The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-30
UIlhEVEE DHIVIE HIV /.
Kansas City's Rumholes Made
Dens of Murder and Robbery.
A Stranger Drugged and Robbed
on Grand Avenue.
MURDER AT MURDOCKS
Bartender Puts a Bullet in a
Customer
At a Saloon on Twelfth and
Walnut.
IURDER AT MURDOCKS
One More Suicide of a Young
Girl-3 in 81 Hours.

KANSAS CITY, NO., nov. 5U.-A daring
robbery, hastily planned and boldly exc
cuted, was perpetrated in saloon within
a stones throw of Central police station in
broad daylight
The story is told by a man suffering
from arsenical poisoning and strapped to
a surgeons cot in the city hospital. 1t is
a toss-up whether the man will live or
die from the effect of the dose.
Six men are under arrest who are
known to have been in the saloon at
the time the alleged robbery took
place. They are Alvin Dewitt, Edward
Bowling, both of whom were under ar
rest two weeks ago for the murder of
Charles Francis Early in front of ex-
Councilman Andy Foley's saloon, "Bill'
Regan, sou of Alderman Regan; 7. ].
Reed, better known as "Jef" Reed,
bartender; I. F. Yeager, who sells beer
to the women in the Coliseum theater,
and John Halpin.
The robbery took place in a saloon at
Fifth street and Grand avenue between
the hours of six and eight O'Clock. w
r. Dunham, an employe of the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad, whose
home is somewhere in Kansas, arrived in
Kansas City early yesterday morning.
lie had S360.5O in his possession. From
the Union depot he rode to Fifth and
Main streets, from where he walked east
along Fifth street until he came to a
saloon kept by man named
Hynees, and known as the
"Owl." He entered and called for a
drink of whisky, and Jeff Reed, the
bartender, set the bottle and glass on
the bar. There were six men in the
room, one of whom was tall and had a
reddish birthmark on his neck. Dunham
pulled 4 roll Of bills from his pocket and
proffered a $40 bill in payment for the
drink he had had. The bartender took
the money and started to change it.
The bartender counted out the change
and one of the men left the saloon, but
soon returned. The bartender engaged
Durham in a game of dice at 81 a game.
They took several drinks, when sudden
ly the room began to spin around in front
of Dunham's eyes. He did not lose
consciousness right away, but he was
powerless to move. He felt a hand
thrust into his pocket and the indistinct
murmur of voices sounded in his ears
then he lost consciousness
A patrol wagon took him to the police
station as a drunk 1t was afterward
discovered that he had been drugged
and robbed. No attempt will be made
by the police department to close up this
concern which has one of the worst rep
utations in the city.
A Bloody Place.
The second murder within two months
took place last night shortly after IL
o'clock at Robert B. Murdock's saloon at
Twelfth and Walnut.
Jack S. Berger, night bartender, fired
two shots from 45-caliber revolver at
Martin n. Thomas One of the bullets
struck Thomas in the back just blow the
left shoulder blade, and, passing around
his heart, lodged somewhere near it.
The other bullet passed through his
clothing and fell to the saloon floor.
Thomas was taken to All Saints hospi-
tai, where he is lying very close to
deaths door
Berger says that about 7.3O o'clock
last night Thomas and another man en-
tered Murdock's saloon and Thomas
picked a quarrel with Earnest We'll.
Murdoch was in the saloon at the time
and objected to the men quarreling and
the saloon, but Thomas soon re-
turned. Two strangers who were
standing before the bar drinking,
Thomas started to quarrel with them.
He was again ordered out. He came
back again about 10 o'clock. George
Kumpf, Captain George Pelletier, c. E.
Nutter, bookkeeper of the Kansas City
CtdI. 00OIS0 Ac0u0J, SLOCh man, anu
Eugene Thomas, cousin of Martin
Thomas, were all in the saloon. Thomas
started to quarrel with one of the men
and was once more ordered out
Thomas came back again." said Ber-
ger, with three friends and called for the
drinks. l set four glasses on the bar,
aud Thomas said to me: 'You did me
wrong"
Il told him that had not done him an
injury and he called me a liar and vile |
name l started from behind the bar
toward him. 1 told him that he had been
talking fight all night and that I in
tended to give him a fight. had gotten |
nearly to him when he drew a revolver
and aimed sit at me. Before he could
shoot one of the men grabbed his arm
and another jerked him back They all
left the saloon. In about half an hour
Thomas came back alone. He entered
at the Twelfth street door with his hard |
in his overcoat pocket, where he had
carried his revolver before. He nearly
reached the bar and l decided that he
had come back to kill me,
Il grabbed revolver that belongs to
the house and shot at him twice. l did |
not think hit him. After l had shot he
turned and walked out of the door by
which he had entered. l went ahead
with my work, and thought no more of
the matter until Sergeants Bray and Yel-
ton came to take me to the station. Is he
going to die? l am awful sorry. The
man is a stranger to me, and never saw
him before last night