The age-herald., 1900-11-07
Three Others Were Shot and
 Seriously Wounded
COURTS ORDERS DISREGARDED
Negro Deputies With Bad Records Were Sworn In, But Were Driven Away from the Polls By
 White Policemen

Denver November 6.-Two men dead and four wounded, one of whom will probably die was the result of a clash which oc- cured early today between members of the police force and posse of deputy sheriffs at the polling place at Twenty-second and Larimer streets in the downtown dis trict.
 Allen, a negro deputy sheriff, was shot and instantly killed. and Stewart Harvey, white, policeman, died later.
 Before a ballot was cast the trouble be- tween the police department and the sher- iff's office, which had been predicted had begun, and one man was dead and five se- riously wounded the result
 Fifteen hundred special policemen had been sworn in for the day, and about 1000 special deputies. At o'clock Special Police men Charles F. Carpenter and Green were sent to Twenty-second and Larimer streets to supervise the opening of the polls in district s, precinct 1. Special deputies were present.
 Orders had been issued by the fire and police board to refuse to recognize the au- thority of the deputies, and to arrest any who in any way interfered with the police. Under these instructions Officer Carpenter ordered the deputies to retire 100 feet from the polling place.
 Negro Drew Revolver.
 Hamilton Jackson, colored, resisted, and, drawing a revolver, began shooting. One bullet struck Carpenters arm and second his foot.
 Policeman Green came to the rescue of his companion, 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 a disadvantage. At this moment City Detective Carber ran up and opened fire with his revolver, killing Deputy Sheriff Charles Allen, colored, with the first shot. A score of shots were fired by the deputies and Detective Carber and Special Policeman Stewart Harvey, white, and Richard Hartman, a negro deputy, were shot, the former in the right shoulder and the latter in the left arm. It is not known whose bullets wounded them. Spe- cial Policeman Green was shot in the back None of these are fatally wounded.
 Allen, the man killed, had served time in the penitentiary, and is said to have killed man some time ago. The affair ere ated intense excitement.
 Judge Hallet's Order.
 Yesterday Judge Hallett of the United States District Court issued an order for bidding the United States marshal to ap- point any deputy marshals to serve at the polls, but the charge is made by the police department that deputy sheriffs wert sworn in and armed at his office. Police < Commissioner Robert w. Spoor 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 hadyps and piSl0lS The Snpcial officers pointed by our board were unarmed, except 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 national and state tickets, but the election of a United States Senator to succeed Senator Wolcott.
 The police department is controlled by the Democrats and Sheriff Robert Jones' who was elected as a Democrat, but whc is said now to favor the Republicans, al the request of the Honest Election League (composed, it Is charged, exclusively oi Republicans), has, it Is claimed, issued a large number of deputy sheriff comms sions to men named by the league
 Disregarded Order. Early in the day the board of county com- msisoners in disregard of an order of Judge Butler ot the District Court revoked the commissions given by Sheriff Jones, and although the court took action against the - commissioners for contempt the fire an(