New-York tribune., 1919-08-08
Police Shoot Boy
In Strife Rioting
Disorders Continue All
Day; Soldier Lies IN
Frottt Of Car; Stops II

Serious rioting continued Throughout
Brooklyn all day yesterday, desp pite ,!ie
presence Of 1000 policemen Oh active
strike duty. Mobs Of strikers and thrir
sympa thizers stormed cars, pulled the
trolley poles from the overhead wires
and dragged the ere"s frcnl their
places. "Flying squa drons' OF strikers
flew about the borough IN trucks, stop
ping what cars we're running and
we're placed upon car tracks aud stones
were thrown through car windows. At
least Ave persons were seriously in
jured.
Max Kaufman, twelve-yea old boy,
was shot in the back by policeman
who was chasing striker alleged to
have beaten an elevated railway guard.
The boy may die.
The most serious disturbances oc-
Cured in the shipyard district of
South Brooklyn.
Shipyard Workers Join
Two policemen and two working B.
Il. 7. employees. we're injured when a
Court Street car was attacked between
Twenty sixth and Twenty seventh
streets. Three hundred strike sympa-
thizers from the nearby Shewan ship
yards jumped on the car, dragged the
lIOlIcy pOlc from Lnc wire ana threw
the crew off.
The conductor, Martin Walsh, got
away from the mob and ran up Twenty
seventh Street with fifty shouting men
after him. The crowd dragged him
from hallway in which he had hidden
and threw him into the gutter, stamp
ing on him. Several ribs were broken.
Meanwhile Patrolmen Irwin Messal
and Salvatore Menish, both from the
Fourth Avenue station, were battling
with the mob about the car Several
bones in Messal's right hand we're
broken, but he managed to hold on to
man who, he said had thrown a milk
bottle at him. The man later said
he was Michael Aldale, twenty-four
years old, of 1927 Myrtle Avenue. He
was held on a charge of assault.
Conductors Skull Fractured
Henry Dornheimer, another con-
ductor on the car, was struck on the
head with an iron bolt. His skull was
fractured. Patrolman Menish, who was
also struck with a bolt, suffered from
decorations Of the scalp.
Receiver Garrison made a tour of
inspection around the lines in the
afternoon. He found that cannon
ball about the size of mans fist
had been thrown through the window
of Bergen Street car at about 2:3O
p. M An hour later, he said, strikers
piled dirt and stones upon the Bergen
Street rails between Franklin Street
and Vanderbilt Avenue
At GAS the men and one woman, all
strikers, entered the Stone Street sta
tion of the Seventh Avenue subway
and rushed at a woman conductor in
charge of a train. The conductor
screamed and attracted the attention of
several men who were waiting at the
station. Considerable excitement fol-
lowed, but the conductor shut the door
and got the train away from the station
before any one was injured
A boulder so big that a wrecking crew
had to be called to remove it was
placed on the tracks at Bergen and
Undcrhill avenues at about $50
Pickcts, aided by mob, stopped a
car on Fifth Avenue between Eighth
and Ninth streets during the evening
rush hour. The strikers shouted at the
crew and made it plain that they would
be beaten if they attempted to run a
car in that vicinity again. Two police
men on the car did not interfere They
grinned.
Twelve cars at Fresh Pond Road were
stopped by mob, including three SOL
diers in uniform, who said they hai
returned from the war to find prices
unendurably high. They accused the
crews Of cars of taking the bread from
their mouths. When one of the motor
men started his car soldier ran ahead
and lay upon the tracks. The car was
stopped within two feet of him.
Milk bottles and stones were thrown
at westbound Bergen Street car at
Franklin Street last evening j. p.
seventh Precinct, Manhattan, was
struck with stone. His scalp was
badly lacerated, and he was taken to
the Cumberland Street Hospital after
being treated by DR.. Stales, an ambu-
lance surgeon.