Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-07
BURGLARS CAUGHT RED-HlNDED
N COMMITTING CRIME MURDER
An OFFICER.
A BrAve woman Meets Them Fhce
to Face and Cows Them-Trugic
Encounter in n Elat--A Hot, But
FruitIess Pursuit.

thugs, caught gtl handed Whlle com
hitting burglary, shot and hAe,
Oacer Edward Duldles. Of the Lara
bee street station. OMcer Duddles hal
been told Of the presence Of the bur.
glars at ss7 Division street and wa.
about 10 arrest them when one Of them
shot him. The muEderers escaped eu'
the.. Identity is known to the police
uaactr Dudd!es was almost instantly
killed.
The burglars were seen after tn,
shooting BY officers u the West Chi.
cago avenue station On the HAisiea
street viaauat at Goose Island. seTera.
shots Were fired. but the muriereri
escaped by jumping of the Sladuc'
onto the Northwestern tracks below.
The oalers enpueJ their reE9'''r5
at the hse.ng mea ami a y0liey Ot bI!-
lets wl.s.iga about them IN return. Tine
burglars were here positively Identified
by Umccr UMauey, Of the West CHI
cag5 avenue station, as John Carey and
q thief known rs 'Lally.' BOth uie
criminals and have re-yrds IN police
courts ,nal SHOW them ~ be desperate
thugs.
C-sey and I.llIy began their nights
WORK. as iar as the police already know
ly committing % burglary at tue home
OF August Luuivall. "a the second mar
Ut 90 Division street, II was here the!
were surprised and 1t was 60 escape
from this place that they murdered
officer putdl-s.
Mrs. LuudyaN and her three children
h44 u-.4 visiting friends on the west
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home about $3.50 o'clock in tine evening.
Mr. Lundval Is a druggist at Division
and Llrrauee streets ana did not leave
the store from noon until after he
lad heard OF The shooting. When AIRS.
Lundyall got 10 the top Of the stairway
leading to her Hat she was surprised
10 see a light shining through the
glass In the door. At first she thought
lhat her husband might have just come
from the drug store. She rang the
door bell. but no one came TO the door.
Inside the glass on the door was
shade. The shade had no. been drawn
all the way down and, stopping. she
noticed that the floor was strewn with
clothing She concluded that burglars
had been In the hnt during the day,
but supposed they had guae and tried
TO unlock the door. Then she heard
someone walking about the nat.
In coming home Mrs. Lundyall HAD
noticed a policeman standing Few
doors away. and she told her ll-year-oid
son Oscar to 60 out and tell the officer
that there was a burglar in the house.
oscar hurried down stairs and soon
found officer Duddles In the mean
time Mrs. Lundyau had concluded to
md out just what was going on inside
the fat When she found that the lock
had been tampcred with go that she
could not use her key she decided 10
force the door open. She placed her
shoulder against h., and then thought
OF the presence OF her two little dauEh-
tors. S4le told them to get out OF the
way so that n the burglar attempted
TO run down stairs there would be moth
ing 10 prevent him. The children stood
back In the corner OF the stairway
leading to the fiat above and Mrs,
Lundyal bravely returned 20 the door
to force IL open. The lock gave way
and Mrs. Lundvan stepped Into tho
hallway Of the Hat,
Two men spang from different
rooms ana Uu-a placed rev3lvers close
10 her face. They told her not 10
scream or they would kill her. This
was unnecessary, however, as scream
ing was far away from the thoughts
of this brave descendant OF the Morse
men. She looked them in the face de-
family and showed not the least sign Of
fear. Both men seemed Cowed, and
brushing past her started 10 run down
the stairway. Lily Lundvall had dis
regarded hey fE1thcrs precautions IN
the fright that followed the appearance
OF the two vicious looking men and WAS
ON her way TO the street when the bur
glars were making their escape. They
ran against her. knocked her down, and
she rolled TO the bottom Of the stairs. /
Both burglars mad their weapons in
their hands. and to Brighten away any I.
mi 81 "a fFsr
with their escJpc, they fired into the .
walls of the stairway MS they ran down
II was they who fired the first SLOTS .
that officer Dudlre opened the door.
The stairway was dark. but the glare
from an electric arc light near by shoue
upon the officers uniform, and both
thugs opened lire upon him. one OF
the bullets missed the 1fflcer-the other
buried Itself in his right cheek. The
bullet took au upward course and on
Tered Duddle's brain, He fell in the
doorway by the side OF Lily LundvnU.
The child was too frightened to arise,
and blood from the officers wound
spattcred over her clothing.
Carey and "Lally' sprang across
the two PROSTATE forms IN the door
way and ran across Division 10 Town
send street, and then south ON +R1t
ihoroughfare toward their familiar
haunis. Then 81 is thought that they
went over 10 Goose Island and remain.
cd IN hiding there about an hour. In
Sptcior Sehdack, as soon as he heard
OF the shooting. detailed twelve men on
tAe case, Lieut. Cuim1re had cherpa
81 The men, and when Mrs Lundyalps
description OF the burglars was heard
Carey and 'Lally" were at once sus-
pected The murdercrs were traced TO
Soose Island, and that unsavory local
NY was soon being thoroughly search
81 Information was sent to the West
'hlchEo avenue station. and ofiears
Were sent out TO watch the appr6achas
10 me island from the south ana west
Ohlcer p OMallcy was travelling -,
beat on the Halsted street vladuct nut
had not heard 81 the shooting when mo
two desperadocs approached him Tl,sy
took no chances Of being captured hor.
ever ana drawing their revolvers told
me officer to 80 toward Chicago avenue
lie recognized them and talked win
them. While officer O'Maliey was Ne
ing made to retreat toward Chicago
avenue Captain Koch and several an
GERS IN citizens dress appeared -rbs
saw that they v-opld ba
empowered and sprang across the
Iallins down 70 the ground Or1csr.
-uhoWed them, ana O lively fusiiada ~
'an' passenger train dashed between
me pursued ana pursners and me 60,
U escaped IN the darkness The searoh
\ IS oonunued. however, and the police
10 not think they viii fan TO captprs I
he murderers. 'P'u'e