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...order that true information on the situation at Charlestown on Thursday last, may be secured, the Committee formed to protest the brutality of the police, requests that all persons who were eyewitnesses bring any statements, photographs, etc. which they may have to any members of the committee, or deposit them with Raymond Dennett, Adams...
Startling evidence of police beating within the police station following the arrests of persons in the Charlestown demonstration on Thursday was brought to the attention of the Committee formed to protest the action of the police in the matter...
...formal protest of the whole affair will be lodged with Governor Joseph R. Ely and with the protest will be included the signed statements of the happenings in Charlestown, in the hope of securing action along this line. The protest to Governor Ely will also include the demand that policemen responsible for the brutality dismissed immediate...
...formal protest of the whole affair will be lodged with Governor Joseph R. Ely and with the protest will be included the signed statements of the happenings in Charlestown, in the hope of securing action along this line. The protest to Governor Ely will also include the demand that policemen responsible for the brutality dismissed immediate...
Professor Perry gave his support in the following terms: "So far as I could gather from eyewitnesses of the unfortunate affair at Charlestown, the police used excessive violence and little discrimination in handling a crowd made up almost wholly of innocent by standers or of persons present for the purpose of peaceful demonstration Quite apart from the legal rights of the individual concerned, which should be most scrupulously safeguarded. I believe that a show of temper and or unnecessary roughness by the police tended to induce that very spirit of lawlessness which it was designed to suppress...