The sun., 1901-02-26
|SHOT TN 4 TOPEKA RAID
Attack On Liquor House Results In
a Fatal Aflray.
MINISTER UNDER ARREST.
Mrs. Nation, Released From the
County jail ON Bonds, starts at
Once to Assume Editorial
Duties In Peoria, Ills.

Topeka, Feb. ga crowd or IRON.
30 to 60 citizens, armed with reyolvers,
sledge hammers, crowbars and d bat
tering ram, broke into the wholesale
liquor house of Cash" Curtis. on West
Curtis street between Kansas avenue
and Jackson street, and destroyed the
beer found there. Three policemen
drove the crowd back. Bc-h the po-
licemen and the citizens fired revolvers,
and j. w. Adams, carpenter. was
shot twice in the breast He was tax
en- in a hack to Riverside hospital,
where he lies in precarious condition.
DR.. NJ. X. Mitchell and Rev. +. w.
Emerson were both arrested by the
police. Rev. Mr.. Emerson was taken
to the police station. where he was
booked under the charge of resisting
an officer. He was allowed to so upon
his own recognizance.
Dr. Mitchell took Adams to the hos
| pital and was allowed to stay and ad-
minister to him without giving bond.
The three ofiicers-P -Patrolmen Downey,
Boyles and Private Watchman Connors
claim Adams was shot by his own
! crowd while he was retreating from
/ the point of attack. Adams declares,
however, that he was shot by po'
liceman. Officer Connors says his re-
volver. a 3S caliber affair, was knocked
from his hand. officer Downey says
lie did not arrive on the scene until the
trouble was about over and Officer
Boyles, who carried a A caliber revol-
yer, claims the two shots he fired We're
aimed upward.
DR.. Mitchell and Dr. Charles W..
Hammond, who cared for Adams at
the hospital, say he was shot with a
80 caliber revolver One shot took eff
feet In the center of his chest and the
other in the right shoulder. The bull
let's did not come out.
The Story of the Raid.
The crowd which did the smashing
met in West Curtis street about tive
blocks from the joint. The wholesale
liuuor house is small frame building
After forcing an entrance three meI
stood inside and passed the cases ant
kegs of beer to the men in the doorway
who threw them into the yard to bt
smashed. The crowd used heay!
sledges, axes. masons' hammers ant
crowbars The owners Of the bee
made no resistance.
Patrolman Royles and Watchmal
/. Connors were called from the Uniol
Pacific depot. two blocks away, ant
were the first officers there. They en-
tered the yard and drove the GROVE
back. Before the officers arrived 9
cases and two kegs of beer had beel
smashed. The crowd fell back slowl,
, to a ditch near Jackson street, wher
; the leaders succeeded in rallying thei
5 forces.
! While the crowd was being drive
2 back 20 or 80 shots were fired. Whe
the crowd learned that one Of its men
e hers had been wounded, it quickly dis
persed.
/ Mrs. Nation has been released froI
+ the county Jail on bond. She at one
0 left for Peoria, Ills, to act as editor G
G the Peoria Journal for one day.
t !. r. McAfee of this city furnishe
Il bonds for Mrs. Nations temperance
e A dispatch from Chicago says this
Riley White, Mrs. Carrie Nation
Il grandson. who for several years hi
= been a conspicuous figure in the levt
+ district as the keeper of one of Il
II places on State street has exchange
|, his bar apron for a hatchet and h;
gone to Topeka to join the train of Ii
IS grandmother.