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Show MARCHERS TELL STORY Special Police Are Vulgar, Vul-gar, Regulars Inactive During Parade Washington. Mar. 12. When the senate committee inquiring into the failure of the police to afford proper protection of the suffrage parade .March .'. resumed hearings here today. to-day. District Commissioner John A. Johnston was ready to continue his testimony. Further details of t' e difficulties experienced by marchers in the suffrage suf-frage parade were tolj today by women wom-en and men Special Police Rough. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ballock attacked the conduct of the special policemen. She described them as ' rough, coarse men. whose attitude was facetious, and who made flippant, silly remarks " Mrs. Olive H Rasbronck and Mrs, Randolph Forest told of policing a portion of the crowd at the end of j the line of march themselves after vain appeals to policemen. "We had no difficulty then." said Mrs. Rasbtouek. -'the people were pood natured and were willing to do j what we asked." Attack by Guardsmen. Mrs. Forest fold of an attack by thre national guardsmen on a float 1 which she accompanied. She said thev jumped on tho float and tore 'down some of the decorations The women of the company, she said, were 'badly frightened. D. Ion Miller, a Washington lawyer, testified that of 150 policemen he saw three were taking active steps to keep the crowd hack. He appealed to several officers without result. Crowd Willing to Obey. He declared that the crowd would hae obeyed any concerted action by the police. Miss Flla Wambaugh of Cambridge. Mass. said that the policemen that she saw were doinc nothing to keep back the crowd and seemed interested interest-ed in the parade. "A drunken man fell into our ranks out of the crowd just behind me." she said. "1 do not know what happened to him, It was all a nightmare." Defends Police. Two members of the eitizen's committee com-mittee on public order. Walter A. Rrown and T Percy Meyers. Insisted that the police, so far as they could observe, did their full duty Mr Rrown declared the crowd was so dense It would have been physically impossible impossi-ble to confine it behind the ropes stretched along the curb. On the list of witnesses were .Mrs Champ (Mark, wife of the speaker of the house, and her sister. Mrs Pitzer They were unable to attend today's bearing, but will probably appear later. |