The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-10-27
Officers FIGHT
With A BAD GANG
UNDERTAKE CAPTURE OF sUs-
PECTED ROBBERS IN A ST.
..l LOUIS HOUSE.
Latter Open Fire and When Battle Is
Over, Two Officers and a Suspect
Are Dead-one Detective and a Sus-i
pect Wounded.

st. Louis, Oct. 22.-TWO city detec-
tives are dead and another is not ex-
pected to live, while one train robber
suspect is at the morgue and two Others
are in the city hospital, one probably
fatally wounded and the other badly
beaten up, as the result of desperate
battle Friday between five officers and
three men whom they tried to arrest.
The dead are: John j. Shea, detec-
tive; Thomas Dwyer, detective; AL
Rose, suspect.
The wounded are: James McCluskey.
detective, shot through the stomach,
critical; G. c. Blair, suspect, shot four
times through the body; Harry HI.
Vaughn, suspect. BADLY beaten about
the head by detectives.
The fight occurred in the front room
of house on Pine street, and the men
whom the detectives sought to arrest
are suspected of being implicated in a
train robbery at Centralia. ILL.,, few:
weeks ago. Vaughn was arrested on the
street and taken to the house by the
detectives. Hardly had the detectives
entered the room in which Rose and
Blair were seated. when they were met;
with volley of shots from heavy CAL
fber revolver. Shea sank to the floor on
the first shot, and Dwyer followed al;
most instantly. BY that time the de-
tectives had drawn their revolvers and;
there was a deafening exchange of;
shots for several seconds, each man
pulling the TRIGGER of his weapon as;
rapidly as possible. During the excite
ment. Vaughn attempted to escape from
his captors and assist Rose and Blair:
Boyle and James. however. dubbed their
revolvers and beat their prisoner over
the head until he WAS unconscious. and:
then thew went to the aid of Shea, Dwyer
and McClusFey. the latter having in the
meantime sunk to the floor with crit.
zeal wound in the stomach. One of the
unwounded detectives summoned an
ambulance. and the wounded officers
and suspects were taken to the city hos
pital.
Statement Of Suspect. /
AS soon as word of the shooting
reached Chief of Detectives Desmond,
he Immediately pressed into service a
buggy which happened to be standing
in front of headquarters and drove at
gallop to the hospital There. after
a brief consultation with his wounded
men. he confined himself to Blair, the
wounded suspect. Blair made the
statement that he, Rose and others had
been seated in the room when the door
was opened and the detectives entered.
Blair. noting the fact that Detective
Shea had his revolver drawn, pulled his
own gun and emptied it into the faces
of the invaders. He shot six times
without pause.
Several hours after being taken to
the hospital Detective Thomas Dwyer
died.
The room in which the battle oc.
CURED was a. wreck. Bullet holes per-
forated walls window stills and furni-
ture. and every article in the room was
overturned or broten. Sometime after
the shooting Lewis Hess and Orma
Moore. two women. who according to
the police. were associates of the sus-
meets. and were in the house at the time
the battle began, were arrested In the
.neighborhood. ~