The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-01
POLICEMAN MURDERED Hugh McKeon Shot While Making a Raid at No.
 12 PrindIe Alley.
THE MURDERER CAPTURED
BY P4TROLMAN LEDWITH IN I'll F
 FREIGHT YARDS.

He Is Andrea LaudanO, an Ataha"
 Boarding House Keeper-Ho Had
 Shaved Off His Mustache, Changed His
 Clothes. and Provided Himself With
 Money to Make Ills Esoape-The
 Shooting Occurred at nIidnight-Pa-
 troIman Tu-bert Badly Injured In the
 MeIee-Three Shots Struck McKeon.
 Hugh McKeon, patrolman in the central precinct, was shot and killed about midnight last night at No. 12 Prindle alley and Patrolman Edward J.. Turbert was severely but not fatally In tured, the assailant in each case being Andrea Laudano, keeper of boarding house at No. 12 Prindle alley which bears an unsavory reputation.
 The locality is one of the most squalid quarters of the city, and police raids there are frequent. Last night just be- fore midnight Patrolmen McKeon and Turbert saw on Prindle alley woman named Nellie Slater in mems attire. She has been arrested previously for drunk enness and other minor offenses. The two policemen saw her enter the house at No 12 Prindle alley and followed after to arrest her. They stepped up to the door and knocked, but it was not opened. McKeon then threw himself against the door and burst it in. He stepped into the hallway, which was dimIy lit, and was closely followed by Turbert
 McKeon had advanced but two or three steps into the hallway, when man, who, according to information later obtained, was thought to be An- drea Laudano, stepped into the hall and fired two shots. After the second shot McKeon sank to the floor of the hall. Turbert, who was just behind him, jumped forward to grapple with the man with the revolver, and as he did so he received a blow on the head, it is thought from 8 clubbed revolver, which knocked him down and for few moments dazed him.
 Turbert soon recovered himself, and in a somewhat bewildered condition from the blow on the head he arose and groped for his assailant. In the mean time the light in the hall had been blown out, probably by the samming of the doors. and the man who had fred the shot and struck Turbert was gone.
 Turbert found his brother policeman groaning on the floor and carried him out to the sidewalk and laid him down there. No other policemen were pres- ent. and there was no one on the street. Turbert. immediately after placing Me- Keon on the sidewalk, started for as- sistance. He ran out Prindle alley to wooster street blowing his alarm whistle and soon collected sever al po- licemen from neighboring beats. Coun- cilman Frank Pauly happened to be on +he corner of Wooster and Union streets and was one of the first to hear the alarm whistle. He learned from Tur- Inert that a policeman had been shot, and he ran over to the Western Union telegraph office on Chapel street, from which place he telephoned for the po- lice wagon and hurriedly informed Ser reant Cook at police headquarters of what had happened.
 The patrol wagon was hurried to the scene of the shooting and in it McKeon was taken to the hospital. He lay on the sidewalk several minutes before the wagon arrived and received no medical attendance until he arrived at the hos pital, when it was too late.
 In the meantime Turbert, who had been struck on the left side of the head and received a bad scalp wound, went to the Globe hotel, at the corner ot Union and Wooster streets, where the wound was washed and bandaged. He was later attended at police headquar- ters by Police Surgeon Lambert.
 About 1:3O this morning it was learn ed that an Italian answering the de- scription of Laudano called at the office of Dr, Nadler on Olive street to have Q
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