The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-07
Co1ored Man Killed, Two Others
Wounded and Three PatroImen
Shot, One Fatally.
RIVAL FORCES SWORN IN
TROUBLE DUE TO EFFORTS OF FU-
sIONIsTs TO CONTROL ELECTION.
Polling Booth at Wilmington, Del
Destroyea-Sman Riot in Fourth
Ward, Philadelphia.

DENVER, Col, Nov. 6,-Two men dead
ard four wounded. one Of whom will prob
ably die, was the result of clash which
occurred early to-day between members OF
the police force and posse of deputy
sheriffs at the polling place at Twenty
second and Larimer streets. in the down.
town district. Allen, negro deputy sher-
if, was shot and instantly killed, and Stew
art Harvey. white. policeman. died late
in the afternoon at a hospital.
The Dead
CHARLES ALLEN, colored. special depu-
ty sheriff.
The Wounded
CHARLES F. CARPENTER, policeman.
shot in the leg and arm; dangerously nurt
HAMPSON JACKSON, colored. special
deputy sheriff. skull fractured and arm
CHARLES GREEN. special policeman.
shot i'm the back; seriously hurt.
STEWART HARVEY, special policeman,
shot in the shoulder.
RICHARD HARTMAN, colored, deputy
sheriff, shot in the left arm.
Fifteen hundred special policemen had
been sworn in for the day and about one
thousand special deputies. At O'Clock
Special Policemen Charles f. Carpenter and
Green were sent to Twenty-second and
Larimer streets to supervise the voting
polls in District II. Precinct f. 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 to arrest any who in any way
interfered with the police. Under these in
structicns officer Carpenter ordered the
deputies to retire one hundred feet from
the polling place. Hampton Jackson. col
cred. resisted. and, drawing a revolver.
began shooting. One bullet struck Carpen.
ters arm and a second his foot Police
man Green came TO the rescue Of his COM
panion, striking Jackson on the head and
arm, fracturing his skull and breaking his
arm. The blow broke the oak club the
officer carried Shooting by the deputies
became general, while the special police.
who were armed only with clubs, were at
q disadvantage.
AT this moment City Detective Ed CARRIER
ry ran up and opened fire with his revolt
yer. killing Deputy Sheriff Charles AL
len, colored, with the first shot. A
score of shots were fired by the depu-
ties and Detective Carberry and Po-
liceman Harvey and Deputy Hartman, COL
Cred were shot, the former in the right
shoulder and the latter in the left arm. 1t
is not known whose bullets wounded them.
Special Policeman Green was shot in the
back. None of these are fatally wounded.
Branford. the man killed, had served time
in the penitentiary and is said to have
created by the affair is intense.
Yesterday Judge Hallett, of the United
States District Court, issued an order for
bidding the United States marshal to APP
point any deputy marShalS to serve at the
polls, but the charge is made by the police
department that deputy sheriffs were
l.
Commissioner Robert w. Spor said to-day:
-Four hundred negroes, many of them with
long records for desperate deeds were
sworn in as deputy sheriffs in the office
of United States Marshal Bailey, and given
badges and pistols. The special officers
appointed by our board were unarmed, ex-
cept with clubs, and ordered not to use
violence except in extreme cases."
The trouble comes as the outgrowth of
the bitter campaign in Denver and the
State, which involves not only the nation
a. and State tickets, but the election of a
United States senator to succeed Senator
Wolcott. The police department is con-
trGsed by the Democrats, and
Sheriff Robert Jones. who was elect
now to favor the Republicans. at the re-
quest of the Honest Election League (com-
posed, it is charged. exclusively of Repub-
licans) has, it is claimed. issued q large
number of deputy sheriffs' commissions TO
men named by the league.
Yesterday the board of County Commits
sioners, in disregard of an order of Judge
Butler, of the District Court, evoked the
commissions given by Sheriff Jones. and.
although the court took action against the
commissioners for contempt, the fire and
police board, acting on the advice of lead
ing attorneys, decided to disregard the au-
thority of the deputies.
Although Troop G, Colorado National
Guard, assembled early at the armory and
remained under arms throughout the day,
and ii was understood TO have been the
order of Governor Thomas, the Governor
this afternoon positively denied HAVING
issued such orders, and the officers of the
troop refused 10 say by whose orders they
were assembled.
Ex-Mayor T. S. McMurray, chairman of
the Honest Election League, this evening
offered a reward of 5000 for the arrest and
conviction of the men who killed Charles
Allen.