New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Irish Rioters
Rout Police
At Meeting. @.
tcuntinued from psss on.l

pavement, snatched box OF matches
|. from man who proffered it and at
tempted to set fire TO the bundle Of
rags and straw. Three or four police
| men charged upon the group and
stamped out the flames, incidentally
trampling the effigy into insignificant
rubbish.
Somebody pulled fire-alarm box.
The police say it was some citizen who
though 1t was police signal box and
wanted to get reinforcements there for
the hard-pressed reserves. Others said
that patrolman pulled the box and
shat when the fire apparatus came
changing up the leader Of the reserves
demanded that he turn the hose on The
mob or charge it with his heavy trucks
and engines
The battalion chief is said to have
refused definitely and emphaticaily Ia
90 any such thing. telling the police
men that il any of that kind of work
was to be done they could do it them
| selves.
In any event, the fremen went back
TO quarters and the police. clineino
marvelously together and still more
mlraculously clinging to three pris-
onefs, fought free of the crowd and
took it on the run to a line of taxi
cans at forty-ninth Street, into which
they flung themselves and their pris-
oners, taking time only to gasp Home.
James," to the drivers.
sheehy Delivers Rebuke
The prisoners, who were charged
with disorderly conduct and we're Sc
verely rebuked for the same by Lieu
tenant Sheehy in his rich brogue, said
IIney were Mary Anderson, Of 235 East
Fifty ninth Street; John Brennan, of
lIz3 Park Avenue, and Joseph Teahan,
OF 309 West 120th Street.
| Mrs. Anderson, whose crushed hat
was the only evidence of combat any
OF the prisoners showed, was said to
nave refused to move on when ordered
TO do so, and to have been so firm in
her determination to stay put that ii
TOOK four patrolmen to budge her
Brennan is said to have told the fou,
patrolmen who were catapultinp hel
into taXicab that Mrs. Anderson was
within her rights in refusing to move
Ieahan is alleged to have kicked the
shlns OF Patrolman Patrick McInerney
The chauffeur of the police car had
a narrow escape. After driving head.
long through the crowd. mounting the
curb and coming to a stop only wher
he reached the building line on the
northeast corner of Fiftieth Street ane
Seventh Avenue, he found himself de
serted and without room to turn as the
policemen, led by Sergeant Brophy
|charged back through the mob.
"A dozen men were swarming over
the hood and steps of the car. inten,
upon pulling the driver from his seat
when his shouts reached the ears OF
the patrolmen under Brophy, who al.
ready had become stalled in the press
They fought their way back to the
chauffeur, pulled the human incum-
space in which it could be turned
around and driven back to Seventh
Avenue.
Crowd Yelled Insults
AS the police fed with their prison.
ers in taxicabs the crowd yelled in
suits at them and dared them to re-
turn. If it had been any other kind OF
a. meeting the Brophys, the McInerneys
the Murphys' the sheenans and the rest
OF the uniformed fighters, would have
returned, probably with reinforce-
mrents from half dozen police sta
tions and would have cleared the iunc-
tloh OF Seventh Avenue and F'iftieth
street SO completely that an infant
might have sung "God Save the King
there and come to no harm.
But the police Achilles sulked in the
ponce station after the single attempt
| TO dlsperse the meeting. Salvation
Army meetings in the restricted dis
Grict were one thing, it appeared. and
Irlsh republican meetings were quite an
other. For all the fury and foliv az
the trst attack against overwhelminp
numbers the police did not renew i
Ihey left the protestors in complete
possession OF the field. A human skel-
eson su could not have wriggled his way
through Fiftieth Street two m;nutes
a1teT :, the retreat of the police From
puli9lng line to building line the thor
ouggfare was blocked.
Speeches Go On
Speakers were hoisted on the shon,.
| GERS pr the men who stood nearest to a
steer canopy over the F'iftieth Street
entrance to the theater, and from this
rostrFm addressed an audience which
! was the more responsive because its
shlns and shoulders were sore fron'
police clubs and it's Sunday clothes in in
ta,Iers from The conflict with authority
FRANK r. Walsh presided at the meet
ing IN the theater and made an intro
dtLuctory tLy address, emphasizing the fact
that it was time for the United - ates
to intercede in behalf Of The Yreedon'
OF Ireland and to put ston to The 70
atrocities now going on there. Other
speakers were Mrs. Hanna sheelv-
SSehngton, Peter MacSwiney. brother
OF Mary MacSwiney, who is now on
her tWenty-second days hunger strike
against her imprisonment in Dublin
Jail, and brother of Terrence MAJ
Swiney. Owen w. Bohan, Assistant
District Attorney of New York County,
made an appeal for funds to aid the
dependents of 10000 Irish republicans
now in jaiIs. The Rev. J. O. Ewens, Of St.
Johns College; Leo "A. Macsweeney,
OF Rochester. state president of the
American Association for the Recog-
milton of the Irish Republic; Rev. John
a.. Dooley and Very Rev. Dennis F.
O'Conner also spoke
Resolutions protesting against the
execution of Childers and the treat
rnent of Mary MacSwiney and calling
upon the President and Congress to
protest against this ruthless reign of
terror" were adopted by the meeting
and copies are to be sent tor President
milton of the Irish Republic; the Rev.
John H. Dooley and the Very Rev. Dem
mis- F. O'Connor also spoke.
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