New Britain herald., 1927-02-12
AZ Harvard Men Under Arrest, Two Bluecoats Hurt and Two College Men Injured.
Trouble Follows Antics at Amateur Show Where Performers Were Bom- barded With Vegetables From Audience,

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. F LF- flVe hundred Harvard students and others battled 30 policemen in Har- ward square today When the field Of action had cleared two policemen had been slightly hurt. at least two ! students had been treated for vary Ing injuries and AZ more had been arrested on charges of disturbing the 1 peace.
 I IL was the second student riot in | thls city in recent months and it brought reserves from three stations.
 Frec-For-All Starts Accounts Of the origin of the trouble differed but witnesses said a free-for-all was started when seyer- al hundred students poured into the street after attending a midnight vaudeville performance at the Uni versity theater
 A lone policeman on duty in the square quickly sent in a riot call and as wagon loads of officers arrived the students and others were aug mented by crowds which surged from dormitories in the Harvard yard.
 Police used their sticks freely with the result that the crowd was grad ualy pushed back into the yard | where the city forces dissuaded from entering by college police In the meantime. however shower of varied missiles, rained down from | dormltory windows on tho heads of | the besieging force
 Patrolman Joseph O'Connor was badly kicked and taken to the Cam- bridge City hospital
 Two students, Ben German and John J. Shaw were treated for minor 1 injuries at tho same institution and ! placed under arrest
 Many of the youths who wers crowded into the police stations were Tn evening dress and as they awaited their turn to be booked they com. mented on the possibilities Of being | bailed before morning. 1 One version of the primary cause Of the disturbance was that pa- troiman had been attempting to ar- rest two citizens for disorderly con- 1 duct and word reached the crowd inside the theater that a student was in trouble. Another was that after the patrons had left the building trouble developed when one of the youths attempted to make a speech rom the top of an automobile. All accounts agreed that there had been considerable good natured rail- lery at the performance and that actors had been greeted by vegeta- bles as well as verbal bouquets. The management denied. however, that it had any complaint to make. The riot was the second here In few months. Recently students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology staged demonstration which resulted in considerable prop erty damage in this city and in Bos- | ton. and wa. followed by court sen- tences for two participants and dis cipltnary action by the institution , against several others. Twenty eight students and one other man were taken to the Brattle Square police station. Their names were given as follows, the home ad- dress of the students not yet being available.
 John B. Hartwell, George F. Gard ner, Jr., Andrew Fuller, Harold Hat. field, Daniel Webster Horace Fuller. Robert Lesson, Edward Cunning- ham. Arthur B. French. Jr., Russell Thayer, Newton D. Holbrook, Oliver Ferguson, William Cartwright. Douglas Swale, William Grossman. John H. McColcum, Edward Stevens. Roger w. Reynolds. Alexander NJ. Doffend. Edward J. Murray. Robert Doton. Robert W. Horr, Robert San- born, Robert H. Jackson, Hugh F. Leigh. Albert Parrott. Lawrence El- lis, and Alfred Duffey, all students: Harold Baker, Somersville (not a student).
 Other rioters were taken to the Central Square station.
 Patrolman Joseph O'Connor was taken to the city hospital where it was said he had been kicked in the stomach. Patrolman James Prior was treated for bruises.
 Arrangements were made to bring the rioters into district court this forenoon.
 Others arrested were:
 Arthur Clement. Cambridge (not a studenD, Students: Benjamin Dau- man, Gordon Lovegrave. John K. Whiting, Harold w. Whitman. Jr.. William Moody, Lloyd Van Horst, Henry Wendt, John F. Shaw. Ernest G. Bailey, Daniel Simpson and Ed win H. Sterner.
 Thirty-nine students and two oth- CT men were held in the district court today for a hearing on a charge of disturbing the peace as result Of the riot