The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-07
KILLED IN FIGHT.
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the autopsy proved to be correct. Di-
rectly after the fight, while Officers Aye
and Voiles were looking for Devlin, he
| came up town to Keith & Hazen's drug
| store, and exhibited a bruise on the
| back of his head, which the night clerk
| dressed for him. Devlin was badly in
| toxicated at the time, and he did not
| tell the clerk how he received the
| bruise, which had broken the scalp, and
| bled freely.
He left the drug store and was going
down Fourth street when the officers
who had been taken Heery home and
We're looking for Devlin, picked him up
near the corner of Fourth and Madison
streets and called the patrol wagon.
Heery was thought to be seriously in
jured, but Devlin was not charged with
assault with intent to kill, but drunk
and disorderly conduct. An officer call
ed at Heery'S home this morning and
found that the young man was not SER
iously injured. The wound in the left
side of the abdomen had not pierced the
intestines. He will recover
HEERY TALKS ABOUT THE TROU-
BILE
When seen by a reporter at his home
this morning, Heery was resting easily
and said he thought that he would be
out the first part of next week. Regard
ing the trouble of last night he said:
"A crowd of four or five of us was
standing at the corner of Fourth and
Jefferson about ten o'clock. We were
'jollying' each other and finally got to
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words about something and he came at
me with knife. I hit him somewhere
in the face, l guess, and knocked him
down. He got up right away, came at
me again with his knife and stuck it
into me. He then went on UP the street,
The something over which the two
men quarreled could not be drawn out
of Heery, but he says there never had
been any trouble between them before
q had not been drinking much" he
said, only four or five glasses of beer.
Devlin had been drinking all day"
Drs. Hogeboom and Buckmaster held
an autopsy this morning at 10 o'clock
at the undertaking rooms of M. Hogan.
and discovered that a blood clot had
formed on Devlin's brain as the result
of blow on the head. This put Diff
ferent light on the matter, and Sergeant
Owens and a squad of officers at o:,ce
started on investigation to try to dis
cover who participated in the fight be-
side Luke Heery.
Devlin'S father, James II. Devlin, a
well known Santa Fe man. who was
formerly an engineer, but has been I'M
able to follow the business for some
time owing to injuries received in ser
vice, was present when the autoTsy
was held this morning, but knew moth
ing about the case. He says that the
story of the police to the effect that his
son was drunk when he received his
death blow. is not true. He has not
been drinking for the past two weeks.
He took the pledge a week ago last
Thursday, and has not touched drop
since.
Mr. Devlin is also sure that his son
did not take poison.
WHAT OFFICERS SAY.
L. Diment, who lives at 200 Quincy
street. reported to Chief Donovan that
a policeman has showed a man through
the window of his place of business on
Fourth street between Madison and
Monroe, not far from the scene of the
fight. Little can be learned about this
feature, but it does not look probable
that Devlin was killed by a policeman,
as he had only one bruise on his head,
and had been to the Keith & Hazen
drug store to have it dressed, and was
back in the vicinity of the fight when
arrested by Officers Avs and Voiles. He
was carrying two open knives, one IN
each hand, as if looking for further
trouble when captured, and the officers
had some trouble in disarming him, but
known. The front of Devlins shirt was
saturated with blood when he arrived
at the police station, but he showed
no signs of any injury, and abused the
Officers when searched and locked up.
There was much blood on his clothes,
but little on his head and face, which
showed that his head had been washed
before his arrest.
Sergeant Jenkins went down to the
place where Devlin was arrested, and
saw him standing on the corner, He
went into the. restaurant where Officers
Voiles and Aye were, and told them TO
go out and arrest him.
Il saw them approach him and a
slight scuff1e followed, in which they
disarmed him. says Sergeant Jenkins,
but 1 saw no blow struck by any one,
and it was more of tussle He was
too drunk to be very dangerous, even
armed as he was. Voiles held one of his |
hands while We We're waiting for the
patrol wagon. He was very abusive, |
but confined himself to words. and
made little resistance. Aye and myself |
rode up in the wagon with him, and he
continued to abuse us. but did not at |
tempt to get away
Officer VoileS, who is on the night |
force, went home early this morning, |
and knew nothing of the death of Dew |
lin until he was sent for by the chief |
today at noon
officer Voiies said: 81 did not strike |
Devln, and my club was in my belt all |
the time was near him. 1 put my club |
away when 1 started after him, as 1 |
wanted the use of both hands to dis |
arm him.
The fight in which both men were in |
jured occurred in Roy Daniels Joint al |
of the Hicks building. 1t seems that |
Devlin was knocked down in the joint /
by Heery. who used a beer mallet, or |
bung-starter, and that DeVlin got up /
and stabbed him.
Two pools of blood We're found on the |
floor by officer Voiles after the fight, |
and was told that it was the blood of |
Devlin and not Heery-
ROY DANIELS ARRESTED.
Roy Daniels was arrested by the |
police this afternoon on the charge of |
killing Frank ]. Devlin. Daniels owned |
the joint in which the fight between |
Heery and Devlin occurred. Daniels it |
is claimed elected Heery and Devlin |
from his joint and they went back and |
renewed the fight and this time he |
struck Devlin on the head with an iron |
bound wooden mallet-
Daniels, it is claimed went with Dew /
lin to the drug store where he had his |
head dressed and offered to send him |
home in a hack.