The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-10-28
Three killed IN
REVOLVER FIGHT
ST. LOUIS DETECTIVES ATTEMPT
TO CAPTURE SUSPECTED
TRAIN ROBBERS.
TWO OF FORMER AND
ONE OF LATTER DEAD
Three Others Taken to Hospital Badly
Wounded-InjuredL Leader of Band
Confesses = Capture Ends -Four
Months Chase.

St. Louis, Oct. 24.-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 9TH
ers are in the city hospital. one proba-
bly, fatally wounded and the other
badly beaten up, as the result OF des-
perate battle Friday between five Off
GERS and three men whom they tried to
arrest
The Victims.
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 H.
Vaughn, suspect, badly beaten about
the head by detectives when he sought
to aid his friends in the battle.
Harry Vaughn, the only suspect who
escaped the hail of bullets and who
was severely injured by the detec-
tives when he attempted to aid his
companions after having been placed
under arrest, is held at the Four
Courts. Five patrolmen have been de-
tailed to guard Morris at the hos
pital.
Wounded Man Confesses.
Believing himself about to die, Will
liam Morris, alias Blair, the leader of
the three suspects who was wounded
in the battle Saturday, confessed to
having been implicated in two train rob-
berries, after his Identification by rail
road men as one of the four men who
robbed the Pullman passengers on the
Illinois Central Diamond Special" be-
tween Harvey and Madison, H., Au-
gust 1.
Story Of the Fight.
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, H., few
weeks ago. The house had been un-
der police surveillance for several
days, but Friday was the first time
that any of the suspects were seen to
enter or leave. A few minutes before
the fight occurred, Vaughn left the
house and started to walk down Pine
street. The detectives closed in on
him, and after he had gone some dis
lance from the house he was arrested.
Accompanied by their prisoner the
detectives returned and entered the
house. Shea, McCluskey and DwyeI
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
a volley of shots from a heavy calibeI
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 deafening, exchange OF
shots for several seconds, each man
pulling the trigger of his weapon as
rapidly as possible. During the ex-
element, 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 they went to
the aid of Shea, Dwyer and McCluskey,
the latter having in the meantime
sunk to the floor with a critical wound
in the stomach. One of the unwounded
detectives summoned an ambulance,
and the wounded officers and suspects
were taken to the city hospital
The room in which the battle &C.
Cured was wreck. Bullet holes per-
forated walls, window stills and furni-
ture, and every article in the room was
overturned or broken. Sometime after
the shooting Lewis Heiss and Orma
Moore, two women, who, according to
the police, were associates of the sus-
poets, and were in the house at the time
the battle began, were arrested in the
neighborhood.
Chase Lasts Four Months.
1t developed Saturday that the bat
tie was the elimination of a chase
that has lasted four months, the de-
tectives having information that led
them to believe that the suspects were
implicated in the robbery of an ILL.,
nois Central train at Centralia, ILL.,,
in addition to other crimes committed
previous to and since the hold-up.
Sets Date for Hearing.
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