Publication information |
Source: Los Angeles Herald Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Supporter of Red and Yellow Flung into Lake Washington” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Los Angeles, California Date of publication: 17 September 1901 Volume number: 28 Issue number: 352 Pagination: 2 |
Citation |
“Supporter of Red and Yellow Flung into Lake Washington.” Los Angeles Herald 17 Sept. 1901 v28n352: p. 2. |
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Keywords |
lawlessness (mob rule: Seattle, WA); anarchists (Seattle, WA). |
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none. |
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Supporter of Red and Yellow Flung into Lake Washington
(Special Dispatch to The Herald.)
SEATTLE, Sept. 16.—An excited crowd of pleasure-seekers
picked up an anarchist last night at Madison park and threw him into Lake Washington.
This unexpected bath had a depressing effect on the supporter of red and yellow
principles. He crawled out of the cold water a pitiable looking object and slunk
away, followed by hisses and not a few threats of violence.
Who the man is no one appears to know. He was
a fairly well dressed and used good English. It was the opinion of some who
saw him that his utterances were excusable to a certain extent owing to his
condition, which verged on maudlin intoxication. His remarks were addressed
to no one in particular, but were on the line of red hot anarchism. The crowd
paid no attention to him a t [sic] first, but when he kept it up some one suggested
that he be thrown int o [sic] the water.
No sooner was the suggestion made than the offender
was grabbed, hustled to the edge of the wharf and fired into the air. He fell
about eight feet before striking the water. No one offered to help him out and
he had quite a hard struggle to reach the shore.