The sun., 1919-10-23
GERMAN OPERA
SINGERS EGGED
BOmbardment in Lexington
Theatre Fails to Halt
Production.
BATTLES RAGE OUTSIDE
Sailors and Soldiers Among
Scores Injured-Several
in Hospital.
BATTLES RAGE OUTSIDE

Resumption Of German opera in the
Lexington Theatre last night under
the protection OF temporary tnjunc-
ton against the city authorities was
attended by egg throwing within the
playhouse and much violence out
side.
In the course OF several hours OF
battling between several hundred po-
lice and persistent groups of ex-ser-
vice men. plain citizens and hoodlums
on the outskirts Of the theatre neigh
borhood the worst occurrences were
these:
A sailor from the Granite State was
knocked senseless, apparently by a
kick or a blow in the abdomen. while
the police were beating back one of
the mobs.
A police sergeant was knocked down
and his hip may have been fractured
A civilian was pursued by the police
into an apartment house and was
carried out unconscious. Revolvers
were fired by both sides, but the bull
lets hit no one.
These three men were taken to Belle
vue Hospital. A United States Army
truck was seized by another mob In
Fifth avenue in front Of st. Patrick's
Cathedral and driven by its captors
into the police lines until the invaders
were overpowered and scattered. II
was in this melee that the three VIC
Tins of the rioting were injured
The eggs, Ave strictly fresh ones
were flung from a third tier box by q
left handed young man who said he
was John Doe OF the Hotel McAlpin
while the chorus Of the Star Opera
Company was beginning the first acI
of Ear und Zimmerman"
There was a series Of skirmishes and
at least one real fight between mobs OF
ex-service men and hangers on on the
one hand and the police. led by charging
cavalry. on the other. In the worst o.
these two men. one Of them a sailor
were either dubbed or hit by nyins
bricks and knocked unconscious Thii
encounter took place at about 10 o'clock
following two hours Of repulsion by tn,
police of groups of would-be opera raid
ers in the side streets and Of rumor,
that soldiers and sailors were gathering
somewhere in greater numbers and pre-
pairing for a massed assault.
Raiders seise Truck.
The big rumpus started when a GROVE
Of several hundred young mon, many o.
whom were in uniform, Beized a United
States army truck In Fifth avenue II
front OF st. Patrick's Cathedral. Tn,
truck had been In use at an army re
cruiting rally at Tenth street neal
Second avenue. It had a piano aboarc
and an American nag over all It was II
charge OF First GLASS Private Richard
Perry OF tho recruiting service. Will
him on the truck when the rally ende(
were two civilians, James Keeson anC
Michael Brown. They had got as far al
the Cathedral on the way to a Fifty
| fifth street garage when they ran agains
about 500 German opera haters who
few minutes before had been. driven ou
of Park avenue near F1fty-f1rst stree
| by mounted and unmounted policemen
! at whom bricks and bottles were thrown
Members OF the mob swarmed ABOARD
the truck with much shouting and threw
Perry and the two civilians to the street
while others removed the headlights
! with a new chauffeur at the wheel and
those who could not mount tho trucl
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