River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-02-28
Is SHOT DURING A RAID.
Wholesale Liquor House at Topeka
the Scene of Violence and
Bloodshed.
MOB DESTROYS A CARLOAD OF LIQUOR.
shotA Fired by Members of Mob and
by the Officers sent TO Maintain
Order-one OF the Raiders Fatally
Shot-Rev. +. w. Emerson Placed
Under Arrest.

/ Topeka, Kan, Feb. 90. w. Adams
lies at the hospital, lowering between
life and death. He was shot during a
raid or< a North Topeka wholesale
liquor house.
At midnight Sunday night crowd
of from 30 to 60 citizens, heavily armed
with revolvers, sledge hammers, crow
bars and battering ram, broke into
the wholesale liquor house of Cash"
| Curtis, on West Curtis street, between
Kansas avenue and jackson street,
and smashed the beer found there.
| Three policemen drove the crowd back.
Both the policemen and the citizens
| fred their revolvers. and j. W. Adams,
carpenter living at SPA West Grant
street was shot twice in the breast.
lie was taken in a hack TO Riverside
hospital, where he lies in precarious
condition.
Preacher Arrested.
| Dr. VI. II. Mitchell and Rev. F. w.
| Emerson were both arrested by the po-
| lice. Rev. Mr.. Emerson was taken to
the police station, where he was
booked under the charge of resisting
an officer. He was allowed to go upon
his own recognizance. DR.. Mitchell
took the injured man to the hospital
| in hack and was allowed to stay and
administer to him without giving
! bond
Claims of Policemen.
The three officers, Patrolmen Down
ey Boyles and Private Waterman Con-
ners, claim that Adams was shot by his
own crowd while he was retreating
from the place where the liquors were
smashed, and Adams says that he was
shot by policeman, but does not know
who. Connors says that his revolver,
Smith & Wesson .3S-caliber, was
knocked from his hand. Officer Down
ey says he did not arrive at the scene
of the trouble until it was about over,
and Officer Boyles, who carries Colts
.44-caliber revolver, claims that the
two shots he fired were in the air and
that he did not aim at anyone. Dr.
Mitchell and DR.. Charles w. Hammond,
who cared for Adams at the hospital,
say that he was shot with .32 or .3S-
caliber revolver One shot took effect
in the center of his chest and the other
in the right shoulder. The bullets did
not come out
Gathering of the Crowd.
The crowd which did the smashing
met on West Curtis street about two
blocks from the joint. The estimates
of the number vary from 30 to 60.
At few moments past IL o'clock
the crowd moved east on Curtis
street TO Jackson street. The whole
sale liquor house is a small frame
building at the rear of the Curtis
home, which faces on Curtis street.
The crowd turned south on jackson
street and crossed the rear of the
lots between the street and the liquor
house.
Log Used for Bnttering Ram.
IN one of the yards by a woodpile
was log a foot thick at the large
end and about ten feet long. half
dozen men seized the log and used
it as a battering ram. The men with
the log rushed at the door and at
the first blow the lock was broken,
the door gave way and the crowd
rushed in. At the first rush the lam
tern which the crowd carried was ex-
tinguished and work was done in the
dark.
The Liquor Destroyed.
Three men stood inside and passed
the cases 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, ma
sons hammers and crowbars. Pa
trolman Boyles and Waterman Con-
nors we're called from the Union
Pacific depot. two blocks away, and
were the first officers there. They
entered the yard from Curtis street
and drove the crowd back. Before
the officers arrived 30 cases and two
kegs Of beer had been smashed and
the debris was scattered over the
yard.
RnIIy Their Forces.
When the officers arrived the crowd
fell back to a ditch near Jackson street
where the leaders succeeded in rally
inc the forces While the crowd was
being driven back 20 or 80 shots were
fired. When the crowd retreated TO
jackson street the officers were near
the building and ADAMS was between
the officers and tho crowd. When he
was shot he fell by pile of wood. Off
Ger Boyles claims that Adams was fac
Ing west and running toward the crowd
hon no xxaS Shpt
When Adams fell the crowd thought
he had ,rippcd ovsr the pile of wood
He did not rise aud several ran 10 his
assistance lie was carried 10 Jackson
street When the crowd found that
| one Of the number had been wounded
and was heing taken 10 hospital the
members quickly dispersed
Two Arrests Made
Officers Boylcs and Downey arrested
DR.. Mitchell and Rev Mr. Emerson.
The patrol wagon was called and Rev
Mr.. Emerson was taken 10 the police
station. When he reached the station
| the officers saw that his left hand was
cut and bleeding. He was booked and
\ at three o'clock was allowed % 70 o his