[N.Y.C.] “Sergeant Little, of the Seventeenth Precinct . . . “I don’t know what they are but they keep quiet and carry their arms openly and we can’t touch them, for they don’t violate any law."

New-York Tribune, “Sergeant Little, of the Seventeenth Precinct, said that he had heard men drill in a basement of a gin mill in Sixth-st., and added: “I don’t know what they are but they keep quiet and carry their arms openly and we can’t touch them, for they don’t violate any law. If they concealed the rifles we would arrest them.”, May 15, 1886