The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
RAID ACRAP GAME
Boys In Martin g. Dennis Addi-
tiOn Arrested.
We're Spending Sunday In
"ROIlin' de Bones"
AN EXCITING CHASE.
Players COOped Up Like Rats
In a Room.
One Makes Frantic Effort to
Get Away.
n EXCITING CHASE.


shooters Sunday morning in the most
approved fashion with plenty of excite
ment for the residents of Martin &
Dennis addition to say nothing of the
shock they gave the gamesters when
they burst in upon them.
Sergeant Tim Donovan and officers
Maze, Mccoy and Bundy left the police
station and boarded a Quinton Heights
car. As the car turned the corner at
Seventeenth and Clay streets the Off
GERS jumped to the ground, surround
ed an abandoned store building and all
before the crap shooters on the inside
had any idea of trouble.
Mccoy took the front door while the
rest of the officers ran around to watch
the back and four sides Just as they
surrounded the building some one
shouted cops" and there was a rush
TO get out the front door. There the
crowd found Mccoy, billy in hand, ready
to prevent their escape. They turned
and ran for the back door and found
three officers waiting for them. They
turned back. One ran for a side win
dow and jumped through. There was
crash and the sound of breaking
glass and Bundy saw a young man dis
entangling himself from a window
frame and making across the country.
Stop him." she yelled atMaze, he'll
stop and what was more another one
cleared the window sill and made after
him.
Bundy started after the two with
Maze close behind him. The officer in
the lead drew his revolver and fired.
The nearest runner fell unhurt of
course but the one in front kept right
on.
Just then a woman ran out into the
street She saw Bundy firing at the
running man and Maze after them.
stop him." she yelled at Mace, he'll
kill him sure-Stop him before he catches
him"
flight to grab the one who had fallen
and BUndy kept on. Bang" went his
revolver again but the runner made
even little better time.
Bang went the officers revolver
just as the runner cleared a ditch and
sidewalk. Through the weeds they
went and people on their way to
church stopped to see the race
Bang" and ''piff'' a bullet threw up
a little cloud of dust behind the run
ner who was beginning to get winded.
The runner turned around the corner
of a house just as the officer took a
but he loaded as he ran and lodged
around the corner Of the house.
The man was nowhere in sight.Bundy
looked in the front window of the house
and just then he saw his man crawl
out from beneath a side porch and
start again.
Bang" went the revolver again and
the two were off on the second lap Of
the cross country race. Bundy Was
getting tired and he wondered if his
pace maker was about ready to stop.
They We're going down a long level
slope and Bundy nerved himself for a
little faster run. Bang rang out his
revolver again. He was close to the
fleeing man and as he fired the runner
dropped and rolled over. Bundy grab
bed him before he could rise. The race
was over but Maze was having the
same kind of a time going in an oppO-
site direction. His man had a long
nj l. III d.
might not be able to catch him. He
drew his A calibre Colts and fired The
report sounded like a gun on the Texas.
The runner threw up his hands, drop
ped. rolled over and over in a cloud of
dust and laid still. When the officer
reached him he was white as death.
What's the matter?" said Maze al
most ready to laugh.
Pm shot, family whispered the fall
en- man
staggerer for the wounded man and he
said he guessed pretty much all over.
He was scared and his knees trembl
so the officer had to help him to walk.
All this time Mccoy and Donovan
were not idle. Three had escaped by
the window in the back room Donovan
rushed in the back door and took a pO-
sition at the door between the front
and the back room The seven who re-
manned in the building made a rush Tor
the front door. Tt was wide double
door and Mccoy saw them coming. As
they tried to rush past him he knock
ed one down with his left hand and
another with his right. They turned
and ran in the other direction. Dono-
van grabbed two, one in each hand by
their coat collars and held them in
front of him to block the doorway.
Two of them made for the front door
while the remaining three sank down
on the floor of the room and shook with
terror As the two tried to rush past
him Mccoy knocked one down and
grabbed the other. The one who was
Knocked down said: I'm not going to
try to get away"
Then sit STILL" said Mccoy.
one made his escape. He was little
boy about Is years old and he crawIed
out through a hole in the floor and es-
capped but when all were rounded up
there were nine. The patrol wagon had
a load when it backed up to the police
station and the following prisoners
filed in and registered as follows: w.
Wingard, L. Headley, Hugh Kincaid,
Omer Patterson, Chester Cutenborden,
James NJ Street, cOlOred. William Cur
tenborden, James Boyd and T. r. Jack.
All were released on bond to appear for
trial.
Bundy confscated the dice, Mccoy
found five cents on the floor and Maze
secured the board used to shoot on
ARRESTED THE DUCKS.