The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-18
TWO MORE VICTIMS
OF DENVER MURDERER's FURY
Police Captain Bohanna and Police
Surgeon DuIin both Die from
Wounds Inflicted by George Shiss-


Wounds Inflicted by George shiss-
ler.
Denver. March 15.-Police Capt.
William Bohanna is dead as result
of gunshot wounds received from the
deadly weapon of maniac George
Shissler on Sunday afternoon.
At 1927 o'clock this morning Or. F.
E. Prewitt of the emergency hospital
came down from the private room in
which Captain Bohanna had been at
tended and announced that he had
passed away.
His death was entirely unexpected.
Late yesterday afternoon the physi-
clans said that he would recover, al
most certainly. At o'clock pulse ac-
ton suddenly stopped, and all efforts
of the attending physicians to start
it again were useless. From then on
he constantly failed, and at midnight
DR.. Prewitt said there was no hope
of recovery. Just before 2 o'clock he
died.
The direct cause of death was gan
creme and loss of blood. The terrible
WOuhu ny luC spent buliSIo iiO'ii
the shotgun welded Ey Shissler tore
open two of the principal arteries of
the leg, and before an improvised tour
niquet could be put in place the life
blood of the police captain had been
| drained.
Captain Bohanna was fifty-one years
old. He was appointed patrolman on
May Z, 1881, which was the year of the
Chinese riots. 1t was his conduct dur
ing these troublous times that won him
distinction on the force.
For ten years Bohanna walked
beat. His brilliant work there brought
him sergeants stripes on May 10,
1891. On July l, 1894, he was made a
probationary captain, and the 1st of
last September made a captain of the
| Denver police force.
Captain Bohanna was born in
CRANKY, Connecticut, February 2, 1854,
and received his education there. He
came to Denver in 1874, when he was
twenty years old. He is survived by a
wife and brother, Albert j. Bohanna,
and by Mrs. X. Harrington, a sister.
He had no children.
AS a direct result of uraemic poison
ing caused by paralysis of the kidneys
from the shock of three gunshot
wounds, Police Surgeon Frank Dulin
uiOu lb lllC NlllIl e5SliNS iAS'p-ethA esS
10:30 O'Clock yesterday morning. He
was the fourth victim of the deadly
weapon of George Shissler, who was
the perpetrator of the wholesale muir
ders of Sunday morning.
DR.. Dulin has been prominent ply
sician and politician of Denver since
$780, when he came here. He was
born on the farm in Kentucky in 1860,
and graduated from the st. Louis Med
ical College, and practiced in Okla
homa before coming here.
In 1897 he was appointed police sur
geon of Denver He was appointed
health commissioner under Mayor
Johnson, and for two years before that
had been county physician of Arapa-
hoe county. At the expiration of Mayor
Johnsons term in 1901 he was again
appointed police surgeon, position he
was holding at the time of his death.
DIR. Dulin is survived by a widow and
one son, Robert His brother, c. S.
Dulin, of Sheridan, Texas, is now on
his way to Denver. The dead sur
geon was a prominent member of
many fraternal societies. He belonged
to the Knights of Pythias, Rathbone
Lodge No. So in which he carried
$4,000 insurance; the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows; the Woodmen of
Ine WOIlu, III WHICH ne WAS luSuIeu lOl
$4,000; the Royal Arcanum, in which
he was insured for $4,000, and the
American Order of Yeomen, where he
carried $4,000 insurance. Besides this
DR.. Dulin carried $4,000 accident
policy in the Employers Liability AS
surance Corporation, and at noon yes
terday the Denver representative of
that company, ]. H. Harrison e Co.,
gave Mrs. Dulin their check for the
full amount.