New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-03
Police Check
Violence, of
Car Strikers
Youth, Found Stabbed, May
Have Been Attacked in
Brooklyn Under Belief He
Was Non.UniOn Worker
Two Trolley Accidents
Patrolmen Are Injured i'm
Collisions; Wires Short
Circuited by Wand a l 8

Although q man who Is believed to
be the victim of strikers was found in
the street suffering from serious stab
wounds shortly before dawn yesterday,
there was but little more violence
along the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company yesterday than oc-
Cured Wednesday, owing, it is believed,
to the alertness Of the police on guard.
John Kline, seventeen years old, Of
1888 Norman Street, Long Island City,
IS the man who was stabbed. He was
found in Broadway, near Conway
Street, Brooklyn, where strikers had
been active Wednesday night, and is
thought to have been attacked by them
in the mistaken belief that he was a
strike breaker. He was taken to Kings
County Hospital.
Strikers Lose Ardor
The promptness and vigor with which
the police responded Wednesday to at
tacks made upon them or those under
their protection dampened the enthu-
siasm of the strikers "cnte rtainment
committees" and there was much less
rioting and stone throwing yesterday.
A few missiles were thrown at the first
cars to leave the barns, and here and
there during the day striker plucked
street car passed him, but there was
no repetition of the violent attacks
made at numerous points on the pre-
ccding day.
1t was discovered that the strikers
had adopted means less hazardous to
themselves than fsticuffs to cripple
the B. R. T. system when two 15-foot
pipes were found short circulting feed
wires at Eastern Parkway and Broad
way. Men of the emergency crew who
were sent to make repairs found the
wires sagging beneath the weight Of
some of them had not snapped and
dangled over the sidewalk. n death
trap for pedestrians.
Pistol Carried by Boy
That even more dangerous intentions
Dictated by the story told by fourteen
year-old Tony Raffaelo, Of 585 Myrtle
Avenue, who was arrested at the Gates
Avenue station Of the Broadway ele
waited line with revolver in his blouse.
He said that four men had given him
30 cents to carry the weapon and hand
it to one of them when they signalled
for it. He had been riding surface
cars and elevated trains with them all
day, he said, waiting for the signal.
Several arrests were made for ma
duct, and these prisoners, with those
arrested too late for arraignmcnt in
court Wednesday, brought the police
court cases up to thrtyfour yester-
day.
Six of the prisoners were sent to
the workhouse for ten days each with
out the alternative of fine. All Of
them were charged with resisting ar
rest as we'll as with disorderly conduct,
and two of them were intoxicated.
Fines, ranging from $40 to $25 each,
with the alternative of an equal num-
Der of days in Jail, were imposed upon
six of the prisoners. The remaining
! twenty two were held for further cx-
required to furnish bail or 60 to Jail in
the interval. One was parolcd pending
further examination.
Prisoner Accuses Police
Joseph Laury, one of the prisoners,
complained 10 the District Attorney OF
rough handling by the police He made
his complaint while waiting for his
case to be heard in the. Fifth Avenue
police court and was told to return
after it had been disposed Of. He was
one of those required to furnish $500
bail for examination Wednesday.
Trolley cars were in two accidents at
Fulton street and Hudson avenue dur
ing the day. In one of them, which
occurred about $50 p. m., James Free
man, driver Of q truck which was hit
by a car, suffered fracture of the
skull. He was taken to Kings County
Hospital. lie lives at 513 Wythc Ave
nue., Brooklyn.
In the other two patromen of the
East 104th Street Police Station were
hurt when the car they were riding on
was partly telescopcd by car behind.
They were Patrolman Fagon, thirty-six
years cid, of 108 East 11lth Street, and
Patrolman John Murphy, thirty eight
years old, of 81 East Eighty eighth
Street, both of Manhattan
Both were cared for by Dr. Horn, an
ambulance surgeon of Brooklyn Hosp-
tai, and sent home. They suffered many
decorations from flying glass.