Another Riot for
Norfolk
By the Associated
Press
Norfolk, Jan. 1—One sailor was killed, another dangerously
wounded, and several citizens painfully injured in a disturbance that started
shortly after midnight following a new year frolic.
While the streets in the business section were filled with
crowds celebrating the new year, hundreds of men in uniform held up street
cars, hurled missiles at unoffending persons, raided restaurants and looted
show windows and pawn shops, from which weapons were obtained. The police
opened fire upon a number of men caught in the act of looting a jewelry store
window, after which the firing became general.
Only one arrest was made, Charles Haric, a seaman being held
on the charge of housebreaking.
Before order was restored the rioters broke open a hardware
store and took paint, with which they gave the sidewalks a variegated coloring.
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