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He had contacted the Commander of the state police and told him that the Governor would be calling them. The state police were already on the march. They were on the way. I suppose the Governor must have said okay to somebody, because the state police were almost on the outskirts of Rome, almost as soon as I heard that the Governor had been asked to send them. In the riot the day before two people had been injured - it had happened about five o'clock. That, of course, was sufficiently disturbing to anybody to say, “We need some order up here.”

The men were very angry. Johnny Flynn took me aside into a room just off the big room. He closed the door and looked all around - behind the curtains, in the closets and everywhere else. He said to me, “Commissioner, I've got to tell you something. The Governor must not let these state police come in. These men are crazy. They're wild. You know what kind of fellows they are. These are mostly Eyetalians. I can't handle them. They're not Irishmen. These are Eyetalians. Their blood is up and you know their blood is hot. They know how to do damage. Commissioner, I've got to tell you, this is real dynamite. If the state police come in, they're going to blow up things. That's what they said they would do. I can't control them. Nobody can control them.