The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-03-03
ANARCHIST IS SLAIN
Chief Of Police Shippy Of Chicago
ReSistS MurderOuS Attack.
SON AND C0ACHMAN SHOT

Head of Department Escapes With
Trivial Injury, but His Twenty-one-
YearOld Boy sustains Dangerous
Wounds at Hands of Assassin.
Chicago, March 3.-George NJ Ship
py, chief of the Chicago police depart
| ment, shot and killed an anarchist
who invaded his home, wounded the
chief, shot the officials son Harry in
the lung and severely wounded the
family coachman, James Foley. Harry
| Shippy is seriously hurt, Foley will
probably recover and the chief was
stabbed in the hand, his wound being
| trivial.
The assailant entered Shippy's
home while the chief and his son
were alone in one of the rooms. The
| man is said to have handed Chief
Shippy a letter, which the chief
opened and began to read Almost
Immediately the anarchist drew a re-
volver and fred at Harry Shippy.
The boy fell to the floor and his
father grappled with the assailant.
Foley, attracted by the shooting.
| rushed to his employers aid. AS the
| servant entered the room the an
archist broke from the chiefs grasp,
aimed deliberately and shot Foley
twice.
Again the chief closed with the
| man and the latter turned on him
with a knife Shippy attempted to
grasp the weapon and received a deep
cut on the hand. The police official
then succeeded in reaching his own
Il revolver and he poured shot after shot
into the would-be assassin's body.
Every bullet took effect and the an
aTchist fell to the floor dead.
The attack on the chief is believed
to have been inspired by the recent
activity Of the Chicago police follow
ing the killing of the Rev. Leo Helm
richs, a Roman Catholic priest, who
was shot by an anarchist in Denver
while he was administering the sac
| rament to his slayer.
Many Detectives on the Case.
News of the shooting In Chief
Shippy's home reached the police de-
partment when request was sent to
| a nearby station for an ambulance.
Every available detective in the city
was placed upon the case. Following
the tragedy in Denver attempts to
trace the crime to conspiracy
hatched in Chicago were begun. The
local police discovered that a society
of Italians formed here had been issu-
ing infammatory literature aimed at
clericals and also that several local
clergymen had received threatening
letters. Sunday while the funeral of
Father Leo was being held in Pater-
son, N. j., details of police guarded
| several Roman Catholic churches
here. Especial precautions were taken
in the Italian quarter, where officers
| in citizens clothes scrutinized every
worshipper as the congregations en-
Il tered. Later the officers mounted the
affairs and stood guard over the
priests as they conducted the serv-
Ices.
In addition to these measures all
known anarchists In the city, among
them Emma Goldman, were warned
that they would not be allowed to
| make addresses In public. So far as
| is known no attempt to disobey this
order was made and no arrests were
made of followers of the cult The
documents sent out by the Italian or
ganizstions were carefully worded and
an examination of them showed that
prosecutions based thereon might
have fallen because of technical short
| comings
Dead Mans Identity Mystery.
Although all self-declared anarchists
in the city are known to the Chicago
police the identity of the man who
attacked Chief Shippy is a mystery.
Herman Schuettler, assistant chief of
| police, who has had charge of the
| crusade against anarchists In the city,
was unable to identify the man. He
described him as an Italian or Slav,
about twenty-four years old, weighing
140 pounds and about 8 feet 6 inches
tall
Harry Shippy, who is twenty-one
years old, student at Culver mill
| tary academy, Culver, Ind, is the
most dangerously hurt of the three.
Two bullets pierced his chest and the
surgeons in attedance made no effort
to conceal the gravity of his condi-
| ton.
Mayor Busse had an exciting inter-
view with an officeseeker a few min
utes after the executive had returned
to his office from the Shippy home,
whittier he hurried on being informed
of the affray. The stranger, who was
shabbily dressed, was waiting outside
the mayors Office in the city hall and
as the mayor advanced extended his
hand. The mayor, who was pale and
nervous after the experience OF his
| chief of police, declined the grasp and
watched the man closely.
Il want job and am not here to
ask you for anything more. But IL !
don't get job there will be trouble, "