The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-11-27
Screams of a Girl Result in a Serious
Shooting Scrape on Durkee Ave-
nue. Wednesday Night
LOVERS QUARREL MAKES TROUBLE
William Scully Arrested on a Charge of
Assault-Pursuers Fire at Norman L.
Baker and Baker Returns Fire

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Scully and Miss Ella Soneral on South
Exchange street Wednesday evening,
precipitated riot in WHICH shots were
freely fired, and the young men who
came to the assistance of suffering
womankind narrowly escaped placing
the crime Of murder over their heads.
In the melee of the evening Superin-
tendent of Schools Norman L. Baker,
engaged in pistol duel wifi one of
the rioters and narrowly escaped being
shot to death in his own door yard.
The events leading up to it and the
fight form one of the most exciting in
cidents ever seen in Kenosha. AS a
result of the whole thing VIM. Scu1ly,
well known young man of the city,
was placed under arrest this morning
by Officer O'Hare and the District At
torney is planning to bring charges
against him. The nature of the
charges has not as yet been made pub
lie. The shooting was the most ex-
citing incident of many day in the
quiet confines of Durkee avenue and
South Exchange street.
The lights in the houses had just
been turned low and the people had
just retired for the night when three
pistol shots rang out clear and sharp
on the frosty November air. Like an
electric spark the shots aroused the
people of the neighborhood and before
the real war of pistol shots began the
street was well filed with people and
the whole crowd was joining in the
search for the supposed criminal.
The story as related by the girl and
the man who seem to have been the
principals is most exciting one. The
two had attended the skating rink and
Scu1ly had started to escort Miss Son
eral to her home on Park avenue. The
two had walked down Exchange street
and according to the story told by the
girl the young man became entirely
too affectionate. At this stage of the
roceedings the girl began to shout
for help, and three men who were
walking along the street jumped over
the fence and came to her aid.
With vile name the men started to
go for Scully, and the latter fearing
that he was to be assaulted, reached
for his pocket as if to draw revolver,
and then deciding that discretion was
the better part of valor he left the
young woman to the mercy of her new
found friends and started to run across
lots toward the lake. In the meantime
one of the men who had gone to the
rescue, had drawn q revolver and when
Scully ran he began firing, and three
shots were fred in rapid succession.
The shots went wide of the mark
and Scully, now thoroughly frightened
continued to run. AS he passed through
the Baker yard Superintendent Baker
saw him, and supposing some one had
committed crime, he shouted to the
boy to halt But halt was word not
known in the voca bulary of Scul1y and
he kept steadfast1y on with his eyes to
the east. The firing behind him had
placed him on his metal and while the
shots went so wild that one of them
entered the home of Alderman T. J.
Dale, Scully did no. stop to make an
examination of the hole made by the
bullet, but kept on.
In the meantime the rescuing party
had followed in his wake, and Super
intendent Baker had seized his re-
volver and had gone down into the
yard in front of the house TO assist in
the chase. AS he was walking to the
front of the yard the first of the rescu-
ing party dashed by him. Baker took
the man by surprise and when he de-
manded that the fellow stop and ex-
plain, the man thinking that Baker
was the object of the search, raised his
revolver and began firing.
AT the time the first shot was fired
the man was within a few feet Of Mr..
Baker, and the bullet whizzed by the
Superintendent ear while the powder
from the shot burned his face. Baker
thought that the duel was on, and
wheeling where he stood he began the
fusilade which was promptly returned
by the other man. Before the ex-
plantations were made each man had
fred two shots, but by some strange
act of providence neither of the men
had been hit. This ended the shoot
ing.
In the meantime a great crowd of
people had gathered and all took part
in the search for Scully, who during
the pistol battle had managed to skirt
the east end of the city and had reached
Main street. He eluded the search by
the officers and made his way to
barn, where it is alleged he spent the
earlier hours of the night. Early in
the morning he went to his home and
Sergeant O'Hare, who had never once
given up the search for him, saw him
through the window and placed him
IN der arrest and took him to the police
station.
When he reached the station Scu11y
declared that he had not been guilty of
any wrong doing and that his only
reason for running was that he did not
desire to spend the night in Jail.
The chase caused the widest excite
ment nd for hours after Cc,.ff~ g..d