The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
OUT TO SHED BLOOD
Edward Clark Succeeds Fairly Well
by Manning Three Last
Night.
He Creates a Commotion Down Town
and Is Finally Wounded
Himself.

Edward Clark is a puzzle. The police
say he wasn't particularly drunk and the
physicians say he is not particularly in
sane And yet for a strenuous half hour
last night Clark was engaged in the merry
pastime of shooting UP the town. After
emptying his revolver twice he had these
casualties to his credit: ,s.--e
Lieutenant George REVERE, central station
flesh wound in right arm. .-s-...,.,,
Marcus Nelson, motorman, shot in head and
James W. Williams, co1ored shot In leg. 7ea
And Clark himself had been hit by a.
glancing shot in the head and had been
taken to the city hospital. To-day he
says simply that he doesn't know why he
did it. .se ,
The police believe that there is a
woman in the case. Clark admitted this
morning that he was out last night with
a North Side woman named Clara" but
would say nothing further He would
answer questions only with monosylla bic
grunts. -.-.
. Clark came here a few days ago from
Eau Claire. Last night at II 80 he stood
in the pouring rain at Third street and
Hennep1n avenue. A Fourth avenue car,
IN charge of Motorman Marcus Nelson,
1887 Fourth avenues, and Conductor John
Skoog, had just pulled UP to Hennepin
avenue. Nelson got out of the car and
went to the reporting button on a pole at
the side Of the street. AS he returned to
his car, Clark ran out from the curbing
and fired four shots at him One
OF the bullets took effect in the right side
Of Nelson's head, while another wounded
his wrist. The other two shots flew wide.
Clark stepped to the rear Of the car and
fired twice at the conductor, but neither
bullet took effect
Having emptied his revolver, Clark ran
down Third street to Nicollet, followed
closely by Patrolman John Larson and
John Hills, bystander. He turned down
Nicollet to Washington and then darted
into Lookup alley. AS he passed the
Central police station, Larson fired three
shots, and Lieutenant REVERE and Pa
trolman Mclaughlin hurried out and took
up the chase.
Riviere overlook Clark standing near
the union station and asked him if he
had seen q man running in that direction.
Clark, without warning, fired twice, one
of the bullets striking the officer in tha
heshy part of the right forearm, while
another wounded James w. Williams,
colored, who was standing on the side
walk. The officer tried to draw his re-
volver from his pocket with his left hand,
but before he succeeded, Clark turned and
ran. Mclaughlin, who had come up In
the meantime, called to the fugitive to
stop, and after firing three shots in the
air, fired directly at the man, bringing
him down with a scalp wound. Clark was
quickly disarmed, thrown into carriage
and taken to the central station, where
the patrol wagon took him to the city
hospital.
Attic 1t is almost miracle, none of
the wounded persons is seriously hurt
Nelson received two wounds, both Of which
are superficial; Williams received a wound
in the feshy part Of the leg and is not
disabled; Lieutenant Riviera's wound is
in the feshy part of the forearm, while
Clark has but scalp wound, altho the
force Of the bullet stunned him, and at
first 1t was thought that he was seriously
injured. In all fifteen shots were fired.
Clark says he is cigarmaker by trade.
He has been in the city only a few days
and is not well acquainted with the streets,
as was shown by his running past the CEN
trail station while trying to escape arrest.
Papers found on his person seem to indi-
cate that he also goes by the name of
William Brodie and that he had recently
been in Duluth.