New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

negroes in Incredible numbers poured
fron, the side streets into Amsterdam
Avenue and surged northward. Gllotti
faced tho onrush undaunted and re-
tanned his grip. Patrolman Michael
Nirglia. old in the lore of San Juan
Hill. ran to his aid, his nightstick rat
Ting an alarm.
In a moment the policeman and the
Home Defence League man were IN the
thick of It. The blacks centred their
attention on the blue uniform, familiar
through old battles, and the dogged
Gilotti, though receiving what ne
deemed his share of kicks ana Guns
chung to his prisoner -
He was still clinging to him. though
dtzed and bleeding and with his nose
ripped to the bone by brick, when the
reserves from the West Sixty-eighth
Street station arrived. Mirglia, ringed
by frenzied blacks, was swinging his
nightstick from the vantage point OF
building wall several score feet away.
Reserves Plunge Into Mob
After seeing Gilotti and his prisoner
TO the patrol wagon the reserves
ploughed through the mob to Mlrglia
and then charged back against their
opponents. A big negro In the van
pulled a revolver and levelled 1t at the
advancing line of blue.
Patrolman Leo Hoy leaped forward
from the charging line and got a grip
on the negro's coat sleeve. The negro
twisted and ran, leaving the sleeve IN
Hoy's grasp. but retaining the revolver:
How pursued him to Sixty-second
Street. where the fugitive lodged into
saloon, emerging by the side door
and buhping into Philip Minkenbeck,
another Home Defence man, who was
on post there. Minkenbeck grappled
with the armed negro, who tore loose
after a struggle and escaped.
How running back to Sixty-thlrd
Street in the belief that the negro had
scampered across back fences, was set
upon by blacks who were rushing to
the fight, and was down on his back on
the pavement when the reserves from
West Forty-seventh Street charged
through the street and rescued him.
As the battle progressed white men
not in uniform, some of whom earlier
in the affray bad aligned themselves
against the forces of law and order,
fell upon the negroes and strove with
makeshift weapons TO drive them east
ward from their stronghold. The fate
of the contest still hung in the balance
when the reserves from the West Tooth
Street stations and detectives from the
Fourth Branch, under Captain Cooper,
added their weight to the struggle.
From that time on it was a running
fight, the blacks resisting just long
enough to assure themselves of line
of retreat Occasional shots and shat
tering windows proclaimed that peace
had not yet come, but the main conflict
was over.
Patrolman Edward Hanson OF the
West Sixty-eighth Street station. the
only policeman seriously hurt, went to
Polytechnic Hospital. The third finger of
his right hand had almost been several
by razor. Richard Hill, a negro, of
2l0 West Sixty-fourth Street, was shot
in the neck by Patrolman Francis
Meade of the West Sixty-eighth Street
station. He was rushed to Roosevelt
Hospital in taxicab, but was dead on
arrival.
Another bullet shattered the window
Of grocery store on West Sixty-sec-
ond Street and struck Dorothy Graves,
thirteen years old, a negress, IN the
right thigh. She was attended by an
ambulance surgeon, and went to her
home, at 235 West Sixty-third Street.
Eustace Graves, negro, of $50 West
Sixty-third Street, who was shot in the
leg. also went home.
William Chadwick, white. of 105 West
Fifty-third Street, who was found on
the second floor Of 222 West Sixty
second Street with a fractured skull,
was thought TO have been another vic
tim of the fight. He was taken to
Polytechnic Hospital.
The four negroes besides Hamilton
who were arrested are Frank Edwards.
Of 2l5 West Sixty-frst Street; John
Christopher, of 219 West Sixty-thrd
Street. Herbert Richardson, of 2l5
West Sixty-first Street, and Herbert
Carpenter, of PAS York Street, Jersey
City.