The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-10
SHOT Ten TIMES.
lhveryman Stamey Uses Brace
!. Gf RevOlvers.
Tried in Vain to Kill Negroes
Who Used RaZors.
DID NOT SUCCEED.
Both at Large-Harry Tuttle
Was Badly Cut.
Busy Sunday for the Police De-
partment.
NOT SUCCEED.

proportions of an insurrection against
government authority and law and
order. The frightened inhabitants OF
that neighborhood first became aware
of the uprising when they heard a
volley of revolver shots Later Two
negroes were seen fleeing south on
Tyler and white man behind them
working the two revolvers he held in
his hands overtime. The negroes ran
like the Belgians at Waterloo, while
the white man was enveloped in the
smoke and flames of his own artillery.
A half hour later the police patrol
wagon arrived on the battlefield to
give first aid to the injured and sur
vivors. The neighbors declare that
the police searched for the belligerents
walking in couples, hand in hand, In
order to have strong force in case
of an ambuscade.
There are two stories about this
race war on the West Side, and they
are at wide variance with each other.
G. V. Stamey, the white man who
had the two pistols, is liveryman
with his place of business at SIT West
Tenth avenue, and he stated that the
two negroes, one of whom is slim
Hayden, well known police charac-
ter, and the other a strange negro
from Kansas City. had hired a rig
from him Sunday and when they came
in with theteam at O'Clock they had
only 81 with which to pay their bill
of SO. One of them left his hat as
bond for his appearance with the
other dollar the next morning. The
two negroes then went to drug store
in the neighborhood where they asked
Harry futile, young man who clerks
in the Shannon grocery store near by,
for the loan of a quarter. futile drew
a half dn1lar from his nOekPt and gave
it to one of the negroes, expecting his
change of twenty-five cents. The
negro put the money in his pocket and
walked away. Young Tuttle went to
the livery stable for help and the fight
began then and there.
One of the negroes hit Mr.. Stamey
in the mouth and the liveryman
knocked him down. Then both
negroes drew razors and Stamey went
for his guns. He returned shooting
and the blacks took to their heels.
But one of them had slashed Harry
futile across the face with knife
during the liveryman's absence. The
cash was a severe one extending from
the ear to a point under the chin. =
1t is said that Mr.. Stamey fired ten
at Fourteenth street2said he saw the
blacks pass thattaway like a couple
of comets and one of them appeared
to be wounded in the head and arm,
as blood was running down his face
and his arm hung in helpless fash
ion at his side. A hat belonging to
one of the negroes was found in a
front yard in the vicinity and it had
two bullet holes in the crown.
Another version of the affair is that
the fight started over crap game in
or near the Stamey barn. No arrests
were made.
Another busy Sunday in police cir
cles, the second in the past six months.
Five plain DRINKS, one. vag, one high
wayman, or rather woman, and three
inmates of a disorderly house, were
gathered into the haven of rest at
Fifth and Jackson streets yesterday.
Stella Laws, young negress, is
charged with playing the Jesse James
act. little white boy being the victim.
The boy was going home Sunday
evening with quarter In his mouth
when he was accosted by the negress
and ordered to "spit it out Under
the pressure of a little CHOKING the
boy did so. Highway robbery comes
under the jurisdiction or the county,
and it is not known whether or not
the county attorney will prosecute the
negress for the theft of such a small
sum.
Mrs Kate Purl is under arrest on
charge of keeping a disorderly house
police raided the place they found the
woman entertaining two Greeks, S.
Balafoos and George Shumpuri. These
descendants of Pericles were drinking
little beer with the 1andlady when
the officers appeared on the scene.
There was a fierce two round scrap
at the fair grounds Sunday morning
and the patrol wagon answered a hun
ry call. but arrived too late to catch
started the fracas. Bill and Jim Dun
ford. living near the fair grounds. EVIL
IDENTIFY got up on the wrong side of the
bed Sunday morning. for they appear
ed on the grounds where the Gentry
Brothers show was unloading and
promptly started out to find trouble.
They found it. as all do who try very
hard. Deputy Sheriff Stoneking and
a stranger were the two persons these
belligerent brothers picked upon for
victims and they made the mistake of
their lives After listening for a few
moments to a lot of vile abuse and
threats and history of the pedigree
of these two brothers from the Bitter
creek regions. Stoneking rose up in
his wrath and smote one of them on
the head with long and heavy board.
The stranger struck the other brother
just below the ear with his fist and did
more execution than the sheriff with
the board. They hauled the man off
in a buggy, while the Dunford who
was stricken with the board was help
ed away by his friends before the
patrol wagon arrived.
John Scott a cycle man. rode one
of those mean little old snorting
motorcycles on the wrong side of the
street and paid fine in ponce court
today for the privilege.
John McDade got on the drunk of
hi nd chose site
Kansas avenue near Sixth for a place
of exhibition. The hour was 8 o'clock
D. m. McDade cursed everybody on
the street without regard for color. age
or sex and was arrested in minute
OF two after he opened hostilities. He
will have troubles of his own this ev-
ening in police court. for Judge Urmy
is especially opposed to such exhibit