Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-03-18
MURDERED Them ALL.
GEORGE SCHLISTLER OF DENVER
SHOOTS HIS NEIGHBORS.
He Armed Himself With a Rifle and
Shot at Every One That Came in
His Way-Ne!ghbo ouarrel-8ar-
ricaded Himself in His House and
When Found He Was Dying.

When Found He Was Dying.
Denver, Col, March 13.-Mad with
rage because of his defeat in a law
suit in which the man he pronounced
as his bitterest enemy had been vic
torious. and swearing vengeance
against himself and his entire fam
lily, George Schistler. teamster, arm
ed himself with a rife Sunday. and
when the smoke Of battle had cleared
away three persons were dead one
missing and three others lay wounded,
two at least dangerously. The deaa:
X. Fill. Mrs. X. Fill, George Schistler.
The missing-A child of the Fills.
Wounded-Dr. Frank Dulin, police
surgeon; Captain William Bohanna,
acting chief of police; Mike Kelly.
The wife of George Schistler is pros
trated over the affair, and may die
from the shock.
Murder Of the Fills.
Schistler had brooded over his
troubles with the Fill family, who
were immediate neighbors, and an
nounced that he would even up mat
ters Taking rife of improved pat
tern and bucking on a belt of smoke
less cartridges, he started for the Fill
home. Fill saw him approaching and
heard his mufhed threats. He tried
to avoid him by entering the house.
but Schistler sent a bullet into his
brain with the accuracy of a marks
man and Fill fell dead.
Mrs. Fill rushed to her husband s
side and received a bullet from Schist-
ler's rife, fired with unerring aim.
} She too. fell dead alongside the life
less body of her husband
Burns House and Fill Child.
Not content with the fullness of his
vengeance. Schistler then set fire to
the Fill home. which was destroyed,
and it is thought a son of the Fills lost
his life in the fire.
After satisfying himself that the
flames would perform their mission,
Schistler returned to his own home and
barricaded himself inside. In the
meantime other neighbors, attracted
by the sound of the firing, appeared on
the scene, but quickly retreated when
bullets began falling around them.
Police Arrive.
telephone message was sent to
police headquarters and an ambulance,
with Police Surgeon Dulin, Captain
Bohanna and three officers, hurried to
the scene.
The officers were directed to the
Fill home by neighbors who had wit
messed the killing and they started
unhesitatingly in the direction of the
house. In doing so they were COM
PEELED to come WITHIN range of Schist-
lers rife. A volley of bullets rained
around them suddenly, and Dulin and
Bohanna fell to the floor of the ambu-
lance. The driver stopped his horses,
but another shot from the house
dropped one of the animals to the
ground. With the assistance of spec
tators the wounded men were taken
from the ambulance and conveyed to a
hospital. where their wounds were
dressed. Dulin was shot three times,
once in each leg and another time in
the left thigh His condition is criti-
cal. Bohanna received a bullet in the
leg. but is not dangerously hurt.
Hundreds of Shots Exchanged.
A call for reinforcements brought all
the available men from police head
quarters and the sheriff's Office, and a
consultation was held for the purpose
lof formulating a plan to capture
Schistler Firing squads were sta
toned in nearby houses and a larger
force was placed in a portable fort
made of baled hay piled upon a hay
wagon. During the preliminary ar
engagements Schistler kept up a cOntin-
uous fire in all directions. which was
returned, and hundreds of shots were
Exchanged. 1t was during this shoot
ing that Kelly received his wound.
Finally fewer shots We're heard to ex-
plOde in the direction of the Schistler
house, and the hay wagon fort was
started toward the house, proceeding
cautiously and without firing. Finally
one of the officers purposely exposed
himself to view in order to draw out
the fire of Schistler if he was still
alive