Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-22
Battle of Officers With Robbie
Suspects In a Dive at
st. Louis
DEATH LIST MAY REACH 81.
Two Officers, Including Detective She
and One Robber Killed outrish
While One Officer and Two suspect
Are Thought to be Fatally Wouns
ed - Details of the Fight.

st. Louis, Oct. 22.-Two city de
tectiVes are dead and another is no
expected to live during the day, Will,
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 a desperate battle last night
between five officers and three men
whom they tried to arrest.
The dead:
| John j. Shea, detective.
Al Rose, suspect.
Thomas Dwyer, detective, shot thru
the right breast, just above the nip
| pie.
| The wounded:
James McClusky, detective, shot thru
| the stomach; critical.
| G. c. Blair, fugitive, shot four times
thru the body.
| Harry II. Vaughn, fugitive; badly
| beaten about the head by detectives
| when he sought to aid his friends in
| the battle.
| 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 q
train robbery at Centralia, ILL.,. few
| weeks ago.
i The house had been under police
/ surveillance for several days but yes
| terday was the first time that any Of
| the suspects were seen to enter or
| leave.
| A few minutes before the fight oc-
CURED Vaughn left the house and
started to walk down Pine street. The
he had gone some distance from the
| house he was arrested.
Accompanied by their prisoner the
| detectives returned and entered the
house. Shea, McClusky and Dwyer
were leading; Boyle and James were
behind with the prisoner.
Hardly had the detectives entered
the room in which Rose and Blair were
seated when they were met with
volley of shots from heavy caliber
revolver. Shea sank to the floor on the
first shot, and Dwyer followed almost
instantly.
By that time the detectives had
drawn their revolvers and there was a
deafening exchange of shots for sew
eral seconds, each man pulling the
trigger of his weapon as rapidly as
possible.
During the excitement. Vaughn at
tempted to escape from his captors
and assist Rose and Blair. Boyle and
James, however. dubbed their revol-
vers and beat their prisoner over the
head until he was unconscious, and
then they went to the aid of Shea,
Dwyer and McClusky the latter hav-
ing in the meantime sank to the floor
with critical wound in the stem-
ach.
One of the unwounded detectives
summoned an ambulance and the
suspects were taken to the city
hospital
AS soon as word Of the shooting
reached Chief of Detectives Desmond
he Immediately pressed a buggy which
happened to be starring in front of
Headquarters and drove at a 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.
There were no misfires and so close
were the suspects and the detectives
that the powder from Blair's gun
burned their clothing.
Chief Desmond was greatly affected
by the death Of Shea and the wound
ing of the others. He said the affair
was the most serious in the history of
the department.
Several hours after being taken to
the hospital Detective Thomas Dwyer
died. 1t was stated then by the ply
sicians that it was feared Detective
McClusky and C. G.. Blair could not
live.