The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-26
F. J. Emery, Proprietor Of Kan-
sas City, Ks., HOstelry Is Shot.
The Victim Of a Bullet From the
Revolver Of Chas. Rumble.
ROBBERY THE OBJECT.
Negro Porter Wounded and
Later Police Shoots Rumble.
The Murdered Man Formerly
Ran a House in Topeka.

Kansas city. Kan. Nov. ga
white man and a negro stopped at the
foot of the back stairs leading to the
Kentucky house. a second-story hotel
at s07 North Sixth street. sunday
evening. The two appeared to be in
angry alteration. Guests in the hotel
heard the negro say: I'm not going
to do it, IF you don't come along I'll
kill you they heard the white man
say. We've got to have his money"
The next thing the guests heard was
the voice OF the white man at the head
of the stairs:
your money! We want your mon
ey." Then they heard the voice of
Frank ]. Emery, proprietor of the ho-
tel. say:
you can't stay here"
Tho shooting of Emery.
TWO pistol shots as fast as a man
could pull a revolver's trigger follow
ed and when guests reached the cor
ridors they saw the white man. still
holding a revolver leaning on the
shoulder of the negro who held whis-
ky bottle. Across the threshold of the
kitchen door lay the lifeless form OF
Emery, the proprietor
It'll shoot any man who touches
me-" yelled the man with the revolver,
His negro companion half dragged him
out through the rear door. AS they
went down the stairs into the alley in
the rear of the hotel they met the ne
gro porter. Lee Simons- The white
man stopped and shot him through the
right shoulder.
Officers at police headquarters, half
a block distant. heard the shots T J.
harrington and J. J. Cassidy, patrol
men, were entering the hotel from
Sixth street when the murderer and
his negro companion were leaving the
hotel by the alley. They found the
wounded porter who. though bleeding
and suffering from his wound, guided
them down the back stairs They fol-
lowed the two robbers to Minnesota
avenue, half block distant.
The murderer wheeled around, sud-
denly raising his revolver. Policeman
Cassidy was too quick for the man and
sent a bullet through his head. he
staggered back as the blood spurted
from wound in his mouth where the
bullet entered.
The officers hurried the two men to
police headquarters. followed by
great crowd. The white man appeared
to be crazed with drink. He at first
refused to tell his name but later he
said he was Charles Rumble and that
he lived in Independence, Mo. The
negro gave the name of Samuel HUT
ton and said he lived at 1915 North
The negro told conflicting stories.
He admitted. however. that Rum bic
had several bottles of whisky and they
had been drinking together in the al
sey. Beyond this the police could get
little information concerning she
shooting of Emery.
Rumble had cheap revolver 1roIn
which Eve bullets had been fired. DR..
A. j. Canon. police surgeon, found
that the bullet fired by officer Cassidy
entered at the right side of Rumbies
mouth In it's course IL knocked out
feafl1 and D1GEed out the
left side near the point where the jaw
joins the skull
ut was the teeth that detected the
course of the bullet and saved Rum
ble's life" said the surgeon.
Emery was 50 years old. He had
been in the hotel business for fifteen
years. having for several years owned
the Sixth Avenue hotel in Topeka. He
made his home in Kanta City, Kan,
at various times for the last thirty
years He leaves a widow and three
children. two sons and a daughter
The body vas taken to ellison & Por-
ter's undertaking rooms.
Rumble an Iron MoIder.
Charles Rumble lived at the Pacific
House, 1926 West Pacific street in IN
dependence. He went there to live last
July to be near his work. He is
skilled iron molder and was employed in
the independence foundry operated by
William Crick- Mr.. Crick was told by
telephone of the shooting.
Rumble was q man of good habits as
far as I know" said Mr.. CTick.
George r. Nunnelly. the proprietor Of
the Pacific House, is we'll acquainted
with Rumble.
Rumble lived here with a 5-year-old
boy, Lyle said Mr.. Nunnelly. Rum
BILE had formerly been married. but was
divorced from his wife. She lived in
Kansas City. Kan, but I don't know
her name. The boy, ! was told, was
not their own child. He was adopted
by the Rumbles from orphans home
in Topeka. When the Runbles separa-
ted the husband retained the custody
Of the boy. His wife returned to live
with her parents. Rumble is about %
years old. He Is a man who drinks at
times, but aside from that he always
conducted himself properly here"
Frank J. Emery, who was killed in
Kansas City, formerly lived in Topeka
q little more than one year, moving 70
Kansas City in October. He came here
FROM Overlook Kan. He purchased
the Brunswick hotel when he came
here. It was formerly known as the
Sixth Avenue hotel He sold out year
ago in July and moved to Potwin, a
suburb. where he opened a grocery. He
managed this business for three months
and then sold 1t and bought the Ken
lucky hotel, Kansas City Kan. Before
entering the hotel business Mr.. Emery
was in the stock buying business at
Overlook for a number of years. He
was a man about As years of age and
leaves a wife. a married daughter, two