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WE MEN AND GIRL BUI SHOT AS DRINK STIRS RIOT IN CELTIC PARKThousand Picnickers Fight When Man With Flask Is Arrested.LIEUTENANT CLUBBEDPoliceman Wounded Fighting Way Through Mob to Aid Plain Clothes Man.5 WOMEN ARE VICTIMSj One Recently Arrived From Ireland Gets Dramatic Tasteof American Life./Just before half past five yesterday afternoon Police Lieut. Robert McCarthy of Flushing station, saw James Sullivan. 113 East Seventy-fifth street. Manhattan, draw a flask from his pocket and hapd it to a man. ‘ The man took a 'long swig and returned th* flask to Sullivan.This was In Celtic Park, Long Island City. McCarthy was there at the head of a doren plain clothes men. instructed to arrest bootleggers. Celtic Park was never gayer. Within Its confines were many members of the International Steam and Operating Engineers of New York city on their summer outing. In addition were numerous women folk of the en-C gineers and added to them were sundry others, who had been-tolll to come and hear John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, deliver a speech.The Mayor failed to arrive. But there was a baseball gams and dancing and foot races and leaping and picnic lunches and, if the police are to be believed,, a bit of clandestine drinking.At the. moment McCarthy laid hands upon Quill van. the baseball game had reached the list hglf of the ninth and n thousand men and women rorrounded th* fWd. Five hundred men and women -were in the dance camlno. jvarm but enthusiastic. rrobably five hundred more v-efe tucking a**? the last veirtigts of the picnic lunches hnd sitting and lying out under the trees. An exhibition of the fine old Iriah game of hurling was in progress across from thi ball' field and a few of the young men had revived the favorite sport of the County Mayo, the same being trying to break each others shlna with wagon spokes.A wrestling match or so enllvend proceeding* and here *and there lads who did not consider the absence of boxing glove* ft b«r to boxing, were busting ealt;h other right heartily and apparently liking It ..Such was the scene of serenity that Celtic pajk presented yesterday afternoon at the moment Lieut McCarthy placed-Sullivan under arrest.A lusty roar Issued from Sullivan's throat A few of his most iniimatc friends hastened to his Side and took in the situation at' a glance. Then they roared. The music ceased In the casino The baseball game came to a sudden halt. The boys ceased hurling each other and cracking each other with wagon spoke*. The wrestlers quit their private affairs, scenting the prospect of a public fight.McCarthy Down F«r»f.e-frm‘tatIdJtmin:h■n:hPersons present say virtually everybody in Celtic Park surrounded McCarthy and Sullivan. Nobody seems to he quite clear about what happened first. The consensus indicates, however, that one of the boys with a wagop spoke reached over and tapped McCarthy on the skull, and, deciding that a man who stood near..by .was another plainclothes policeman, frpped him.McCarthy went down. A detective hit Sullivan on the chin with his fist and that put two men on the ground. Then and there started a free for all fight that has never been equaled. In Celtic Park at any rate.. Nobody knew how many policemen were present, so the fighting waa general. Anybody who happened to be near anybody else received at least a punch on the Jaw.In the center of the fighting mob— It is estimated that at least 1.000 persons were actively engaged—lay McCarthy and Sullivan. Friends of the latter had beaten their way to his side, using beer bottles, clubs, bricks and whatever else they found handy and effective. They kicker] nt -the haif conscious lieutenant, sometimes getting him and almost as often getting Sullivan. McCarthy had a strangle hold on Sullivan and was trying to shield hi* head behind his prisoner's body.Dispersal Follow* Shooting.Police ma* Jab# Ball of tha Flushingstation, who lives at I Prospect avenue, Flushing, slugged his way through the crowd to McCarthy's side. Other policemen. In plain clothes, as Bell was. were occupied in supplementary- fight* on the outskirts of the mob. None of the policemen lost his head and none drew his revolver, hut * ith fists and blackjacks they were fighting their way toward the center of the riot.Bell knocked four or five of theContinued on Page Two.
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New York Herald
New York, New York, US
Mon, Jul 24, 1922
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Douglas R.
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