Evening star., 1938-05-28
O'Connell
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return-"perhaps to make my speech
from the witness stand in Federal
| court"
The Montana Democrats attractive
bl unette wife-nursing bruised legs
and skinned knees she said she suf-
fered when knocked down in the
cursing crowds surge upon her hus-
band-declared she'd be at his side
when he came back.
Spirited last night into the baili-
| wick of the vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, the
bald-headed hoy Congressman"
walked unnoticed along with an ever
swelling procession of Hague cohorts
bound for an open-air meeting called
to keep Jerry O'Connell the hell out
Of here"
Between two lines of closely-formed
police Representative OConnell
walked, still unrecognized, into an
athletic field crowd estimated by po-
lice at between 10000 and $4,000.
Director of Public Safety Daniel Casey
said $50 officers were on duty.
When he halted as if to speak
flouting the citys refusal to give him
a permit-the shouted encouragements
of handful of supporters, who espied
him first, were drowned in bedlam
of curses and shrieks of kill him" as
a thousand Hague supporters rushed
him from all sides. Police formed
protective ring and took lot of
punches aimed at him.
Not a soul hit me-" Representative
O'Connell said, but Capt. John Sinnott
got a bruised eye and Chief Harry
Walsh said he was hit on the jaw. Po-
lice said there were no arrests.
The police battled way through
the crowd for Representative O'Con-
nell and whisked him to the nearest
precinct station in squad car Not
under arrest, he was held for Is min
utes in a back room with high police
officials and then taken in police
car to railroad station and placed
aboard a train for Newark.
He said in an interview at Newark
hotel that he would return here soon
to continue his fight on Hague, who,
he said, denied free speech in this city
of 3l5,0o0 people.
Charges Police Brutality.
If his congressional duties permitted
he said, he would be in Federal Judge
William Clark's court in Newark next
Wednesday to testify for the c. I. o.,
American Civil Liberties Union and
affiliated groups in their litigation for
an injunction against Mayor Hague
and his fellow officials from alleged in
reference with their activities.
Representative O'Connell, in Newark,
contended the majority of the crowd
was sympathetic" toward him, and he
| charged he had been very brutally
handled" by police at the field Mr..
Casey quickly denied this and said the
Representative told me I want to
thank you for saving my life"
Representative O'Connel also de-
clared the thing "that impressed me
most about their (the police) whole
psychology and philosophy was their
terrible anti-Semitism"
| 1O tIllS MT. CdScy Itplltu.
"O'Connell's reported charge that
any of our officials criticized or con-
denaned the Jewish people is a COM
plete and deliberate misstatement"
| Permit Refused.
Representative O'Connel-denied a
permit to speak by Mr.. Casey on the
ground that he was obnoxious" to
the people of the city and that his
appearance would cause disorder-had
promised to speak here, permit or
no permit"
He got nearer doing it last night
than he did on May when he and
Representative John T. Bernard,
Farm Labor, of Minnesota stopped
short of their destination when their
sponsors persuaded them that blood
shed would result If they appeared
at journal Square, where thousands
filled the square and blocked all en-
frances.