New Britain herald., 1917-08-30

the young orator. In a moment ne
found himself on the way to the po-
lice station. He gave the names OF
James E. Cook of 9 st. Paul's avenue,
Jersey City.
While the crowd was hurting it's
threats OF disapproval at the police.
Mr.. Moore arose on the stand and
was allowed to continue for about ten
minutes, the police being busy with
the crowd. He made plea for fair
play" and free speech" and then
launched into the denunciation of the
city magistrates and Mayor Mitchell,
who, he said. would never be mayor
again mo matter how we'll he can
tango"
Moore was going strong when he
felt the arm of the law. By this time
the crowd was In a frenzy of excite
ment. The police were pushed about.
cursed and abused They showed
good discipline and used their night
sticks only gently. Whether by po-
lice direction or not a big automo-
bile was run east in Thirty seventh
street from Eighth Avenue. After
few minutes Of effort the driver
appeared glad to back off and give up
the attempt to get through the crowd.
Irish Freedom showed that they had
not had enough. Miss Curley, who
has been a regular speaker at the
meeting, got up and waved the Amer
lean flag. It took five minutes for
the ovation she got to die down. Her
| voice was too weak to carry over the
disorder Of the crowd, but she showed
how she felt about it by tearing
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shouting denunciahons of England
and tyranny"
It looked for five minutes as If she
| would finish her speech. The crowd.
which had been split into groups by
the police, became packed about her
automobile, and she was speaking
with spirit when more policemen ar
rived.
All at once, as If impelled by a
great force, the crowd surged back.
No one seemed to know just what had
happened. Miss Curley turned in
alarm. to see that, with the aid of
soldiers, she was completely sur
rounded by blue-coated men, with
ntghtsticks in hand, ready for busi-
| ness. Not a word was said as one
of them climbed into the front Of the
automobile and started 1t, with the
speaker on the rear seat Then bed
lam seemed to break loose. The girl
stood up, kissed the, flag of the Irish
revolution. and waved it with the
Stars and Stripes. Her moving lips
showed that she was still talking, but
not a word could be heard in the
hubbub
Soldiers Cursed, Hits the Target.
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crowd that blocked the way. A man
insisted on clinging to the front of
it. A soldier tried to pull him away.
he cursed the soldier and the soldier
struck him in the mouth. That was
only one of many Incidents. The DO
lice were fighting to clear a. wav with
their woman prisoner, when PATROL
man Hoffman was pushed roughly to
one side. He grabbed the man who
had jost1ed him and carried him to
the station, where the prisoner said
he was John Weiffenbach, a butcher,
of 391 Seventh avenue. He was locked
up on disorderly conduct charge.
In the meanwhile the police were
still struggling to get Miss Curley
away. Every minute added hundreds
to the crowds that hemmed the po-
lice in front. with those who had
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rear. Suddenly the police broke
through and soon had their prisoner
on the way to the station.
Seventy-fve more reserves, under
Captain Bailey, had arrived by this
time and turned their attention to
the crowds which damned Broadway
aid Square. The police besought the
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they were in no mood to move. Every.
thing was blocked tight when a po-
lice automobile with glaring search
light ploughed its way through the
jam and adopted the novel expedient
of running up and down the side
walks with screetching horn.
This helped to clear the sidewalks.
and then the police split the crowd
| in two, pushing part south and part
north towards Times Square. When
| the body of the north owing crowd
came to Thirty seventh street and
| Broadway the patriotic meeting was
still in progress. In a few seconds
its size had grown from 200 to 1000,
and the noise drowned out the speak
ers voices The band played THE
Star Spangled Banner" Someone re-
fused to take off his hat; sailor took
it off, and another near riot was
under way. Then the police told
Coroner Healy and his patriots to call
it nights work and go home.
| In another half hour Broadway was
pretty we'll cleared for five blocks on
either side Of Herald Square, and al
though the danger of serious riot
seemed past several hundred police
reserves remained on duty until after
| midnight.
United States Marshal Mccarthy.
with a corps of his men, was in the
crowd but took no part in the ar
rests. Cleveland Moffett was not
there although there were many cries
for him by those not friendly to the
! Vigilantes.