The German seamen, who with three friends, invaded the Nazi storm center in Yorkville yesterday morning berating Hitler lustily, and we rescued from an enraged mob of Hitlerites by police with drawn revolvers, were cooling off last night, one in the East Fifty-seventh street station house and the other in Bellevue Hospital.
The injured tar, booked at the police station as “John Doe,” 24, of the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, was later ascertained to be Walter Miller. He was taken to the hospital from the police station, suffering from alcoholism and lacerations incurred when he fell through a broken window in attempting to escape pursuing police and angry bystanders.
Theodore Eggaling, 26, a wiper on the same steamship, was occupying a station house cell last night preparatory to being brought with Miller before Judge Jonah J. Goldstein in the East Fifty-seventh street Magistrates’ Court today or tomorrow on a charge of malicious mischief. In his pocket, according to police, a button was found bearing the Communist hammer and sickle sign.
HITLER’S EARS BURN
The arrested were two of five Germans, apparently all seamen, speaking little English, who forced their way into a beer garden at 228 East Eighty-fourth street early yesterday, vilifying Nazis in general and Hitler in particular. Max Muller, 235 East Eighty-fourth street, the bartender and an or dearly in the Friends of New Germany, according to police, ordered them to leave. They responded by abusing Hitler even more loudly.
Some ten or twelve patrons joined Muller in an attempt to forcefully eject the seamen. As fists flew a crowd of 200 gathered outside, cheering the Nazi adherents.
The five were finally forced from the place and at the door Eggaling is said to have picked up a stone and heaved it through the plate-glass window of Gus Deriklas’ lunchroom, 1053 Third avenue. As they heard the shrick of the siren of a police car called by bystanders, the five took to their heels with Patrolmen Strackosch ### Kelly and a considerably augmented mob of Hitlerties in hot pursuit.
Miller fell through the broken window. His friends, attempting to aid him, were frightened away by shots fired by police, and the three escaped as Miller was taken into custody. Eggaling was later found hiding in a hallway.
A menacing crowd surrounded the police as they attempted to withdraw their prisoners. Patrolman Edward Schelin, off duty, came to the aid of the patrolmen, firing a shot into the air to disperse the threatening mob. The crowd then broke up, muttering and gathering in knots to discuss the melee. the patrolmen made their way to the police station, half-carrying their prisoners.
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