Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-09-17
AR'REST s q
|. v. W. RIOT ON
FARGOSTREETS
w ". F. Powell and Tom
Doyle Jailed as Result
Of Mob Assault. q s.s,

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Powell, WV arrested during the
ARRAY on Front street late Thursday,
was re-arrested at moor Friday on q
state warrant charging himSwith re-
slsttng an officer. He was arraigned
Q q second time before Judge Mon
son and his bond fixed at $500, which
he was unable to furnish. Powell
was transferred from the city Jail to
which was set for Monday.
Arrest of two I. w. W.-Tom
Doyle charged with speaking at .
street meeting without permit, and
w. F.. Powell charged with resisting
arrest-resulted from an attack by
several hundred members of an T.. w.
w. gang on Chief Of Police Louis
Dahlgren, Desk Sergeant Wade Murray
and City Attorney W. H. Shure, when
the three officers went to lower Front
street at $3.50 p. m. Thursday to break
up an I. w. ". meeting.
Doyle and Powell, when arraigned
before Judge Leigh j. Monson at 8
a. m. Friday, asked that their hear
to obtain a lawyer from Chicago to;
represent them. Judge tMonson set
the case for 10 a. M. Monday. and
fixed the bonds of Doyle and Powell
at $3.50 each. The two defendants
9 taken back to their cells upon
failure to obtain bail money.
Had Big Meet.
The affair started when Shure.
Dahlgren and Murray approached the
q meeting, attended by more than
500, most of them L. WV. and in
formed Doyle that he could not speak
without a permit. Doyle is said to
have disregarded the order and when
he continued his speaking he vas
placed under, arrest and taken to the
police car, where he remained seat
ed, the police said, without any at
tempt to escape during the disturb
ance which followed.
Threats Made.
According to City Attorney shure,
the crowd made numerous threats
against the officers such as Tets kill
them, then" and swarmed about the
police car, more than a score OF the
I. w. w. drawing revolverr and
threatening to use them unless their
leader was released. When they saw
the police would not release Doyle.
said the city attorney, seven or eight
Of the men jumped to the police car
and attempted to pull Chief Of Police
Dahlgren from the machine. By this
time Dahlgren had drawn his reyol-
yer and had succeeded in knocking
several OF the men away from the
Take Chiefs Gun.
The chief was ovefrpowered by the
crowd and while they were 7attemptT
ing to pull him from the machine he
was drawn, face downward over the
real door of the car. with his arn1s
extended back over his head. While
in this position one OF the men
wrenched the chiefs revolver from
his right hand and escaped with 1t
into the crowd.
In the meantime Doyle had thrown
several papers he had In his posses
sion into the street and Powell, who
attempted to pick them up, was
placed under arrest by Officer Muir
ray, after he and Motorcycle Police
man Jergens, who had just arrived OF
the scene, had struggled with a group
Of I. W. ". at the side of the ma
chine. During this time the officers
struck several Of the men with the
butts Of their revolvers and finally
landed Powell IN the police car. One
John Clifford, member of the I. w,
W., receivedsa severe cut owe the left
eye uuIAuS lA1S OdSSI0 Out' oil 1Ik0AAPA
to arrest him charged with resisting
an officer, failed, as he disappeared
into the. crowd. .
shure Givey Warning.
Oficer Murray then started the
machine and the two prisoners were
taken to the police station. City At
torney Shure had, during the dis
turbance, twice informed the crowd
that speaking in the streets would not
be allowed without q permitfrom the
authorities. but the T.. w. w con-
tinued their meeting as the police car
left the scene A large detachment
Of police. assisted by officers Of the
sherin's department, returned to the
scene shortly afterward, but the meet
ing had been adjourned to the I. w.
w. hall and no further trouble re-
suited.
A committee named at the later
meeting of the I. w. w. called at the
police station at $50 p. m. and de-
manded the release OF the two pris-
oners, but their request was refused
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