The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-02
PRISONER WOUNDED
skot by officer Faucet While
Resisting Arrest.
os,,cK ANSWER TO HIS BULLET.
-. K.nnard Fires 1T the Peifeemsn
20 Esespe HandeaGs. and 10
Fatally Wounded.

uenrx Eanuard, an electrician, was se-
.,cs,ssw and probably fatally wounded by
n6esr Faucet in an attempt 70 escape
.rksle sndsr arrest, at the corner of Front
- Battery streets, az ii 30 o'clock last
right.
Tie mao or his partner had fred first,
ma Fsacets fired back ~ seifdefense.
Complaint had been made TO offiicer
Z Burtsa.l by Mr. Trick. who lives on West
ssrset. that somebody had been trying 20
s1enl his piums and so Faucet was on the
lookous for suspicious people. Faucet
- two men coming up Wall from West
slreet and watched them from around the
gamer of Front street. They crossed 70
he north SIDE al the alley and thus came
ii fail view.
FAUCET intercepted them and asked
them their business. They replied that
fbev had been working on the Great
Kfrthern railroad and were going to .
flmp mile and half north. where four
len OF them were stopping. Faucet
u liked TO see their hands. felt them and
aid they we're soft and did not feel like
hose Of working men. They were going
out Fifth street and Faucet walked along
md finally dropped behind.
He then saw something sticking out at
me back Of the mans coat. and made him
take Ii out. 1t proved to be chisel, and
Tancett then arrested them and took them
down Wall and Front streets 10 the-pat.oi
boz at the corner OF Battery.
Then he started to put the handouts on
one OF them, but Kannard said: You
won't put no handouts on me-" The
other man said the same thing and they
drew aside, one man toward Front street.
Kannard toward West, still on the corner.
Then, while Faucet had the handouts
in his hand and his revolver loose in his
overcoat pocket, he says Kannard pulled
y reyolver and brought 1t down at him.
4 saying:
"Sow I'm as good a. you," firing at the
same instant from distance OF ten or
twelve feet.
Faucet Immediately pulled his revolver
5 and fired and thinks this shot wounded
Kannard In the body. Kannard started TO
run down Battery street. Faucet follow
Ing and firing another shot close after the
i FIRST.
Then he turned back, thinking 10 catch
The other man, but found he had fled.
Capt Robert Johnston, Of the Battery
street engine. saw the scene, and says be
ran up Front street He was afterwards
seen on Bell. near Fourth street, and ran
into thu alley. Faucet and Johnston
both pnrsued down West street, bur the
fugitive gained on them. He seems TO
have gone on down West and up one Of
the cross streets.
He was found on the sidewalk on Front
street. near Lenora. having sunk down.
and was groaning with pain. There
another fireman and several persons
who had been attracted by
the shots found him. A car
passed along and be asked to BIO put on IL,
bnt Johnston had meanwhile called the
patrol wagon. and hs was taken on IL to
Providence hospital.
Faucet describes Kannard as A man Of
flee. inches. of dark complexion. with
very brown ewes. The other man was 5
bet 3 or 0 inches high, weighed l6o to ITO
pounds and had light yeliowish, bushy
musiache, and wore q dirty. well-worn,
light coat.
kannard's story at the hospital was that
when he and his nhum started to run they
xsre ordered by the officer TO stop. Then
his pal, whose name he said was Jack
Dickens. pulled his gun and shot at Fau-
eets. whereupon Faucett returned the fire
and shot him tKannard)
He denied that he went TO North Seattle
On any crooked work, but merely to
sleep
On being further questioned by Jailer
Noble. Kannard said that no was an cleo
trician and came from Sioux City, leaving
there shout month ago. and had been In
town four days. His father. he said, was
spainter In that town.
lie at this point said that the name of
HE chum was Jack Collins, forgetting
that be bad Just called him Jack Dickens.
DR.. I. W. Willis, who dressed his
wounds. said that tho ball entered about
the median line of the abdomen
and passed entirely through the
body. cutting hole in the lower
part Of the liver and coming out
about six inches 10 the right of the middle
Of the back over the right hip.
The wound the doctor considers very
dangerous and almost sure to be fatal
nom secondary causes. peritonttis being
most feared.
The loss Of blood was slight for 30
severe wound. bur nevertheless
we temperature Was rising at a
iagid rate when the doctor left
Inn unconscious from opiaies. The wound
I'd NOS render him unconscious ana he
hlked quite freely, except Tor slight diffi.
Guilty In speaking by reason of the pain.
Ia appearance kannard is a boyish-look-
ING young fellow, dark-eyed. dark haired
and slender built. about 5 feet inches tall
and smoo,h.faced.
vascer Faucet is one of the steadIest
saa coolest men on the force. He has had
sehs experience in police matters.