The Washington times., 1917-04-07
DINERS MOB BRITON
FOR SLUR TO FLAG
Socialist and Suffragist Plas-
tered With SaIad-Former
Lands in Court.

German, but an EngliShman, VINO
was mobbed in Rector's restaurant
last night for refusing to stand up
with everybody else when the orches
ira played "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner." Plastered with salad, which had
been thrown at him, he was rushed
out of Rector's, delivered to the police
and charged with disorderly conduct
in the night court.
He is Frederick Sumner Boyd, So
cislist, who served a year in the New
Jersey State prison at Trenton for
advocating sabotage in 1. w. w. meet
ings in Paterson at the time OF the
silk workers strike of 1913. With
him in Rector's last night was Miss
Jessie Ashley, lawyer and suffragist,
who was fined $50 in this city last
year for distributing information re-
garding birth control. She fought to
shield Boyd from assailants in the
restaurant, but disappeared before he
was arrested.
The main dining room Of the res
taurant was crowded and the cabaret
was going at 8 o'clock when the or
chestra swerved from dance music to
the national anthem. Instantly the
diners were up and singing. The
OAAS SASOu6 WHO QlO not rise were
Boyd and Miss Ashley, who were
talking together at a table near the
center of the room.
At hrst no one noticed them except
q waiter-a German waiter-who
stepped to their sides and said:
Il beg your pardon, but The Star
Spangled Banner is being played now
and the ladies and gentlemen are not
seated"
Rufnsed to Bulge.
Boyd and his companion did not
bulge. By this time other diners were
watching them. For the benefit of the
persistent sitters the air was repeat
ed and the American diners-every-
body but Boyd and his friend
cheered and waved napkins.
over in a corner stood Charles
happes, jr., vice Sresident of the
Barnaby Furniture Company of Staten
island. On his waistcoat CLEANS
badge No. 476, proving that he is a
deputy sheriff of Richmond county.
Noting that the diners were losing
patience with the obstinate pair and
were closing around them, Kappes
started running toward Boyd with the
intention of getting him up by per-
suasion. But before he got there
Boyd and Miss Ashley were targets
Tor shower Of salads and other food
grabbed up by those around them and
thrown with more or less careful aim
The air was full of flying salad and
presently the still seated man and
woman were decorated with greenery
and several obvious dashes of mayo-
natse- The woman herself grabbed a
big handful of salad and flung IT re-
gardless. 1t splashed into the face of
the German waiter who had been how
ering over the table and begging Boyd
and his friend to stand up and do
their duty by the flag of the u. S. A.
The waiter, with yellow sauce stream
ing down his face and shirt front,
groped his way out of Rector's and at
last reports had not reappeared.
"To Hell With United states.-
The deputy sheriff from Richmond
Erasped Boyd by the shoulder and
shouted:
why don't you stand up? Don't be
q fool. Don't you know this is the
United States7"
Boyd replied, according to Kappes.
ITO hell with the United Statesr" and
then lifting his glass added, Here's
to the King!
In the swirl that followed two ta-
bles were upset and Rector's manager,
Albert L. Dashburg, lost three buttons
from his dress coat while scramblipg
through the crowd to Boyd's position.
He finally grabbed Boyd, yanked him
from his seat and dived with him to
the Broadway entrance at the head
of q flying wedge of assistant man.
ayers, walters, and villagers. The
orchestra smoothed down the uproar
by playing The Star-SpangIed Ban
ner" once more, and an assistant man
eser announced to the perspiring
diners:
at is over. The dfsturber has been
turneu over to the police"
Which was true. Miss Ashley had
slid away somehow, but Boyd was
marched to the West Forty-seventh
street station house and arraigned
before Lieutenant Upward, whose
parents came from England.
Not Particular About Grounds.
"Pm not a bit excited. Please
notice that I am very, very COOL" |
said Boyd to newspaper men. To the |
lieutenant he said: 81 stand on my
constitutional rights"
stand on anything you please" |
replied Upward, "but Mr.. Dashburg |
SudI SSS you WIN OlsOTOeTly COpduCI, ]
and you'll have to go TO night court" |
While the prisoners name and ad- |
dress were being taken the deputy /
sheriff from Richmond stood biting |
his lips and clenching and unclench-
ing his fists, but whatever he seemed |
10 feel like doing he did not do.
The Rector's manager said that
Boyd had eaten or ordered ST.75
worth of dinner and refused to pay
the bill
Boyd said he was a newspaper
reporter, is thirty-two years old, and
came from England six years ago.
He is slim and tall and has a small
blond mustache.
At Paterson strikers meeting he ad-
vised the silk workers to rub vinegar
soaked cloths over the reeds of the
looms and put rhodamine in the dye
boxes. With the help OF Miss Ashley,
who gave $4,000 bail for him, and
other influential socialists, he fought
through the courts for two years, but
in 1915 he was sentenced to serve
from one to seven years in the psni-
tentiary and to pay a fine OF $500.
Renounced Views.
In prison he renounced his former
views on sabotage as absolutely pref
judicial to all social progress" A pc
tition asking the court OF pardons to