Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-07-24

We're lying on the main thoroughfares
of the district, ambulances We're run
| ming here and there conveying the
dead to the morgues and the wounded
| to the hospitals, police patrol wagons
| were rushing squad after squad of .po-
| lice. heavily armed into the section
visited by the gun men, while auto
| mobiles and vehicles of all sorts We're
pressed into service to convey the high
| officials of the police department and
newspaper men to the center of the
| terroriZed district.
When the word came to police head
quarters that the men whom the offi-
cials had been hunting for unsuccess-
fully throughout the night and whole
day, had suddenly appeared in the CEN
| ter of Jamaica Plain, running wildly
| through the streets, shooting right
and left, had probably been located in
Forest Hills cemetery early last even
ing, more than 800 police officers. all
carrying revolvers in their hands,
were stations at intervals of 100 feet
around the cemetery grounds, forming
Il tight and compact Gordon. The first
po five knowledge which the police
gained that the desperadoes were in
|
dusk, Herbert T. Knox, who is the day
watchman of the cemetery. and who
had been on the lookout for the men,
believed be saw a man answering the
description of one Of those wanted
Rushing to his home on Canterbury
street near one of the entrances to the
cemetery, he secured his revolver and
returned to look for the men. He came
L. L.
was able to use his weapon he was
shot down with a bullet through the
abdomen Watch nan Knox was hur-
ried to Emerson hospital nearby. where
he died three hours later From this
time on until daybreak little effort was
made by the officers in the park to
seek out the desperadoes as the cem-
ctery was so carefully guarded that it
Was believed impossible for the men to
get outside and orders were given to
all patrolmen outside and in to ad-
vance toward the center of the cem-
ctcry at exactly o'clock.
Scarcely a quarter Of an hour after
the forces began the advance the fig
ure of wild, unkempt man sprang
up in front of the officers at the south
side of the cemetery and started off
on the run. The man was barefooted. Il
broken derby covered his head, torn
and ragged coat was on his back, in
one hand he carried a heavy revolver.
while from the other dangled a reel Of
cartridges.
Immediately the officers began firing.
feeling beyond any shadow of doubt
that the man they were after was be-
fore them. But he was fleet footed, and
knowing that it was a run for his life.
he kept we'll in advance of the more
heavily built officers of the law.
For moro than mile across the, cem-
etcry the man raced madly over
graves, around shrubbery, through
g,lllies and over mounds, an ever in
crcasing mob of police following slow
ly but steadily in his wake. All at once
Ec disappeared in q ravine somewhat
deeper than the others, 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 with the final effort of his all
but completely spent energy. There
was but a second before the sides OF
! the ravine were lined many deep with
the bluecoats. RevOlvers which they
| had carried in their hands through the
long night were brought to bear upon
| the lone bush in the gully, and shot
after shot was poured into the human
but invisible form before them. When
the rain of shot was over, inspectors
carefully approached the bush and
parting the leaves beheld the victim of
| hundred officers bullets, inanimate
upon the ground. The body was pulled
forth and blood gushing from heart
and temples testified to the unerring
aim of many weapons.
| Almost at the same time another
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