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Show RACE RIOTS CAUSED BY RLNO FIGHT New York, July 5. Police were still keeping a patrol today In tho "black belt" of New York to check any iurther trouble engendered by the outcome of the Jetfrles-Johnson fight. The irritation caused by the defeat of Jeffries at the hands of the negro caused ncoros of street lights, negro haunts throughout the utreeta and outbreaks all through the n!gbt. One negro was killed early today, his assailant escaping, while several sev-eral badly bruised negroes are In hospitals recovering from Injuries and flight. The "black and tan'' zone was the ecene of the only race killing reported. re-ported. Geo. Crawford, a negro waiter, had an altercation with an unknown white man over the question cf what Jeffries in his prime could have done to Johnson. The white man ended tho argument by striking Crawford over tho head with a Wunt instrument. Te negro died later in the hospital. Nelson Turner, a negro, was nearly lynched for yelling to a crowd of white men in the San Juan section: "We blacks put one over on you whites and wo're going to do more to you." Then Turner drew a revolver which missed fire, and In a twinkling the crowd was on him. He was being hauled to a lamp post when the police rescued him. There were race troubles in all the boroughs of the city but the police say no further trouble is expected. |