The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-03-10

Dearborn street, Chicago, the Scene
of the BattIe-Nine Shots Fired in a
Room Crowded with Soiled Mortality.
CHICAGO, March 2-The New Tivoli
saloon and restaurant at No. 116 Dear
born Street, patronized largely by the
sporting fraternity aud dcH3i-Bl0Hde,
was the scene last night OF most des-
perate and bloody combat Jim Elliott.
the prjze-fghter. was shot and killed by
| Jere Dunn, a Chicago sport. known by
almost every one IL the city. One Is III
a cell at the armory and the body OF the
other lies at the morgue.
| It was about a quarter past o'clock
| last night when jim Elliott and Fred A.
/ Plaisted, the oarsm8n, entered the New
| IivolI. and, passing to The rear part OF
/ the restaurant, which Is called the
! ladies room, and is separated from the
| front by glass partitions, seated them
| selves at the second table 70 the left. A
colored attendant came up to them, and
/ the men ordered q double porterhouse
| steak and q pot OF coffee. There were
! about dozen people seated about the
| table IL this end OF the restaurant at the
| time, including three or four handsome
| y-dressed young women, andalso Paddy
| Ryan, the pugilist. Bill Langdon. pro
| prietOr of the restaurant, came up TO
/ the table where Elliott and Plaisted
were seated, and talked with them a mo-
ment. Elliott said: I'VE Just came IN
| from the Stock Yards, and are as hungry
as wolves" Langdon replied that be
could fiji them up there and then, and
| passed to private room at the side to
eat his own supper. About this time
| Jere Dunn care strolling IN alone, and
also passed on to the ladies rooms. He
had just reached the opening between
the two ends of the glass partitions
when the combat commenced. The re-
| port OF pistol aud the crashing of the
! glass globes Of q chandelier were heard
| simultaneously. At the end Of the table
where Elliott and Plaisted had seated
themselves stood the former with chair
upllfted, and facing him was JeIe Dunn
| with revolver The chair was sudden
| ly dashed to the floor, the two men
closed III on each other, and PlstOl-shOts
followed one after the other IL rapid sue
cession. The whole place was IN an up
roar. The women were screaming and
men were rushing about, Overturning
chairs, and, IN their efforts to escape
the flying bullets, created the widest
excitement and confusion. Dunn and
Elliott. still struggling and shooting,
forced their way through the opening OF
the partitions 10 the front part of the
restaurant. They stumbled against a
table and both partly fell over. Then
they crowded each other to a table near
the cashiers desk, and there Elliott fell
mortelly wounded his right hand grasp
ing a smoking revolver, while above him
stood Dunn, lie, too, with a weapon IL
his hand. 1t all occurred II q few sec
onds of time.
About the time Elliott fell Officer Dan
Cnughlin appeared on the scene, fol-
lowed by Sergt. Mix Denuehy. Of
Pinkerton's force. Both Dunn and
Elliott were disarmed, and the former
placed under arrest. Elliott was already
III the throes OF death, and Dunn's face
was covered with blood.
Paddy Ryan and Plaisted pressed up
to the PROSTATE man aud asked # he
wanted priest summoned. Elliott
spoke or nodded IL the affirmative, and
man was dispatched for a Catholic
divine. But q patrol wagon for which
an alarm had been sent reached the scene
ahead of the priest. The limp form Of
the expiring prize-hghter was placed on
a stretcher IN the wagon, and, accom-
panied by Plalsted, the patrol officers
started for the hospital with their bur
den. "Jim, my boy, you're going, p"
said Plaisted to Elliott, as the wagon
started of. There vas no response, and
at the corner of Madison Street and
Centre Avenue, where the wagon
stopped at a drugstore, the officers
learned that the uip to the hospital
would be a useless one. Jim Elliott
was dead. The course Of the wagon
was turned, aud the body was taken TO
| the mOrgue.
As soon as the doctor had completed
his work on Dunn, rap porter asked the
plisouer how the shooting came about.
81 am almost as ignorant Of its COM
mencement as you are, F." Dunn sad. 81
went INTO the Tivoi TO eat my supper.
and had but just entered when a shot
WIS fired and a ball struck me in the
head, almost completely stunning me, SO
much so. ID fact, that IreeIed and caught
the table for support. 4 second shot
came in an instant, the ball piercing my
left arm. | then Tor the first time saw
that jim Elliott was doing the shooting,
and / pulled my revolver and fred ID
| self-defense. Both OF Us then fred rap
idly. and finally grappled, and Elliott
then beat me over the head with the butt
end of his gun.
Plaisted, who was with Elliott, said 70
a reporter that Elliott was laughing and
talking when the first shot vas fired.
I d
self Elliott had sprung to his feet and
was whirling a chair about his head.
There was "A smashing Of globes, and
then the char was thrown 10 the floor
and Elliott clinched with Dunn. The
shots came thick and fast. 1t only
lasted a minute. After Elliot fell Plal-
sted asked him if ne wanted priest, and
he said he did, but it was already too
late.
Paddy Ryan was a witness Of the
whole affair, but, when pressed for his
story Of it, he claimed that he entered
the restaurant Just after the firing
ceased. Paddy paid a visit to the NOR
> que and viewed the remains Of the dead
. man. " Well, " he remarked to the llttie
, crowd pressing about the glass case hold
ing the corpse, "there's nothing left OF
jim Elliott but a piece Of clay. Some
? thing like this had to happen. Those
two men were looking for each other and
! We all knew that 1t was only question
of time when one would be a prisoner
and the other IN the morgue. q"
Elliott had been a thief nearly hli
whole life, having served nearly twent!
. years II prison for crimes he had beer
convicted Of. he was over 40 years o
age. and for twenty-five years has beer
known as a professional Pugllist.
: Jere Dunn was born IN Oswero, y
= Y. and is about AZ years Of age. A
one time he was chief OF police of FL
mira, \. Y. Subsequently he went /
e New York City, and about the close Q
' the war got into a wrangle with war
D striker known as Logan No. 2, an
3 killed him during a fight. Dunn "a
), away. and came 10 Chicago, going henc