The evening world., 1922-08-08
SEVEN ATTACKED
BY POLICEMAN IN
RIOT ON EAST SIDE
Beaten by Crowd When He
Runs Amuck and IluwlS
Bricks.
BOY STEALS HIS PISTOL.
Another Policeman Attempts
to Spirit Him Away,
Witness Declares.

A policeman in plain clothes two
and u half hours after he had com
pletcd a tour Of patrol duty, played
the star part in a small riot in Riv-
ington Street between Suffolk and
Norfolk Streets for a ten minute pc
riod beginning at 1890 O'Clock this
morning. After he had assaulted half
a dozen men and one woman, had
been beaten by a mob and had his
revolver stolen by q small boy, an
other policeman. in uniform, tried to
spirit him a away, but Sergeant, an
swering telephone complaint, arrived
and took him to the Clinton Street
Station.
There he was identified as Patrol
man George r. Taylor OF that pre-
cinct. who had gone of duty and left
the station house, ostensibly for home,
at s o'clock. Taylor looked as though
he had been in a collision with a mo
tor truck. He was covered with blood
from deep cash over his right eye.
His collar and necktie were missing,
his shirt was torn, his clothing was in
shreds and most of the buttons were
missing
DR.. Dillon, a police surgeon, oX-
amined Taylor more than an hour
after he was taken to the station
house and pronounced him intoyi-
Gated Taylor was suspended on the
intoXication charge. No one ap-
poared to make any other charge
against him late this afternoon.
Workmen are engaged in making
repairs on the building at No. 1iO
Rirington Street. Sand and bricI;
are piled on the outer edge of the
sidewalk Four luborcrs were en-
gagged in shifting this material at 10. 80
o'clock when a man carrying two
bundles-which disappeared in the
subsequent melee-staggered up and
said:
"What in hell do you mean by
blocking the sidewalk"'
The workmen said their boss had a
permit. In that neighborhood crowd
gathers in flash. There soon was a
throng around the arguing men. Sud
denly the stranger picked up a brick
and heaved it aimlessly. 1t struck a
bearded man on the head, cutting the
skin. The victim ran away. Tho
stranger, with another brick in his
hand, charged into the crowd, striking
wildly, struck an cut three other men
and tried to hit woman before one ~
the workmen grabbed him around tho
waist from behind and threw him.
In falling the strangers head struck
A railing and blood streamcd from .
cut in his forehead.
lie got up, reaching for his hip
pocket, from which protrudcd tho
nuzzlc end Of a revolver. \ second
workman struck him and knocked him
fat As he was struggling to his feet
a boy, apparently about twelve years
old, sncakcd up behind him, grabbed
the revolver and ran away with It.
The whole block was in an uprudI.
Nathan Ivirin, a lawyer, with an Of
nee ON the ground floor of the build
ing at No. 40, telephoned to the Clin-
ton street Station that a policeman in
plain clothes was trying to Kill every
body in sight and Sergt. Eater was
sent 10 investigate.
When Eater reached the scene he
found that n uniformed cop had
rescued Taylor and taken him into
Mr. ZvInin's office. with tho case OF
Policeman Owens, who ran amuck N
West 55th street Sunday night, in
mind, it is said the uniformed patrol
man tried to got Taylor out of the
noighborhood, but Scrgt Eater
ordered that he be taken to the station
house.
Half an hour after the riot nobody
I'M ruo vicinity except Mr.. Xvinin
would admit having seen it or taken
part m II. One Of the witnesses said:
awe can't afford to get mixed ur
with any cops"
Taylor'N revolver. loaded, Was found
this afternoon in an east side public
school playground.