The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-05
OFFICER AND WOMAN SHOT.
Constable DandO Fired Four Shots While
Being Beaten.
THE WOMAN WAS A SPECTATOR.
Neither of the Victims are Dangerously
Injured, Although the Woman Was Shot
in the Abdomen-Dan Shot Through
the Leg-self- Inflicted Wound

Constable Jack Dando lies at his home on
West Cherry street with bullet wound in
his left leg and his head and face badly
battered, and Mrs. Maggie Putsawicz, u Polish
woman, is at her home in Miller's row. near
the Shenandoah City coliery, with q bullet
wound in her abdomen. Neither is danger
ously injured, although the condition of both
is the result Of a fHcas that almost ended in
a double murder. The bullet wounds are
supposed to have been inflicted by the CON
stable while defending his own life after he
had been rendered partly unconscious.
The origin of the ailray was a fight in
which several Poles were involved and from
the statements made to Justice Cardin it ap-
pears that Pole named John Flomema, who
is a stalwart fellow enjoying the reputation
of a bully, on Saturday night entered the
house of Valentine Mussock and asked that
the "grower" be sent out for beer. There
was an exchange of words which eliminated
in Flomema attacking Mussock. A man
named Mike Shimbo went to the rescue and
knocked Flomema down. Shimbo then dis
appeared and hurried to Justice Cardin's
office. Flomcma, in the meantime, at
tackled Mussock and his wife and tore nearly
all the clothes from her body,
1t was at about this stage Of the allray that
Constable Dando appeared to arrest the ag-
gressor. He met Flomema in the yard and
arrested him. The bully turned upon the
constable who knocked Flomcma down
twice in efforts to subdue him. Flomema,
however, is a powerful man and far too great
a match for the constable He seized a large
piece of wood, such as is used iu making fire,
in bake ovens, and opened an attack on the
officer One of the blows paalyzcd the
right arm and another sent him tc
the ground in half unconscious state.
Flomema kept up the assault and, fearing
he would be killed while PROSTATE ON the
ground, Dando drew his revolver with his
left hand and fired four shots Two of the
shots were spent and, as there is no evidence
that other revolvers were used in the fracas,
it is believed that Dando shot himself aud
also the woman, who was a spectator to the
ailray.
Upon the firing of the shots Flomcma dis
appeared Dando recovered his senses and
walked to Justice Cardin's office, where he
was attended by DR.. w. y, Stein. Dlndo did
not know at the time that he had been
shot in the leg. The doctor found that the
officers head face and right arm were badly
cut and bruised and advised the officer to go
home. 1t was after reaching there that
Dando had discovered that he had been shot.
DR.. stein was again called and an eXamina-
tion showed that the bullet had passed clean
through the tleshy part Of the leg near the
knee Dando is confined to his bed.
Meanwhile Policeman Foltz, accompanied
by G. G. Clauser, citizen, went down to
hunt up Flomema. They found him like a
raging lion. Flomema suddenly seized a
piece of pole from the hands of young man
in the crowd and struck Clauser a blow
across the face, nllicting a painful but not
serious injury. Foltz saw that he could not
take the bully single handed and went to
seek assistance. During his absence Con-
stable Bolin and Policeman Goodman arrived
and took Flomema out of an clubhouse at the
point of revolvers Justice Cardiu com
mtted FlOmema in default of 81 600 bail and
this,morning he was taken to the Pottsville
Jail.
Drs. G. F. Matter and J. Pierce Roberts
are attending Mrs. Putsawicz and say her
condition is not serious. The bullet is sup
posed to have entered the left side of the
abdomen and passed around to the back, but
probing has failed to locate it. The woman
goes about her house in spite Of the injury.
DIR. Matter failed to find any bullet hole in
the womans clothing and he says there is a
possibility that the bullet is not in her body.
He has known many cases where bullets have
forced clothing with them sufficient to make
wound and yet not pierce the clothing and
drop to the ground when the clothing is re-
moved.