CHICAGO QUIET
Guardsmen Withdrawn (N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CHICAGO, October 12. The streets of Chicago were quiet today after four days of clashes between police and anti-Vietnam demonstrators. National Guardsmen, called in to help the police control the rioters for the last two days, were ordered to stand down last night, by the Governor of Illinois (Mr Richard Ogilvie), and no fresh incidents have been reported since their withdrawal. The Associated Press reported that a city official's neck was broken during a battle between the police and 200 members of Students for a Democratic Society in one violent outbreak yesterday. The official, Mr Richard Elrod, assistant corporation counsel, was taken to a hospital paralysed from the neck down, and Brian Flannagan, aged 23, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Flannagan was said to have struck Mr Elrod in the face, knocking him to the ground, and then kicking him several times in the neck, back and leg.
Flannagan also was charged with aggravated battery, felonious mob action and resisting arrest In the four days of rioting more than 300 demonstrators and 50 police have been injured. Although there were no detailed figures it is believed that more than 100 demonstrators have been arrested.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 13
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