The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-07
BLOODSHED IN DENVER
Two Men Are Killed and Sew
eral Wounded.
THUGS AS DEPUTIES
REPUBLICANS SWEAR IN GRIM
INALs TO AID THEIR CAUSE.

Denver, Colo, Nov. 6-BefOre bal
lot was cast in Denver today the trou-
BILE between the police department and
the sherih's office. which had been pre-
dicted. had begun. Two men dead and
four seriously wounded was the result
The Dead.
Charles Arlene, coIored; special dep
ut-' sheriff.
Stewart Harvey. colored; deputy
sheriff
The Injured.
Charles F. Carpenter. policeman;
shot in the leg and arm; dangerously
hurt.
Hampson Jackson, colored: special
| deputy sheriff; skull fractured and arm
broken, may die.
Charles Green, special policeman;
| shot in the back, seriously hurt.
/ Richard Hardman, colored; deputy
/ sheriff; shot in the left arm
! Fifteen hundred, special policemen
/ had been sworn in for the day and
! about 1000 special deputy sheriffs. At
! Z o'clock special policemen Charles +.
/ Carpenter and Green were sent to
/ Twenty-second and Larimer streets to
! supervise the opening of the polls in
| district II, precinct 4. Several special
deputies were present. Orders had
been issued by the fire and police board
/ TO refuse to recognize the authority Of
/ the deputies and arrest any who in any
way interfered with the police.
| Under these instructions officer Car
/ penter ordered the deputies to retire
/ to 100 feet from the polls. Hampson
| Jackson. coIored. resisted, end, drawing
/ a revolver, began shooting. One but
/ let struck Carpenters arm and sec
| Ond his foot. Policeman Green came
/ to the rescue of his companion. striking
! Jackson on the head and arm, fractur-
/ ing his skull and breaking his arm.
| The blow broke the heavy oak club the
officer carried.
Detective Opens Fire.
Shooting by the deputies became gen.
! eral, while the special police. who were
/ armed only with clubs, were at a dis
/ advantage. At this moment City De-
/ tective Ed Carbery ran up and opened
/ fire with his revolver, killing Deputy
! Sheriff Allen with the first shot. A
| score of shots were fired by the depu-
/ ties and Detective Carbery and Depu-
/ ties Stewart Harvey and Richard
! Hardman, both colored, were shot, the
/ former in the right shoulder and the
/ latter in the left arm. It is not known
/ whose bullets wounded them. Special
| Policeman Green was shot in the back.
None of these are fatally wounded.
Allen. the man killed. is said by the
/ police to have an unsavory record,
having served time in the penitentiary.
| He is said to have killed a man some
| time ago.
The feeling created by the affair of
| this morning is intense. Yesterday
| Judge Hallet Of the United States dis
| trict court issued an order forbidding
! the United States marshal to appoint
any deputy marshals to serve at the
/ polls. but the charge is made by the
/ police department that d large number
| of deputy sheriffs were sworn in and
| armed at his office.
Criminals Sworn In.
Said Police Commissioner Robert W.
/ Speer today:
-Four hundred negroes, many of
| them with long records for desperate
| deeds, We're sworn in as deputy sher-
ifs in the office of United States Ma
shall Bailey, in the federal building and
| given badges and pistols. The special
officers appointed by our board were
| unarmed, except with clubs, and or
| dered not to use violence except in eX-
IRENE cases.
The trouble is the outgrowth of the
bitter campaign in Denver and the
state, which involved not only the ma
tiOnal and state tickets, but the cleo
ton of a United States senator to sue
coed Senator Wolcott.
| The police department Is controlled
| by the Democrats, and Sheriff Robert
| Jones. who was elected as a Democrat.
/ but who is said now to favor the Re-
publicans. at the request Of the Honest
Election league composed excIusIys-
| " Of Republicans issued d very large
| number of deputy sheriff commissions
to men named by the league.
! Yesterday the board of county COM
/ missioners, in disregard of an order of
Judge Butler of the district court, re-
voked the commissions given by Sheriff
| Jones, and though the court promptly
! took action against the commissioners
for contempt, the fire and police board,
/ acting on the advice of leading attor-
| neys. decided to disregard the authority
Of the deputies.
Deputies Are Arrested.
| Several deputy sheriffs We're arrested
/ by policemen on charges of imperson-
ating an officer and intimdating voters.
The police have also arrested d number
! of voters on the charge of false regis
tration. The Republican watchers
/ challenged many persons Offering TO
| vote who. it is claimed, are wTongfully
reg cred and usually the persons chal-
! len left the polls without voting.
TW special policemen and a special
deputy fired several shots into the
/ Tenth avenue hotel about noon today
| because the proprietor refused to fur
nish them with drinks. No one was
hurt. The officers were locked up.
It was said that Governor Thomas
/ had ordered troop G, Colorado cavalry
! to be in readiness to be called out. and
1 they are now at the armory.
| Governor Thomas denied this When
asked oy whose orders troop c had as
| sembled at the armory, he replied:
| Il know nothing about 1t.