New Britain herald., 1918-05-21
Mob Surges Through
 Streets, Blocking
 Trolley Cars and De-
 flying Police
TEN IN UNIFORM
 ARE OUT ON BONDS

l AhL OOI ON bONDa.
 Mayor FitzGcrald Appeals For Ordes l Asking Crowd to Respect Neu Haven Men Who Are Offering ThedH
 Lives in France, But Speech if
 Greeted With Derision-Hotheshs 1 Want to Rush Police Station. %A 1 New Haven, May 21.-Ten YaIa z I students in artillery and naval urfi- { 1 forms were locked up at the }poIicA
 station as the result of a spectaculara 1 riot of nearly 500 students who. aftAx 1 sweeping through the downtown sec- l ton lkee a hurricane, late last nigfif. centered around the front of. the Yade l post office on Elm street, whera
 Mayor FitzGerald had followed inAsan
 automobile and attempted to dispsKsa
 them. The riot resulted in fight be-S l tween five policemen accompanytns6s 1 Mayor FitzGerald and the studentA whose conduct compelled the patrna-< l men to use their revolvers to cow tfas attacks of the students. ! Ten students were booked at headss ] quarters by Sergt. Stephen F. Mo- l Gam, all charged with breach of tFfa peace with the exception of Keuf. l against whom there is an additiont3E ] charge of resistance. Those heiH are:
 1 oscar Fulton Davisson, Dayton, O. | Thomas Denny, New York City. 1 John Herdon French, New YoFk l City.
 Julian Brewster Rice. Washington, 7 D. c.
 John Emery Mitchell, welleslez. : Mass. H 1 William Floyd Jones.
 Allen Hubbard. Jr., Newton Center, 1 Mass.
 Chauncey William Diecks, Vest Orange, N. J.
 Sherri11 Kent, New Haven. l Dana Cobb Clark, Peoria, ILL N
 Prior to being booked they were 1 identified by authorities of the uni-
 versity.
 All cases were continued in co,srt l until Monday attorneys for the men explaining the university desired that l Dean Jones of the college be on hand
 at the time of the hearing, Dean
 Jones is in Maine. The prosecutor was ready to proceed, but consentaai l l to Qeldys Iu6T6 were qull0 d IGN | 1 students and others in and about tho | ! court house when the cases wero l called. Each student was bai1ed olft | !, during the night and his bond was l continued. Shots Fired on Campus.
 The trouble started on the Shelf. !
 campus, where some one fired several
 shots. A crowd soon collected and 1 more shots were fired in the air, 1 causing the number to swell to about@ l 50, which marched to the academic
 campus bowling and yelling. There& I the, mob drew recruits from all dor-
 mttories, and, growing as it went.
 rushed down Chapel street, snatching
 car signs and trolley poles on their | way.
 The crowd spread itself over
 Church and Chapel streets, surrounds l ing cars, diSconnecting poles, rip | ping the caps from the conductors'
 heads and scattering the car signs in 1 their wake.
 AimlessIy they next went roaring] | down Meadow street, but soon turned
 and went in step and good order back 1 towards the center, singing the old l Yale songs, still without thought of l the serious turn which the at first ! harmless eSCapaQe was going to take Arms linked, they pranced by Rikers and up Church. Scaling the fence of 1 the Green in front of the City Hall | the whooping crowd bounced on the 1 benches along the mall of the Green l and placed about ten of them across l the car tracks, while every stopping l car was systematically deprived of ! it's signs, which were carted away. I 1 was then that the mayor working | late in his office, heard the racket and 1 with several other citizens followed | the marauders.
 Turning uu Elm from Church theJ I beheld a large concrete mixer and ! about ten wheelbarrows and othej l paraphernaHa of road mending. TheJ | swooped down on these and rolled l them rattling over the pavement ul 1 the hill towards York street, placin, ] some of the barrows in front ! autos, and, climbing upon the run ming boards, hanging on to the side, l of the cars, kept them from ad
 vancing. At York and Elm they go l the mayors auto and also placed thu | concrete mixer on the trolley tracks l causing a, car to run into it. Aga1
 they turned, leaving the mixer an l wheelbarrows in the middle of thu 1 highway.
 ] Jcers Greet Policemen. l Undecided upon what object nexk l to spend their energy, they collected | il; front of the Yale post office and l blocked the street. They set up->s \