The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-19
Barkeeper Resists and Shotgun
Is Discharged.
A VOLLEY FOLLOWS.
One Of Which Struck the Wo-
man at Threshold.
Raiders Then Dispense Without
Destroying Liquors.
Four Men Under Arrest Charged
With the Killing.

Leavenworth, Feb. 19-AIrs. Rose Hud-
son, wife Of John Hudson. a saloonkeep-
er at Millwood. fourteen miles north of
here. was shot and Instantly killed last
night during a raid upon her husbands
saloon.
Hudson had been warned to close hiss
saloon but refused. Abou. ten o'clociS
three men entered the place and called
for drinks. When served they raped
on the counter and gave a signal Hud-
son jumped from behind the bar ard
grabbed one Of the men. In the scrim-
mage a shotgun which the man carried
was discharged, the contents entering
the wall. Mrs Hudson attracted by the
noise ran screaming into the room. while
a mob Of forty men, most Of whom
wore masks. filed in in answer to the
signal In the melee that followed. Mrs.
Hudson was shot in the head by a shot
gun, the top of her head being blown or.
William Webb one OF the raiders, was
shot in the shoulder by q revolver. Near
ly a hundred shots were fired Hudson
carried his dying wife into an adjoining
room and the mob retired without
wrecking the joint.
Sheriff Everhardy who went to Mill-
wood has secured four prisoners Carl
Thornburg, Geo. Turner and John and
Henry Wilson. Others implicated VIII
be arrested There were no women in
the mob. it being composed Of farmers
all in disguise
The town is In a fervor of excitement
and more trouble is threatened.
The saloon was run by Mrs. Michael
Iochner- She had been warned TO close
the place by Monday. but refused At
10 o'clock last night twenty men. all
armed and wearing handkerchiefs for
masks, approached the saloon. Two or
the number. Joe Turner and John VIII
burn, entered and ordered drinks Bar
tender Hudson had scarcely set the
glasses on the bar when tho men gave q
signal. Immediately the door was burst
open and the masked men rushed into
the place Half a dozen shotguns were
raised to the ceiling and fired, apparently
to warn the salooukeeper that they
meant business, while two men approach
ed Hudson with -levclied guns. Hudson
grabbed the barrels of both for an in
stant, then fell to the fiOof The guns
were discharged as he fell, TIE charge
from one striking the wall ard that from
the second piercing the stove.
Mrs. Hudson rushed to the scene from
the living rooms in the rear and stood ir
the doorway She had barely reached
the spot when a gun was levelled at the
door and discharged. The shot struck
her in the forehead above the eyes, and
she fell morta1ly wounded. Hudson rush
ed to his wife's side to administer 20 her
but she died before ne could carry her 90
another room. During the shooting Viii.
liam Webb one of the raiders. was acci-
dentally shot in the arm and two or
three others We're wounded slightly. a
few more shots were fred but the mob.
alarmed al the kil9SnE of Mrs. Hudson
quickly left the place without stopping
to destroy the liquorA and fixtures.
Anticipating the attack Hudson had
gathered about him ten armed men.
They, however, taken BY surprise. We're
stampeded and this fact ard the ldilings
Of Mrs. Hudson probably prevented a
bloody riot.
The ARRAY lasted but a few minutes
and the details were not learned till this
morning, the raiders having gone quiet
~ to their homes.
The majority of the raiders were said
to be from Easton. a town about four
miles away from Bfillwood- There has
long been bitter feud between the citi-
zens Of the two places and 10 is charged
that the raiders had liquor with them
and were under its influence.
The coroner viewed the body today
and will hold the inquest Wednesday,