Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-17
POLICE SEIZE 1s RIOTERS.
Reds Invade City Hall--Dozcns Hurt rs
Police Disperse Crowds.

NEW YORK, october 17.-Six-
teen persons we're under arrest today as
the result of series Of Communist
riots which came to climax when a
party of Reds invaded City Hall and
one of them called Mayor Walker "a
grating Tammany politician and a
crook"
An attempt by group of Communists
to present an unemployment petition at
a. meeting of the Board of Estimate, over
which the mayor was presiding pre-
cipitated the disturbance in the City
Hall.
Another clash occurred in City Hall
Park and at Broadway and Barclay
street. in which two plate glass windows
in the Woolworth Building were
smashed.
Dozens Injured.
A young woman suffered minor in
juries when she was trampled by a
policeman's horse, and dozens suffered
bruises and slight cuts as police used
nightsticks and blackjacks to disperse
the yelling. fighting mob.
Among those arrested was Louis ].
Engdahl, secretary of the International
Labor Defense and Communist candi-
date for lieutenant governor, who at
tempted to make speeches outside after
he had been elected from the Board of
Estimate meeting
The fighting in the City Hall was pre-
cipitated when Sam Nessin. who as
sumed charge of the petitioners after
Engdahls election, shouted to Mayor
Walkers
Called "Grafter and Crook"
'You are lot of grating Tammany
politicians. I would rather be a men,
Der of my working class than one of
your grating officials. You are graft
ing Tammany politician and a crook"
The mayor rose from his seat and
replied, THAT little remark prompts
me to come down and thrash the life
out of YOU"
Members of the audience and police
surrounded Nessin and his companions
and rushed them out of the room and
down the stairs, pummeling them the
meanwhile. Police took a hand, and
after much disorder in which Nessin
was severely beaten, he and two others
were arrested. Nessin was charged with
melting riot, and Robert LelesS and
Milton Stone were held for assault.
Maude White, negro woman in the
delegation, escaped.
The second riot broke out when Conn
munists and sympathizers rallied
around Engdahl in front of the Wool
worth Building. where he attempted to
speak. Mounted poi1ce RODE their horses
into the crowd several times to break
1t up.
Jabs Police Horse With Pin.
A woman jabbed pin into the flank
of one of the police horses and when
the animal plunged, the crowd pressed
against the window of q drug store,
SCATTERING 1t. A moment later another
window was smashed in.
Other disturbances occurred at.Sixth
avenue and Fort:eth street, where six
persons were arrested, and at Sixth
avenue and Thirty-ninth street, where
police took four more prisoners, includ-
ing woman.
A night court hearing for those ar
rested in the City Hall and vicinity was
the occasion for another demonstration.
Engdahl and two woman prisoners
spurned an offer of leniency from
Magistrate Gotlieb and delivered
TRADE after which Engdahl was ordered
taken back to the prisoners pen.
He and the two men were held in
$500 bail each for appearance in Tombs
Court today. Leless and Stone wel
paroled in custody Of their attorneys
for examination November 20.