The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-27
desperate BATTLE
HAS FATAL END
Two Detectives and a Suspect
Who Resisted Arrest
Are Killed.
THREE BADLY WOUNDED
Detectives Were Trying to Arrest Tires
Men on Some Charge When a
Desperate Resistance and
Shooting Resulted.

st. Louis, Oct. 24.-Two city detectives
are dead and another is not expected tt
live during the night, while one trair
robher suspect is at the morgue and
two others are in the city hospital, one
probably fatally wounded and the 9th.
er badly beaten up, as the result of q
desperate battle yesterday between five
officers and three men whom they tried
to arrest. Harry Adams, who escaped
at the time of the shooting, was appre-
hended later by Detective Lee Killiam.
who fired twice in making the arrest.
The dead:
JOHN ]. SHEA, detective.
THOMAS DWYER, detective.
AL ROSE, suspect.
The wounded:
James McClusky, detective, sho,
through the, stomach; critical.
c.. C. Blair, fugitive, shot four times
through the body.
Harry H. 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 a Jus on Pin street, and the men
whom the detectives sought to arrest
ere suspected of being implicated In a
train robbery at Centralia, ILL.,. a few
weeks ago. The house has been under
police surveillance for several days. but
yesterday was the first time that n
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
detectives closed in on him, n after
he had gone some distance from the
house he was arrested. Accompanied
by their prisoner the detectives re-
turned and entered the house. Shea,
r --s TN-.,~- -,~,@ Loo To- ~ ~
Boyle and James were behind with the
prisoner.
Met by a VoIley of Shots.
Hardly had the detectives entered
the room In which Rose and Blair were
seated when they were met with a vol
ley of shots from a heavy caliber re-
volver. 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 vas a
deafening explosion of shots for sew
eral seconds, each mar 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 revolvers
nnl beat their prisoner over the head
III ~ Noo "A1 tbfSi'
they went to the aid of Shea, Dwyer
and McClusky, the latter having In the
meantime ank 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.
AS soon as the word Of the shoot
ing reached Chief of Detectives Des-
mond he Impressed a buggy which
happened to be standing in front of
headquarters and drove at a gallop to
the hospital. There, after a ,3rief con-
sultation 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
rhe room when the door was opened
and the detectives entered.
Blair, noting the fact hat Detective
Shea had his revolver drawn, pulled
hts own gun and emptted 1t into the
faces Of the invaders. He hot sl1
times without q pause.
There was no misfres, and so close
were the suspects and the detectives
that powder from Blair's gun burn
their clothing.
Chief Desmond was greatly affected
by the death Of Shea and the wound
ing Of the others. He said the affai
was the most serious in the history 0
the department..