The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-03
A Negro Ordered to Leave Re.
turns and Kills the Keeper.
One Of the Results Of an Open
Kansas City, Kan, Saloon.
NOISY SUNDAY CROWD
Shot Fatal and Michael GilpIn
Dies Instantly.
Other ''Places" Open in the
TOad-a-LOup District.

Kansas City. Kan, Sept. 3.-All day
yesterday a crowd of men thronged the
joint which Michael GiIpin opened for
business early yesterday morning near
Twenty-hfth street and State Line. in
Toad-a-loup. The crowd drank freely Of
Gilpin's stock. It made them talk loud
er every hour. About o'clock in the af-
ternoon Gilpin's customers became
boisterous. too much so. he believed.
James Patterson, a negro, otherwise
known as Frank Smith" was especial
~ noisy. Gilpin ordered him to leave
the place and he obeyed. In a few mo-
ments the negro returned. Walking
through the crowd of drinking men, he
stepped close to the bartender and shot
him with revolver Gipin was stand
ing behind the bar. He died without
speaking. The bullet penetrated his
heart AS soon as he fred the shot
Patterson ran through the crowd to the
door and was seen to cross the state
line into Missouri about 200 yards away.
John McCarty, at whose home Gilpin
lived, said he walked into the place just
behind Patterson.
Il didn't see the revolver" he said,
but I saw the negro walk straight
through the crowd toward Mike When
he was about eight feet away from him
he fired. I ran behind the bar and ask
ed Nike if he was hurt. He didn't
say a word before he died and I didn't
hear the negro say a word to Gilpin,
either, before he fired the shot"
The police were notified at once and
officers were sent in search of Patter-
son. Thomas Maunseu and John
O'Brien, detectives, who went to the
negrO's home in Rosedale two hours
terson had been there but Had gone, say
ing he was going to surrender to the
police. He has not been arrested.
Joseph Dyser, negro who lives at
Fro 1fTr fr14r7 ~ sr1o
and Lucy King, negro woman of 2004
Terrace street, are being held at No. 8
police station in Armourdale. The police
say they have witnesses who saw Dyser
give Patterson a revolver outside the
joint just before the shooting. The wo-
man is said to have been seen with Pat
terson's coat Immediately after the
shooting. She was followed by several
men and was arrested by the police
near the Cudahy Packing plant. She
did not have the coat when arrested.
Dyser denied last night that he gave
Patterson a revolver.
Gilpins body was taken to Daniels
Bros. undertaking rooms in Armour
dale and DR.. S. S. Shiveley, a deputy
coroner, was sent for.
Gilpin was Il years old. He came to
Kansas City from Ohio about seven
years ago and had since lived in this
city. He was railroad man for sew
eral years. Until year ago he worked
as locomotive engineer for the Rock
Island railway.
This negro Patterson has a bad rec
ord" said J. F. Kelly. captain of police,
last night. He has been arrested num-
erous times and has served sentences
for larceny. He never works and has
no permanent home"
At police headquarters it was said
last night that many complaints had
been received over the telephone of
open joints in Toad-a-loup during the
day. The police say four or FIVE places
have been operating there the last two
Sundays.