New-York tribune., 1919-09-15
Magistrate Huth Refuses TO
Hold Soldiers and Sail
ors Accused of Breaking
Up Meeting OF Socialists
Police Join i'll the Battle
Radicals i'll Court Object TO
the Discharge Of Prison
ers and Are Thrown Out
Police Join in the Battle

Four soldiers ard TWO sailors. pris-
oners taken by police reserves from,
among party of forty or efty uni
formed mon who bad carried on brief
but violent private war against whar
they called Bolshevism in the vicinity
Of Fifth Avenue and 10th Stree. Sat
urday night were arraigned yesterday
in Harlem Court After brief hearing
Magistrate Cornelius Huth discharged
them all, an action which threatened a
renewal OF hostilities right in the
courtroom.
Socialists who had mauled the vet
eran warriors and been mauled in turn
objected to the decision and were vcrg-
ing on active belligcrency when po-
lice detail appeared and elected them.
The first engagement was started by
a dozen men in uniform who underto ok
TO break up two Socialist meetings at
Fifth Avenue ard 10th street. They
said the speakers were preaching sedI-
ton. Rushing upon one speaker whom
they held to be particularly obnoxious
they were dragging him from the ros~
4rum when they were attacked by the
men and women present Outnumbered
they were thrown out of the hall finally
beaten.
They Seek Reinforcements
Undaunted. they hailed passing auto
mobiles and spcat She succeeding hour
rounding ur recruits. Forty-odd were
enlisted for the enterprise. and with
these reinforce ements the original con-
testants returned to the meeting hall
IN feet of taxis But the nall was
dark. Somebody then suggested that
the Assembly district headquarters
we're at l54O Madison Avenue, and the
war wa carried there.
By this time the ne;ghborh God was
throngcd with men and women out TO
watch the progress OF the fighting
With shouts Of Get the Bolshcviki'"
the attacking party assailed the few
soon were worstcd, and, needing an or
der, "Wreck the place. the warriors
were rapidly reducing the quarters TO
r mass Of debris when police reserves
from the 104th Stree. station arrived.
By this time the crowds of spectators
we're so dense that the police had to
use clubs to open a passage TO the
rooms in which the Socialists were still
suffering punishment.
Police Captain James Grady ordered
a mass attack, and the fight became.
prisoner he was attacked and the
prisoner released. Heads were dubbed
indlscr intimately. Patrolman p. J.
Grealis collapsed under blow. and
Captain Albert Gluckin, who went to
his assistance, was forced to retreat by
force Of numbers.
d. Police in Half-Hour Battle
The battle ragged half an hour be-
fore the police gained control. 1t was
then found that of the attacking party
only Six remained in the hands of the
police. These were John Danzig,
twenty-four years old, of New Haven
Conn, discharged soldier; Harry
Phillips, twenty-five, a sailor Of the
I. s. s. Plattsburg: Walter Brandle.
eighteen, q sailor attached to the U. S.
8. St. Louis: Patrick Murray, twenty
nine, soldier from Camp Merritt
Alexander Greenglick, nineteen, a sol
dier from Camp Mills, and George
McQuade, twenty. Of is East Forty
first Street, q discharged soldier.
The prisoners told Magistrate Nuth
the trouble started in the Socialist
ments deemed seditious. Policemen
who had participated in the late attack
at the Madison Avenue headquarters
told OF the battle. Some of the So
cialists, showing signs of the violence
Of the fighting, gave their side. The
magistrate declined TO sustain the
charges of disordery conduct. and
thereupon his courtroom became vocal
with shouted objections and demands
for the punishment Of the prisoners.
These ceased only when a police detail
appeared and cleared the court. while
the six discharged prisoners disap