Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-12
Twenty-Year-0Id Youth Shot
and Killed When State SOL
diers Raid Dice Game in City
of Boston.
MACHINE GUNS MOUNTED
AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS
Shopkeepers Supplement Po-
lice and Military Protection
by Barricading Windows as
if to Withstand a Siege.

Boston, Sept. 11.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press.)-The death toll in
lawlessness following the calling OF
Boston's police strike Tuesday
reached FIVE tonight when Henry
Groat, 20 years DID, was shot and
killed during a raid by state guards
men on a dice game in the Jamaica
Plains section. Two other men were
wounded in the raid
The sixth and seventh deaths oc-
Cured late tonight when Richard D.
Reemts, a striking policeman, who
was shot this morning, succumbed
to his wounds, and Robert Lallie,
who was shot last night, died at a
hospital.
About 50 persons are being treated
in hospitals for injuries received in
riots.
The shooting occurred after some
of the players and spectators had
refused to leave the place. They
were ordered to move on and when
they failed to bulge, the guardsmes
| fired.
With Governor Coolidge as COM
mander-in-c chief of the states forces,
N complete charge of the situation,
! the city tonight took on warlike
appearance. Six machine guns we're
mounted at police headquarters and
troopers wearing "tin hats by order
of Adjutant General Stevens, pa
troled the streets. The order fol-
lowed injury of several soldiers by
flying missiles.
Meanwhile shopkeepers, supple
menting police and military protec-
ton by means of their own, barri-
caded the windows of their places of
business, as if to withstand siege.
Boards were nailed in front of the
glass to protect it from the assault
of bands of hoodlums who have
been roaming the streets.
Fight to Finish.
A fight to the finish between the
constituted authorities of state and
city and the labor unions was indi-
Gated by developments in the strike
today. While Governor Coolidge
was exercising his authority Mayor
Peters was making it plain to labor
leaders who visited city hall that
the policemen's union would not be
recognized.
The labor men were firm in their
insistence that the police be permit
ted to affiliate with the American
Federation of Labor and offered to
guarantee that the police never
would be called out on a sympa-
thetic strike.
Fear Further Strikes.
The possibility of strike of car
men, telephone and electrical work
ers and industrial employees was Sc
rious. What gave the authorities
the greatest cause for anxiety, how
ever, was the danger that the fire
men might join in the movement.
1t was recognized that this would
place the city in the gravest peril.
A raw of hope was seen in the dec
laration of the president of the fire
mems union that he would not take
the responsibility for a strike unless
authorized by the American FEEDER
alton of Labor.
Governor Coolidge in taking per-
sonal charge of the policing of the
city pointed out that his obligation
under the constitution compelled
him to take this step, in view of the
fact that the entire state guard has
been called out for police duty. He
directed Police Commissioner Cur
tbs to obey only such orders as came
from him and asked for the COOP
Grafton of the public.
The central labor union, which
met tonight to consider the advis-
ability OF calling general strike
in sympathy with the Boston po-
lice adjourned without taking deti-
mite action. A secret poll was
taken and those affiliated unions
which have not yet voted separate
" on the question of going Out IN
sympathy were ordered to vote as
soon as possible and report to the
central labor union committee.
which was empowered to take any
action deemed necessary.