New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-04
ATTACKS CHICAGO POLICE.
Anarchist Assassin Invades CHIEFS
Home with Desperate Intent.
Hands Officer Letter, Then Fires
on His Son and Coachman.
Chief, in Turn, Riddles AssaiIant
With Bullets.

Chicago, with it's army of unem-
ployed, its unruly Italians and thou
sands upon thousands of depraved and
desperate characters, appears to be on
the verge of a great crisis.
Monday afternoon an odd-.ooking
stranger entered the home of Chief OF
Police Shippy and handed him a letter.
"When he handed the envelope to
me-" says Mr.. Shippy, ''the thought
struck me like streak of lightning
that he was up to something wrong. I
did not like his looks. He appeared
to me like an anarchist. =
II grabbed his arms and, forcing
them behind his back, I called to my
wife who was in another room. When
she ran in I said:
Mother, see if this man has a re-
volver''
''She felt one in his back pocket and
aid that he had.
II tried to hold him with one hand
and draw my revolver with the other
but he jerked away and fell against a
door. [ caught him again and he
fought hard to reach his revolver. My
son must have heard the struggle and
just as he came to my aid the man
freed one hand, drew his revolver and
fred two shots at my son. Then the
coachman rushed in and the man shot
him also.
"By this time I was able to draw
ray own revolver. [ fired at the man
four times. The first two shots entered
his head and the others his body, He
fell at the first shot, but fired three
more into him. The man drew knife
also in the struggle, but I did not
know [ had been cut until after the
fight was over" ~~. -
Shippy's son was shot through. the
lung and will probably die. The
coachman's. wounds, while serious,
are not regarded as fatal.
The attack on the chief is believed
to have been inspired by the recent
activity of the. Chicago police follow
ing the killing aof Rev. Heinrichs, a
Catholic priest who was shot by an
anarchist in Denver while he was ad-
ministering the sacrament to his
slayer.
Following the tragedy in Denver at
tempts to trace the crime to a con-
spiracy Matched in Chicago were be-
gun. The police discovered that a
society of Italians had been formed
in the city and that this society had
been issuing inhammatory literature
aimed at clericals. It was also
learned that several Chicago clergy
men had received threatening letters.
Unusual precautions were therefore
taken on Sunday, especially in the
Italian quarter. Officers in citizen
clothes scrutinized the worshipers as
they entered the various churches and
later the officers moved to the affairs
and stood guard over the priests
while they conducted the services.
AudfCLl1SbS we're lOiUiuOSA W Hdhc
addresses throughout the city and
Emma Goldman was warned that she
would be promptly arrested should
she attempt to deliver lecture as ad-
vertised.
All these precautions, it is thought,
inhamed the Italians, and that one OF
their number should have taken it
into his own hands to ,ebuke the po-
lice for their surveillance is not to be
wondered at.
What the police fear is that, with
the conditions as they now are in Chi
cago, the tragedy may be but the fore.
runner of reign of terror,