The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-21
SHOT A MANIAC.
Alvin Wall TerrOrizes Neighbor-
hood West Of Topeka.
Drives the Family of N. Lloyd
Through a COrnfieId.
FLED FOR THEIR LIVES
Took Refuge at the Home Of
Hugh MOreIand.
Armed With a Shotgun More
land Stood Guard.
WALL WOULD NOT STOP
s'I'll Kill You AL" He Shouted,
Advancing.
MOreland Then Fired, and the
Assailant Fell.
Though Fatally Wounded, Wall
Continued to Fight.
Armed With a Shotgun More
land Stood Guard.
WOULD NOT STOP
'I'II Kill You ALL" He Shouted,
Advancing.
MOreland Then Fired, and the
Assailant Fell.
Though Fatally Wounded, Wall
Continued TO Fight.

Alvin Wall. a raving maniac, was
shot and fatally wounded at 6 O'Clock
this morning by Hugh Moreland, five
miles west of Topeka on the Dover
road.
The farmers had spent a night Of ter
ror in fear of Wall. who attempted to
kill by choking his victims TO death.
and then armed with heavy iron
pump handle, he drove the family OF
M. Lloyd to shelter in the home Of
Moreland and only stopped his mad
career when mortally wounded by
charge from a shot gun. He now lies
handcuffed and strapped to a bed at
Stormont hospital His body from the
neck to his hips is riddled with shot
and the chances Of his recovery are
slight.
Wall had been working in the neigh
borhood and started on his mad tour
early last evening. He was at the home
of the Lloyds, who occupy the old Ben
nett farm. Early in the evening he
acted strangely and frightened th-
family. He was quieted and induced to
go to bed. At o'clock this n ornins
he awakened Mr. Lloyd's oldest son
and asked him for some smoking to-
bacco. Wall was naked Lloyd told
him he had no tobacco
Wall became snraged- He threw HIM
and grabbed his throat. The noise Of
the struggle awakened the elder Lloyd
who rushed to his sons rescue Wall
was tightening his grip in an effort %
strangle young Lloyd. The father
broke the grasp Of the maniac and
then Wall turned on him.
From 3 o'clock until wall was shot
at the Lloyd family lived ia mortal
terror. After a struggle with the mani
az the elder Lloyd escaped from him
and awakened the entire family. Wall
returned to his room and partly
dressed. He then started through the
house yelling: III kill you all. --- .
III kill you"
The Lloyd family fled from the house
clad only in their night clothes and
took refuge in the yard. Wall. finding
no one in the house. rushed to the yard ;
and found the family huddled together.
TN murder you, -- you all. DE
shouted.
He ran for the group of frightened
men and women. They scattered be-
fore him and fed to a nearby corn fel1.
Wall followed them. He chased the
family through the corn field and then
returned to the farm yard and broke
the iron handle from pump.
Armed with the deadly weapon Wall
ran back to the corn field The Lloyd
family had escaped through the deld
to the home of Hugh Moreland. a quar-
ter of mile away and a messenger
had been dispatched TO the nearest tel
ephone to notify the sherifs Office of
the trouble
Not finding the Lloyd family in the
corn field Wall started for the More
land house Moreland saw him coming
and taking his shotgun he went to the
front porch to meet him.
'-Tu murder you all" shouted Wall as
he neared the house. He was brandish-
ing the pump handle and shouting and
swearing.
IF you try to enter this house I win
shoot" said Moreland.
'4I'u kill you ALL" shouted Wall and
he continued to advance.
stop" commanded MOreland.
Wall continued with his weapon raised
to strike Moreland When Wall was
within 20 feet of the house MOreland
fired Wall staggered but tried to keep
his feet and reach the house. Just as
shot had struck him in the abdomen
and chest.
Under Sheriff williams and Jailer
Lawson had been notified and reached
the Moreland house a few minutes af-
ter Wall was shot. An ambulance was
called from town and Wall was taken
to Stormont hospital Although prob
ably mortally wounded the maniac con
tinued to fight and resist and the off,
GERS had to hold him on the stretcher in
the ambulance.
At the hospital Wall fought with the
physicians and nurses He had to be
handcuffed and strapped to the bed.
WALL IS MOVED.
Alvin Wall, the insane man who was
shot by Hugh Moreland. was removed
from Stormont hospital to the county
Jail.
Wall was so violent that ne could not
be kept at the hospital and had to be
taken, handcuffed and shackled to the
county jail and placed in the hospital
cell. He will be removed to Bedweils
asylum east Of town. Wall has been an
inmate of the Topeka insane asylum
and an asylum In Indiana