New Britain herald., 1927-11-29
Two Men and Two Women With stand Attack Of 50 Policemen
 With Guns and Tear Bombs
THREE PAIR0LMEN DROP;
 ONE REPORTED DYING
Riot Squad Reaches south End Hou-r After Long Night Battle and Arrests Two Negroes. Ncgrcss and White Woman-Shootins starts When Police Investigate Fight in Progress in Building.

starts hen Police Investigate
 Fight in Progress in Building.
 Boston. Nov. 2S P--A furious gun battle between sixty policemen who besiegel a south end house and its four inhabitants who for hours stood off all attack during which scores of shots were fired and tear bombs hurled through every window m the structure was terminated at daybreak when riot squads stormed the building and dragged out two men, one of them seriously wounded and both Negroes, and two women, one of whom was white.
 Their capture brought to an end one of the most spectacular fights in the memory Of the police of the East Dedham division, It had thrown q thickly settled district in habited largely by Negroes into an uproar.
 Cause Is Mystery.
 But although all principals were under arrest, police were unable to explain the cause of the trouble which started at an all night drink .Dg party.
 Those taken Were. Robert Polite, i2, and his wife, 80, Negroes, man named George Brooks, who had two bullet wounds in his neck and who was taken to City hospital in a serious condition. and q white wo- nan who said she was Miss Lillian ]. Coyne Of Roxbury.
 Three policemen were taken to he hospital with Brooks, uncon- Scious from the fumes Of tear bombs which made adjoining buildings un- tenable for hours.
 One of the officers, Patrolman John Miller Of the riot squad was in serious condition. Mrs. Polite was suffering from nIultipI, bruises on the scalp and a Rlangl"1 hand, injuries which she said We're inflicted by her husband while the other members of the parry "" Nariously battered.
 Officers Hastily Retreat.
 \ police sergeant and two officers .,.rt tc investigate a complaint that !. fight was in progress in the house .lrrW tn" first fire as they ap- preached the building. Five shots WNizz"d at them as they stepped out Of their machine and they re- treated hastily to procure riot guns and rifles
 They returned the fire and sen, an alarm for reserves. Soon the streets on both sides of the house were filled with uniformed men and th" cracklo of their guns reused thousands from their beds to block nearby thoroughfares. Inhabitants l Of adjoining dwellings fled without waiting to don superfluous clothing. l
 Under cover of a heavy barragc a half q dozen patrolmen dashed for ! the lower entryway and managed to | gain cover only to find every door barricadel.
 In the meantime, In response to | frantic appeal for more ammunition |. and reserves, the besieging force was i heavily aUgm ented and a supply of | tear bombs brought into play. Every | window in the house was broken by | police who took up positions in ad ! Joining houses and on roofs.
 The squad. which had effected !, entrance on the first floor, was arm { o'! with axes and in the course of , steady march to the third floor , where combined fire and gas had . forced the beleaguered party. hard ly door escaped demolition and a ~ood part of the interior of the tenement was wrecked. Walls were | bullet ridden.
 John Grant, who gave @ down. town business address and claimed 70 have been in the place when the trouble started, told police one man had been killed. Officers who made q search were unable to confirm this. Grant said there had been five men. two white women and a Negro woman in the house.
 All four prisoners were held a. suspicious persons pending probable arraignment on more serious charges.