The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-12


landed In the centre o. the street on. his
face. He was shot through the head.
The other. running rioterr was called
Upon to, halt. He, paid. no attention.
Another soldier fired. The second man
fell. shot through the side.
Dooley, bleeding from, the mouth as
result OF the punch thatisent him to
his knees, leaped out, In front Of the
soldiers and their prisoners.
Throw UP your hands" he. snarled.
And every one OF the prisoners began
10 claw at the. clouds.
The first man to lower his hands
will fraver no further use. for theni,"
added the lieutenant.
The effect OF an this was remark
able. The throngs-row fully 10000
had. spreadi over the, Common and
had blocked fremont street for squares.
Avery street was solid jam.
l. The throng was absolutely quiet. 1t
remained quiet for half a minute. The
sailor was lying face downward In a
growing pool of blood. No one APP
preached him: It was not known whether
| 'he,was dead or not. Presently woman
broke from the crowd. She moved to-
ward tho sailors. body two PAGES. or so.
Then she let out one of the widest
screams that the human throat has ever
accomplished,
The shrek broke the spell. The crowd
began TO surge toward the soldiers. They
did pot seem hostile. They appeared to
be dazed. 80.
All Prisoners Released.
To this dramatic secene came the
anti-olimax of farce. Dooley. took his
prisoners. to the police court, But as
the money had. been left behind the
magistrate released the whole crew of
prisoners because there was no legal
evidence that any one Of them had ac-
tually shot craps.
About this time South Boston decided
to break forthg again. Stories concern
ing the why's and wherefores of this riot
differ. As a matter Of fact it. il likely
that mono is. right A riot in South
! Boston is spontaneous affair these
dayS A cause Is not at all necessary.
The rough and. ready element down that
way just decide to riot and the battle
is on.
As nearly AZ can be gathered, some
one knocked "a soldier down with a
brick. Not content with that the crowd
proceeded to use the soldier as a foot
ball, A dozen of his comrades rushed
Eto his rescue and the air was filled with
curses, bricks. threats. old iron and fists
One of the soldiers, hard pressed. fired
from the hip. Robert Lallie, 81, Of
| Whitman, fell. The soldiers charged and
the mob fled. Lallie was hustled to the
city hospital. He died in half hour
after being admitted. The bullet had
gone through his lungs
| Only Mob Law I'm Boston.
! Martial law does not exist IN Boston
| yot. Neither does any other brand ex-
| cept mob law. Gov. Coolidge is talkins
of organizing an entirely new police
force, composed OF veterans of the Yam
\ kee Division of the American Expedi-
| tionary Forces. There are about 500 or
| 700 of these veterans around Boston.
About third of them woul1 DO able to
meet police requirements. It Is believed.
| There is no certainty that even this
| third would be willing to take the places
| of the strikers. The rest of the new
force, 1t Is said. might be selected from
the list of applicants for places--men
| who were kept OFF the force because
there were no vacancies.
1t is said that Federal Investigators
are in Boston sizing up the situation.
| Operatives of the Department of Justice
are prowling around They are looking
for evidences of L w. w. agitation and
| Bolshevik propaganda. But as far as
| investigation has been able to reveal
neither the 1. w. w. nor the Bolsheviki
have been represented by official agents
Down in Dorchester, South Boston.
| Charlestown and in the less affiueht and
cultured precincts Of Boston proper
| orators have essayed to hold forth in
! the interests OF labor, But the mobs
are paying no attention.
| AS n matter of fact this is not a
labor war thus far. 1t Is a battle be-
tween thieves. looters and vandals and
respectable citizens who want to see
ktbs law observed The police as a body
7 have not participated openly.
| There are many rumors that the po-
lice have agitated small riots to I'M
press upon the city the necessity of TAX
ing them back at all costs. But these
rumors have not been verified.
It is probable that these mobs would
boot an l. WV. agitator as readily as
they would the Mayor They don't want
lectures on Economies. They don't want
to oe told that they are the downtrod-
den proletariat. They are not. They
may have lacked as many suits OF
clothes. hats and shoes and diamonds
and furs as they would have liked to
have had. but no more. It's the best
dressed mob the country ever has seen.
MODS of Boys I'm Dress suits.
Down I'm Chelsea the hoodlums broke
into tailoring establishment to-day and
stole fifty suits Of evening clothes. The
tailor was wont to hire these suits Out
to men bound for social affairs. He ha;
bade farewell to those habiliments o.
aristocracy, but tonight there is a dres:
suited and high hated mob of boys pa
rading Chelsea.
, An able looking young man was sta
, toned at Scollay Square tonight HI
, were a police shield and carried a can,
that suggested the trailer Of field gun
: He had reassuring look about him ant
carried himself as though he WASH
particular who hit him so long as b.
could get in a return wallop.
Hello. Tacksl !" yelled a youth.
''Tacks" Hardwiclx, one of the rough
. est halfbacks that Harvard has ever pro
! duced, looked grinlly at the youth
"Shut up. your ne replied. "Ain'
! you got any respect for cop?'