The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-23
County Attorney and
 Deputy Victims.
SERIES OF SENSATIONS
 ATTENDING RAID ON HOUSE
Sporting Man Keeps Up Running
 Battle With Citizens.
Finally Mortaiiy wounded, But Crowd Demanasd His Life and Only
 Quick work by Policeman
 ssved Him from Hangins.

H
 Fort Worth. Tex. March s2.---Foliow- ing a raid on an alleged gambling housa late today, County Attorney Jen D. Mclean was shot and killed and Ifamil P Scott, member of the raid- ing party, fatally wounded by William Thompson. proprietor of the resort raided.
 Half an hour later, Thompson was surrounded in a lumber yard within hundred yards of where Scott was shot down, and captured after desperate fight. in which Thompson received bull let wounds that will probably cause his death within a few hours
 The series of tragedies were of the most sensational and spectacular char acter and were witnessed by hundreds of men and women. including many members of the State Legislature here in attendance on fat stock show. The house raided is located on Main Street, near the corner of Sixth. right in the heart of the retail district.
 Shortly before 5 o'clock County At- torney Mclean, heading a party of deputies, forced an entrance into the place. placed a number of men under arrest and loaded furniture van with tables and other paraphernaifa. The wagon with the conhscated furniture had just moved of when Thompson ap-
 
 on the sidewalk and when, within a few feet of the official. fired one shot, the bullet striking Mclean in the. throat, breaking his neck and causing almost instant death. As Mclean fell. Thompson turned and ran west on Sixth Street with Scott in pursuit,
 shot Deputy Three Times.
 Dodging behind bill board st the corner of Seventh and Throckmorton Streets, Thompson annbushed Scott, shooting the deputy three times In the body When Scott fell, Thompson his empty pistol for that carried by the dying deputy and then renewed his flight ak ssF s,-s lsss, sa
 By this time q score of policemen and deputy sherifEs followed by hunv dreds of excited men and boys were in pursuit of Thompson, who found tenn porary refuge in lumber shed just across the street from the Touraine Hotel. the most fashionable hostelry in the city Here he was located by Patrolmen Bell and Lloyd Thon1p- son, by this time thoroughly desperate and with the cry of lynch him" ring ing in his ears. was ready for light to the death.
 While the crowd which had follow ed him were willing enough to cry lynch him." and would have followed a leader, the whole thing had happen ed so suddenly. that the mob hesita- ted But Policeman Dennis Lloyd had lumber yard and followed him there Finally Thompson was located behind a stack of lumber.
 He saw the officer about the same time the officer saw him. and they fired at each other at close range al- most simultaneously. What the ef- feet of this exchange was is not but the aid of his brother officer at this time, was direrted around the other side of the lumber pile with the idea of heading of escape and while the crowd was cautiously feeling its way at the door of the lumber yard, Bell and Lloyd opened on Thompson and the latter returned their Ire.
 Thompson Fatally Hurt.
 The officers wounded Thompson in three places and he is probably fatal ly injured. As soon as Thompson had emptied his gun and received the wounds which may result In his death. the officers whose own pistols had been emptied. fell upon him with bare hands and bore him to the ground, taking the pistol away from him and making his a prisoner.
 As soon as the shots were heard on the inside of the lumber yard. the mob on the outside, numbered fully 5000 persons. soon the news spread that Ave officers had been killed by the des- perate man in the lumber yard and there were renewed cries of Lynch him." but there was no leader and the crowd was impotent.
 As the story was repeated the crowd became wilder and more excited and men. women and boys surged in a great mass about the streets intersect- ing at Throckmorton and Seventh, None, however. dared to enter the lum- her ward At this time, the police pat rol wagon came dashing through the crowd and soon the officers came out dragging Thompson with them and holding their empty revolvers in their hands.
 The mob then threw themselves upon the officers and were only prevented from attacking Thompson by the dec laratfon that the double murderer was dead He was loaded Into the wagon and lying on its floor 1t dashed of down the street. two blocks to the po- lice station.
 With men hanging on the steps of the wagon and demanding the life of the wounded prisoner, the race was made to the station and the prisoner was carried bodily into the police hos pital The story was then spread that he was dead and the mob quieted- To- night Thompson Is believed to be dy-
 County Attorney Mclean had been an implacable foe to gambling. He haa led n hundred raids since he has been in ofice and last fall the gamb- lers opposed him at the polls, but he waa re-elected. He was a son of the Arst Railroad Commissioner of Texas ana a former member of Congress
 There Is talk here tonight of order ing every gambler out of the city at once and more severe measures are advocated in some quarters
 Al midnight Deputy Sherif Scott is sliwe. hut expected .nomentarily to die.
 Tee gambler is lying on cot In the poIsce hospital Physicians say he will die Snless operated on. and they cannot perfSrm the operation in the jail hos pital, A mob of thousands is now out side the jail and the oficers dare not move Alm for fear he will be lynehed.