Mesa free press., 1900-08-10

behind screen and began furious
and accurate fire. Lally fell with a
bullet in the abdomen. Porteous was
shot through the head, and dropped
dead across the body of Lally. The
other officers and the negro fed from
the scene.
The report of Charles Winchester
and the fact that the two officers Law
bleeding in the yard, caused tremen-
dous excitement. Hurry calls were
sent to the Mayor and the Chief of
Police, and Col. Wood, in command
of the special police and army hosts,
rushed to the scene. In little while
there was an immense crowd.
In the meantime, Father Fitzgerald
of st. Johns Church, was summoned
to administer extreme JUNCTION to the
police officers, who were dying in the
alley. The priest was amounting the
body of Porteous, with Alfred Bloom
field, a young boy, standing by his
side, when Charles appeared at the win
dow. The lad saw him and begged
him not to shoot. The negro, however,
fired his Winchester again, and Bloom
field fell dead. The priest, unhurt,
left the scene, after pluckily perform
ing the last offices for the dead officer.
When the ambulance arrived, two
men volunteered to go into the alley
and bring out the body of Lally. They
entered, and while they were attempt
ing to take the body of the dead officer
from that of his colleague, Charles
fired again. The men got Lally's body
out and afterWard took Poteous' body
out also.
In the meantime an immense crowd
had gathered in the vicinity, and
schemes were set on foot to get Charles
out of the building. Charles, however
did not propose to be captured without
selling his life dearly. Time after
time he came to the window, and as
men, one by one, entered the alley, he
blazed away at them. In this manner
Confectioner Leclerc, who was one of
the special police squad; ex-Police
man; Evans, John Banvilleand George
Lyons, son of the head of dry goods
establishment were wounded.
At this time, the extra police began
to fire at the negro, and he returned
the fire. Andy Van Kuren, keeper of
the police Jail, got bullet in the
body, and fell dead. Just afterward,
HI. HI. Ball, aged 65, working for the
Mutual Benevolent Association, was
hit and mortally wounded About the
same time, Frank Bertucci received a
shot in the left shoulder, and j. W.
Bofel one in the right hand.
Ultimately it was decided that the
only way to get Charles out was to
burn the building in which he was in
trenched. There were, however, some
scruples about resorting to this method,
the district being denselypopulated.
But it was determined that the fire de-
partment should be called out to pro"
tect surrounding property.
At the moment of apparent indecisiOn
some one went to neighboring gro
Gerry, pure hased can of coal oil, and,
pouring it over the rear steps of the
building, applied match, and soon
started fire. 1t became evident very
in the building, and picked men from
themselves about the building in order
to capture the desperate as he at
tempted to leave the house.
A young soldier, Adolph Anderson,
member of the Thirteenth Company
of State Militia, was one of the first to
see Charles as he left the steps.
Charles ran across the yard, and as he
did so, Anderson fired several times.
He shot the negro in the breast, and
Charles fell and soon died soon after
ward.
| AS the negro fell, numbers of persons
armed with Winchesters and revolvers
rushed in and fired into the body.
Charles was literally shot to pieces.
After is was certain that he was dead,
mob entered the yard and dragged
the body into the street. There the
| police and the mob emptied their re-
vOvlers into the corpse, while a son of
one of the murdered men rushed up and
stamped the face beyond recognition.
There was loud shouting that the body
should be taken to vacant square in
the vicinity and publically burned.
At this instant, however, a big squad
| of police arrived in patrol wagon.
Thousands of persons congregated in
the vicinity, and it looked as if there
would be clash. The police seemed
to have regained their courage, and
promptly pushed the crowd aside,
picked up the body and threw it into
the patrol wagon. The driver whip
ped up his horses, and the wagon
started off, with 5000 people running
after it and clamoring for the cremation
of the body of the negro. The wagon
was faster than the mob, and it ultima
tely made it's way in safety to police
headquarters. There an immense
crowd had gathered, and great diff
Guilty was experienced in taking the
corpse of the negro from the wagon in
to the morgue.