The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-13
ers lay wounded, two at least danger
OuslY. The dead

ers lay wounded. two at least danger
ously. The dead
K. 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
Frustrated over the affair and may die
from the shock.
SchistIer had brooded over his trou-
bles with the Fill family, who were
immediate neighbors, and announced
that he would even up matters. TAX
ing a rifle of improved pattern and
buckling on belt of smokeless car
tridges, he started for the Fill home.
Fill saw him approaching and heard
his muff1ed threats. He tried to avoid
him by entering the house, but
Schistler sent a bullet into FilPs brain
with the accuracy of a markSman, and
Fill fell dead.
Mrs. Fill rushed to her husbands
side and received a bullet from
Schistler's rifle. She, too, fell dead
alongside the lifeless body of her hus-
band.
Not content, SchistIer then set fire to
the Fill home, which was destroyed
and it is thought a son of the Fills lost
After satisfying himself that the
flames would perform their mission,
Schistler returned to his own home and
barricaded himself inside. In the mean
time, other neighbors, attracted by the
sound of the firing, appeared on the
scene, but quickly retreated when bull
let's began falling around them. A tele-
phone message was sent to police head
quarters and an ambulance, with Po-
lice Surgeon Dulin, Captain Bohanna
and three officers, hurried to the scene.
The officers were directed to the Fill
home by neighbOrS who had witnessed
the killing and they started unhesitat-
ingly in the direction of the house. In
doing so they were compelled to come
within range of Schistler's rife. A vol
ley of bullets rained around them sud
denly, and Dulin and Bohanna fell to
the floor Of the ambulance. The driver
refined in his horses. but another shot
from the house dropped one of the ami
mails to the ground With the assist
ance of spectators, the wounded men
We're taken from the ambulance and la
ter conveyed to a hospital, where their
wounds were dressed. Dulin was shot
three times, once in each leg and an
other time in the left thigh. His cOndi-
ton is critical. Bohanna received a
bullet in the leg, but is not dangerously
hurt.
A call for reinforcements brought all
the available men from police head
quarters and the sherifSs office and a
consultation was held to agree on a
plan to capture the mailman.
Firing squads were stationed in near
by houses and a larger force was placed
on a. portable fort made by baled hay,
piled upon a hay wagon During the
preliminary arrangements Schistler
kept up continuous fire in all d1rec-
lions, which was returned, and hun
dreds of shots were exchanged. It was
during this shooting that Kelly receiv-
ed his wound.
Finally fewer shots were heard in the
direction of the Schistler house. and the
hay wagon fort was started toward the
house proceeding. cautiously and with
out firing. The attacking force expect
ed a fusillade any minute, and when
they reached the front gate without
shot being fred. one of the officers step
ned out into view, thinking to draw the
IRE of Schistler if he were stil alive
He was agreeably disappointed, and.
with a rush, the officers charged the
house and battered down the door. Not
a sound came from inside, and, enter