The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-07-28
WOMEN SMASHERS
CENTER OF MURDER
Try to Take Husbands From a.
Saloon and a Pitched
Battle Is Result.
OTHERS JOIN IN FIGHT
Seeing Wives Attacked, De-
fend Them and One of the Men
is killed-Others Get Broken
Heads.

Chicago, July 2.4.-David Mcdonald
Is dead, James Sutton is in a hospital
dying, ard Edward Mulroy, a saloon
keeper, is il prisoner in the Kane coun-
ty Jail at Geneva, all as a result of II
raid made on a saloon at Batavia, a
quiet village, %thirty-five miles from
chicago, by two m who sought To
ave the last of their husbands meager
wages from being spent for liquor. =.
Bottles We're broken, casks of liquor
were spilled, the mirror behind the
bar shattered. and everywhere We're
left traces of the work of the two
determined women, who sought to drag
their husbands from the bar room to
their homes.
Mrs. James Sutton and Mrs. John
Sutton are the two women who imitat-
ed the Joint" smashers of Kansas
and made Mulroy's saloon look like a
country barn after a cyclone had
passed.
Fight on When Wives Enter.
The One We're in earnest, and
when they entered the place Il general
fight was in progress. and the hus-
bands of the two women were taking
active parts in the battle. Each wom-
an seized her husband and endeavored
to dlag him from the place, at the
same time upbraiding the saloonkeep-
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james Sutton refused to leave with
his wife. and after Il struggle threw her
to the floor. His brother also fought
against his wife's efforts to lead him
away from the bar. and, Guiding her,
again o up the original quarrel.
Then the women tulned on Mulroy
and demanded that he compel their hus-
bands to leave the place. He refused.
Then they seized beer glasses, bottles.
chairs. pool balls and anything else
they could obtain md wrecked the in
terror of the building.
Several glasses II on Mulroy and
his brother, III these men, when they
saw their place was being wrecked.
proceeded to eject the women by force.
Then the real fight began. Though
the two Suttons had refused to leave
with their wives. the instant they saw
they We're being roughly handled by
Mulroy and the bartender they turned
TO the defense of the women
Clubs Fatally Welded.
David Mcdonald. foreman of a sec
ton gang, Joined them, and proceeded
to take the Sutton's side of the battle.
Frank Sanders. said to be a Chicago
horse trader. Joined the Mulroy forces,
and the fight became Il furious one.
Mrs. John Sutton managed to pull
her husband out of the brawl before
he was injured seriously, but before
LIZ otii' 'iiit' Opa 1tiSi ihS Alao-
band, james sutton had been struck
ON the head with . club welded by
Sanders, it is charged. His skull was
fractured and he fell to the Dol UNI
conscious.
Mcdonald attacked Edward Mulroy
and was struck OF the read four times
With II club and his skull was crushed.
He died almost Instantly.
Throws Corpse Into Alley.
Then the Suttons left the saloon and
Mulloy dragged. MeDonald's body to
The rear of the saloon and threw it into
he alley.
lie then climbed into "a beer wagon
and fled. 1t is claimed shat the town
marshal, William Kelley. II brother-in-
law Of Mulroy did not make any great
effort to prevent The escape of the sa-
.oonkeeper. The Suttons We're arrested,
and so We're Jacob Mulroy and Frank
Sanders. The women We're not ar
rested.
Muiroy was arrested at $50 o'clock
fast night after he had remained way
from Batavia all the afternoon. He
was taken n custody as he was en-
tering his house, and made no resist
ulICe.