Willmar tribune., 1908-07-29
TERRIFIC BATTLES
With Bandit TRIO.
ONE DESPERATE KILLED, AN.
OTHER WOUNDED AND THIRD
Is CAPTURED.
TWO OF POSSE SLAIN:
ELEVEN ARE INJURED

TWO OF POSSE SLAIN;
ELEVEN ARE INJURED
Gang Of Foreigners Terrorize Boston
and suburbs-Are Rounded Up in
Cemetery Where Fight Is Enacted
Last Of Band Escapes.
Boston, July 24.-After three dead
ly battles between three desperadoes,
the police and small army of citi.
zens, the first encounter being in a
barroom, the second in the peaceful
streets of Jamaica Plains and the
third In the Quietude of a cemetery.
one OF the bandits was riddled with
bullets and killed, a second, wounded,
was searched for in the cemetery,
while the third was taken in the
South station. The desperadoes left
behind them over their trail of mile
and half, two dead and II wounded.
All are believed to be foreigners. A
thorough search of Forest Hills GENE.
terry indicated that the man had
slipped through the Gordon of police
into the Arnold Arboretum, part of
the park system. Two suspects, one
of them Giuseppe Viego, an Italian,
who was taken in the South station,
and another, Edward McDougall, who
was arrested near the cemetery, were
brought into the Jamaica Plain court.
Vlego, on a charge of murder, was
held without bail for further hearing.
McDougall, on charge of assault up
on a policeman, with intent to kill,
was held under $4,000 bail for exami-
nation next Wednesday.
CuIprit Is Identified.
The desperate captured is believed
to be Giuseppe Device. He is charged
with murder, having been identified
by four men as one of the three who
"shot up the saloon. The desperado's
career of terror started by the ''shoot-
Ing up of the saloon of Winterston &
McManus on Washington street.
Shortly before the closing hour, when
the barroom was full of men, three
men, apparently italians, made their
appearance at the door and shouted:
"All hands up
When the shooting was over it was
found that Frank J. Drake had been
killed, Patrick Doran had received a
bullet in the abdomen and Thomas
Winterston had been shot at the base
of the skull and in the left arm.
The police made careful search
all night long without result.
At last two of the men made their
appearance at house on Bourne
street and at the point of revolver
demanded that they be given food.
Later they were discovered in Cal
vary cemetery.
|. When the desperadoes found that
they were pursued they drew their
revolvers and with a yell began fir
ing on all sides. The first person hit
vas Mrs. Della Fallon, who was walk
ing down South street. Officer Ing
liss then received bullet in the leg.
Fire in Crowded Street.
The men passed through Cunning.
ham field, Lee street, and into Lee
street, and into New Keyes street, down
which they ran directly into Washing
ton street. On Washington street,
where electric cars are passing al
most necessarily and hundreds of peo-
pie were walking, the two men fired
shot after shot. They commanded
everybody to hold up their hands, and
even ordered the motorman of an ap-
preaching car to stop. The motorman
dropped behind the dashboard and the
conductor, Thomas Moore, who stepped
off the car to see what was the trou-
BILE, received a bullet in the leg. Mich
ael Finn picked up a stone to
hurl at the bandits, and received
one bullet in the head over the
right ear, and another passed over
the left ear, knocking off his hat
Patrick McGinn was shot in the wrist.
Thomas Fleming in the hand, and
John Nolan received a bullet in the
! arm, while John H. Wrightman carries
two bullet holes in his trousers to
show where the bullets grazed the calf
of his leg.
VSOs SUOS uuSV o0UObI IdIGs
For more than a mile across a cem-
etery the man raced madly over
graves, around shrubbery, through gull
lies and over mounds, an ever-increas-
ing mob of policemen following in
his wake. All at once he disappeared
in ravine not 200 yards from the
main Morton street entrance to the
cemetery grounds. But one bit of
shrubbery marked the lower level of
the ravine, and into this the man
sprang to make his final stand. In
moment the sides of the ravine were
lined many deep with the bluecoats,
revolvers were brought to bear upon
the bush in the gulley, and shot after
shot was poured into it.
When the rain of shot was over Of
hcers approached the bush, and, part.
Ing the leaves, found the desperado's
body pierced by a hundred bullets.
Almost at the same time another
commotion was created on the oppo.
site side of the main gate within the
confines of the main cemetery, and
man who had refused to throw up his
hands had been seized and disarmed.
Both the dead body and the captive
were taken to the Jamaica Plain sta
ton.
Packing Plant Burns.
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