Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-21
ARREST EIGHT
AFTER CHICAGO
RIOTFATALTO2
Trouble Follows Burning of
u. S. Flag Following Parade
of Radical Negroes.

CHICAGO, June 21-Race rioting
broke out In Chicagos south side district
today as the aftermath to the shooting
and killing of two white men Sunday
night by mob Of negro fanatics, after
the blacks, who were engaged In Back
to Abyssinia" demonstration, had burned
two American flags.
Todays trouble started when three
negro preachers left a south side inter-
urban train.
They were attacked by a mob of whites.
who. indamed by news of the Sunday
night outrage, set upon them with stones
and clubs
All three were injured and taken to
hospitals.
A white policeman who interfered was
felled by a brick.
In the meantime Grover c. Redding,
negro, prince of Abyssinia," who led the
demonstration on Sunday, and seven 9th
er participants were arrested by a squad
OF policemen after an all-night hunt for
them by detectives aud naval intelligence
operatives.
The interest Of the latter in the hunt
was due 10 the fact that one OF the men
slain by the negro was an enlisted man
Of the navy.
WARNING ISSUED
BY POLICE CHIEF.
Hundreds OF policemen were sent TO
Chicago's BLACK belt" to preserve or
der and a statement urging citizens to
keep cool was Issued by Chief OF Police
Garrity.
Police decrare there is little indication
OF race trouble.
The two men slain were Robert Law
son Rose, n quartermaster of the Flf-
teenth regiment, stationad at the Great
Lakes training station, and Joseph Hoyt,
a cigar store clerk.
The men wounded in the riots were
Joseph 7. Owens, negro policeman, who
was shot through the lung while at
tempting to aid Rose and Hoyt and
William Carter, negro butler, shot
through both legs while running from
the scene OF the riots.
Clad in fantastic gsrb. the paraders,
numbering several hundred, marched an6
rode on horseback through the cisy's
"biack belt" carrying the red, green and
yellow banners OF &hyssinla with the
lion Of King Meuelik upon them.
Tho parade wound up at q street cor
uer. whsre the marchfEs started TO buila-
one OF the paraders produced an
american flag from beneath his flowing
robe and tossed u on the fire.
Policeman Owens. who was standing
nearby. rushed forward and attempted
TO rescue the flag.
Instantly several OF the flag desecra.
tors pulled short rifles from beneath
their robes. and one Of them fired on
the policeman. dropping him to the
sidewalk
SEVERAL FOLLOW;
SHOOT INTO STORE.
Seeing the policeman fall. Rose. who
had been automobile riding with two
other sailors from Great Lakes station,
leaped from the machine and started to
his rescue.
He was shot through the side and ran
into a nearby cigar store.
Several Of the negro fanatics followed
him, and fred a voiley into the store.
The bullets struck both Rose and
Hoyt, who was in charge OF the store.
When the two sailor companions OF
Rose reached his side a moment later,
after bucking their way through the mob
OF glowerlng, threatening blacks, both
men were dead.
While the shooting was going on
second American Dag was thrown on the
bonfire by the frenzied negroes. 1t
was rescued by Policemen Buckley and
Vaughn, who. rushing to the scene when
the shooting started. drew their revol-
vers and began firing into the mob.
The latter dispersed under the hail of
bullets.
Detectives also are seeking Doctor" Il.
d. Jonas, a white man. Of Washington, d.
C., who Is said to have been associated
with the negroes in the demonstration.
He is known to the police as radical
agitator among Chicagos blacks.
The police are Investigating n report
that the Back to Abyssina" movement
has the backing of the l. w. w.