Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-03-25
A NEBRASKA DESPERATE.

Being Discharged He Kills His Employer
and Taking Refuge in a Barn Holds His
Pursuers at Bay and Kills Three More
Men.
OMAHA, Neb., March oh. c. Stead
man, prominent farmer of Burt County,
proprietor of two creameries near the vii
lage Of Lyons, Saturday forenoon dis
charged Edward johnson, alias John An
dersOn, young man and comparative
stranger in the vicinity. Johnson there
upon picked up quarrel with Steadman
and without giving warning whipped out a
revolver and shot him in the bowels, caus-
ing death in short time. There was no
p:ovocation for the deed. Amid the en-
SUNG excitement johnson secured Win
chester rifle and large quantity OF animu-
niton and mounting a horse started off.
Constable Parker Immediately organized
small posse armed with revolvers. and
mounting horses, gave pursuit, being joined
from time to time by others along the way.
They kept gaining on him and finally
twelve miles south, near the farm of Charles
p. johnson, a regular battle ensued, the
murderer turning and firing several shots
III rapid succession.
TWO OF TIE PURsUERs KILLED.
Peter Johnson, brother of Charles, was
shot in the head and killed instantly.
Charles p. Johnson was fatally shot in the
abdomen, and the next shot killed Con-
stable ParkerS horse. This was followed
by other shots injuring some horses and
grazing some of the men. Meantime, the
pursuers, whose numbers had largely in
creased, kept firing their revolvers, but the
desperate was out of range. 1t was
thought, however, that he was wounded.
The crowd began to close in on him, when
he finally jumped from his horse and ran
into Charles p. JOhnson's large barn.
The desperate then opened lively fire
Though the cracks and openings and held
the entire crowd, now numbering fully 100
men, at bay. They finally cautiously sur
rounded the barn and carefully guarded
themselves from the fire of the barricaded
desperate They continued to shoot into
the barn at frequent intervals until dark.
BESlEGING THE BARN.
Late Saturday night Sheriff Skinner from
Tel arnah, arrived with posse Of ten men
armed with Winchester rifles. Yesterday
morning they opened fire again on the barn
and the desperate responded. He shot
through one mans hat through another's
coat, and so on. but wounded none,
as they exercised great caution.
barn. and no one dared to approach it to
set fire to it, as it had been determined to do.
In the afternoon he fired several shots
through the farm dwelling house, where
several men were stationed, but hit no one.
A special train has been ordered to carry
fifty armed men from Tekamah to the scene
of the siege. At five O'Clock yesterday
afternoon the desperate still held the fort.
ANOTHER MAN KILLED.
LATER-An attempt to storm the barn in
Burt County, where the murderOus deS-
perado is intrenched, resulted in the death
of another mai, Edgar Everett, whom the
desperate shot. Several others have been
lightly wounded. Last night bright fire
was seen southwest of Oakland in the d.
rection of the barn, eight miles distant. and
the report reached here was that the barn
had been set on fire. The murderer has
killed four men and wounded several and
has shot several horses