The age-herald., 1901-02-26
Shot in an Attack on Curtis
 Wholesale Liquor House
TIE PLACE WAS DESTROYED
A Minister and a Doctor Lead the MGb--PoIice Tried to Protect the Property-Who Fired
 the Shot?

| Tcpeka Kas., February 25.-As the re.
 cult of a raid on the Curtis whole sale
 liquor house by mob last night. J. A
 Adams, a carpenter. lies at the hospita
 in . precarious condition from a pistol
 DaOt wound, and will probably die
 pr. J. E. Mitchell and Rev r. w. Elm
 oTUon are both under arrest as leaders of the mob, and the liquor house is all most a wreck.
 At midnight crowd, numbering about siRty citizens heavily armed with revol yers, sledge hammers, crowbars and a eattering ram and with faces masked broke into the wholesale liquor house of Cash Curtis on West Curtis street, be- tween Kansas avenue and Jackson street, and began destroying the stock of liquor. Three policemen drove the crowd back firing their revolvers into the air to frighten the mob. Several members of the mob also fired revolvers, and J. A. Adams. carpenter, received two bullets In his breast and sank to the ground unconscious. He was taken in a hack to Riverside hospital, where he lies in a precarious condition.
 Dr. Mitchell and Rev. F. M. Emerson were both arrested by the police. Rev MT. Emerson was taken to the police station, where he was booked under th eharse or resisting an officer. He was allowed to go upon his own reeognizance Dr. Mitchell accompanied the wounded man to the hospital, and was allowed to say and administer to him without giving bond
 The three officers claim that Adams was shot by his own crowd while re- treating from the store. At the hospital Adams regained consciousness and as- serted that he was shot by one of the policemen. Officer Connors says that his revolver 3S-caliber was knocked from his hand.
 Chief of Police Stahl said today:
 This raid was a complete surprise We had no idea that it was going to take place..
 Officer Downey says he did not arrive at the scene of the trouble until it was about over, and Officer Boyles, who car ries Colts 44-caliber claims that he shot but twice, pointing his weapon up- ward.
 Officer Connors' story corroborates the story of Officer Boyles
 When l got into the yard Emerson drew a revolver on me-" said Connors When l tried to take it away from him We clinched and fell and could not get up. During the fuss some one hit me with club. Emerson got away from me and Broyles got him. Adams was be- tween the crowd and the building and thirty feet from the building, running toward the crowd when he was shot Emerson stood on little bank of dirt and called upon the crowd to rally. He stood there and fired his revolver. My revolver was knocked from my hand and l did not fire it."
 Dr. Mitchell, who is under arrest, was seen at the hospital where he Is caring for the wounded man, Adams. He ap- peared very reticent and said:
 "The least said about it the better"
 "They were loading the liquor all even- ing said Dr. Mitchell. We followed the wagon that they were hauling it in from the Union Pacific tracks"
 Dr. Mitchell had little to say about the smashing.
 When the officers came" continued pr Mitchell, number of shots were fired. do not know who fired first. Both the crowd and the officers fred
 Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Hammond, who cared for Adams at the hospital, say he was hot with a g or 3S calibre revolver The bullets have not yet been extra acted
 The crowd which did the smashing met on West Curtis street, about two blocks from the liquor house.
 A few moments after midnight the crowd marched quietly to the liquor store, which is a small frame building. Half a dozen men carried a log about ten feet long, to be used as a batterng ram. With 1t the door was burst open and the crowd rushed in. The lantern which the crowd carried was eXtlnguished and the work was done in the dark. Three men stood inside and passed the bottles and kegs of beer to the men in the doorway. who threw them into the yard to be smashed.
 The crowd used heavy sledges, axes and crowbars. The owners of the beer made no resistance, but summoned Officers Boyles, O'Connor and Downey from the Union Pacific depot two blocks away.
 Before the officers arrived thirty cases and two kegs of beer had been smashed, and the debris was scattered over the yard.
 When the officers arrived the crowd fell back to a ditch near Jackson street, where the leaders succeeded in rallying the forces. While the crowd was being driven back twenty or thirty shots were fired, and during the fusillade Adams fell and made no effort to rise.
 Several ran to his assistance, an upon finding he had been shot the crowd quick ly dispersed. Dr. Mitchell and Rev. Elm erS0n, who were StoOplng over the wounded man, were placed under arrest pr. Mitchell was permitted to accompany Adams to the hospital. but Rev. Emerson was taken to the police station where 1t was found his hand had been badly cut The injury was bandaged, he was booked and later was aloWe to go home.
 When the crowd had left the broken cases and the smashed Der bottles were carried into the building and man stood guard over the buiiu.ng with shotgun Mrs. Nation Goes to Peoria.
 Topeka, Kas., February 25.-Mrs. Ma tion was released from the county jail at l II o'clock last night and at 5 o'clock | this morning left for Peoria to edit the | Peoria Journal for one day, for which | she is to be paid $15O.
 | J. B. McAfee. of this city, is Mrs. Ma | tion's bondsman.
 The Rev Dr. Farland, pastor of the First M F. church also signed her bond Mrs. Nation has received several ur- | gent telegrams requesting her to come | to Peoria and her determination not to give bond could not hold out against the requests and SO the last of the crusaders | is out of jail.
 Before she left here Mrs. Nation heard about the joint smashing. Her only com ment was Praise God"
 Mrs. Nation was accompanied by Rev MT. Russell, temperance orator from Onto