The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-04
CALLOW YOUTHS.
The Cause of Yesterdays Kansas
City Riot
Is Attributed to irresponsible
inexperienced Deputies.
EIGHT MEN ARRESTED
Charged With Rioting and At
tempting to Kill.

KANSAS CITY, No, April 4--One man
was killed and six wounded in a riot
yesterday afternoon shortly after
o'clock, at point just south
of the Belt line bridge on the
Southwest boulevard. The arrest and
attempted rescue of John Pryor was
the cause of the bloodshed. Three of
the wounded men may die and no hope
at all is entertained for the recovery
Of two of them
The dead and wounded are:
Mike Callahan. PAS Madison street,
city sidewalk inspector, shot through
the body: dead
Perry Fowler, 1924 Dripps street.
laborer. shot through back and hips +;
death momentarily expected
Cornelius Brosnahan, 1929 West
Twenty ninth, contractor, shot
through back in region of tenth rib,
and probably penet rating the kidneys;
Will undou btedly die
jeremiah NJ Pate. sos Southwest
boulevard, wall paper and house decor
alton store shot through the face; may
prove fatal.
Patrick ]. Fleming, Twenty-ffth
and Summit streets, shot in the
shoulder
John McGovern, 1898 Belleview,
laoorer shot in elbow
Z l. Coleman, Twenty-fourth and
Jarboe, painter, slightly wounded in
head and neck
The riot was the result of a clash
stoned by Consta Bile Browning of
Westport, and Constable Alden, of
Justice Hawthorne's district The
wholesale swearing in and arming of
deputy crnstables made arms and am
nnition plentiful, and hundreds of
shots were exchanged in the fight
Contradictory statements are made
by friends of the men who fought,
and it is hard to get at absolutely inn
partial facts IN the case, and various
excuses were made for the swearing
in of so many deputies For hours
after the battle the widest kind of
stories were afloat, and different peo-
pie were widely at variance in their
accounts of the affair.
In connection with every complete
statement regarding the fight c. J.
Wagner. a Southwest boulevard con-
fectioner, is mentioned Yester-
day morning he was making the
rounds of the Fifth ward, working
for Andrew b Olden for councilman,
when he was set upon and badly
beaten by three men,
Wagner procured a warrant before
Justice Willis of Westport. charging
James and John Pryor and man who
was known only as Bert" with be-
ing his assailants- Six deputy con-
stables. who We're commissioned for
by Constable Browning of Westport,
started out with two regular deputies
and some Wagner sympathizers to
arrest the Pryors-
1t was while the Browning deputies
had J ohm Pryor under arrest that the
riot was precipitated- 1t was claimed
by the Pryor sympathizers that they
did not believe the Browning deputies
had right TO arrest Pryor. Anyway
there was clash of authority be-
tween the Olden ana Browning depu-
ties which brought about the fight
Some of the deputies were scarcely
over age-nothing more than ire
sponsible, easily led, hot-headed
youths Perry Fowler, who was ia
tally hurt, was only 22-
In connection with the appointment
of the OIden deputies, Justice Haw-
rhOrne says that he did not sanction
such appointments, and asked Mr..
Olden not to make them
As a result of the riot eight men,
besides John Pryor, are under arrest.
They are charged with rioting and
attempting to kill