Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-29 | Page 16 | Police Save Negro from Mob Violence

Police Save Negro From Mob Violence Black Brute Attacked Two Girls, and Pour Hundred Men Wanted to Lynch Him. NEW TORK, May 28. A serious demonstration against Charles Green, a negro who attacked two girls in Central park, was checked by several policemen only after threats had been made by the latter to use their revolvers. The mob consisted of 300 or -100 men who aided In running down the negro in Fifty-ninth street. When they learned the charge against him stones and clubs were hurled at his head, but he was not seriously hurt. Threats of lynching then broke out and tho crowd began to closo In upon the police, who managed to drag their prisoner to the station after threatening threat-ening to shoot. The negro attacked the girls, who were sisters, while they were taking photographs in a much frequented section sec-tion of the park.