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4 Sliol, Many u Hurt as 2,500I CORiot at Picnic40-Minute Baltic Slarl» t at Celtic Park When j” Police Seize Man’s Rum; Score* of Women Fightfor(if IbyPatrolmanWonnded ^r'' And (»irl Mav I)i(Mounted Reserves Charge Crowd; 500 DancersInbolhered hv Meleelea-W 01llandthefcteiaimranwit»ftiFour persons *tre shot, one prob- — il / and many were slightly _ _+jas»d in a rift late yerterday after* j iX n a: Celtic Pork. Long UUnd City. L 1 of Hunter* Potnt polite sta- —. fouiht forty minutea to aubdue | tbs rioters Effort* of a atrolman to _. p 0f fhlt; p.cmeker*. who was . f,f ; tq have two bottle* of whisky is hi* momMIoRi caused the disturb-,00ft persons were watch-ntests during the annual ernational Union Steam i-d Operating Kng.neers’ Locul 20, and I J* more were in the park dance hall. Mayer Bylin, it had been announced, auld drliter an address at 5:30. A few ninotai htfer* that time trouble lt;begar Half a doten shots were fired t-d th# athletic field became at once akittle rr®ynd* wlth more th,n 2*500 »*c-red. including scores of women. Jrtolven *r d clubs were used freely.Ruth Curley, eighteen years old. * -cent arrival from Ireland, who lives | a* MO East Fifty-sixth Street, Manhattan was shot in the abdomen. She is is St. John's Hospital and may die.Patrolman Shot In Bark Fstrclman John Bell, of Inspector frrcosj'i staff, whose home ia in fr*»p«c’ Avenue, Flushing, was shot .t fkr hack. Hia condition is serious.William Callopey. of 36R East Fifty-fnt Sire*?. was ahot through the leg* »»d severely beaten while resisting gffSSgt.P?tnis O’Shea, of SI Grand Peach. 5*at«n Island, waa shot in the jaw.Hinted Patrolman Robert Farrell.*i Buster's Point police station, was .•r.'ien the head by o bottle thrown h wet t he rioter* He waa knocked tKMKiout and fell from hia horse.FI# Severely injured are in Si J'h\ Hospital. Those slightly hurt »«rt trlt;*ted by ambulance surgeons.On t ity at the park were fourteen ffea of inspector Formosa** staff In 1 rirp of Lieutenant Robert McCarthy, it* atter ordered his men to arrest I /ires Sullivan, rf 113 East Seven*?-1 ifih Street, who Is alleged to have . •arnlv displayed two bottle* of whtskv. /'cording to the police,Sullivan reilst-aj arrest and utter a Gaelic cr. watch | ret with ye* ansa from sll parts of i •he field H .dreds forsook the foot-1 1*1] game and gathered in menacing ... J L. U..f. ma. 1fashion around the little knot of police endeavoring to remove Sullivan from the field.Messenger Sent for Aid1 :»■,* *nt McCarthy dispatched a ntaittger to telephone Hunters Point •Ui'iklt;» for reinforcement*,Saveral involved in an attempt to Eulllvan heard the menage de- j Vnui i.’jd shouted for a*d. An in- lt;*V* Utir the l{t»!e band of patrol-Via w»i overwhelmed by a ruah in | ni.ch hundreds took part, women be- j i*f saotf the jead'-r*. Revolver ahots P« retailed shoVs of the mob as it rtniggJid to reach Sullfvan, who was in J * grip cf Mounted Patrolman Farrell, j *« litter held his prisoner by the collar and endeavored to ride f/sagh tfco melee. Hf war hit by a Mtia md toppled senseless under the 1*C* of his horse. Sullivin was aeized W frier,d» who formed a-ring around I *lieutenant McCarthy - and his men I %«r# bctag roughly handled when a , force from Hunters Point sta Hva charge i on the field with drawn tatoci. A volley of shots fired as they a-WKtd ww.ij.dfid Patrolman Bell, who . ‘•*1 to the field and was trampled by j wmbitants before he could be removedt.Police Did Not Fire*mma clubbed thetr way to the «ntlt;r of -he disturbance under fire ifatr. revolver*. Empty bottlei hurtled '■' head* of the crowd and »ev-i; :rjuri«' were inflicted by these the police acted under *or-JH rot *o draw revolver* because of /' piewnee nf women. No police of-thar half an h .or thirty -t without cessation, st ffti-ir.g on the mob and again •Me*1: to g:ve ground. A mounted v'VJ con': vjtei to tne ponca victory, v j r-e after forty n.'nutes f «M!ict Th* severely injured were re-•wsd i-i private automobiles to St. bns Heapiul while the riot was «nAfter Callopey had been removed to Mitut ,n he wns recognized by. m . lt;1 nr WHS vj*•■•atarant McCarthy a» the man whor*w - -,tt!«• strikir.g Mounted Pa-He was placed under•rajt for os'.*u!t. .jullivan was **sed with having uhisky iirtihpoa-ar.d tesisting arrest. Those th the only Arresta made.T**nt Firing at (*nreThe ba!i,„ in#l ni_-nl Jt hiJ bfen19 identify tr.oae who fired•riJ ®t,-W.?i:ndin* MIm Cur,c’. P»*.Bell and Callopey. At one ve it ippe*reij that twenty men were •acting at once. Miss Curley is sail IUv# keen caught in the ruah and f1’1 !•« ft wounded while trying toto the dancing pavilion. ! fhroughout disorder on the atnletic!th-n 500 persona danced in - j •u the banlt;! continuing to I ^fi*y lrtd dances while a battle raged . .as, ***y- Thfr P°lk« inn,ctlt;,d Lninjuries of a noua aort. «uvu i i Itj* not uk. i.j _____ ruajK.i subsided many offlctra were j *Bd their uniforms tern The .. 4«s:nbed as one of the hc.eoet J. . . WR*e« N,w York police have engaged ’^'“xifan General Die* in DuelMEXICO CITY. July 23. — Genergf, , Comacho was killed yesterday• /atiingo. Susi- of Puebla, in a gunJehwerAaroifnvlt;thci
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New York Tribune
New York, New York, US
Mon, Jul 24, 1922
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