The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-09-09

James Linhsrt. a 5-Year-Old Boy, shot
While Play ing in Front of His Home bya
Bullet Intended for Another and Dies in
short Time-Trsgedy Caused by
Crowd of HoodIums Attacking an Oficerl
While on Duty.
Chicago, Sept. 9.-In attempting to-
frighten off a gang of hoodlums who
were bent on taking a prisoner from
him Potrolman Mahoney shot and
killed James Linhart. a 5-year-oldi
child, near West Fifteenth and JEFF
ferson streets. Monday afternoon about
5 o'clock The little fellow was
standing i'm the middle of the street,
down which one of the toughs wasl
speeding. and received the bullet ins
the groin, the missile passing up'
through the abdomen and out at then
left side. near the back. He clasped'
his hand where the bullet had struck 4
him and toddled manfully to the door,
of his home, where he fell in faint !
AS the child dropped to the sidewalk
his mother rushed out and carried the
bleeding form OF the little sufferer up
stairs and placed IL on a bed. moaning
in her sorrow. while the din Of thej
struggle outside and the rattle Of the.
patrol wagon and the ambulance that'
had been summoned added 10 the
confusion.
Mother LIS Grief-stricken.
20. my boy. my boy. he's taken from
me-" walled the grief-stricken mother,
amid a chorus OF cries from the other
members OF the family, as the little fell
low, bleeding and still unconscious.
was carried to the wagon TO be taken
to the county hospital. But the Ia
mentations were drowned i'm the oaths
of the hoodlums and the shouts of the
police and the infuriated neighbors for
the patrol wagon that took Mahoney
and his prisoner TO the station and the
ambulance that bore the child TO the
hospital left at the same time and had
to push their way through a frantic
crowd of 500 or 600, who clamored for
vengeance. The neighborhood is
known as one of the worst for a police
man i'm the city. II was the rendez-
vous of the MorteH and McGrath gang
and number in the crowd who took
part i'm the affray are known as the
remnants of the Henry street gang"
1t is thickly populated and the least
excitement always attracts crowd y
short time before the accidental shoot
| ing of the Linhart boy Policeman Ma
honey raided gang Of can-rushers in
an alley between West Fourteenth and
| Fifteenth, jefferson and Union streets
| He succeeded i'm catching one OF the
| gang a man who gave his name as
| Eugene Sullivan. and took him 10 pa
| troll box at Jefferson and West Fill
| teenth streets to call patrol wagon.
Onicer Draws His Revolver.
While waiting for the wagon TO ar
rive and struggling with Sullivan, who
was trying TO free himself, Mahoney
| was assaulted by two of Sullivan :
| companions who had come To the lat
1 ter's rescue armed with billies and
| clubs One of them struck Mahoney on
| the right temple with a club. telling
| him to the pavement He still clung to
| his struggling prisoner, however. re-
| ceiving a bruise on the left side of his
| head in falling. Fearing that larger
number of the crowd of an-rushers.
| who were gathering around him. would
| assai him and secure his prisoner. the
officer drew his revolver. At this the
crowd scattered The policeman fired
| at one of the men who had struck
| him and who was running west on
| West Fifteenth street The man was
| about $50 feet away when the shot was
| fired and the policeman says that he
| saw no one else I'm that direction at
| the time The Linhart boy was stand
/ ing almost i'm front of his own home
| when the bullet. which missed the in
| tended forget. struck him. lie
was taken as quickly as possible to the
| County hospital. where he died a few
| minutes after his arrival