The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-14
THE TOWN IN A PANIC.
Murderer Was Known as Crazy
Gilbert Twigg.
Was Wounded by an officer
Then Shot Himself.
A Band Was Playing on the
Public Square.
THE DEAD

STERLING RACE. a. carpenter.
DAWSON TILLOTSON, a barber,
whose brains were blown out.
BOG BOWMAN, a carpenter of OK
ford, Kas.
GILBERT TwIGG. the man who did
the shooting.
THE KNOWN INJURED.
Mrs. John Barnard shot in neck.
James Clarkson, shot in back and
arm.
r. E. Oliver. shot in shoulder and
back.
Clyde Reed, shot in hip.
]. B. Story, shot in chest and knee.
Billy Wilkins, shot in knee.
Charles Thomas, shot in knee
Charles Baird, shot in arm.
Port Smith, shot in head
Elmer Farnsworth. shot in bowels.
Otis Carter, shot in head.
Arthur Hansford. shot in hand.
Bill Conchman, shot in arm.
Bill Moore, shot in arm.
Arley Bourdette, scalp wound.
Claud Wagner, shot in shoulder.
Sam Compton, shot in arm and leg.
Ben Ridgeway, shot in head.
Winfield, Kas., Aug. 14.-Last night at
o'clock while Caman's band was play
ing its weekly concert on the main
street of the town to an audience of
5000 people, Gilbert Twigg, a crazy man.
80 years of age, opened fire on the crowd
with a double barrel shotgun loaded
with buck shot. AS a result four peo-
pie are now dead, three are dying and
no less than twenty are injured, perhaps
five or six fatally.
The band had just finished playing a
waltz when Twigg stepped out from an
alley a half block distant and, deliber-
ately taking aim at the band stand,
fired two shots. r. +. Oliver, the band
master, fell at the first shot, but the
pened, rushed toward the murderer, be-
lieving that there had been an acci-
dental shooting of some kind.
AS the crowd. closed in the crazed man
discharged two more shots at them,
causing a scattering in every direction
With the crowd fleeing, the man stood
in a demoniacal attitude firing at ran
dom in every direction. Men and women
shrieked and ran, but no one seemed
able to stop the carnage until Officer
bullet into his head. Before he expired
the demented man drew revolver from
his pocket and fired shot into his own
body, causing death.
The dead and dying were by this time
scattered all over the street, and the
frightened people believing that the
shooting was coming from every quar-
ter it was half hour before they re-
allied what had happened and recover
ed sufficiently to take care of the in
jured. 1t was a horrible scene Of death
and dying that met their eyes.
Gilbert Twigg was a miller by trade,
having learned MS trade IWeiNe years
ago at a little town fifteen miles north
of this city. He came to Winfield short
ly afterwards and became an employe
of the Baden mills. where he worked
for number of years. The boys around
town commonly referred to him as
CRAZY" Twigg. but no one thought him
dangerous Later he went to New
Mexico and worked, returning In time
to enlist as a soldier for the Philippines
after the first outbreak of the Spanish
American war He came back here att
er being mustered out and loafed ABOUT
town a number of months. finally going
TO Montana. but returning a few days
ago. He had while in Montana ap-
piled for job at the Baden mills. but
the mills would not nave MIN on ac ~.
count of his seemingly demented condi-
tion. For the last few days he has been
loafing about town and during the AFT
ernoon was seen at one of the parks
carving the same shotgun with wnlcn
he did the killing His parents are poor
people living in this city.