The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-21
"Abyssinian Prince" Caused
Battle Burning American Flag.
Sailor Killed and Great Lakes
Men Join Mob.
new OUTBREAKS THIS MORNING
Heads of /. w. w. Deny COnnec.
tion With "Black Star"
Blacks Want to Force Equal
Rights With Whites.

Chicago, June 21-Race troubles
broke out here early today in two
places.
Three negro ministers returning
home from Kankakee, Ill, were at
tackled by a mob of $50 whites at a
west side railroad station shortly after
midnight. Police reserves rescued
them. They were taken to a hospital.
Another mob attacked Herbert
Mitchell, negro. at a downtown rail-
road station. Mitchell was removed
to hospital.
Several hundred extra police re-
serves were patrolling the black belt"
today following the outbreaks.
Patrolman William McNaughton re-
ceived cut in the head while rescuing
the ministers.
Mitchell was badly beaten by the
time the police arrived
Edward Redding, an Abyssinian,
! was arrested today in connection with
the killing of two whites yesterday fol-
lowing a parade Of negroes.
Chief of Police Garrity took precau-
tions today against a repetition of race
rioting which occurred here a year
ago.
Sailors Joined the Mob.
The killing of Robert L. Rose, a
sailor stationed at Great Lakes,
aroused hundreds of sailors on leave in
Chicago and caused issuance of an or
der for the arrest and immediate des-
patch to Great Lakes of all sailors
| found on the streets. An order bar
| ring all sailors from Chicago as a re-
suit of the trouble was being con-
! sfdered by Real Admiral Bassett, COM
mandant at the training station today
| but thus far no action along this line
! has been taken.
The other white man killed was
Joseph Hoyt. SO years old, a clerk in
a cigar store near the scene of the
shooting. He was shot with what is
! believed to have been a .dum-dum
bullet. His head was split as tho with
an axe. The negroes who were
wounded included Joseph P. Owens, a
! policeman.
700 Police On Job.
For several hours after the riotins
started crowds formed in and around
J the outskirts of the BLACK belt" but
100 police rushed to the district and
i succeeded with little trouble in dis
persing them.
! Besides the beating administered to
the three negro preachers by a crowd
of white men, negro buying a ticket
| at the Polk street station down toWr
was seized by a crowd of 25 men and
! severely beaten. Four negroes in a
, taxicab near the same station also
were set upon by crowd but escaped
According to witnesses of the burn
ing of the flag and subsequent shoot.
ing, the parade led by the Fernon.
all
cafe at 35th street and Indiana ave
nue.. The parade was TO have beer
followed by a meeting in a hall ovel
the cafe.
One of the leaders of the process
sion, believed to have been the elder
Fernon, took flag from a parce
which he was carrying and set fire tC
1t, it was said. Spectators asserted
that the flag was saturated with OF
and that it burned readily.
Policeman Protected Flag.
Policeman Owens was notified o
the act. rushed to the scene and to
ward one of the men. his club raised
as tho to strike. witnesses said. On
of the men on horseback. it is de
clared. fired at him with a short rifle
wounding him with the first shot
Rose. the sailor. who had been tour
ing the southside with two compan
he saw the parade and was almost a
the policemans side when the latte
was shot, according to spectators.
He turned and ran into a nearb,
cigar store. Several men with rifles
some of which it is declared were OBJ
tanned from an autom obile nearby
then ran TO the door of the cigar stor
and fired volley. according to per
sons near the scene. Rose and Hoy
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