The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-04
JUDGE BRANDS
RIOTS ANARCHY
Chicago Magistrate Says "a
Few Hangings Would Have
SaIutary Effect"
ARREST FIRE SUSPECT
Negroes Notified They Cant
Work in Stockyards-False
Alarm for Troops.

Chicago, Aug. 4.-Charging the
special grand jury empanellod here
today to probe the recent race riots
which during the past week caused
the death of 33 persons. the injury OF
more than 900 and property loss by
fire estimated at 100000 Chief JUS
tice of the Criminal Court Robert r.
Grove told the jurors there must be
"no prejudice, no politics, no dis
elimination, no hesitancy," ana
branding the uprising as display
of anarchy, declared that "a few
hangings would have salutory ef-
feet"
The Jury went into session shortly
before noon. Representatives OF the
states attorneys office presented
great masses of information on the
| rioting and on incendiarism. ATTY
/ Gen. Brundage and First Police Dep
! uty Alcock, who have been making
thorough investigation OF the dis
turbances, probably will appear be-
fore the jury today
SO quickly did the grand jury pro-
ceed in the examination Of the evil
dence already collected by the states
attorneys Office that indictments
charging from fifteen to twenty de-
PENDANTS, both white and colored.
with murder, and with sniping
through the riot zone. are expected
/ to be voted on this afternoon.
In charging the jury, Judge Grove
said in part:
"The display of treachery and
murder we have witnessed In the last
ten days throughout Chicago is
nothing short of an anarchy.
THE salutory lesson given in the
hanging of anarchists who brought
about the Haymarket riot in 1887
demonstrated that mob rule Is best
curbed by hanging.
II leave in your charge the STEM
ming of the tide of anarchy that Is
sweeping Chicago and hope that you,
like the men who handled the situa-
tion in 1887, will come out as they
did and purge Chicago of future riots
of this kind"
The jury is made up Of many
prominent business men and other
men high in their particular calling
ALBERT Pick, head of the crockery
and merchandise firm which bears
his name, is foreman of thu jury.
George 3. Bent, head of the Bent
Piano company, is secretary Of the
jury.
Death List Thirty Three.
The coroner has fixed the number
of dead at 33 and the city health
commissioner has found that 306
people injured in the riots were
treated in hospitals. He expressed
the opinion, however, that perhaps
400 or more who were injured in the
riots never reported at hospitals. and
consequently the total number of in
jured will never be known officially.
The state troops had little to do
during the night in the riot zone, but
much excitement was caused early
today by persistent reports teie-
phoned into headquarters Of the Sec
Ond regiment that crowd of men
was gathering in South Ashland av-
enue and Fifty-ninth street. When
a company of troops reached the
scene the crowd had vanished and
the soldiers returned to headquar-
ters.
Wait for Quiet.
Several thousand negroes were ex-
pected to return to work in the stock
yards early today after nearly
weeks absence on account of riots,
when they waited until the unrest
caused by the disturbances in the
district had subsided. After an
nounCing that the negro men would
return to work today, superintend-
ents of all the large packing plants
decided 1t would be prudent to hold
the negroes at their homes for an
indefinite period.
Frank Jacobs. a sign painter. Is
under arrest today, and is said to
have confessed that benzine he car
ried on his person was TO be used in
starting fires. He is held as a sus-
peCt in connestion with the disas-
trous back of the yards" fire of
Saturday.
Six fires were discovered yesterday
in the block where Jacobs was ar
rested
Demonstrations by whites against
negroes and by negroes against
whites are still frequent in the riot
zone and several attacks were re-
ported to the police. The presence
OF troops special deputy sheriffs and
the police, however, has prevented
any serious outbreak,
Samuel r. Johnson. a negro. Is nm
der arrest today charged with the
murder of Berger Odman, white. one
OF the victims of last weeks riotinr
johnson is said to have confessed
A special grand jury to investigate
the riots was empanelled TODAY and
the states attorneys began investi-
cations.