Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-10
Police Dispersc
1900 Women
and Men.
SHOOT AND USE
TEAR BOMBS
Mob Wrecks Autos,
Spreads Terror;
81 Arrested.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, August l0--Led by al
lS-year-old girl, a mob, numbering
1000 men and women, alternately
roaring the Third InternatIonale,
battle song OF the world radicals
and shouting Mob the police,
marched toward the Loop district
early today. 1t was dispersed only
after a clash with police reserves
who resorted to tear bombs and re-
voIver shots.
Sixty-sevcn men and four women
including the girl leader-Aurora
D'Angelo, pretty, bobbed-haired high
school girl-were arrested. Several
persons were reported injured as the
mob broke and fled before the stub
born police resistance.
The mob, forming after a protest
meeting at the Ashland Auditorium,
was moving toward the City Hall and
Federal Building, urged on by the girl,
who cried: "On, comrades. Mob the
police! Strike. Strike. Sacco and Van
zettI must not die
Autos and Windows Smashed.
Automobiles in the street were
smashed and windows were broken as
the crowd surged toward the Loop.
The meeting at the auditorium had
passed quietly enough, the 5000 who
attended passing resolutions of protest
against the Sacco-Fanzetti executions
and then moving out in orderly fash
fa Str Tf1aYn thpv
gated, being joined by others, with a
few leaders calling for a protest pa
rade into the Loop.
The girl was among them, and at
once took command.
I'm an anarchist" she cried, "and
my father was an anarchist. Follow
me-
The street was soon filled for three
blocks with men and women, massed
from curb to curb and moving toward
the Loop.
Trolley Passengers Terrorized.
AS the mob surged forward it picked
up recruits. The first violence came
when those at the front seized an au
tomObIle, slashed its tires. broke its
windows and swept on leaving tho
driver terror-stricken. Next street
car was halted, the trolley pulled
from the wire, while men and women
crowded aboard shouting "Strike
Striker terrorizing the passengers
Another car was halted and the same
scene re-enacted.
BY the time the parade neared the
downtown district police reserves
were speeding to meet the march and
as the procession swung toward an in
tersection, it was met with tear
bombs and threatening pistols in this
hands of the reserves.
The police charged the crowd. using
! clubs and tear gas bombs. There wa;
one volley of shots, but it was not re
peated, police orders being to avoiC
firing unless necessary.
The collapse of the demonstration
was even more dramatic than it's in
ception. Breaking before the police
wall moving toward thCm, members
Of the crowd sought safety in flight
Those in the front found their retrea
blocked by the forward movement o1
the thousands behind.
Rioters Are TrampIcd.
Several rioters were trampled in tn,
| wild scramble to escape. Window!
| were shattered, doors broken dowi
and motor cars parked at the curb'
were damaged. A check, however, in
dicated that no one was seriously in
| jured.
The girl leader. her fimsy dres
partly torn from her shoulders in the
wild milling of her followers, stood OF
| the running board of an automobil'
az the break up Of the loopward move
ment came.
Il m only a kid" she shouted, ''bu
I guess I know what I'm talkin;
| about. Let me TALK
| Two policemen stopped the automo
| bile and pulled her down. She brok
| from them and ran nearly two block
| before she was caught. When trap
| ped she rained blows with her small
| impotent fists upon the officers ant
| kicked them,
Finally in police car the cir
sobbed.
I'm only a kid" she kept repeat
ing. "Ain't this a free country?
know what this means to my peopl
and I'm ready to go to Jail for it,
University Student Arrested.
The girl, it developed has been tax
| ing a high school course preparator
TO the study Of law. One Of her lieu
tenants in the demonstration was
| University Of Chicago student, Dav
Wollins, %, who accompanied her i
her dash from the police and who wa
arrested with her Wollins was de
| %crihed as one of the founders Of tn
Liberal League. The police said tha
| three years ago he was expelled frOt
! Northwestern University for causin
| a near riot on the campus in a prC
| test against secret societies.
AS result Of the outbreak. tn
police placed armed guards aroun
various places where it was feare
there might be violence. These il
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