The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-21
RIOTS RESULT OF RADICAL PLOT
 POLICE BELIEVE
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 yesterday, mounted on horses and l wearing fantastic rainment.
 Bedding and seven other negroes ! said to have been leaders in yester- | days parade, were arrested today. | Bedding was caught at a railroad |! station just after he had purchased {, ticket for St. Louis.
 Joseph, who police declared, was back of the movement for the return of the negroes to Abyssinia, yester- day, was the principal speaker at a I meeting which had for it's object the launching of a boom for Mayor Will liam Hale Thompson as a third party candidate for president, who would rally the ttseIid Irish and negro vote''
 The killing of the white men, who i Included Robert L.. Rose, a sailor sta toned at Great Lakes, aroused hun dreds of sailors on leave in Chicago and caused issuance of an order for the arrest and immediate dispatch to- Great Lakes of all sailors found on 1 the streets.
 l The other white man killed was | Joseph Hoyt. 59 years old, clerk in l a cigar store near the scene of the f shooting. He was shot with what is | believed to have been dum-dum | bullet. His head was split as though with an axe. The negroes who were wounded, include Joseph P. Owens, a policeman. l For several hours after the rioting started, crowds formed in and around 1 the outskirts of the black belt" but
 700 policemen had little trouble in dis persing them.
 Three negro preachers were beaten l by a crowd of white men, and negro | buying a ticket at the Polk street sta l tion downtown was seized by 25 men l and severely beaten. Four negroes in a taxi near the same station also were | set upon by a crowd but escaped. According to witnesses of the burn l ing of the flag and subsequent shoot ing, the parade led by the Fernons
 and Bedding dispersed in front of a l cafe at 35th street and Indiana ave- nue. The parade was to have been followed by a meeting in a hall over the cafe.
 One of the leaders of the process l sion, believed to have been the elder I Fernon, took a flag from a parcel | which he was carrying and set fire l to it. Spectators asserted that the flag was saturated with oil and that
 it burned readily.
 ! Policeman Owens rushed to the
 scene and toward one of the men, his
 club raised as though to strike, it
 was said. One of the men on horse
 back, it was leclared, fired at him
 with a short rifle, wounding him with
 the first shot.
 Rose, the sailor, who had been | touring the south side with two com panions, sprang from an automobile
 when he saw the parade and was almost at the po1iceman's side when the latter was shot, according to | spectators. He turned and ran into 1 a nearby cigar store.
 Several men with rifles, some of l which it is declared were obtained
 from an automobile nearby, ran to , the door of the cigar store and fired a. volley. according to persons near l the scene. Rose and Hoyt, the cigar , clerk, dropped dead.
 u During the shooting second flag
 was thrown upon the flames but was < rescued before it was burned. l Shortly after the arrival of police g and dispersal of the crowds, word was y sent out for the arrest of Jonas. Be X fore the order for his arrest was is ] sued he was seen by a newspaper mar [ and declared that he had nothing tt
 do with the parade. He denounced Bedding as a radical and agita ! tor'' but when police made an effor | Il to locate him he had disappeared they said
 , Jonas, giving the newspaper men hi. , version or the r1Ol1nS. Safd ne me = Bedding, who poses as an Abyssinian
 in New York several weeks ago ant
 later introduced him to President Will
 son at Washington. Bedding, Jona:
 said, told him he had recently beer ! in Aibyssinia and when asked how h' i got there explained that he took al airs11ip from Mexico.''
 Jonas said he accompanied the ne
 groes to Chicago two weeks ago tc a ask the Republican convention to in = corporate a plank in the party plat = form providing for the resumption O d the Abyssinian treaty with the United S States which expired in 1917. Sine - ci11ling here, he declared, he had de y nounced Bedding and other tfAibyssin
 ian princes to the federal auth critic
 as radicals, but without result.
 The propaganda circulated anon;
 Chicago negroes by the Princes Jo 5, mas said,was signed by Geo. Gabrie, 6 Abyssinian linguist," and Bedding. I