girl. Brock was chased
into an open lot. where the police ar
rested him. His rubbers stuck in the
mud and according to the police. the
mans pursuers went back after them,
cleaned off the dirt, and then sold
the rubbers to get money for whisky.
/ The Benner woman was discharged
/ from the Harrisburg hospital recently,
where she was treated after being as
saulted by William Lusard. whom the
police arrested.
Last night w. II. Ely of Dauphin,
was att tackled and robbed by three ne
groes in T'ilbert street, near Cowden.
lie was found almost unconscious
I by the police, with three gashes
! in his head. Upon investigation il
was learned that three men had at
tackled him, and then fled to 705 South
street. 4 raid was ordered. in which
George Dixon, James Boone and Gran
Vile Davis, charging them with the
crime. The other inmates were held
for hearing this afternoon. Eigh-
teen of them were found in one room
on the third floor, which was rented
by a woman named Clara Washing
ton.
John Bell. in trying to escape. fell
down the stairs from the second to the
first floors. and crashed into the vesti-
bule door which was partly open.
Late last night a report was made
to the police that two white men were
being solicited in the ward, and that
later they had seen several people go
into the house at 1919 North Seventh
street. Another raid was made and
Bessie Butler, John Rector and George
Taylor were found in a room rented
by the Butler woman, and Jacob JEFF
fries and Agnes Moore, colored, asleep
in another room.
Superintendent of Detectives Wind
sor said to-day. The negroes who
come here from the South, think that
they can start to do as they please
The negroes who once caused trouble
here know better, but do not tell the
Southern ones who start the distur-
bance" according to superintendent
Windsor.