Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-22
BOSTON COMMON
CROWD. DISPERSED
Several Arrested as Police
Charge Group Bearing
Sacco.Vanzetti PIacards..
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. August 22.--Several mer
and women were arrested on Boston
Common yesterday when police
charged into a group of about 90 per
sons carrying placards bearing in
scriptions relating to the Sacco-Van.
zetti case. A crowd OF several thou
sand persons was dispersed and scat
tered about the common.
Those arrested were taken into
custody in various sections of the
common after the police had broken
up the crowd.
A few minutes previously the police
had arrested Miss Paula Holloway OF
New York. who appeared on the
common wearing a red slicker which
Sacco and NanZetti. Is justice
dead?"
Followed by Crowd.
The young woman walked across
the common without speaking and a
crowd gathered and followed. Two
mounted policemen accompanied her
and permitted her to cross without
stopping her. When she turned back
for another trip they arrested her
and she was taken to a police station
in a patrol wagon.
A crowd Of between 5000 and 1000
persons had gathered on the common
as the result OF an announcement
that pickets would appear there de
spite the cancellation Of all speaking
permits. The pickets failed to show
up as soon as expected and the
crowd was milling about apparently
in good humor when Miss Holloway
appeared.
After her arrest the others arrived
and the crowd gathered about them
Mounted and foot police attempted to
break up the gathering and as the
pickets separated the officers arrested
them. The crowd alternately cheered
and booed.
Before the excitement on the com
mon had subsidized, the crowd had
swelled to upward Of 10000 persons
most Of whom appeared to be present
solely az Onlookers. 1t was the larg
est assembly yet held In this city ir
the interests Of Sacco and VanZetti
Yesterday also was the first time the
police had resorted to a mounted
force to break up the crowds at one
Of these meetings.
Crowds Are Charged.
Officers on horseback charged into
the massed throng and set the scat
tered units in motion along the prom
enades of the common. Police Com
missioner Wilson and Supt of Police
Crowley were both present.
The Sacco.Vanzetti pickets number
ed upward OF a score. each bearing
their cause. One Of these read:
sHTrs, r. (s0ntr tn tho n
ion of the Lowell Committee, the car
does not fit Sacco.'
Save Massachusetts honor. was
another slogan.
OF those arrested only three were
held under charges. They were Ra
phael and Peter Sansevrino, brothers
Of Boston. charged with disorderly con
duct, and Morris Schulman Of Brook
lyn. n. Y. charged with melting tc
riot. Schulman, who wore a mixers
costume and carried a knapsack, said
he was on a walking tour to Port
land. Me.
Miss Holloway and Miss Clarina
Nicholson. also of New York, were TAX
ell to a nearby police station and later
released. The police said they had
been detained for their own protec,
ton. Miss Nicholson was arrested
Saturday while picketing the state
house. One man was taken to the
same station and also released later
EXPLOSIVES FOUND.
BY me Associated Press.
SACO, Me-, August 22.-The SAGE
police yesterday found IS boxes OF
high explosives, a box of caps and "a
feet Of fuse wire on the new county
road. about so feet from the road. in
a field a short distance from the Fen
derson field.
F. A story that the explosives Were
being taken to Massachusetts Satur.
day in a truck that became disabled
and were placed in the field. was
being investigated by the police.
The explosives were in an open sec.
ton Of the field. subjected to the rays
Of hot sun during the forenoon.