Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-22
Passengers In Chair Car Awak-
ened With YeIIs and Pts
toll Shots.
AN ITALIAN ON THE RAMPAGE.
lohn Bells Went Through Car
Shooting at Passengers, XIII
ing One, Wounding Two.
Man Grapplcd With Him. Wrcnching
His Gun From Him. When He Drew
Razor and Fought Desperately.

Denver, June s2.-tn a shooting ar.
fray whIch occurred in chair car No.
ai5 Of pass MGR train No. 5. west
bound on Tho Chicago, Rock Island
a 'aelc railroad about 1880 o'clock
Last might between Dresden and sell
Grn. 10 Kansas. a man whose NAME
is believed 10 he Crompton, was killed
and Mrs Norris Olsen Of Marshall.
Mimi, and her sister Mrs. Harry Il.
Lphesley OF Arriba, Colo. were
wounded. The shots we're fred by
John Bells, an Italian barber on
route from Boston "a san Francisco,
who had boarded the train at Chicago
Thursday night.
Before the shooting began most Of
tho passengers were dozing in their
chairs and no warming of their dan
ger was given them They were awak-
ened from their slumber by frantic
Wells and pistol shots Five shots were
fired In rapid succession by Bells as he
walked through the aisle from the
front TO the rear OF the car, taking ac-
curate aim at one passenger after an
other
The first shot struck Mrs Olsen in
the left side OF her face, the bullet
passing through the jaws and coming
out on the left side. Mrs. Olsen's sis
Ter, sitting opposite her, was hit in
inc. right shoulder with the second
Dullet Their wounds are not fatal,
After being shot both women rushed
To The smoking car ahead and ma
ioflty OF the male passengers followed
as quickly as possible. tumblinu over
one another in their haste to escape.
BELLS third bullet passed through Mr.
Cromptons heart. He was found dead
later In his seat. His facial expression
was calm and from his position il
seemed that he was sleeping when shot.
ny this time no other men remained
N the car except Charles A CSillint 81
Denver, an employee of the Griffen
Wheel company. and d. r. Slawson OF
Pueblo, Colo. Gilliat closed III on Bells
ana wrenched his revolver from his
hands but not before two more shols
had been fired. neither of which hit
anybody
BEFORE being overpowered Bells drew
razor and with this he fought tes-
perately. A negro porter from the tour
list car, armed with a billy, finally sue
ceeded In knocking the razor out of the
seized and bound by Gilliat, Slawson,
the porter and others. The train crew
stayed out of the car while the disturb
ance was In progress.
AT Goodland, Kans., Bells and a trav-
cling companion, Patsy Loganbradl. al
so an Italian. We're removed from the
train and locked In jail. Bells was ac-
companied by his wife and four child
rem, and Loganbradi by his wife AMI
five children.
The women and their children con-
tinued their Journey to San Francisco.
Mrs. Loganbradi said the two men
had been drinking verIuouth all day
yesterday. About O'clock they fell
asleep. At 1890. Mrs. Loganbradi
said. Bells awoke and began to protest
wildly that some one was trying to
rob him. Then he rushed up the aisle
and began shooting,
The man who was killed was middle
? ged and well dressed. The only
means of identification was his rail-
road ticket, which bore the nams
Crompton.
Later the dead man, whose ticket
bore the name crompton. was identi-
ned as T. b. Topp, a tailor of Mime
lpols
The body was left at Goodland and
the two women were taken to a hos
pital there. Mrs. Olsen is young
bride. Her husband was not on the
train, having gone ahead to Ar1iba.
Colo.