New-York tribune., 1919-08-09

/ "Those who do not believe in re-
Behind them came a crowd of strikers,
acting as football interference agains t
Captain Harley and the other police
who were following.
Hauptman overlook his man at Full
ton Street and placed him under ar
rest. Then he fought off the crowd
until Harley and his men pushed
| through the mob with swinging fists
7 and clubs.
Fourteen More Arrested
For minute the strikers fought
back. Then they broke and ran back
along Classon Avenue toward their
truck, with the police in pursuit. There
was another scrimmage about the
truck, which ended when fourteen more
men had been arrested. All were
charged with violation of Section 1891
of the Penal Code, which has to do
with the destruction of property.
Remnants Of the mob followed Har-
ley and his prisoners to the police sta
ton, but made no attempt to rescue
them. Some of the men were dis
charged soldiers, still in uniform.
An additional charge Of felonious as
sault has been made against Fox
Frequent calls for the reserves and
the emergency squads on duty in the
Brooklyn police stations were made
yesterday. Strikers attacked the few
cars that left the barns with such fury
that many had to turn back after they
had gone but a few blocks South
Brooklyn, the heart of the shopping
district, Putnam and Classon avenues,
all were visited by the "hying squad
rons" in their motor trucks. Most of
the trucks bore dersive legends about
Receiver Garrison
Killed in Auto Accidents
A serious collision, which resulted
IN one death and many injuries, oc-
CURED at Eighth Avenue and Forty
first Street when a heavy strike relief
touring car loaded with employees of
The Marmon Automobile Company and
another automobile. owned and op-
Grated by DR.. Morris Cohn, Of 1920
Forty-sixth Street, Brooklyn, colided
Walter Preiss, twentythree years old,
OF $500 127th Street, Richmond Hill,
an employe Of the automobile COM
pany, died in the Bay Ridge Sanato-
rum as result Of the accident
Many others were injured during the
day in accidents to automobiles which
were attempting to replace the surface
cars. A thirteen-year- boy, John
Morena, of 1O5 Conselyea Street, died
OF fracture Of the skull in the Will
iamsburg Hospital. The boy was pushed
off truck and fell directly in the path
OF truck in the rear.
In the heart of the retail shopping
district a Seventh Avenue car was
attacked at Fulton Street and Elm
Place. The strikers pulled the fuse
on the car and threatened the crew
with violence if they attempted to in
terfere' When three aolicemn came
up the crowd scattered" "hurriedly and
the car continued on its way.
81" Guard Quits Train
Later in the day, when Frank Col
son, guard on a train of the Jamaica
elevated line. abandoned his car at
the Sands Street end of the Brooklyn
bridge, the policeman on duty inter
Tered and did not permit him to leave
until officials from the B. R. r. ar
rived and took over the abandoned
train.
George Hanna, conductor on Six
teenth Avenue trolley car, was pain
fully injured by flying blackjack
when a motor truck of the strikers
attempted to sideswipe his car at the
corner of Vanderbilt and Atlantic ave-
nues. Inspector Fitzgerald, who was
acting as motorman, continued to run
the car until Patrolmen George Grant
and Frank Gentner, of the Thirty-s
eenth Street station house, Manhattan,
IN brooklyn on strike duty, drew guns
and ordered the trucks chauffeur to
drive ahead
The car was slightly damaged but
was able to go on. Another Sixteenth
Avenue car, which had just left the
barn and had reached Park Place and
vanderbilt Avenue, was stopped by a
motor truckload of strikers and forced
10 turn back to the depot at Ninth
Avenue.
Switches Fixed as Derails
A new system of fixing switches so
that cars going at any speed at all
would overturn or be derailed was at
tempted yesterday in various parts OF
Brooklyn. Fortunately, the motormen
OF the cars were warned and no acci-
dents are known to have resulted.
duty yesterday at the Fifty eighth
Street car barn in South Brook
lyn, and temporary station house, a
branch Of the Fourth Avenue police
station, was established there. Be
cause OF the serious riot of Thursday
when shipworkers attacked cars al
Twenty-seventh Street and Third Ave
nue., captain James II. Gillen, of the
Fourth Avenue police station, had
forty members of the old strong arm
squad on duty during the noon hour
yesterday when the workers from the
shipyards are free. Besides the "strone
arm" men he had squad of twenty reg
ular detectives with him and numerous
policemen to prevent any disturbance
A touring car, carrying the owner
lsidore Levy, Of 1852 Fifty-ninth Street
Brooklyn. his brother Harry, of l754
Fifty-ninth Street, and FIVE other
Brooklynites who were delayed because
of the strike, was struck last night al
the corner of Broome Street and Broad
way by heavy Mack motor truck ownec
by the American Cigar and Soda Waite,
Syndicate of 139 Delaney Street. All
4he occupants of the touring car except
Harry Levy, who was driving were
thrown to the street and injured Isl.