The New York herald., 1922-11-27
POLICE BEATEN OFF
TRYING TO DISPERSE
Big irish MEETING
Rioters Hold Ground After
Tearing Uniforms and
Punching Reserves.
WOMEN GIVE BATTLE
Four Arrests Made, but
Speakers Go Right On,
Defying Orders.
OVERFLOW rs TURBULENT
Fire Department Called Out,
but Retires Without TAX
ing Hand in Trouble.

The police reserves of the West
Forty-seventh street station under
Sergeants Brody and Nulty tried to
stop an overflow session of the Irish
protest meeting at the Earl Carroll
Theater N Seventh avenue and Fif-
tieth street last night, but they could
not handle the crowd of more than 500
angry men and women. Finally they
gave it up as a bad job and let the
meeting proceed. For more than an
hour the corner was the center Of a
mob of bowling, pushing, pulling hui
manity, with the policemen in the CEN
ter trying desperately to keep their
feet against the men and women, es-
pecially the women, who rushed at
them and banged them with the signs
that had been used in parade.
Some one turned in a fire alarm at
the height Of the trouble, and the Irish
sympathizers stopped booing and fight
ing the cops long enough to cheer the
Fire Department. But the firemen
promptly left the scene when they saw
that the alarm was a false one, and
the mob returned to the immediate
business in hand. The policemen had
orders not to use their clubs, but they
used their hands and tried to disperse
the meeting by pushing and pulling.
They dragged two or three persons
down from the ladder that was used
as speaking stand, but others took
their places Immediately.
Policeman stripped of Clothing.
Four persons, one Of them a woman.
were arrested during the fray. and sent
to the West Forty-seventh street station
charged with disorderly conduct and in
terfering with an officer. Several OF
the policemen had their uniforms torn
and their caps ripped by the signs that
had been flung against them, especially
Patrolman Patrick McInerney. who lost
nearly all of his clothing. Two women
went to the West Forty-seventh street
station after the meeting had settled
down to oratory. with the cops watching
from the side lines. but doing nothing
more to stop 1t. and complained that
they had been brutaliy treated by police
men. When questioned, however. they
said that the cops had grabbed the hats
OF several women in the crowd, and had
driven an automobile to the sidewalk so
that 1t endangered several persons. They
would not give their names, but said
that they would make a complaint this
morning to the Police Commissioner
Woman Starts the Trouble.
The trouble began when Patrolman
ellison of the West Forty-seventh street
station went to the overflow meeting and
ordered Edwin Maillard OF 447 Column
bus avenue, to quit speaking because
no permit had been granted for the
gathering. Maillard refused, and ellison
promptly placed him under arrest and
sent him 70 the West Forty-seventh
street station. But when he got back
several others had taken Maillard's 3
place. and ellison, when he tried to stop
the smeeting, was hustled about until he
was dizzy. He then sent to the station
house for help. and Lieut.. Sheehy sent
Sergeants Brody and Nulty with ten
The policemen went to the scene In an
automobile. q woman was speaking
then and the police ordered her to stop.
She called them Black and Tans and the
crowd began TO howl and hoot and boo
the police. Sergeants Nulty and Brody
took their men into the center of the
crowd and began pushing men and
women away from the ladder. but the
crowd pushed back and, being larger and
. stronger. got the better of the tug of
war. In spite OF this, however. the po-
lice were beginning to get the upper
hand when a parade that had formed
at Fifty-ninth street came along A
woman yelled:
March right through and march
strong!"
And the marchers marched. They
marched right at the little knot of cops,
and when the cops tried TO, stop them
they began banging away with their
signs. While the center of the crowd
swirled and eddied and milled about
Sergeant Nulty and Brody and the
others. men and women on the outskirts
began 10 burn efilgies of the English
King, keeping up all the time stream
OF booing and bowling against the po-
licemen. The glare of the fires and the
shouts of the crowd attracted large
crowd of spectators from Broadway.
many OF whom could not resist the
temptation to get into the fight.
Improved After Benttngs.
BY this time more than 500 men and
women we're pushing and pulling, with
speakers mounting the ladder and being
yanked down and cops getting kicked
and punched and their uniforms torn.
The curious feature OF the whole affair
was that nobody seemed to get hurt
sufficiently to necessitate the services