Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-30

appeared before Magistrate Pennock
today as the result of having been at
| tackled by a mob while in the custody
\ of the police waiting for the arrival of
i the patrol wagon. Magistrate Pennock
held him under $500 bail for court.
Bail of $4,000 was required of John
Williams. 1445 South Bouvier street,
also a negro who was arrested last
night following the shooting of woman
in the riot district. Detective Curran.
who arrested Williams, told the magis-
! trate that he had frequently attempted
! to flirt with white women.
situation Under Control
Police, re-enforced by details Of
| marines and companies of home defense
reserves. have the situation under con-
troll in the downtown district disturbed
by the race riots since Saturday. Acting
Superintendent of Police Mills announced
today
I'VE now have a sufficient number of
men in the riot zone to quell any
disturbances almost as soon as they
originate" said Superintendent Mills.
We may have few small disturbances,
but the real danger is past
Maps of the Twenty-siXth Ward were
distributed to the police now serving at
Twentieth and Federal streets so they
will be able to reach the scene quickly
in case any further violence occurs. Most
of the men sent there from other dis
tricts are strangers in the vicinity and
the maps were given to enable them to
find their way among the numerous
small streets
Action shifted last night from the
| front controlled by the police of the
Twentieth and Federal streets station
and was renewed in the sector patroled
! from the Twelfth and Pine streets sta
| ton.
This section is the most thicklv popu-
| lated negro district in the city. At
| Twenty-fourth and South streets, a ne
gro threw brick into a crowd of whites
and then took refuge in a nearby house.
Shots We're exchanged. but when the
police arrived he made his escape over
| the housetops.
A crowd of negroes started to raise
a disturbance in front of the Polytechnic
| Hospital. Nineteenth and Lombard
streets, early this morning. but a patrol
load of police, responding to a riot call
from the hospital authorities, soon dis
persed the gathering.
John Pendleton. a negro, twenty-four
years old, 2127 Cypress street, came to
sudden grief when he emerged from his
home with a revolver in each hand last
him make threats and had seen him go
after the guns, SO was ready for him
when he came out of the house. PEN
dleton was met by 200 pounds of husky
| patrolman and after being dsarmed was
arrested and lodged in the Fifteenth and
Locust streets station.
Woman Shot at Window
Mrs. Sarah Abrams. forty-one years
| old, was shot last night while sitting
at the window of her home. 1881 South
Bonsall street.
Mrs. Abrams was shot by John Will
liams, negro living at 1925 South
Bouvier street, who was patroling the
street with the loudly avowed inten-
ton. the police say, of Shooting up
| any whites in the vicinity. Despairing
| of causing an outbreak, he finally shot
| the woman as she sat at the window
of her home.
News that the negro had shot an un-
| offending white woman spread like wild
| flre, and only the prompt arrival of the
| patrol with additional help prevented the
| mob from avenging the outrage at once
| Mrs. Abrams wound is not serious
| She will recover
| Whites and negroes in the riot zone
| differ as to the cause of the outbreak
|
| the Ellsworth street block between
Twenty-ninth street and the SChuylkill
| River
White residents of the block say that
| a. D. Morgan. agent for Charles A.
Painter. the owner. is trying to make
them move and sell the houses to negro
families. This they resent, they say,
| because many of the white families
have lived there for many years and
do not want to move Rents have been
raised from Sll to SIG, they claim.
Mrs, John Cleary showed a letter writ
ten in July in which she was ordered to
vacate Mrs. Annie Rugal, another resi-
dent of the block, whose husband is a
patrolman. now in the hospital in a
serious condition, is another resident or
dered to move
. Mrs. Harriet Rice, who keeps a little
store at the corner of Twenty.ninth and
} Ellsworth streets during the absence of
her two sons, who are fighting in France,
also has received notice to move
i've been around here thirty years
and hate to move now" she explained
The store provides my support during
my boys absence, ! didn't mind when
the agent raised the rent a few times
but l don't want to be put out"