The sun., 1917-08-30
so POLICE STOP
CORPORATIONS.
LEADERS TAKEN
Friends of Irish Freedom
Challenged Mayor to
stop Speaking.
HOOTS FOR ENGLAND
Mob Of 1000 Follows Prison
ers to Night COurt-Magis-
I trate Calls Reserves.

Just forty minutes after stephen john
son, national organizer OF the Friends of
Irish Freedom. challenged "thc Mayor
and the City Magistrates to stop US from
speaking" fifty policemen swooped
down on a crowd Of 5000 at Broadway
and Thirty-fifth street last night and de-
clared the meeting at an end,
Six persons. including Challenger
johnson himself and John u. Moore. ma
tional secretary of the organization.
which has become slngularly active since
America entered the war. were taken TO
the West Thirtieth street station. to be
transferred in patrol wagons to Night
Court an hour later
During the forty minutes several
speakers had referred sneeringly to the
Mayor and to one OF the nations allies
every mention of the name of Mitchell
and Of England evoking chorus Of
boots, Meanwhile men elbowed through
the crowd distributing cards containinE
scurrtlous attack on the city's Chief
Executive. The letter of Mayor Mitche
and the statement of the Board OF City
Ma gistrates, both issued a few days ago
holding that the law amply justites the
prevention OF gatherings calculated &c
disturb the peace, gave the police the
authority they had longed for at nu.
]
, crowd.
Mob At Might Court.
The mob of 1000 followed the prison
ers to night court and created such ar
( uproar that Magistrate Brough was
! forced to send two calls for reserves
The six prisoners are stephen John.
/ son. S5 OF S3s West Forty eighth
street; John u. Moore, as, consulting
engineer, Of has Eighty-third street
BROOKLYN; Margaret T. J. Curley. 90. o'
| lSs Eighth avenue James F.. Cook, IS
OF Jersey City: Thomas Mccoy. 81
/ Janitor of Al, West l2o,h street Johr
Wifrenbach. butcher. Of 3el Seventh
avenue
The scene OF the raid was Thirty fifth
street instead OF Thirty-seventh. be
cause when the advance guard arrived
Al Thirty-seventh street II found IL.
usual place usurped by the United
States recruiting committee for tn,
/ National Guard.
/ Lets go to Thir,y-fitth street. on,
OF the leaders shouted and the GROVE
surged down past Greeley Square ant
soon filled more than half the biocl
toward seventh avenue.
johnson climbed up on a tabl.
decorated with AN American flag an,
the emblem Of the Irish republic an,
started his speech.
The Mayor" ne began, but .or nea ri,
full minute he could get no further
The crowd was busy with cstcalls an,
boos
Accusation against Mayor.
The Mayor and the Board OF Magis
trates are trying to throttle free speech,
he finally managed to say. 1t look
like an Anglo Saxon plot. They want L
prevent us from meeting hut they can
do it." Tremendous cheers
Patrolman Sheehy sidled up to tn
table and whispered TO the speaker
johnson fondied the Irish flag, and strik
ing an attitude exclaimed
Il have just been informed | ar
under arrest for obstructing traffic
want to ask YOU all To refrain from an
disorderly acts after l leave the meet
| ing"
johnson made no resistance and wa
led away. Three other speakers a,
tempted to address the gathering. bu
the police let none OF them get far.
4 woman. who was too excited
tell her name, leaped upon the imprc
vised stage, threw her hat into tn
crowd and announced she was sui
, fraeette, She didn't attempt to sa
, much more
, The crowd wac bent on trouble Drive
. Unto Broadway II filled both sidewalk
: and blocked all traffic as IL started
, parade uptown. Through the Gres
. White Way II marched, booing, groar
; ing, shrieking, causing srores to desc
, the lobster palaces to see what manne
. Of mob had seized the city's principi
thoroughfare.
Some 500 surrounded the statue
Columbus Circle and self-spponted lead
ers announced that another meetin
would be held there. but again the poNc
were too much for the rioters Afts
its experience In Thirty-ffth street III
crowd needed little persuas sion to Undue
= IL TO move on