The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-07
HIS LAST VOYAGE
FRED OLSEN DEAD AT ST.
JosEPH's HOSPITAL.
OFFICERS SHOT FATAL
SAILOR WAS NOT CONSCIOUS AF-
TER HE WAS WOUNDED.

shot at the Base of the Heart While
Resisting Arrest-Had Knocked
the Omcer Down Twice After
Wrenching His Club Away--IntOx-
icatcd, Olsen Was Returning TO
His Vessel with a Drunken Off,
Ger, and Objected to Being Taken
in Custody-Patrolman DoOley
was walking His Division when
Olsen Died, and Was Taken From
His Precinct.
Fred Olsen, the Norwegian seaman
from the steamship Iberia, of the Fruit
| Dispatch Companys line, died at St.
Joseph's Hospital last night from
bullet shot by Patrolman r. F. Dooley,
| at Bay and Houston streets, early
| Thursday morning. Patrolman Doc
ley Vas walking his division on Bay
street when Olsen died, and was called
in by Desk Sergeant Baughn.
Dooley was not locked up, but will
remain around headquarters until the
coroner's jury hears his story and re-
turns verdict justifying him in shoot
ing Olsen. The sailor was shot at
the base of the heart with a SO calber
Smith & Wesson pistol. 1t was known
from the first that he could not re-
cover. The attending physicians tried
vain te-feeate- the 5sll!ety which
ranged downward.
1t is probable that Coroner Keller
will hold an inquest this morning, and
the patrolman will be asked to make
a statement. There were no witnesses
to the shooting who can remember
what occurred, and the. verdict of the
jury will be based upon the statement
that the officer will make. Richard
! Michaelson, an officer on the Iberia,
was with Olsen and aided in the as
sault upon the patrolman. Michael
! son was drunk and cannot remember
what happened.
Olsen and Michaelson were return
| ing from an East Side dive and were
| intoxicated. They were noisy and
cursing when the attention of Dooley
was attracted, and the officer warned
the men to desist. They continued
cursing and Dooley placed them I'M
| der arrest. The sailors were husky
chaps, while Dooley is a small man.
| They began a fight against being
taken to the station house and Dooley
| drew. his club.
The officers stick was no sooner out
than it was wrenched from his grasp
by Olsen. Not content with simply dis
arming the patrolman, Olsen cracked
| him across the head and knocked him
down. AS the officer was getting up he
was felled a second time by Olsen.
Dooley managed to get his revolver out
of his holster and fired one shot at
close range. Olsen dropped to the
ground mortally wounded, and Mich
aelson disappeared in the darkness
The wounded sailor was taken to the
police operating room and then to St.
Jcseph's 1nfirmary. The officer was
called in from his division and remain
ed at headquarters until yesterday,
when under instructions from Superin-
tendent Reilly he was permitted to go
home.
Olsen was too drunk to recall what
had happened and no ante mortem
statement was obtained. Michaelson,
who in his drunken condition, .drifted
| into police headquarters looking for
his hat, stated that he had no doubt
that the trouble occurred as related
by the officer, but that he could not
recall a single incident Of the ARRAY.
| MlCndelSOn was IlneQ go RECORDER
| Myrick for resisting the officer and
later In the City Court was assessed
$25 and costs by Judge Norwood for
carrying concealed weapons. Michael
son paid both fines and left on the
Iberia Thursday feeling that, consider
ing his companion had been mortally
wounded, his nights lark was not all
together an expensive one.
Patrolman Dooley greatly deplores
the killing. but acted in defense OF
his life. One of his assailants was
armed with a revolver and brass
knucks, while the other. who commit
ted the actual assault, had a formida-
BILE weapon in the shape of the heavy
club. Dooley was appointed a mem
Der of the force on July =, 1900, and is
considered brave officer. Bay street
from the East. Side to the West Side is
a division that is not altogether or
derby during the late hours of night
and ii was this street that Dooley had
been assigned to patrol After mid
night the officer encountered few 9th.
ers than drunken sailors returning tC
their vessels from some of the Eas
Side dives.
Usually they are not in a very amla.
, bic mood, and mean whisky. and glim
mering recollections of dusky women
who have caused them to spend thj
money they made before the mast
: make them ready for a fight. whether
IL be with a patroman or a citizen
, These were the characters encounter
ed by Dooley night after night. anC
, he realized that unless he shot Olsei
he would probably be killed himself
and his murder would go unavenged
Until Dooley took up Bay street, as hi
division, Emmett Park was a favorit
. mapping ground for members of tn
rougher element The police blotte
i, shows that many arrests We're made II
! Emmett Park by Dooley. and that aft
: er several weeks of hard work H.
: managed to clean It of loafers ant
loungers.