The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-29
ROBBERS in BOSTON.
ELEVEN PERSONS SHOT BY TWO
MEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
They are Believed to Belon. to Band
Of Three Robbers Who Shot Up
Saloon Night Before.

A dispatch from Boston says tha
eleven persons We're shot Wednesda,
night. three of them probably IA
tally. by two desperadoes, who or
being pursued by policemen and {
crowd OF citizens fed for two miles
through thickly settled district oi
Jamaica Plain. firing madly righ,
and left and disappeared in the
woods near Franklin Park.
The men are believed to be two
Of the gang of three who robbed a
saloon in Jamaica Plain Friday
night. after killing one man and
wcunding two others. Herbert E.
Knox. might watchman Of the Forest
Hills Cemetery. who was shot in
the abdomen, died at Emergency Hos
pital. Mrs. Della Fallon is one of
the seriously injured of the victims.
She was standing in front of her
home with her baby in her arms,
when the two men, pursued by a
crowd came down the street. AS
they passed her one of them fired
and the bullet entered her head be-
hind her right ear. She was remov-
ed to the city hospital in critical
condition.
Edward Mcmahon, a Dorchester
patrolman, received bullet in the
abdomen and will probably die. The
others injured are: John Nolan.
shot in arm; Thomas Fleming, shot
in hand Thomas Moore, street car
conductor, snot in leg; Officer Ing
alls. bullet in leg; Officer Cox,
shot in ankle; Patrick McGinn, shot
in the sde; Michael Flynn. head
srazzed by bullet; Patrolman Thonp-
son. shot in leg.
1t is believed that the desperadoes
lay concealed in Calvary Cemetery
while the police were hunting for
them on account of Tuesday nights
hcld-up and robbery.
Being driven from their hiding
place by hunger and fearing they
would be surrounded by the police,
who were searching the neighbor-
hood, the two men appeared on
Charles street. in Jamaica Plain, at
about dusk. and proceeded to shoot
up the town.
They looked like italians and were
roughly dressed. Some citizens
who had been assisting in the hunt
for the robbers saw the men and
tried 70 intercept them. wnereupon
the two began running, and with
revolver in each hand fed along
Charles. South. Lee and Keys streets.
firing at every-person in their path.
Throughout the residential dis
trict the front porches Of the houses
we're thick with people enjoying the
evening air while the busl-
ness section were filed with
the usual throngs. The appearance
of the two desperate men shooting
to each side as they ran and shouting
as if crazy, caused general stampede
for cover.
N;caael Flynn stopped to pick up
a stone as he saw the men coming
toward him. and instantly one OF
them fired at him, the bullet grazing
his ear; another went through ms
hat. AS the fugitives, running along
KEYS street, reached Washington
street. trolley car. came along.
the men. waving his revolver above
his head. The motorman set the
brakes and the conductor. Thomas
Moore. iumpd off, Instantly he be-
came a target and bullet entered
his leg.
Across Washington street and
along Keys street the robbers ned.
hundreds of men pursuing. and soon
disappeared in Franklin Park, shoot
ing down Officer Cox. who tried 10
intercept them near the park gate,
AS soon as possible a Gordon Oh po-
) lice, heavily armed with rifles ana
revolyers, was thrown about the
mark while thousands of citizens
gathered in the vicinity.
According 70 small boy, who sa"
the men reload their weapons IN
sand hill near the park early IN the
evening. each man carried three re,
vo,xers Patrolmen McMahon ano
THOMPSON sighted the supposed
italians in the neighborhooo OF the
mark late in the evening and wen
down before their well directed hre
At II. o'clock the chase had passe'
hevond the park southwark. A re
mort was circulated that The quarry
had been seen near the corner 0
Morton and Canterbury streets an'
&c nnlice MaS hurried LneE'